oh so moist strawberry cake

This is one awesome recipe! The only thing I did differnt, was I took the cool whip, added some strawberry jello ( dry of course), then put on the cake. But, you could instead if wanted to, buy strawberry cool-whip, or add some imitation strawberry extract flavoring. But, is a great recipe!

Glad you enjoyed it.

God Bless you! Instead of the water you could use evaporated milk. You can do a kind of "3 milks" mixture and poured over the cake: 12 oz. evaporated milk, 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk, and 1/2 cup heavy cream. With that you can take out the sugar. This is really sweet enough and very yummy! Son, will will have a "So moist 3 leches strawberry cake"! Wow, wow....Delicious!

This was an awesome recipe but I did switch it up a bit. I used the "tres leches" suggestion (thanks Sonia) and diced the strawberries into the 3 milks to sit overnight. I also made this as a three layer cake as it was a special birthday celebration. I then strained out about 1/3 of the strawberries and added to 1/3 of cool whip. I used this to frost between layers. Then I added a few tablespoons of strawberry jello to the remainder of the coolwhip and strained the rest of the strawberries into it as well. Used that to frost the outside of the cake. It was a giant hit! I think I'm going to try this with mandarin oranges and an orange cake mix next.

Glad you liked it. I must say, it's dangerous for me to make this cake because I can not stop eating it.

I have also made this with chocolate cake and used marchino cherry juice. Then I put white chocolate pudding in with the cool whip to spread on top, it's wonderful!

Good Job Girls, you really know how to keep me on track! Darn....but your no help at all when it comes to making decisions! Now, I have to choose which strawberry cake to bake! Ohhhh, heck....with Sunday Dinners, Family Reunion and Pastor Appreciation this month...I'll get to enjoy all of them!

Wow! Sounds wonderful!

Delicious!!! My daughter asked for a very pink cake for her 5th birthday party. I made thus cake the way that Lisa suggested. It was a HIT!!! I have been volunteered to make the cakes for all potlucks from now on.

@ Mindy.....I bet it was a HIT! It sure sounds like a keeper...I can't wait to try it myself! =D

Hi, June! I do love your recipe "in this format". I somehow got shifted over to a different site offering photo and video formats. At that site a referral was in the Directions referring to adding a portion of the 'water sugar mixture' from the strawberries, yet that mixture is not mentioned in that written format. I am so grateful that I was able to get back to this page, and finally it was all written out correctly!

I was most impressed by the additional combinations offered to you in the 'comments' section. The differences were very interesting. They had a way to create a 'tres leches' cake. There were different ways to mix the berries during the assembly of the cake. I was even taken, June, by your reference to making this with Chocolate Cake and Maraschino Cherries.

I do think you need to ask the 'kitchen crew' about that other page that left a major instruction about using 'the sugar/water mixture'. It's not fair to sabotage your recipe that way. [If they need to talk to me regarding this other format - go ahead and give them my name to get to me and ask questions]
I'll get back to you again soon. First, I need to bake every version of this recipe. YUMMO!!!