Let Us Eat Cake, (Julie’s Cakes Continues)

Currently Baking Until You Can Insert a Toothpick and it Comes Out Clean 🙂

Strawberry Jalapeno Sheet Cake

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Gordon and Julie, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1982 in Gordon’s parents kitchen.

We are baking Christmas Cakes/Breads for his parents to give to their friends and associates as gifts.

Note the expression on my face. I remember this day very well. I HATED Baking cakes. I HATED that they roped me into this.

All I remember are the Cranberries. I HATED Cranberries. Unless a cake was packed with Chocolate then I wasn’t interested.

That was a very long time ago and here I am starting yet another Cake Blog Page on my website, 38 years later at this writing, 2021. I will need to ask for this recipe so that we can bake them all again. 🙂

p.s. I’m pretty sure they passed our cakes/breads off as theirs. Grrr….

Julie Lancaster-Whann

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Welcome to Let Us Eat Cake!

Julie’s Strawberry Jalapeno Cake

AND,

Strawberries Dipped in Strawberry Jalapeno Frosting

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Recipes Starts Right Here!

Julie’s Strawberry Jalapeno Cake with Strawberry Jalapeno Frosting

Gathering All of the Ingredients

Including my Vintage Electric Mixer

The Ingredients For The Cake:

3/4 Cup Butter, Room Temperature

1 1/2 Cups Sugar (We used Splenda)

3 Cups Cake Flour, Sifted

1 T. Baking Powder

3/4 t. Salt

4 Eggs

1 Cup Buttermilk

1 1/2 t. Vanilla Extract

2 Cups Chopped Fresh Strawberry’s

1-2 Chopped Jalapeno Peppers, De-seeded

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Get out your mixer….

This vintage Mixer was a gift to me from my Grandmother. She bought it at a yard sale in Rome, Georgia for $20.00 and brought it in her suitcase to Honolulu, Hawaii to visit us when we were living there. I treasure it!

The Ingredients on the Right are for the Frosting:

1, 8 oz. Cream Cheese, Room Temperature

1/2 Cup Butter, Room Temperature

1 Jar Jalapeno Strawberry Jam, or Less if you Prefer

5 Cups Confectioner’s Sugar

To Garnish the Cake:

A Jalapeno Pepper and Whole Strawberry’s

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Freshly Washed Strawberry’s for the Cake

Spray a Sheet Pan with Pam Baking Oil with Flour in it

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Time to Make the Cake…

You first want to place your room temperature Butter and Sugar into your largest Mixing Bowl and beat on a medium speed until well blended and a bit fluffy.

You next want to add all of your Eggs, one at a time until well blended.

Blend together after each Egg.

Using a Food Mill Potato Ricer as a Sifter

(Hey, it works!)

In another bowl, adding my Cake Flour, Baking Powder, and Salt to the Ricer.

Sifting into the bowl.

My Dry Mixture and My Buttermilk

Time to Add my Dry Mixture Interspersed with the Buttermilk

(Start with the Dry, and End with the Dry.)

In other words, add some of the dry mixture to the mixing bowl and blend. Once blended, add some of the buttermilk until blended. Then add some of the dry mixture until blended, then add some wet. Start with the Dry, End with the Dry.