http://www.food.com/recipe/strawberry-dream-cake-cooks-country-487116
I made it for my bridal shower last year, thanksgiving, my friend's birthday, a house warming party. Really, this has been my go to cake for the past 12 months. It made sense for me to make it for my karaoke birthday party on Saturday. However, March Madness is in full effect (my Hoosiers! My beloved Hoosiers! Damn you Syracuse!) and I was trying to both make my cake and watch a game. I burnt the strawberries I was trying to defrost on the stove. (No microwave in the house. i have a long standing aversion to to them and the counter space they take up) In order to avoid having to go out to the ghetto Von's by my house, i searched the freezer for an alternative. There, in the frosty tundra underneath a forgotten bag of coconut and a few icy sticks of lard, there was a single bag of frozen peaches. My friend's mom had a heavily laden branch pruned from her peach tree last year. She gave me two huge bags of ripe and unripened fruit. I made green peach chutney, green peach pickles, peach pie and peach jam. I also blanched, peeled and froze a few quart sized bags of fruit that were at their peak ripeness. This was my last one. what better use than for my birthday cake!
I replaced the strawberries with peaches in the recipe. I used 4 egg whites and 2 whole eggs. In retrospect, i think i would have done 3 egg whites and 2 whole eggs. The cake was delicious, but the crumb was a little more open than I prefer in a white cake. I suspect the extra egg white contributed to that. But otherwise the cake was a huge success. Once peach season comes around again, i'll give it another go.
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