Red Velvet Strawberry Supreme Cake

 First day of holidays. YAY! I have a whole list of things to bake and equipment to buy. Today I made a Red Velvet Strawberry Supreme Cake which is pretty much Sweetapolita's Raspberry Supreme Cake but with Strawberries. I used strawberries since raspberries aren't in season (neither are strawberries, but they were cheap!)

This is a 6 inch cake as opposed to Rosie's 8 inch cake. I followed her recipe but halved it (the cake and frosting) and replaced raspberries with strawberries. Also being in Australia, there is no marshmallow fluff available at Coles or Safeway, so I just used more cream cheese and extra icing sugar to sweeten it up a bit.

The cake is 3 layers of moist red velvet cake. The secret ingredient is mayonnaise (:o I know right?). I'm a huge batter eater and after tasting it I was a bit nervous since I could taste the mayo. But never fear, after being baked the cake did not taste mayonnaise-y at all. The first layer of frosting is cream cheese frosting. The next is stabilized whipped cream with strawberries in the middle. The whole cake is then covered with chocolate buttercream and topped with some fresh strawberries and a little dusting of icing sugar.

To decorate I used Wilton 1M nozzle to pipe the border and cut little strawberry top hats to garnish. To make the indents into the side, I used my offset spatula and ran in across the cake. Make sure to apply a thick layer of frosting, as most of the frosting will come off. I also don't own a turn table, so I had to stop and rotate my plate.

I don't really know how to describe this cake except that it is delicious and that I had two slices.

RECIPE HERE @ Sweetapolita