The Best Strawberry Filling – Sweet Spatula: Growing up baking with Natalie

This is the best filling for anything! You can use it for filling cakes, eat it with angel food cake, jam, and everything else. You’ll love this easy and delicious recipe from carveyourcravings.com. Let’s get baking!

INGREDIENTS:

about 3 cups fresh strawberries washed & hulled.
⅓ cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons cornstarch
4-5 tablespoon water , or enough to make thick cornstarch paste

DIRECTIONS:

In a wide sauce pan, add chopped strawberries, lemon juice, sugar, and stir well on medium heat.
Cover the pan with the lid and cook for 4-5 minutes until the mixture comes to a boil.
Strawberries should be tender at this point.
Uncover and smash strawberries roughly with a fork. Cover and let it cook for a minute.
In the meantime, dissolve water with cornstarch to create a thick liquid paste.
Now slowly add in the slurry with one hand and mixing the filling continuously with another hand. Within a few seconds, the strawberry filling will start to thicken.
Cook for a minute. The consistency should be thick and not runny.
Note that mixture thickens more after cooling completely, turning into a thick jam.

DIRECTIONS FOR STORING:

Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Can be frozen up to 3 months.

Thanks for baking with me!

~ Natalie