J uicy Strawberry – Lemon Cake bites. This lemon cake is so delicious perfect for summertime, the real star of this lemon cake is the strawberry.
The strawberries in this lemon cake are so juicy and bursting with fresh strawberry/lemon flavor.
I use freeze-dried strawberries instead of fresh strawberries, Freeze-dried strawberry is just pure strawberry, minus the water, with no added sugar. You get tons of fresh strawberry flavor, and because the strawberries contain no water, no excess moisture will not change the consistency of the lemon cake.
I covered the freeze-dried strawberries with a splash of fresh lemon juice, the lemon juice I would normally add to the cake batter anyway. The strawberries plump a little and the lemon juice just makes the strawberries even juicier and even more delicious.
After the lemon cake is baked, I poke the cake with a fork and drizzled warm lemon sugar syrup all over the cake to make the cake even moister, and then it is drizzled with pink lemon icing, I use pink pitaya powder to get that beautiful eye-catching pink color on this cake.
This cake is so tender if served slightly warm, but after a night in the fridge, it becomes even juicier and moister, not as tender but still so good. If not better!
This cake freezes so well and is oh so perfect for warm summer days.
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