Preheat oven to 350°
Cream together:
½ C softened butter
¼ C canola oil
1 ¾ C sugar
Add and mix:
4 eggs
1 t vanilla
Add and mix:
3 C cake flour – I never have cake flour so here is a substitute for cake flour – 3 C flour minus 6 T and then add 6 T cornstarch
1T and 1/2t baking powder
1 t salt
Add alternately with flour mix:
1 ½ C seedless strawberry jam
½ C Moscato
Mix well and pour into 3 well-greased 8 or 9 inch round cake pans.
Bake for about 30 minutes. Check with toothpick and take out as soon as the toothpick comes out clean. Don’t over bake.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Beat together well:
2 8 oz. Cream cheese, softened
¾ C butter, softened
4 t vanilla
6 C powdered sugar
While beating add 5 – 7 T whipping cream (not cool whip – un whipped whipping cream) and beat well. That is the secret to the creamy, dreamy frosting.
Cool cakes completely.
Brush the tops of each layer with Moscato
Layer:
Cake
Frosting
Sliced Strawberries
repeat and finish with frosting on top.