This is THE BEST Strawberry Pound Cake Recipe EVER. This pound cake recipe is loaded with fresh strawberries, and is ultra moist and topped with a sweet icing. This is a MUST MAKE cake recipe!
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- Strawberry Pound Cake is the PERFECT Pound Cake Recipe for Fresh Strawberries!
- Looking for other Pound Cake Recipes? Try These:
- What Ingredients Do You Need?
- How To Make Strawberry Pound Cake
- Can You Use Frozen Strawberries Instead of Fresh?
- Out of Buttermilk? No Problem!
- Decoration Ideas:
- Can You Use Other Fruits In This Cake Recipe?
- Can You Make This Cake Into Muffins?
- Can You Use This Strawberry Pound Cake For Strawberry Shortcake?
- Can You Freeze Strawberry Cake?
- Looking For Other Strawberry Recipes? Try These:
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Strawberry Pound Cake is the PERFECT Pound Cake Recipe for Fresh Strawberries!
Strawberry season is upon us, and I am READY! Warm temperatures, ripe, sweet berries…it’s my favorite time of year! And this Strawberry Cake Recipe is sure to be on rotation all season long. As a matter of fact, this might be on my dessert table all year long, because frozen strawberries work perfectly as well! I won’t get ahead of myself though…
You know I love a good pound cake recipe, and when I had the idea of combining strawberries and pound cake I knew it was a good idea! BUT I had to make a few tweaks to my classic pound cake recipe for it to work with the strawberries. I wanted to make sure the cake was extra moist and flavorful and the strawberry flavor really came through without using any artificial flavors!
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What Ingredients Do You Need?
There are super simple key ingredients in this strawberry cake. Here are a few:
- Strawberries: Just slice the strawberries and mix them right in the cake batter!
- Butter: I always use salted butter in this pound cake!
- Granulated Sugar: This cake gets a nice, deep color and flavor thanks to the strawberries, so you don’t need to use brown sugar, just white!
- Vanilla Extract. You could even add in a small splash of almond extract instead which would be a nice compliment to the strawberries.
- Eggs: You use 4 eggs in this recipe, which is pretty standard for a pound cake!
- Baking Soda/Baking Powder/Kosher Salt: You need all of these to get the perfect rise on the cake!
- Buttermilk: I really feel like buttermilk is the secret ingredient in cake baking. It really gives the cake a tender crumb.
- Flour: Since this is a pound cake, use all purpose flour in this recipe. Pound cake is more dense than a layer cake, so don’t worry about using cake flour, it won’t make a huge difference.
How To Make Strawberry Pound Cake
Luckily this cake recipe is really pretty easy! Honestly, it looks fancy, but couldn’t be quicker to prep. It does take a little while to bake, but it’s also a great cake to make in advance because this pound cake is amazing warm, but it’s just as good the next day! Make sure to use a quality bundt cake pan, coated well!
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Coat a 12- cup bundt cake pan with baking spray and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment mix the butter and sugar together for 2 minutes. Add in the eggs, vanilla, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix for 1 minute until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.
- Turn the mixer to low and in alternating additions add in the buttermilk and flour, beginning and ending with flour, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary. Mix until just incorporated.
- Stir in the strawberries until evenly mixed in.
- Bake for 85-90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 20 minutes and then invert the pan onto a cake plate.
- Once the cake is mostly cooled whisk together the powdered sugar and the milk for the icing. Pour this on top of the cake. The cooler the cake is, the thicker the icing will remain.
Can You Use Frozen Strawberries Instead of Fresh?
Yes! You can use frozen strawberries, just thaw them out and slice them as the recipe states. Also make sure you pat them dry, as frozen and thawed berries will be more moist than fresh. But make sure you pat the thawed strawberries dry before slicing and adding them in as frozen and thawed can be very moist, and adding more moisture into the cake batter can change the consistency of the cake causing it to be gummy or wet. This is the case with adding most fruit to baked goods, you just don’t want to add too much liquid or moisture to your perfect cake batter!
Out of Buttermilk? No Problem!
If you are ready to bake this cake but realize you’re out of buttermilk, don’t worry! You can easily sub in a few different options or check out my full post on making homemade buttermilk! Here are some easy swaps:
- scant 2/3 cup yogurt thinned with water or milk = 2/3 buttermilk
- scant 2/3 cup sour cream thinned with water or milk = 2/3 buttermilk
Decoration Ideas:
I like to use a sweet, sugar icing the drizzles down the side of the cake. a simple mix of powdered sugar and milk is all you need! if you are looking for something a little different, here are a few options to frost a strawberry cake:
- Turn the easy icing in the recipe card into a strawberry icing or strawberry glaze by adding in some strawberry puree or even simply strawberry jam. You can make it more of a glaze by adding a little more milk, or more of a frosting or thick icing by adding less milk!
