Hi! This might be one of the weirdest springs of our lifetimes, but it’s spring all the same and I’m making strawberry stuff! This delicate vegan strawberry cake is light, fluffy, not-too-sweet and full of strawberry flavor. It’s made totally from scratch!

The base of this cake is a sponge cake modeled from my classic vegan white cake. To infuse strawberry flavor directly into the batter, I pureed and strained a bunch of fresh strawberries and cooked them down into a reduction – this packs in the most strawberry flavor without ruining the texture. To compensate for the strawberry reduction, the other sugar and liquid in the cake are reduced slightly.

Finally, I added a little bit of pink food coloring to the batter to get that gorgeous, inviting hue! I tried this recipe with “natural” food colors and I wasn’t happy with the results at all.
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