Mini Strawberry Bundt Cakes Food

MINI STRAWBERRY BUNDT CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a regular bundt pan or a 6 mini bundt cake pan and set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the sugar and butter together on medium high speed for 2 minutes. Add in the eggs and continue beating. Next, add in the milk, sour cream, strawberry flavoring and vanilla extract.
• In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the flour mixture and jello into the wet mixture and stir just until combined. Drop in a few drops of food coloring and mix until all of the batter is colored.
• Pour batter into the prepared bundt pan and place into the oven to bake. If you are baking in a regular bundt pan, bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. If you are baking mini bundt cakes, bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean or with moist crumbs. Remove from the oven and place onto a cooling rack to cool.
• While the cake is cooling, make the glaze by whisking all of the ingredients together in a small bowl.
• Remove cake from bundt pan and place onto a plate or cake stand. Once cakes are cooled completely to room temperature, pour glaze over top and let set for 5 minutes before serving.

FRESH STRAWBERRY BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat oven to 325 degrees. Carefully butter and flour a 16-cup Bundt pan, making sure to get in all of the cracks and crevices.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the butter and sugar until combined. Add lemon zest, and then cream the mixture until light and fluffy on medium-high speed, about 5 minutes.
• With the mixer on low, add the eggs one at a time, making sure each egg is completely incorporated before adding the next. Add the yogurt, lemon juice and vanilla, and stir on medium speed to combine, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary to incorporate all the ingredients. The mixture may curdle a bit, but don't worry too much about it.
• Add the flour mixture all at once and mix on low until almost completely combined.
• Remove the bowl from the mixer, scrape and fold any excess flour into the batter, and scoop out roughly 1/2 cup/100 grams of batter. Drop tablespoons of batter into the bottom of the prepared pan, and smooth into the bottom of the pan. (This batter will prevent the strawberries from sinking to the bottom of the pan and sticking.) Add the chopped strawberries to the remaining batter in the bowl and gently fold in until the strawberries are evenly distributed. The batter will be thick.
• Spoon the batter evenly into the pan, smooth the top and tap the pan firmly on the counter a few times to release any large air bubbles. Bake the cake until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean (a few small crumbs are O.K.), about 70 minutes. Cool the pan on a rack for 15 minutes, then turn the cake out onto the rack to cool completely.
• When the cake is cool, make the glaze: In a medium bowl, use a fork to mash the reserved 1/4 cup/40 grams of strawberries. Whisk in the confectioners' sugar and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. The glaze should be thick but just pourable. If it seems thin, add a bit more confectioners' sugar; if it is too thick to stir, add a bit more lemon juice. Pour the glaze evenly over the cake (you can glaze it over a rack if you prefer to let the excess glaze drip off), let it set for a few minutes and serve. Once the glaze has dried completely, refrigerate any leftover cake, loosely draped with plastic wrap.

STRAWBERRY MINI BUNDT CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a mini bundt tray well with non-stick spray.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat well.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the cake flour, salt and baking powder.
• Add the flour mixture to creamed mixture, alternating with the pureed strawberries.
• Fill the bundt about ¾ full with mixture and bake for 15-17 minutes until lightly golden brown.
• Allow to cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.
• Beat the cream cheese a medium size bowl until smooth.
• Add in the icing sugar and continue mixing.
• Add in the first tablespoon of milk to see what your consistency is like. You may need a further 1 or 2 spoonfuls of milk until the icing is a drizzle consistency.
• Drizzle the cream cheese icing over the cooled bundts, allowed it to fall over the sides.
• Top each cake with a washed and dried edible flower.
• Enjoy!

MINI STRAWBERRY PRINCESS CAKES

Steps:

• For the princess cakes: Place an oven rack in the middle position. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a quarter-sheet pan and line with parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• In a separate large bowl, use an electric or stand mixer to beat the butter with the granulated sugar until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the egg, vanilla and almond extract and beat well. Add a third of the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix until just combined. Add a third of the buttermilk. Repeat with another third of each, and then the final third, mixing until just combined.
• Spread the batter out evenly in the quarter-sheet pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Begin checking for doneness at 18 minutes.
• Let the cake cool fully in the pan (the cake can be made in advance and frozen).
• For the whipped cream: In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the heavy cream, powdered sugar and salt. Beat to stiff peaks. Spoon the whipped cream into a large pastry bag fitted with a large round tip. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Use a 2-inch biscuit cutter to cut the cake into 15 circles. Spread the top of each cake circle with a thin layer of jam. Top each with a small mound of whipped cream.
• Freeze the cakes for 1 hour while you prepare the marzipan.
• For the marzipan: Separate the marzipan into a 12-ounce ball and two 3-ounce balls.
• Knead purple food coloring into the 12-ounce ball until the desired color is reached. Wrap in plastic to keep from drying out.
• Knead dusty rose food coloring into a 3-ounce ball until the desired color is reached. Wrap in plastic. Knead the cypress or moss food coloring into the final 3-ounce ball until the desired color is reached. Again, wrap in plastic until ready to use.
• In a small mixing bowl, mix together the strawberry jam and 1 tablespoon
• water until thoroughly combined. Set aside.
• Roll the purple marzipan out to 1/8-inch thick, dusting with powdered sugar as necessary to prevent sticking. Cut out fifteen 4-inch circles, stacking them with a piece of parchment paper between each one to keep from sticking. Wrap in plastic while you make the roses and leaves.
• To make the pink roses: Pinch off a small piece of dusty rose marzipan and make little flat snakes. Then coil them to form a rose. Repeat to make 15 roses.
• To make the leaves: Pinch off a small piece of green marzipan and form into an oval leaf. Repeat to make 30 leaves. Adhere two leaves to each rose using the thinned jam as glue.
• To assemble the cakes: Remove the cakes from the freezer. Using a pastry brush, lightly brush each purple circle with the thinned jam. Place the circle, jam-side-down, over a cake to cover and gently press all around until the cake is completely covered. Set aside and repeat with the remaining circles until all the cakes are covered. Top each cake with a rose.
• Serve immediately or refrigerate for up to a day or two until serving. Enjoy!