Strawberry Crunch Cake Recipe

Edly Termilien | February 21, 2022

If you want a soft and crunchy treat for birthday parties or any special occasion for your kids or any loved one. Strawberries are one of the sugary fruits. As the strawberry season is approaching in Texas, this is a great time to make any type of strawberry-baked recipe. Strawberry crunch cake is sweet, tasty, and easy to make. Strawberry crunch is a great classic cake.

Strawberry crunch cake can be decorated with fluffy whipped cream or a slice of strawberries for topping. For birthdays, I would recommend that boys’ parties have blue frosting for the toppings and girls can have pink frosting.

I would highly recommend using vanilla buttercream for the frosting. You have sprinkles for some pop of fun in the colors. This cake gives us childhood nostalgia of strawberry crunch ice cream.

If you’re not a big fan of vanilla, you can replace it with chocolate or any favorite flavor of the cake. When it comes to the cake recipe, your creativity is limitless.

How To Make Strawberry Crunch Cake?

Ingredients

• 1 box vanilla cake mix,
• 1 box strawberry cake mix,
• 1 1/2 c. butter, softened

Frosting

• 6 c. powdered sugar
• 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 6 tbsp. heavy cream

Toppings

• 1 c. freeze-dried strawberries
• 1/2 box Nilla wafers, crushed
• 3 tbsp. melted butter
• Oreos cookies

Strawberry Crunch Cake Recipe in Simple 5 Steps

The following are the steps to bake a delicious strawberry crunch cake:

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350°F and prepare four 8 or 10 inch round cake pans.

Step 2: Prepare the vanilla and strawberry cake mixes you can follow the cake box ingredients. Prepare pans to bake two vanilla cakes and two strawberry cakes after baking, remove from pans after 10 minutes and then cool completely on a rack.

Step 3: Use a large mixing bowl and beat the softened butter and 3 cups of powdered sugar. After smoothing the mixture, add the remaining 3 cups of sugar, vanilla extract, and heavy cream until it is fluffy.

Step 4: Take the freeze-dried strawberries and Nilla wafers and crush them in a Ziploc bag using a rolling pin or anything to crush it. Add the melted butter to the bag until the mixture is combined.

Step 5: Lastly, place one of the cooled white cakes on a plate and frost the top of it and then place one of the strawberry cakes on top of that one and frost the cake. Repeat with the remaining two cakes and put the crunch mixture all over the top and sides. Enjoy!