Name: Aunt Kate's Strawberry Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: White sugar - 1 cup; Shortening - ½ cup; Eggs, room temperature - 2; Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon; Mashed fresh strawberries - 1 cup; Baking soda - ½ teaspoon; All-purpose flour - 2 cups; Salt - ½ teaspoon; Confectioners' sugar - 2 cups; Butter, room temperature - ¼ cup; Mashed fresh strawberries - ¼ cup

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Cooking:

15 min.

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Ingredients for - Aunt Kate's Strawberry Cake

1. White sugar - 1 cup

2. Shortening - ½ cup

3. Eggs, room temperature - 2

4. Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon

5. Mashed fresh strawberries - 1 cup

6. Baking soda - ½ teaspoon

7. All-purpose flour - 2 cups

8. Salt - ½ teaspoon

9. Confectioners' sugar - 2 cups

10. Butter, room temperature - ¼ cup

11. Mashed fresh strawberries - ¼ cup

How to cook deliciously - Aunt Kate's Strawberry Cake

1. Stage

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. Stage

Grease a cake pan.

3. Stage

Beat white sugar and shortening together until light and fluffy.

4. Stage

Beat eggs, one at a time, into sugar mixture until well mixed; stir in vanilla extract.

5. Stage

Stir 1 cup strawberries and baking soda in a large bowl until baking soda is dissolved. This will help strawberries foam and rise in the cake.

6. Stage

Whisk flour and salt together in a separate bowl. Stir flour mixture and strawberry mixture by hand, into sugar mixture, alternating flour mixture, then strawberry mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

7. Stage

Pour batter into prepared cake pan.

8. Stage

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

9. Stage

Beat confectioners' sugar, butter, and 1/4 cup strawberries in a bowl with an electric mixer until blended; frost the cooled strawberry cake.