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Hi everyone, i am making a wedding cake and the bride wants the bottom tier to be pink and strawberry flavour, i have been searching the internet, but no joy, found one that was palin flour, bicarb,sour cream fresh strawberries etc, i made cup cakes , and then a small sponge but when i scaled up the recipe it didnt work, the size required is for a 10 inch square 4inch deep tcake tin, thanking everyone in advance : )

Hi Treacle

Have you thought of using strawberry flavoured extract in the sponge? The cake decorating company http://www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk/ sell LorAnn oils which come in lots of different flavours. If you add that to the sponge and just colour the batter pink, would that work for you? I wouldn’t put fresh strawberries in the cake if you’ll be decorating it over a few days. Fresh fruit in cakes moulds very quickly and is best decorated
on day of use. Hope this helps. x

Hi madeitwithlove,
many thanks for you advice, thats what i told the bride, thinking i will get the really good flavouring, i think lakeland does the LorAnn oils ,i nearly bought strawberry when i was there last month, but didnt, who knew i would have a request for it so soon. thanks again your advice as always is helpful , 🙂

Treacle, you could also add it to ganache or butter cream and also make a flavoured simple syrup to add extra strawberry flavour to the cake layers. x