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This Strawberry Moscato Layer Cake is made with layers of moscato cake and strawberry buttercream. It’s moist, delicious, and it’s a super fun way to drink your wine (and eat it too)!
Strawberry Moscato Layer Cake
This weekend, the hubs and I travelled to see my family and attend the wedding of a family friend. Our families (along with others) sort of grew up together and have taken many joint family vacations over the years. It was fun to see everyone and reminded me and my family so much of when the hubs and I got married.
Often you’ll hear at a wedding a wish for the bride and groom that they will love each other more the rest of their lives than they do on their wedding day. I will totally admit that I used to not understand that at all. 🙂 Surely you’d love your husband the most on the day you get married, right? What a wonderful day?!
But now I totally get it. It’s been just 5 1/2 years of marriage, but we’ve been through our share of ups and downs and boy has it made us stronger. I can absolutely say that I love the hubs more now and so differently than I did on our wedding day. I’m always excited now for newly married couples to experience that once day. 🙂
But back to the wedding, their alter (see my Instagram photo of the alter) was maybe the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. And boy did we dance! My parents, my brother and his date, and the hubs and I – dancing fools. That’s how I like it. 🙂
And of course cake! There should always be cake at a celebration!
This Strawberry Moscato Layer Cake would be the perfect celebration cake. Especially for a wine-lover’s birthday. There’s a full cup of wine in the it, so there’s plenty of wine flavor. I used a moscato because I’m a sweet wine girl, but feel free to use your favorite white wine.
I loved the pairing of the strawberry icing with it too. A great combination. But you could easily switch it out for another fruit, like raspberry, if you prefer. I am all about switching things up to your preference, you’ll just want to use about the same amount of fruit puree.
Once the cakes are baked and the icing is ready, it’s time for the fun part (at least for me). Icing the cake! If you’d like some help with how to smoothly ice the cake, I’ve got a tutorial for you – How to Frost a Smooth Cake with Buttercream.
I like to store my finished cakes in an airtight container on the counter and this cake is best if eaten within two to three days of making it, so it’s fresh. Enjoy!
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Strawberry Moscato Layer Cake
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 12-14 Slices 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Strawberry Moscato Layer Cake is made with layers of moscato cake and strawberry buttercream. It’s moist, delicious, and it’s a super fun way to drink your wine (and eat it too)!
Ingredients
MOSCATO CAKE
- 1 1/4 cups salted butter, room temp
- 2 cups sugar
- 5 egg whites
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup Moscato wine
STRAWBERRYÂ FROSTING
- 1 1/4 cup salted butter
- 1 1/4 cup shortening
- 10 cups powdered sugar
- 7–8 tbsp strawberry puree
Instructions
Notes
To make the strawberry puree, add fresh chopped strawberries to a food processor and puree until smooth. One 1 lb container of strawberries should be plenty.
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Enjoy!
Sounds like a beautiful wedding! And this cake is so stunning! It really looks perfect – that icing especially! Strawberry cakes are one of my faves!
WOW! This is absolutely gorgeous. I’ve never had wine in my cake and now I’m wondering why the heck not! Plus, your strawberry icing looks heavenly. Pinning!
This cake is absolutely perfection Lindsay! Incredible! You caking skills are second to none! 😉
What’s not to love about this cake?! I love the combination of flavors! And how perfect is this cake frosted?! It looks absolutely perfect and gorgeous!
Oh, you’re right about marriage. We just had our 7 year wedding anniversary yesterday and it really made me think about how I love him and how full speed ahead committed I am to him and our marriage. I didn’t understand it either, but it really does grow and mature the longer your are with a person. Just a quick giggle, I think he forgot to get me something for our anniversary. Not a big deal, I got him a package of noodles that caught his eye in the grocery store earlier in the week, and it didn’t hurt my feelings or anything. But when I sat down at the table to eat breakfast there was a little jar of wildflowers waiting for me. He had sneaked out and picked them from my pots on the back patio while I was in the shower. It almost made me cry it was so sweet. Sorry to blabbermouth on and on, but your thoughts on the matter really struck me.
Also, this three storey cake with that FROSTING stopped me right in my tracks. Incredibly beautiful.
Such a cute story! I’m glad you can relate! 🙂
This is my kinda cake!!
Oh my gosh, I love this so much. I’m totally a sweet wine person. And I love strawberry and moscato together! What could be bad about cake with a whole cup of wine in it! 😉 I need to find something to celebrate so I can make this cake haha. 🙂
You had me at “moscato.” And yep, love grows exponentially and limitlessly. It’s kind of amazing how the human heart has such a huge capacity. This cake is so pretty! Prettier than the altar. Really!