Sage chose to bake strawberry cake this week. We used only fresh strawberries. The cake turned out a light shade of brown instead of pink because we didn't add any food coloring or jello. We didn't make a cream cheese frosting because I didn't want to use powdered sugar. So we ended up making vanilla Swiss buttercream and adding pureed strawberries.
The boys enjoyed turning on and off the stand mixer, measuring and weighing, placing strawberries, piping icing and using the food processor. They were also surprised that tall cakes are made from two or more shorter cakes glued together with frosting. They had fun watching the icing turn from a thin syrup into a creamy frosting and watching batter rise and brown into a cake.
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