Strawberry Rose Cake

Name: Strawberry Rose Cake
Prep time: 2 h 50 min
Cook time: 2 h 50 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 8 servings Red and blue paste food color; 8 servings Ivory candy sprinkles; 118 milliliters milk; 2 liters powdered sugar; 237 milliliters shortening; 177 milliliters strawberry jam; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 1 box Betty yellow cake mix

Strawberry Rose Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. One serving contains 1185 calories, 5g of protein, and 36g of fat. This recipe serves 8. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes. It is perfect for Mother's Day. If you have paste food color, strawberry jam, powdered sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350F (325F for dark or nonstick pans). Grease bottoms and sides of 2 (8- or 9-inch) round cake pans with shortening; lightly flour. Make cake mix as directed on box, using water, oil and eggs.

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Shortening

Cake Mix

All Purpose Flour

Water

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Oven

Bake and cool as directed.

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Oven

In large bowl, beat shortening and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low.

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Shortening

Vanilla

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating after each addition. Once half of the sugar has been added, gradually beat in milk.

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Powdered Sugar

Sugar

Milk

Add remaining 4 cups powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating after each addition until blended and frosting is smooth. On spoon, place 8 small dots red food color and 1 small dot blue food color.

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Red Food Color

Powdered Sugar

Frosting

Add food color to frosting; beat until frosting is an even rose color.

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Food Color

Frosting

Place 1 cake layer, rounded side down, on serving plate. Pipe thin ring of frosting around top edge of cake.

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Frosting

Spread strawberry jam on cake in middle of ring.

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Strawberry Jam

Spread

Place second cake layer, rounded side down, on first layer. Frost side and top of cake with frosting.

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Frosting

Spoon remaining frosting into decorating bag fitted with large star tip. To make first frosting rose in middle of cake, squeeze bag to start piping frosting in center, then slowly move tip in a circle around center point. Repeat to make more roses to cover top of cake (try to make roses similar in size). Decorate with sprinkles.

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Sprinkles