My BIL really wants the strawberry cake he saw in the Bake n' Fill commercial. I just got the pan set and said "Sure!", my first cake (A Boston Creme Pie) turned out well using the pans, so I felt pretty confident and told him I'd make it for Saturday's picnic.

I check the recipe book yesterday and there is no recipe for that cake! So I'm going by memory here, It was frosted with pink, fluffy like frosting and had strawberries mixed with the same frosting in the middle (I think ) So here's my plan:

Strawberry Whipped cream frosting (pink)
White cake marbled with strawberry filling
Inner core (fresh strawberries mixed with frosting)

My question, should I even try doing the poke-hole method to the cake to add strawberry puree or just leave it white? I don't want to OD on strawberry tastes, but I'm just so confused and DH isn't much help with this (though he tried, bless his heart).

Any ideas how to pull this off?

I used to make a "fruit salad" that was made from a tub of cool whip, fruit cocktail and powdered jello mix. When you mix the Cool Whip with the Jello, it is nice and fluffy...until you refrigerate it! Then it turns into a mousse-like texture. (You would probably have to work fairly fast to use this as an icing though.) I think you could do this and get the look you're wanting. Just substitute fresh sliced strawberries for the fruit cocktail, for the filling in the center!

(ps. I have the same pan set and was VERY disappointed that this particular recipe was not included since it is featured in every ad they have!)