This Strawberry Jam Cake Offers a Sweet and Fruity Experience With Every Slice

The sweet and juicy flavors of strawberries are well suited to the cozy warmth of homemade jam, especially when paired with a soft, fluffy cake. This strawberry jam cake recipe teaches you the art of marrying textures and flavors into an absolutely stunning dessert. This cake delivers moisture and flavor, tartness and sweetness at every bite, made even more beautiful with its presentation, making it eligible to come across as a favorite with anyone who tastes it.

Read on for the recipe for this cake:

Strawberry Jam Cake

Ingredients:

• 501 gm flour
• 402 gm sugar
• 253 gm butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 121 ml milk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 503 gm strawberries
• 204 gm sugar
• 63 ml water
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 1 gm pectin

Method:

1. First, you have to preheat your oven to 180°C, grease two round cake pans with butter, and line them with parchment paper.
2. Next, you have to whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
3. After that, you can beat butter until fluffy and add eggs, one at a time.
4. Then, you can gradually add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, and add milk to it.
5. After that, you have to stir in vanilla extract.
6. Next, you can divide the batter between the prepared pans.
7. Then, you have to bake them for 40 to 45 minutes. It is advisable that you pause baking it somewhere around the middle, and check how far the cakes have been baked.
8. Next, you can allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 5 minutes, and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
9. After that, you have to combine sliced strawberries, sugar, water, lemon juice, and powdered pectin.
10. Now, you have to bring this mixture to a boil over high heat, while you are stirring it constantly.
11. Then, you have to reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer it for 20-25 minutes.
12. Next, you have to remove the saucepan from the heat, and let the jam cool slightly.
13. Now, you can place one of the cakes on a serving plate.
14. Then you have to spread a thick layer of strawberry jam over the top of the cake.
15. Next, you can place the second cake on top of the first cake with the jam.
16. Finally, you can dust the top of the cake with powdered sugar, and serve.

Here are some tips to make the perfect strawberry jam cake

If you want, you can add some strawberry extract or some chopped fresh strawberries to the batter. That will give a different layer of flavor and also some crunchiness to the cake. Before presenting the cake, you can make it look very aesthetically pleasing by giving a touch of a dollop of whipped cream or edible flowers.

The flavor profiles of this strawberry jam cake would be tangy and sweet because you will be using sugar with lemon juice. You can add a handful of chopped fresh mint leaves or a teaspoon of grated ginger to the jam mixture for more flavor. It is important that you allow the cakes to cool completely before you assemble them with the jam. This is so that there is no sogginess between the layers of the cake, and it stays fresh for long.

With this delectable strawberry jam cake, you'll be able to experience the sweetness of strawberries combined with the warmth of homemade jam, taking you and your guests to pure delight. The soft and fluffy cake melts in your mouth while it coats your taste buds with a rich, buttery flavor. Even if you are not a huge fan of strawberries, you will love to dig into these beautiful flavors, and with the final bite of this cake, you surely will want more of this very taste and sweetness mixed with the goodness of berries. Come winter, this can become a family favorite because of the abundance of strawberries and the general pleasure and happiness your taste buds would get when indulging in this desert after a long day of work or as a weekend post-meal treat.