Strawberry Ombre Cake

Ingredients for the Sponge Cake

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• 250 g. sugar

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• 300 g. flour

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• 10 eggs

Ingredients for the Syrup

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• 150 g. sugar

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• 150 g. water

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• 50 g. strawberry liqueur

Ingredients for the cream

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• 800 g. cream cheese

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• 200 ml cream

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• 250 g. caster sugar

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• 9 drops of red food coloring

Setting up the cake

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• Fresh strawberries

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• 8 tablespoons strawberry jam

Directions for the Sponge Cake

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• Beat eggs and sugar in mixer until fluffy, a process that takes at least 10 minutes, depending on the mixer.

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• Sift the flour and  add it to the beaten eggs, stirring gently with a marisa.

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• Divide the mixture into three equal parts. Place them in buttered and floured pans  (diam. 24 cm).

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• Bake in preheated oven at 170 ° C for 20.

Directions for the Syrup

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• Boil the water with the sugar for two minutes.

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• Let it cool down and add the strawberry liqueur

Directions for the cream

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• Beat the cream fresh in the mixer to make it thick.

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• Add the cheese and icing sugar and continue beating for a few minutes until you have a homogenized cream.

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• In a bowl, put 3 drops of red color and mix 5 tablespoons of the cream until you get a nice pink color.

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• In another bowl put 6 drops of red color and mix 5 tablespoons of the cream cheese until you get a nice red color.

Assembly

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• Place the first cake as the first layer.

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• Sprinkle with syrup, spread 4 tablespoons of jam and top with 1/3 of the white cream.

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• Continue with the second sponge cake and repeat the same process: sprinkle with the syrup, spread 4 tablespoons of  jam and top with 1/3 of the white cream.

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• Finally add the third cake and sprinkle  with syrup.

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• To achieve the effect of the ombre look, cover the first sponge cake with the painted red cream cheese.

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• Then cover the second sponge cake with the painted pink cream cheese and finally cover  the third sponge cake with white cream cheese.

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• Use a marisa to give the cake a nice round shape and mix the colors making it ombre!

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• The technique of obre seems like abstract art at this point.

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• Finally cover the top with the rest of the white cream and decorate with strawberries.