Strawberry Cake

I got Michael in the kitchen with me, y'all

And for my lovey-dovey meal with my husband, I am fixing to make a simply delicious strawberry cake

All right, Michael. Uh-huh. If you would take those strawberries laying right there

I got them. Now, these are just frozen, thawed strawberries that I bought from the grocery store

about 15 ounces worth. just puree them, and I'm gonna be adding them to my cake mix

Now, I am using just an 18.25 box of cake mix, and this is a white cake mix that I'm using

To my cake mix, I'm gonna add a small package of strawberry gelatin

And now I'm gonna add four eggs. Oh, that's great. You can be the beater man

Okay. All right, well, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. You don't mind very well, do you

Sure I do. You know what? Why do you do them separate

Because I want to check each egg to make sure it's all right. Okay

I don't want to ruin the whole bowl. Okay. Now I'm going to add a fourth of a cup of water

Give me this thing, Michael, please. Thank you. Now, if you'd measure me out half a cup of vegetable oil

Adding the vegetable oil will make our cake nice and moist, Michael All right now you can beat it baby OK And I going to be cleaning up It what I love about cake mixes

They're so easy. You can just dump them in the bowl. You don't have to have this fancy technique

All right, Michael. What? You can go ahead and add our strawberries now

Okay. I don't want any on my white shirt. I want to stay clean for our meal

Yeah. And then I'm going to let my hair down, and he's going to have a good old time on

Now, I've got us two cake pans over here, y'all, that I've sprayed real well

So our cakes will come out nice, and they won't stick to the pan

And I'm going to bake our cake layers for 20 minutes at 350 degrees

So what I need for you to do, Michael, is take our batter

Take our batter. and divide it equally now among our cake pans

Okay. You don't want one layer to come out real fat and the other one to come out real skinny

Okay. Ooh. Okay, so let's start eyeballing this. Now, I like to take my cakes

and kind of drop them on my counter. And as I do that, you can see bubbles rising

to the top. It's little air bubbles that are in our batter. And that'll prevent our cake from having holes all in it

Those bubbles are just a bursting. Perfect. That is perfect. You know what Michael What I think you might be on to something All right let get these in the oven because I really getting hungry And you know what No baby our lamb is in that oven

Let's put these in the little oven. All right, so we're going to move on down here, Michael

And you can man the equipment. Sounds good. The heavy equipment. Now, I'm going to take a half a stick of butter. OK

And I'm going to take this eight-ounce package of softened cream cheese. Okay

This has been sitting at room temperature, and you can see just how soft this is

We're going to make a cream cheese icing, and it's going to be delicious

Now, you just mix that up, and when we come back, I think our lovey-dovey meal is ready to pull together, don't you

Well, it's looking good. It is looking good, isn't it? Mm-hmm. You know why

What? I love you. Well, I love you more. You won't be back in a minute

No, I don't. Coming up, we top our Simply Delicious cake with a cream cheese frosting that's kissed with the flavor of strawberry

Doesn't that look delicious? So, Michael, you're getting the lamb out. I am

Smells good, doesn't it? It does smell wonderful. And look at my cake layers

Ooh, I can't wait. If you will slice the lamb and be plating that up

I'm going to put together a frosting. I'll do it. If y'all remember, I had my cream cheese and my butter

Now I going to add about a half a teaspoon of strawberry extract And because I not able to use that many strawberries in my frosting I gonna add just a few drops of red

food coloring because I want it just a little pinker and that should do it

perfectly. Now I'm gonna put in a fourth of a cup of pureed strawberries because

You want to be careful that you don't put too much liquid

or your cake frosting will just roll off your cake. Looks good, doesn't it

Good. All right. To my cream cheese and butter, I'm going to add seven

don't have a heart attack, seven cups of powdered sugar. And now you have to remember, powdered sugar is so fine that it doesn't equal like one cup of regular granulated sugar

All right, so that's four. So I'm going to beat this up a little bit, and then I'm going to add my last three

It's time to frost this beautiful cake

Doesn't that look delicious? There you go, my precious. Thank you, darling

The king of our home. Oh, I will try it. Delicious. Are you eating your cake now

I did have a piece. I don't know why you have to wait to. I have