Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake

This Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake is full of flavor with the French Vanilla cake mix, cream cheese and cool whip center, complete with white chocolate chips. A light cake bursting with flavors which compliment each other. 

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I had promised to take a salad to my husband’s parents house.  The Springtime Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing was seen on Facebook by a family member and encouraged me to bring it.  I had to agree. However, the day before the get together, I wanted to bring a dessert.  I always bring desserts as it is something I really, really enjoy doing.  That and my hubby’s sweet tooth usually asks it of me. 🙂 As I was contemplating what to make, I, of course, fell back on the box cake mix.  I mean, after all, great desserts can be made from the cake mix. When I saw the strawberries in the fridge, the ideas started forming.  Strawberries, cream cheese, cool whip…yes, Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake it shall be.  {And it is so, so easy to make!}

The strawberry cream cheese cake is really a basic French Vanilla Cake mix.  I think a white cake mix would taste great with this as well, but the French Vanilla added some depth in the flavoring.  {By the way, does making a cake leave you frustrated because it doesn’t raise right, come out of the pan right or is crumby when you frost it? I wrote a series on baking a cake.  Be sure to check it out.} I have a cream cheese mixture I use often for different fillings in my desserts and it is a favorite.  Adding the strawberries was the icing on the cake {forgive the pun}.  The sweet strawberries added a perfect flavor.  I also put in some white chocolate chips.  I had mixed them into the filling for a great added punch of flavor.

I use certain Wilton supplies for this strawberry cream cake.  *Wilton round cake pans and *Wilton cake leveler (really, really comes in handy! I use more often than I thought I would). I highly recommend if you are a baker to have the cake leveler.  You will use it a lot.

Don’t let this recipe overwhelm you.  The strawberry cream cheese cake comes together easily and looks impressive.  {But it is easy, really!} 😉

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Strawberry Cream Cheese Cake

Author Sarah Johnson

Ingredients

• 1 box French Vanilla cake mix (and ingredients listed on back of box)
• 1 8 oz box cream cheese (softened)
• 12 oz container Cool Whip
• 1 to 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 lb strawberries (washed, stems removed and quartered)
• 3/4 cup white chocolate chips

Instructions

• Make the cake according to package directions.
• When cake is done baking, let cool for 10 minutes then remove from circle or 9x13 pan.
• Let cake cool completely.
• Mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar with a hand mixer.
• Fold in 1 cup Cool Whip.
• Fold in white chocolate chips.
• Fold in 1/2 cup strawberries (or more or less, depending on how much you want on top).
• Slice your cake in half, horizontally.
• Spread cream cheese filling on bottom half of sliced cake.
• Put top half of cake on top of filling.
• Spread rest of Cool Whip on top of cake and place the remaining strawberries on top.