Strawberry Surprise Cake

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 1 1/2 lbs Strawberries

• Baking & Spices

  • 2 tubs Betty crocker frosting, Whipped white
  • 2 Betty crocker pound cake mixes
  • 1 Food coloring marker, black
  • 1 (8 ounce tub Topping, frozen whipped

• Dairy

  • 1 Butter

• Desserts

  • 36 oz Fondant, red
  • 4 oz Fondant, Green

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Description

Ingredients

• 2 boxes (16 oz each) Betty Crocker™ Cake Mix Pound
• Butter, eggs, and water (or milk) needed for cake mix
• 2 cans (12 oz each) Betty Crocker™ Whipped Frosting Fluffy White
• 1 tub (8 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed
• 1 1/2 lb strawberries, wiped clean with a damp paper towel
• 36 oz red fondant
• 4 oz green fondant
• Black food coloring marker

Directions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• 2 Spray four heart-shaped pans with non-stick cooking spray and line with parchment paper.
• 3 Make cake mixes according to package instructions. Divide batter equally among four heart shaped pans (each cake mix will make two layers of the cake for a total of four layers.)
• 4 Bake cakes for 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• 5 Allow cakes to cool completely, then remove from pan and level them by cutting off any parts that puffed up past the edges.
• 6 Set one cake on a heart-shaped piece of cardboard. Cut 6-inch hearts out of two of the other cake layers.
• 7 Whisk frosting and whipped topping together. Spread or pipe frosting around the edge of the bottom layer.
• 8 Stack the one cut out layer on top, then pipe on more frosting and add the second cut out cake layer.
• 9 Fill the heart-shaped hole with strawberries, and spread frosting around the top edge of the cake. Place the final cake layer on top.
• 10 Carve cake into a more rounded-looking strawberry shape, if desired. This step is optional, but it really gives the cake a natural strawberry shape. It's pretty easy to do. Just carve the top edge curving downward and the bottom edge curving upward.
• 11 Cover the cake with the remaining frosting, smoothing it out well. If you aren't using fondant, be sure to tint the frosting red before doing this step.
• 12 If you are covering your cake in fondant, smooth fondant will look nice, but if you add indentations to it, your strawberry will have a more natural appearance. You can purchase fondant rollers with a dot pattern at craft stores and they are simple to use. Just roll out your fondant and then gently roll the pattern over the fondant.
• 13 Cut leaves out of green fondant and attach to the fondant covered cake using a very small amount of water. If you want, you can even curl your leaves up a bit to give them a more natural look.
• 14 Draw on seeds using a black food coloring marker.
• 15 Serve cake the day it is made.

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