Sam’s Club Strawberry Cake (Homemade Recipe)

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This is an easy and simple homemade version of the famous Sam’s Club strawberry cake recipe, which includes a moist cake topped with whipped icing, juicy fresh strawberries, and a scrumptious strawberry glaze.

Homemade Sams Club Strawberry Cake

If any of you shop at Sam’s Club on a regular basis, this strawberry cake will look very familiar because it’s my homemade version of their famous single-layer strawberry cake. I first took notice of their beautiful fresh strawberry cakes a few years back, so I bought one and fell in love. The cake is a simple one, nothing fancy, but the magic happens in the icing and topping. 

I like to think the results are even better than the store-bought version and pretty fast and simple too. We start with a simple boxed cake mix, then we add the deliciously fluffy and creamy whipped icing. Now, this isn’t a super sweet buttercream frosting. The whipped frosting is similar to a stabilized whipped cream with just a touch of creamy sweetness. It’s so good, y’all.

After you perfect the whipped icing, we finish our homemade Sam’s Club strawberry cake with lots of juicy and ripe fresh strawberries on top and a delectable strawberry glaze. With the combination of moist cake, refreshing whipped topping, and that sweet strawberry glaze, this cake embodies all that is right and good in the world. It’s the kind of cake that’ll disappear in the blink of an eye when you take it to potlucks or parties and you’ll love the lighter than usual flavors and textures, with a burst of strawberry at the end.

If you’re looking for some more strawberry cake recipes to try soon, check out my strawberry poke cake, strawberry punchbowl cake, and strawberry cake with cream cheese icing.

Ingredients for my homemade Sams Club Strawberry Cake

Recipe Ingredients

  • Cake mix
  • Fresh strawberries
  • Heavy whipping cream
  • Strawberry glaze
  • Confectioner’s sugar
  • Vanilla extract

How to Make a Homemade Sam’s Club Strawberry Cake

Start by preparing the cake according to the package directions.

Make sure you have a plate or platter big enough to turn your cake out onto or bake it in a pan you want to decorate it in and just serve from that. 

Place cream in mixing bowl.

Your cream needs to be very cold. I’m not saying you have to freeze it or anything but leave it in the fridge until you need it.

Place cream in a mixing bowl and prepare to beat it.

It’s a Tuesday and already this feels like a long week, this cream doesn’t stand a chance.

Beat cream until soft peaks form.

You want to beat it until soft peaks form (about a minute or two).

What is a soft peak?

A soft peak is when you can see lines in it from your beaters but when you pull the beaters out, it forms a little peak and then the peak falls back down. Kinda like the loop on the end of a dairy queen ice cream cone.

Does anyone remember those? Butterscotch dipped were my favorite.

Once you are at this point, add in your confectioner’s sugar and vanilla (if using) and beat again until stiff peaks form.

That means you pull your beater out and there is a point where the beaters were that stands up straight and doesn’t fall back… or it just looks like this.

Add sugar and vanilla and beat until stiff peaks form.

This is almost too much, I stopped just in time.

If you go much further than this you’ll end up with butter, which is not a bad thing, but it doesn’t make very good icing for this particular cake.

Ice cooled cake.

Ice your cooled cake.

Now, the frilly border is optional.

I made a little frilly border but you don’t have to do that. You can just ice the cake liberally and then kind of smooth the icing down a bit in the middle to create a bumper around the sides. You could also put your border icing in a gallon ziplock bag and cut the tip off and pipe a line around the sides.

I mean, it doesn’t have to be fancy here. It also doesn’t have to look store-bought. Homemade cakes are always more beautiful than store-bought cakes no matter how they are decorated.

Add strawberries to center of cake.

Wash your strawberries and cut the tops off.

I also blot each one with a paper towel and press it lightly against the cut side just a bit.

Line these up in the center of your cake like happy little strawberry gnomes.

Spoon glaze over strawberries.

Now I just spoon my glaze over the strawberries.

You won’t need an entire container so if you decide to make this in a 9×13 baking dish there should still be plenty.

Once I have it spooned over I use a butter knife to spread it to cover each strawberry.

Homemade Sams Club Strawberry Cake

And that’s it! Your homemade Sam’s Club strawberry cake is finished. Told ya it was easy. Enjoy!

