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Cake: White Chocolate Strawberry Cream Cake

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List of Ingredients



• 1 cup milk, heated to a simmer
  
• 3 ounces white chocolate, chopped
  
• cooking spray
  
• 2 1/2 cups unsifted cake flour
  
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  
• 1 1/4 cups plus 1 tablespoons sugar
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  
• 5 large eggs, separated
  
• 2 pints strawberries, 8 whole berries halved, remaining berries sliced
  
• White Chocolate Frosting
  
• 1/2 pint heavy cream, heated to a simmer
  
• 6 ounces white chocolate, chopped
  
• 1 pint heavy cream, chilled
  






Instructions



1. Cake: In a bowl, pour hot milk over white chocolate; stir until smooth, let cool.
   
   
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
   
   
3. Coat two 9 inch round cake pans with cooking spray. Line bottoms with waxed paper. Coat paper; dust pans with flour.
   
   
4. In a bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt.
   
   
5. In a large bowl, with mixer on medium speed, beat butter with 1 1/4 cups sugar 3 minutes until fluffy. Beat in vanilla, then egg yolks, one at a time until blended. On low, beat in flour mixture in fourths, alternately with white chocolate mixture in thirds.
   
   
6. In a bowl, with clean beaters, beat egg whites until soft peaks form; gradually beat in remaining 1 tablespoon of sugar, until stiff, billowy peaks form. Fold into batter. Spread batter in pans.
   
   
7. Bake 26 minutes or until toothpicks inserted in centers come out clean. Cool in pans on rack for 10 minutes; invert onto rack. Cool.
   
   
8. Frosting: In a bowl, pour hot cream over white chocolate. Let stand 2 minutes. Whisk until smooth; chill.
   
   
9. Assemble: To finish frosting, in a bowl, beat chilled white chocolate mixture and 1 pint cream until billowy peaks form.
   
   
10. Level tops of cakes with serrated knife.Place 1 cake on plate; spread with 2/3 cup frosting.Top with sliced berries. Spread with 2/3 cup frosting. Top with second cake; frost. Garnish with berries and pansies.