In the strawberry season, be sure to pamper your family with a delicious, no-bake cake. Strawberry Zebra Cake is the perfect cake for hot days.
Thin soft cakes, pleasant sourness of strawberries, tenderness of cheese cream and light cinnamon aroma... In my opinion, this is a great combination. This cake is served exclusively chilled, so this dessert will be more than appropriate in the heat.
Preparing Strawberry Zebra Cake quickly, simply and without baking. The cakes are made from shortbread cookies. Such a dessert will be appropriate both on a festive table and for a family tea party.
Take note of the recipe for this simple, no-bake strawberry cake, it will definitely come in handy!
Ingredients (for 23 * 23 cm form):
- shortbread cookies - 1 kg
- strawberries - 1 kg
- water - 100 ml
- gelatin - 2.5 tbsp. l.
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
Cream cheese for decoration:
- cream cheese - 350 g
- cream 10% - 50 ml (if necessary)
- icing sugar - 1.5 tbsp. l.
- ground cinnamon - 1 tsp l.
Step by step recipe
1. First, let's prepare the strawberry cream.
Pour 2.5 tbsp into an iron bowl. gelatin and fill it with 100 ml of cold water. Mix everything and leave to swell for about 10 minutes.
2. While the gelatin swells, clean the strawberries from the stalks and wash them. We need 1 kg of fresh strawberries.
Grind all berries in mashed potatoes using a chopper or in a blender.
3. Pour the strawberry puree into a bowl.
You can also use frozen strawberries for this cake, after defrosting them at room temperature.
Pour 2 tablespoons into the strawberry puree. sugar and stir until sugar dissolves.
4. The gelatin is already swollen, dissolve it over low heat and bring it to a temperature of about 50 degrees.
5. Gradually pour the melted gelatin into the strawberry mixture while constantly stirring.
The prepared strawberry puree turns out to be quite liquid, we leave it at room temperature for about 20 minutes, so that it sets a little and becomes thicker. In this form, it will be more convenient to work with him. To make the puree thicken faster, you can put it in the refrigerator, but then it must be stirred periodically.
Strawberry puree should be like this.
6. Preparing the cake mold. I took a square shape measuring 23 x 23 cm. In the middle, carefully cover the form with cling film so that the metal form does not oxidize and the cake can be easily removed from the form.
7. Put shortbread cookies in the first layer. The cookies need to be folded tightly to each other, and the excess parts of the cookies that do not fit into the mold are cut with a knife to the desired size.
Pour some strawberry puree on the biscuit layer. The strawberry puree layer should be slightly thinner than the cookie.
8. On the mashed potatoes again put a layer of cookies, trying to put it on the surface of the mashed potatoes, without pressing. This is how we fold the whole cake. I got 5 layers of cookies. In total, about 1 kg of cookies were needed for the cake.
9. Cover the cake with cling film and set in the refrigerator to freeze for at least 2 hours.
10. The cake has frozen, we take it out of the mold and put it on the board. Cut off the edges of the cake, so it will look prettier and more appetizing.
We rearrange the cake on a dish on which we will serve it on the table.
11. Preparing the decoration.
Put 350 g of cream cheese, for example Philadelphia, in a bowl, and pour about 50 g of cream with 10% fat. Pour 1.5 tbsp here. icing sugar. Beat everything with a mixer until smooth. If your cream cheese is not as thick as mine, then you do not need to add cream.
12. Grease the top of the cake with a thin layer of the prepared cream.
13. We transfer the cream into a pastry bag with an asterisk attachment. Place the stars all over the top of the cake.
14. Sprinkle cinnamon on top of the cake.
The cake turned out to be very tasty and unusual. It combines well sweet shortbread cookies and strawberry puree with sourness. Be sure to prepare such a cake, it is very easy to prepare and you do not need to bake anything.
Video recipe
The recipe is taken from my culinary site. gotovimop.com