- Buttercream Frosting
- Roasted Strawberry Frosting
- Heritage Frosting
Can You Use Other Fruits In This Cake Recipe?
Yep! This is a simple way to make this cake work for whatever fruit you have on hand! Blueberries would be great, or mixed berries. Even peaches would work!
Can You Make This Cake Into Muffins?
Sure! If you do, you can bake them at 350°F for 20-25 minutes!
Can You Use This Strawberry Pound Cake For Strawberry Shortcake?
YESSS! Can you even imagine how good that would be?? Pound Cake is perfect with strawberry shortcake, and add in MORE strawberries, you will definitely have a winner! YOu could even top a slice with vanilla ice cream and some homemade strawberry syrup!
Can You Freeze Strawberry Cake?
Absolutely! Allow the cake to cool completely. Don’t pour the icing on the cake. Wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and then wrap it again in more plastic wrap or foil and freeze it for up to a month.
To thaw it, allow the cake to come to room temperature pour the icing on, if desired, and enjoy!
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Strawberry Pound Cake
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 85 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Yield: serves 12 1x
- Category: Cake
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Dessert
Description
Strawberry Pound Cake is an easy, ultra moist pound cake recipe with the perfect amount of fresh strawberries baked inside!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 16 ounces strawberries, sliced
Icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 – 3 tablespoons of milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Coat a 12- cup bundt pan with baking spray and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment mix the butter and sugar together for 2 minutes. Add in the eggs, vanilla, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix for 1 minute until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.
- Turn the mixer to low and in alternating additions add in the buttermilk and flour, beginning and ending with flour, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary. Mix until just incorporated.
- Stir in the strawberries until evenly mixed in.
- Bake for 85-90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 20 minutes and then invert the pan onto a cake plate.
- Once the cake is mostly cooled whisk together the powdered sugar and the milk for the icing. Pour this on top of the cake. The cooler the cake is, the thicker the icing will remain.
Notes
Store airtight at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 491
- Sugar: 52.5 g
- Sodium: 341.9 mg
- Fat: 17.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 77.9 g
- Protein: 6.3 g
- Cholesterol: 104.2 mg
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Love this recipe! I have made this cake many times. I always make it in two loaf pans because generally one Bundt pan is more cake than I need. The recipe fits perfectly in the two pans and I usually freeze them. Serve them with whipped cream and it tastes like strawberry shortcake. I will try the flour idea because the strawberries do sink.
The cake is very moist & tasty. However, a lot of the berries sunk to the bottom of the bundt pan & stuck to the pan in a gooey mess (I was able to spoon them off & spread it over the top after inverting). I’m wondering if it would help to dredge the berries in flour before adding to the batter, like other recipes for adding fruit/nuts/etc. suggest.
Thanks for the recipe Shelly. I make this almost every time I buy strawberries and I use your recipe just the way it is it’s really moist, delicious and plus it makes my house smell wonderful as it bakes! 🙂
I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. Usually pound cakes have equal parts of sugar and flour, so I was a bit concerned when the recipe called for 2 cups of sugar but 3 cups of flour. However since I don’t like using all that sugar I decided to give this a try. I read some of the comments about mixing the strawberries with flour – worked!!! Also I didn’t have buttermilk so used 2/3 cup sour cream as someone suggested. WORKED! The cake is delicious! And the strawberries didn’t fall. Really needs no glaze – sweet enough without it. Yum yum. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
I baked this cake for Father’s Day. I cooked it for 90 minutes, toothpick inserted came out clean, however it was quite moist inside, almost like it wasn’t done. Any tips for my next try?
I tried baking this cake. Not sure what happened. I am an experienced baker. I followed the recipe to a T. I baked it for 85 minutes. Toothpick came out clean. It sunk in the center after I took it out of the oven and when I took it out of the pan after cooling it for 20 minutes, all the strawberries were at the bottom of the cake and it was a soggy mess. So disappointing.
Exactly the same happened to me. It tasted fine but a big soggy mess.
Hi Shelly, I made your marble # cake and it came out wonderful with my normal altitude adjustments (for 7400 ft.) this cake, however, fell a bit. The crumb is also not what I would say is akin to a pound cake. It had to large of air pockets (but not from overmixing, trust me, I am a professional). I plan to adjust some more for altitude next time, but I was wondering if you have tried it with sour cream instead of buttermilk. I think it needs to be richer and have a more compact crumb. Thank-you for your recipes.