📸🍾🍰 Whipped Cream Stuffed Strawberry!

Never serve a boring strawberry again! Stuff it with fresh cream!

I wrote a blog about a Tres Leches Cake that I baked/made this past holiday. (Recipe below!😉) My guests not only loved the cake but they loved the whipped cream stuffed strawberry that decorated the cake. It wasn't only a pretty decorative element on the cake, but it was a tasty treat as well. Here's how to create it.

**1. Wash your strawberries and dry. Cut the head of the berry so that it has a flat and even surface. **

**2. Cut an "X" pattern on top of strawberry making sure that you don't cut through to bottom. **

**3. Use a piping bag filled with fresh whipped cream fitted with a star tip and fill the strawberry. **

This whipped cream stuffed strawberry can be served by itself or use it as decoration on your favorite pastry. Either way you, your family and friends will love this simple but incredibly tasty sweet treat! Tres Leches Cake recipe below!

INGREDIENTS:

**For Chiffon cake: **

2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
10 large eggs, separated
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup milk
2 teaspoon vanilla extract

For "Tres Leches" milk mixture

1/2 cup heavy cream
One 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
One 12-ounce can evaporated milk

** For Icing: **

1 pint heavy cream, for whipping
4 tablespoons sugar
Fresh Strawberries for decorating

DIRECTIONS:

**1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 9- by 13-inch cake pan. **

**2. Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl; flour, baking powder and salt. **

3. Beat the egg yolks with 1 1/2 cup of the sugar on high speed until the yolks are pale yellow. Add the milk and vanilla.

**4. Add the egg yolk mixture to the flour mixture and carefully mix the two making sure you don't over mix.
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**5. Beat the egg whites on high speed until soft peaks form. **

6.With the mixer on, pour in the remaining 1/2 cup sugar and beat until the egg whites are stiff.

**7. Add the egg white mixture into the batter in sections and fold until just combined. Do not over mix. **

**8. Spoon into the prepared baking pans and spread to even out the surface. **

9. Bake until the cake is done, 25 to 35 minutes depending on each oven. Allow the cakes to cool in the pan.

**10. Combine the heavy cream, evaporated milk and condensed milk in a container. **

**11. Turn out one of the cooled cakes on a rimmed platter. Pierce the surface of the cake with a fork several times. **

12. Drizzle the milk mixture over the top and allow the cake to sit to absorb the milk mixture for a few minutes. The point is to soak the cake. However since another layer of cake will need to go on top, try not to oversoak the cake. If you only have one layer of cake... soak away!

**13. Prepare the whipped cream icing. Whip the cream with the sugar until stiff peaks form. **

**14. Ice the first layer of cake. **

15. Add the second layer of cake and repeat steps 11 and 12.

16. Spread the rest of the icing over the top and sides of the cake. Use the fresh strawberries for colorful decoration. The strawberries adds a nice touch of acidity to the sweetness of the cake. However, this cake is not overly sweet... It's perfect!

OPTIONAL Use a piping bag for decorative cake border.