Japanese Strawberry Christmas Cake Recipe

Japanese strawberry shortcake and christmas.

Japanese strawberry christmas cake recipe. Ingredients for japanese christmas cake strawberry shortcake. Once the cake has completely cooled trim the edges and cut the cake in half. Decorate the japanese christmas cake with fresh strawberries chocolate decorations or take marzipan and food coloring and create little santa snowmen or other holiday decorations for the top. This japanese christmas cake is a fluffy sponge cake decorated with a generous amount of strawberries and whipped cream.

This strawberry shortcake cake recipe was originally posted as japanese birthday cake in 2016. It s a real treat for the kids. Try this recipe at christmas time. Place first piece of cake on your cake stand tuck overlapping pieces of parchment paper under the edge of the cake to keep your cake stand clear of any cream.

Instead of sweet biscuits a japanese strawberry shortcake is made of 2 3 layers of sponge cake with fresh strawberry slices whipped cream filling and whipped cream frosting. The japanese version of shortcake was developed by the confectionary and restaurant chain fujiya 不二家 in the early 20th century. But strawberry shortcake became so popular in japan that the word shortcake became synonymous with japanese strawberry shortcake. The recipe i used was adapted from la fuji mama and youtube channel cookingwithdog not how it sounds exactly how it sounds.

Christmas cake クリスマスケーキ is a japanese style strawberry shortcake that s traditionally eaten on christmas eve. You will need parchment paper bottom. Because this type of strawberry cake is often served for a birthday. My favorite is to do a row of strawberries around the outside of the cake and then add cheap vintage style plastic christmas trees and santa.

This cake might seem rather simple yet when all the components are prepared perfectly it comes together as an amazing dessert. Japanese christmas cake strawberry shortcake recipe. Should you fancy something a little lighter but as much of a showstopper as the traditional holiday confection try a kurisumasu keki or japanese christmas cake the only fruit you ll find is strawberries plus a heaping of whipped cream wrapped between and all over a light as air sponge cake. We get two equal rectangle pieces.

Frost the top of the cake with about of the whipped cream. Get into a slightly different christmas spirit this year with a japanese christmas cake. Occasions to eat strawberry shortcake cake. Utterly distinct from the fruity boozey density of british christmas cake japanese christmas cake or kurisumasu keki is a light sponge cake covered in a layer of whipped cream and decorated with ripe strawberries.

For my version i ve turned it into an easy roll cake with a tender sponge cake base and loads of strawberries and cream.