Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake

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This strawberry cream cheese pound cake is perfectly flavored with fresh strawberries (no artificial flavoring here!) and is moist and sweet like any good pound cake! It's then topped with a fresh strawberry and bourbon glaze that is to die for.

Fresh strawberries and cream cheese make this cake flavorful, sweet, and slightly tangy. Top all that off with a strawberry bourbon glaze, and you have yourself a classic dessert!

Strawberry pound bunt cake on a marble cake stand with pink strawberry glaze and surrounded by strawberries.

Why you will love this recipe:

Strawberry cakes are the best, especially when they are made with fresh strawberries. This pound cake is a little on the dense side, but try these Strawberry Cardamom Cupcakes if you want a light and fluffy strawberry cake.

This pound cake with strawberries is made with cream cheese, making it extremely moist, a bit tangy, and totally delightful. But even though it's made with cream cheese and it's a pound cake, it's not overly dense. It has just a touch of baking powder, which gives the bunt cake a little additional rise and helps create a lighter crumb.

Overhead shot of all the ingredients for strawberry pound cake.

Key Ingredients:

Self Rising Flour: a low-protein self-rising flour like White Lily or Weisenberger Mills gives this pound cake with strawberry glaze a tender crumb and a slight rise. White Lily and Weisenberger Mills flour are more similar to cake flour than it is regular all-purpose flour because of its low protein content. This kind of flour makes a lighter crumb, which is very beneficial in a denser cake like a pound cake.

Self-rising flour is beneficial too because it already has rising agents and salt blended into the flour.

Butter: butter provides flavor and structure to the cake; there is one stick of butter for each cup of flour, as is traditional for pound cakes.

Cream Cheese: cream cheese adds moisture, texture, and a tangy flavor to the cake. This is a very moist crumb, and the cream cheese and a bit of buttermilk help give its moistness.

Strawberries: This is a strawberry pound cake, and puree from fresh strawberries is what gives this cake and glaze its strawberry flavor.

Eggs: eggs traditionally give these cakes their rise; there is enough air whipped into them to cause them to rise. This recipe also gets its rising help from the baking soda and powder in the flour.

Collage showing how to make strawberry pound cake.

Step by step instructions:

Beat the butter and cream cheese until fully blended.
Add in the sugar and beat until light and fluffy—about three minutes. Then add in the eggs, one at a time beating after each addition.
Add in the vanilla and almond extracts and lightly blend.
Slowly add in the flour and beat on low until it's all been incorporated.
Fold in the strawberry puree.
Add to a well-greased bunt mold (at least 10 cup capacity), and tap on the counter to remove any air bubbles.
Bake for 1 hour and 15 - 20 minutes or until the topped is browned and a knife comes out clean.
Make the glaze by combining the powdered sugar with the strawberry puree and adding one tablespoon bourbon. Whisk until no lumps remain.

Tips for success:

To get your butter and cream cheese to room temp, place them into a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds.
Beat the sugar into the cream cheese and butter until lots of air is incorporated. About three-plus minutes.
Slowly add in the flour; it will go everywhere if you try to add it in all at once.
Tap the bunt pan on the counter to get the air bubbles out of the batter.
Let the cake cool in the bunt pan for 15 minutes, and then turn out to fully cool.

Sliced strawberry pound cake on a marble cake stand with a daisy tucked under a slice.

FAQ's:

Can I use frozen strawberries?

Yes! However, frozen fruit can have a higher water content, so I would strain out some of the extra liquid.

How is the recipe best stored?

This cake will keep for up to three days in an air-tight container.

Can I use all-purpose flour?

Yes, the cake will be denser, and you will need to add 1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder and ¼ teaspoon salt for each cup of flour.

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