Strawberry Cake

I wanted something spring-y looking for Easter and thought this would be a good choice.

I mixed up all the dry ingredients the night before so it was ready to go and saved time.

It turned out really well. 🙂 Recipe at end of post. 

Just to let y’all know…we’re in the middle of a small remodel so my kitchen time is going to be limited for a few days.  The blog will probably be a little boring too.

 

Strawberry Cake
3 cups (375g) Flour  (I used Cup4Cup)
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1 1/2 cup Sugar
1 (3 oz) package Strawberry Jello
2 sticks soft Butter
2 tsp Vanilla
1 1/2 cup Buttermilk
4 Eggs
10 oz frozen and thawed Strawberries

Icing
2 boxes Powdered Sugar
2 sticks of Butter
2 boxes Cream Cheese

 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350*.

Put flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar and Jello to a large mixing bowl.

Add butter, buttermilk, eggs, vanilla and strawberries.

Mix on med – high for 2 minutes.

Divide into 2 – 3 pans.

Bake for 20 – 30 minutes.  Know your oven. 🙂

Make the icing while the cake is baking.

I used my favorite icing…1 part each…stick of butter / box of cream cheese / box of powdered sugar…multiplied by 2.  1 of each would have been too little and 2 of each was a little too much so you might want to do 1 1/2 of each.  I just had no desire to measure out halves of everything. 😉

Let cake completely cool and then ice.

 

Easter Eats

First…let’s start with this gorgeous ham.

My uncle used to make one of the best hams ever and I liked it but overall I’m really not a big fan of smoked ham.  I like plain ‘ol baked / thin sliced Danish ham from the deli.  But every now and then I’ll eat smoked.

This is actually the first ham I’ve ever baked.  I used this recipe from my fav…Cristina…and of course used gluten – free bread crumbs.  Thank you, Cristina.  Years ago you taught me how to make a turkey and now a ham. 🙂

Papa L is our ham aficionado and he proclaimed this some of the best ham he’s ever eaten. Thank you, Papa L. 🙂 I was very happy with it too.

So simple…ham / brown sugar / dijon / bread crumbs / oil.  I didn’t make the wine sauce.  We eat our ham as sandwiches or just to snack on…not as a sit down meal.

Next up…Blueberry French Toast Sticks

I just subbed some blueberry syrup for some of the liquid in a favorite bread recipe (and left out the sugar since the syrup is plenty sweet) plus added a little cinnamon.  Baked it up the day before.  Cut off all the crust and sliced into sticks so it was ready to go the next day.

Two ingredient ‘Orange Julius’…

…which if I’m totally honest…really the only reason we ever have brunch around here. 😉

Vanilla ice cream and orange juice.  Blend in the blender to your desired level of thickness.

Obviously this tastes even more authentic if you use real orange juice but I prefer the taste of Sunny – D.

Hashbrowns

Plus I went all Vegas / Cruise Ship style and made everyone a custom omelet.

I had bacon and cheese.

And for dessert…Strawberry Cake.

I’ll have the recipe for this up on Wednesday. 🙂

How was your Easter?  Lovely I hope. 🙂