The Easiest Homemade Strawberry Cake

This strawberry sheet cake uses both fresh and freeze-dried strawberries to get the flavor. It is a moist sheet cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting on top.

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STEP 1: Strawberry Salsa. Place quartered strawberries into food processor and pulse until it looks like salsa. Set aside.

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STEP 2: Beat butter, oil and sugar on high for 3 minutes. Add in remaining wet ingredients.

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STEP 3: Alternate adding buttermilk and dry ingredients.

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STEP 4: Pour into cake pan and bake for 45-55 minutes. Cool before decorating.

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STEP 5: Strawberry cream cheese frosting. Beat the cream cheese and butter for 3 minutes. Mix in powdered sugar.

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STEP 6: Mix in strawberry salsa, vanilla, salt, and heavy cream.

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STEP 7: Decorate the cake with cream cheese and extra strawberries.

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