Smoked Strawberry Cake with meal of Pineapple Jerk chicken and Sweet Baby Rays chicken and Peaches and Cream corn
The cake is the star and everything but the Cool Whip was done in the smoker, yes the cake also
Start with your basic white cake, normally I would put into a 9 x 13 pan , but I wanted a higher cake so mine was a little smaller
Had my smoker up to 325 deg. with apple chunks ,was trying for not too heavy of a smoke
Cake was in the smoker for approx. 20 - 25 minutes, turned around half way through ( keep an eye on it, check for doneness with a toothpick )
While cake is cooking slice up 2 quarts of strawberry's ( put aside 5 -6 nice big ones for roasting later for garnish ) put in bowl with 3/4 cup sugar stir
When cake is done remove and let cool, put berry's in pan and in the smoker and stir once in a while until tender , there will be a lot of liquid ( sause )approx 15 minutes, remove and let cool
This all can be finished in the pan you cooked the cake into , but i wanted to put mine in a smaller dish, so I remove and put in a little smaller glass dish for looks, Had to cut 2 edges to go in new dish, so I had to eat the cut offs
There was nice Smoke to the cake but only on the top, the Strawberry's took on a lot of smoke so I was worried that Mona and her family would not like,
I put the berry's in a bowl and added juice from 1/2 a lime, stir and taste to see if you need any more sugar for your taste
Now that all is cool poke small holes all over the cake with something small like a pencil size or smaller , now pour/spread the strawberry's over the whole cake. The juice/ sauce will flow down through the cake and berry's on top now. Cover the whole cake with Cool Whip, Place cake in fridge to stay cool
Now the berry's you saved earlier, slice in half, dip the cut half in sugar and put in freezer for 10 minutes +/- When I had my grill going on high while doing the chicken place the berry's on the hot grill to roast and carmalize the cuts because of the sugar mine did not leave the grill marks as much as i thought it would
You can see how the juice ran down in the holes on the cake. They all loved the cake and than told them it was made in the smoker ( Mona knew ) they could not believe , had to show them pictures ha ha . All is good.
Now here is the main course, Pineapple Jerk chicken and Sweet Baby Rays Original and fresh Peaches and Cream corn on the cob, great meal with Mona's family again
Thanks for looking , I know I'm long winded . Just showing all the steps
Good meal, good weather and frienDavid
The cake is the star and everything but the Cool Whip was done in the smoker, yes the cake also
Start with your basic white cake, normally I would put into a 9 x 13 pan , but I wanted a higher cake so mine was a little smaller
Had my smoker up to 325 deg. with apple chunks ,was trying for not too heavy of a smoke
Cake was in the smoker for approx. 20 - 25 minutes, turned around half way through ( keep an eye on it, check for doneness with a toothpick )
While cake is cooking slice up 2 quarts of strawberry's ( put aside 5 -6 nice big ones for roasting later for garnish ) put in bowl with 3/4 cup sugar stir
When cake is done remove and let cool, put berry's in pan and in the smoker and stir once in a while until tender , there will be a lot of liquid ( sause )approx 15 minutes, remove and let cool
This all can be finished in the pan you cooked the cake into , but i wanted to put mine in a smaller dish, so I remove and put in a little smaller glass dish for looks, Had to cut 2 edges to go in new dish, so I had to eat the cut offs
There was nice Smoke to the cake but only on the top, the Strawberry's took on a lot of smoke so I was worried that Mona and her family would not like,
I put the berry's in a bowl and added juice from 1/2 a lime, stir and taste to see if you need any more sugar for your taste
Now that all is cool poke small holes all over the cake with something small like a pencil size or smaller , now pour/spread the strawberry's over the whole cake. The juice/ sauce will flow down through the cake and berry's on top now. Cover the whole cake with Cool Whip, Place cake in fridge to stay cool
Now the berry's you saved earlier, slice in half, dip the cut half in sugar and put in freezer for 10 minutes +/- When I had my grill going on high while doing the chicken place the berry's on the hot grill to roast and carmalize the cuts because of the sugar mine did not leave the grill marks as much as i thought it would
You can see how the juice ran down in the holes on the cake. They all loved the cake and than told them it was made in the smoker ( Mona knew ) they could not believe , had to show them pictures ha ha . All is good.
Now here is the main course, Pineapple Jerk chicken and Sweet Baby Rays Original and fresh Peaches and Cream corn on the cob, great meal with Mona's family again
Thanks for looking , I know I'm long winded . Just showing all the steps
Good meal, good weather and frienDavid
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