Browned butter cake with a cream cheese frosting and strawberry cream cheese filling

 

Here is a cake that I made for my brother, for his Birthday.

My brother, Michael has been obsessed with strawberry cake for as long as I can remember... and for the life of me.. I have no idea why. I don't think that he has ever even had a strawberry birthday cake and I know this because I have celebrated every birthday with him, seeing as how we are Irish Twins, I was born in August of 1987 and my brother was born in September of 1986, making us the same age for almost a whole month. We were in the same grade and had a few classes together and shared teachers, so the teachers assumed that we were twins.

Anyways, so here's what I made.

I made a browned butter cake, that is very much like a pound cake. Since my brother loves strawberry cake or something along the lines, I made a cream cheese frosting, for the filling, I added some chopped strawberries to the cream cheese frosting. 

The cake was really good, very rich and the filling tasted like cheesecake. This was a very good cake. Just very time consuming.

So for a browned butter cake, you need to make browned butter and this is how I did that.

Melt 3 sticks of butter on medium low

 Simmer butter on low until the butter browns, before careful not to burn the butter

 This is what the browned butter looks like in liquid state, pour the butter into a container, and chill until the browned butter is in a solid state

 Solid browned butter

Browned butter cake
3 sticks browned butter (the chilled butter that you made)
1 2/3 cups sugar
2 ts vanilla
2 whole eggs plus 4 egg yolks, room temperature
2 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups milk, room temperature

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Butter and flour two cake pans.

Beat chilled butter with electric hand held mixer or stand mixer for about 1 minute until it softens and becomes creamy.

Add sugar and beat until the mixture becomes fluffy and almost beige in color, about 8 to 12 minutes.

Add in vanilla and eggs and egg yolks one at a time, beating between each addition until fully incorporated and and the mixture looks smooth and glossy, about 1 to 2 minutes.

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.

Add the dry ingredients to the butter in 3 parts, alternating with the milk.

Beat the batter on medium speed until just incorporated, about 20 seconds.

Divide batter among the two pans and bake for 35-40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Remove and place on wire racks. Allow to cool for 20 minutes.

 Cream the chilled browned butter until fluffy

 Creamed browned butter

 Add sugar and cream 

 Creamed butter and sugar mixture

 Add the milk, then flour mixture to the butter and sugar mixture and repeat until all is incorporated

 The finished batter

 Cream cheese frosting

6 ounce cream cheese room temp
1 stick butter room temp
1/2 pound of powdered sugar (a little less than 2 cups)
3/4 ts vanilla

Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth,beat in powdered sugar until smooth and then add vanilla and mix in.