Jello Recipes
Strawberry Layer Cake with Fresh Raspberries
This is a really special looking raspberry and strawberry jello cake recipe and you can see all the different layers when you cut into the cake. This is a charlotte cake, which means the outside is made with sponge fingers. It is easiest to make this strawberry cake recipe in a spring form pan, which is a pan with a removable base. If you do not have one, you can line a normal pan with aluminum foil, letting the foil hang over the rim. Put a cake board inside the lined pan. To unmold the cake, just grip the foil and lift the cake out of the tin.
The creamy layer in this delicious strawberry cake is made with mascarpone cheese, whipping cream, vanilla and a touch of marsala wine. You can use Baileys or Amarula Cream liqueur instead of marsala wine, if you like. It is best to use fresh berries in this raspberry cake recipe just because they look better and taste nicer but if you cannot get them, use thawed berries instead. Just make sure you drain them well.
This delicious recipe for strawberry and raspberry cake is ideal for valentine’s day, for a birthday celebration or for any kind of get-together or buffet. Each slice is full of creamy richness and tangy fruitiness and all the textures work well together too.
Strawberry and Raspberry Jello Cake Recipe
Ingredients -
2 ⅔ cups vanilla wafer crumbs
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons melted butter
¼ cup white sugar
24 sponge fingers
½ lb mascarpone cheese
2 tablespoons marsala wine
1 cup heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 package strawberry jello
1 cup boiling water
1 pint fresh raspberries
8 strawberries, to garnish
Preparation:
Combine the wafer crumbs, white sugar, and melted butter and use half this mixture to line the base of a 7 inch spring form pan. Line the outside with sponge fingers. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Whisk together the mascarpone, marsala wine, milk, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar.
Whip the whipping cream into soft peaks with an electric mixer, and then fold it into the mascarpone mixture.
Spoon ⅓ of this mixture over the crust and partway up the sides of the cake and chill it for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, dissolve half the jello in half the boiling water and leave it to thicken.
Pour the jello into the strawberry cake and chill it for an hour or until it sets.
Spoon another ⅓ of the mascarpone mixture over the set jello, then press the rest of the vanilla wafer crust mixture over the top of that.
Spoon the remaining mascarpone mixture over the top.
Mix the rest of the jello with the rest of the boiling water.
Arrange the raspberries over the top of the cake and spoon the thickened jello over the top.
Refrigerate for 2 hours or until the jello topping is set.
Carefully remove the raspberry and strawberry jello cake from the spring form pan and cut into 8 slices to serve.
Garnish each plate with a strawberry.
(Serves 8)
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This raspberry-topped strawberry jello cake recipe is not too difficult to make and it is guaranteed to taste really amazing. It looks quite complicated because of the different layers involved but this cake is easy to make, as long as you follow the recipe. This delicious jello cake is perfect in the spring or summer, when you want something chilled, creamy and not too heavy, but there is nothing to say you cannot make this cake in the fall or winter if you fancy it. This raspberry and fresh strawberry cake recipe is really special and is attractive enough to serve at a garden party or dinner party.
Reasons to Make Delicious Strawberry Layer Cake Recipes
Strawberry cake is one of the most popular types of cake ever. If you are thinking about making a strawberry cake recipe, you will know that strawberries are not only delicious and juicy but they are full of nutrients too. They are low in fat and calories.
A lot of the strawberries cultivated each year are eaten as snacks or used to top pancakes or cakes. You can make all kinds of things with plump, fresh strawberries including a strawberry layer cake with fresh raspberries or one of our other strawberry jello cake recipes.
History of Strawberries
The history of strawberries dates back to 234 BC, when they were growing wild in Italy. The first Europeans to land in the United States discovered strawberries growing wild in Virginia when their ships docked in 1588. The early settlers living in Massachusetts very much liked the local strawberries grown by the native American Indians. Strawberries were grown all over the United States by 1860.
Strawberries were regarded as an aphrodisiac in provincial France and newlyweds were given strawberry soup. Strawberry designs used to be carved on altars by medieval stonemasons because they were symbolic of righteousness and perfection.
More than twenty five thousand acres of strawberries are planted annually in California today and more than eighty percent of all the strawberries grown in the United States come from California. Every acre turns out twenty-one tons of strawberries and there are about a billion pounds of strawberries produced each year from California alone. If all the strawberries grown this year in California were laid end to end, they would wrap fifteen times around the globe! That would be enough to give twelve pints of strawberries to every single house in the United States.
Why Strawberries are Called Strawberries
As with a lot of other foods, there is no fixed answer to the question how did strawberries get their name. Some people think it is because of the way the runners spread around the strawberry plant as it grows and other people think it is because straw used to be placed around the growing plants to protect them. The Anglo-Saxon verb "streabergen" means to strew or to spread and this word might have evolved in to the word strawberry over time.
There are lots of other myths about strawberries too, as well as various beliefs on how they got their name. The ancient Egyptians believed that if you ate three hundred strawberries in one hour you would transform yourself into an evil cat! Another legend is that if you break a double strawberry in half and share it with someone you like, the two of you will fall in love with one another.
Strawberry Dessert Recipes
Strawberries are nice eaten alone but they are truly wonderful when used to make dessert recipes such as strawberry jello cake recipes. If you are making a strawberry layer cake, nothing beats fresh strawberries as a decoration. You can mash some up to flavor the cake itself and use the rest to garnish the cake or you can make a strawberry sauce to serve with the cake. Strawberry cake recipes are easy to make and taste heavenly.
