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strawberry jam cake

we love to make this simple strawberry cake for valentines day! basically all you need is a box of cake mix and jar of jam.
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Ingredients  

  • 15 oz box cake mix (white or vanilla)*
  • 2 cups strawberry jam divided
  • 1 cup butter room temperature
  • 4-5 cups confectioners sugar

Instructions 

for the cake

  1. prepare the boxed cake mix and then add 1 cup of strawberry jam.
  2. you could obviously also make a white cake from scratch and just add the jam!

for the frosting

  1. in a mixer, cream 1 cup of room temperature butter with the remaining cup of jam. cream for about 2 minutes – and then gradually add the confectioners sugar, continue to mix. use less or more sugar depending on the consistency and taste you’re happy with.

Notes

we used sprinkles this time, but we also love to use freeze dried strawberries to decorate too. you could also try adding some to your cake mix as well!
*recipe actually calls for 18oz but these cake mix companies have cheapened out of course and made cake mixes now 15oz standard