Strawberry Cream Cake

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Ingredients:
one batch baked yellow cake 1.5 pints strawberries 60 g sugar 2 tsp lemon juice 620 ml heavy whipping cream 60 g sugar 2 tsp vanilla extract sliced toasted almonds for finishing

1. Step 1: Preparing the Strawberries

   Place the cake layers in the oven and bake them. Allow the layers to cool and reserve 6 perfect berries and leave its hulls intact. Rinse the hulls and slice the remaining berries nicely. Add the sugar and lemon juice to a mixing bowl and mix them well together. Combine the berries with the sugar mixture and allow them to macerate for a few hours.

2. Step 2: Preparing Whipped Cream

   Drain the berries when ready to assemble the cake and reserve its juice separately. Add the required ingredients to make whipped cream to the bowl of a electronic mixer. Blend all the ingredients well until it holds a firm peak.

3. Step 3: Layering the Cake

   Place one of the cake layers on a platter o cardboard and spread the prepared whipped cream over it. Add the drained strawberry filling over it and spread nicely. Now spread another layer of whipped cream and mask the outside of the cake with whipped cream. Add the almonds to the sides of the cake and pres them against the cake until it holds well.

4. Step 4: Decorating the Cake

   Pipe out 12 rosettes of the remaining whipped cream at the top border of the cake. Decorate the cake with a halved strawberry, cream, butter, light corn syrup, chocolate & raspberries milk chocolate shavings. Arrange them neatly as you wish.

5. Step 5: Alternative for Whipped Cream

   Combine the cream, butter & light corn syrup together and bring them to a boil. Remove from the heat, add the chocolate and whisk them until its smooth. Allow it to cool until it thickens and beat on a mixer with a paddle. Use this mixture instead of whipped cream. Decorate the cake with raspberries and use the chocolate shavings.