Pink Lady Cake

Making and eating this cake was a good lesson about simplicity--as in, stick with it.  This was good, but ultimately I think too much was going on, and I'd rather have eaten a plainer cake.  Filled with lemon curd and frosted with 2/3 of the cream cheese frosting, this was just kind of heavy for my taste.  Puts me in the mood to make that beautiful lemon cake I've been looking at for a while now.

Notes: Part of the problem definitely could have been that I didn't have enough strawberries, so I used a cup of puree and 1/2 cup water--so the cake ended up being a little wet and dense.  The flavor was good, but it was kind of overwhelmed by the heavy cream cheese frosting and the lemon curd filling.  Might be better on its own, actually.

then again i never turn down cake