3/4 lb Butter -- softened
1/2 lb Cream cheese -- softened
2 c Sugar
1 pn Salt
2 ts Butter flavoring
6 Eggs -- room temperature
3 c Sifted flour
1 pt Fresh strawberries -- Sliced
Cream the cheese, butter, and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add a
pinch of salt and the butter flavoring, and beat the mixture well. Add the
eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Stir in the
flour. Gradually add the sliced strawberries, gently folding them in after
each addition.
Spoon the batter into a buttered and floured cake pan (I use loaf pans or
those nice little mini-loaf sizes for gift-giving), and bake the cake in a
preheated 325-degree (F) oven for one-and-a-half hours, until the cake
begins to shrink from the sides of the pan.
Place the pans on cooling racks until cooled; turn cakes gently onto wire
racks.