Strawberry Orange Cake

Strawberry Cake recipe
So my husband spent all day Friday taking a really really really hard engineering exam.  Its all day long!  So I thought it would be nice to bake him something for when he got home.  I didn't have time to go to the grocery store so I needed to make this cake with what I had at home.  Come to find out I ran out of butter last time I baked so I needed to find an alternative.  Thats how the Strawberry Orange Cake was born. 

I cut the recipe in half and instead of butter I used Orange flavored olive oil that I had on hand.  Other than that the recipe was pretty easy and definitely not as many pans as the Banana Cake so that was a plus.  The only other issue was that I didn't have any strawberries on hand so I couldn't make the puree.  I think this was the downfall of my creation - it was a little on the dry side.  Still a very nice flavor but could have used one more wet ingredient for sure.  I topped them off with chocolate frosting I had on hand - yes I'm sorry bakers out there, I didn't have any ingredients to make my own frosting for this one!

Lessons learned - need to have better stock of main ingredients on hand.  The grocery list for the week has grown but I will be prepared next time!

Next post will be soon so keep checking back.  My mom and I signed up for cake decorating classes at Michael's Craft store and we start this week!!  Have a wonderful day!