Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake

 
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake starts with the perfect delicate yet dense cake crumb of my Cream Cheese Pound Cake. It is then filled with strawberry sauce and topped with a strawberry cream cheese frosting so every bite is full of that sweet strawberry flavor!
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake is broken down into three major componentsthe cream cheese pound cake strawberry sauce and strawberry cream cheese frosting.  It is important to use good quality products for this recipe so I opted for Challenge Butter and Challenge Cream Cheese to make sure that my cake would be the best tasting pound cake you will ever try!

Challenge Butter and Cream Cheese are both made the oldfashioned way from the freshest milk and cream from happy cows at familyowned dairies. In fact Challenge is the only major U S. dairy product company that controls the whole process when it comes to making its butter from milking the cows to transporting milk to making the butter to packaging and distributing. Talk about quality control! I used the butter in my Kentucky Butter Crunch Cake as well and it did not disappoint!
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe
First off I have to mention that as you can see by the ingredients below this is a FROMSCRATCH strawberry cake that does not use a cake mix gelatin or jello to enhance the strawberry flavor. And I can tell you with certainty it is a serious strawberry flavor! I might go so far as to say that it is the BEST strawberry cake I have ever had!
One thing to take note of I cant stress enough that this cake needs to be made with room temperature ingredients. This will ensure easier mixing and helps achieve that perfect crumb! 
How to Make the Strawberry Sauce
The strawberry sauce is important for all that strawberry flavor to get into each bite of this pound cake. While the pound cake is cooling to room temperature prepare the sauce.
Make simple syrup Add strawberry puree and cook for about 10 minutes continuing to whisk frequently Poke the pound cake breaking up the bottom crust Pour 1 cup of the strawberry sauce over the broken pound cake. Reserve the second cup of sauce for the frosting. Let the cake cool to room temperature before you add the frosting.
How to Make Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
The final piece of this recipe