Storage

This cake must be stored in the refrigerator. You can have it out on the counter for a bit but I definitely wouldn’t leave it outside on a hot day. Eat leftovers within 3 days.

Recipe Notes

  • I use the 8×8-sized cake mix. If you prefer to use a full-size cake mix to make a 9×13, simply double the whipping cream and confectioner’s sugar and make sure you have enough strawberries. The same size glaze container will still be enough.
  • You can use any kind of boxed cake mix for this recipe, but I’m using a golden yellow cake mix. If you’d prefer a homemade cake recipe instead, check out my easy pound cake or simple vanilla cake.
  • I tried to cut calories by getting sugar-free glaze once and let’s just say I won’t make that mistake again. The flavor of that was best described as “freshly washed hair”.
  • Just so you know, heavy whipping cream is sometimes called heavy cream and sometimes called whipping cream, depending on where you live. 

You may also like these scrumptious strawberry recipes:

Strawberry Jello Pie

Strawberry Muffins

Strawberry Frosted Cookies

Strawberry Cobbler

Strawberry Poke Cake

Strawberry Bread With Pecans

Sam's Club Strawberry Cake

This is a homemade version of the famous Sam's Club strawberry cake recipe, which includes a moist cake topped with whipped icing, fresh strawberries, and a strawberry glaze.
Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 55 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, strawberry
Servings: 8
Calories: 603kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 Jiffy cake mix or other of your choice prepared according to package directions
  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • fresh strawberries
  • 1 13.5-ounce container strawberry glaze

Instructions

  • Allow the baked cake to cool for 10 minutes in the pan before turning it out onto a platter or a large plate. You can also decorate it in the pan and serve from the pan if you like.
    1 Jiffy cake mix or other of your choice
  • Once the cake has cooled completely, place cream in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until soft peaks form (about two minutes or so). Add in vanilla and confectioner's sugar and beat again until stiff peaks form.
    2 cups heavy whipping cream, 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Ice cake. Add a decorative border or spooned-up border (by icing the top really thick and using a spoon to form a recess in the center) around the sides to hold the glaze in for the next step.
  • Wash and cut the tops off of the strawberries. Blot them dry with a paper towel and arrange them on top of the cake.
    fresh strawberries
  • Spoon glaze over strawberries and use a butter knife to spread and coat each one.
    1 13.5-ounce container strawberry glaze
  • Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 603kcal
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108 Comments

  1. The cake is stunning! I add a tablespoon of dry vanilla pudding mix to whip cream to help stabilize it. It works like a charm. Here in Minnesota my three season (enclosed) porch is as cold as freezer. I leave items out there to set up because it flash freezes nicely. I may as well let the weather work in my favor! I bet this would hold up nicely out there if I made it earlier in the day for Easter dessert. Thank you for sharing.

    1. Thank you Nana!! While I don’t envy that it is so cold there that your porch can act as a freezer, what a nice place to keep dishes cold instead of taking up room in the refrigerator or freezer!! I hope you have a blessed day!!

  2. YUM!! My crowd loves anything strawberry. This is a quick and easy refreshing dessert. Loved it. If there is any left makes a great 2AM, can’t sleep snack! (not that I would know) LOL. Thanks again. Oh by the way – thanks for the reminder – “don’t leave snooty comments”. That drives me crazy. If you don’t agree or don’t like something that’s fine – but the rest of us don’t care unless you are really trying to keep us from making a gigantic mistake.

  3. My apologies if I’m asking a question that you have already answered. Will the whipped cream icing hold up for a day or two or do you need to ice the cake the day of? I”m having a birthday party this weekend and didn’t know if I could make the day before.

    1. The day before will be fine. I’ve never had cake left after that 🙂 But this icing is stabilized by the other ingredients and I am pretty confident it would be fine 3-4 days in a pinch. I’d do it just the day before though 🙂 Hope you have a great time at the birthday Christie!

  4. Hi Christy,
    Your Cheesy Fluff and this strawberry cake got me excited! I made a light yellow sheet cake. I then made a double batch of cheesy fluff, left out the cherry pie filling, added extra vanilla. I used that for an “icing”, built it up around the edges, then sliced strawberries which I placed all over the top of the cake. It was gone! Thank you so much for all of your recipes!

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