I have wondered why John’s videos are so good. Aside from the great recipes, engaging personality and leaving in the mistakes, I think his “ex-teacher” vibe comes through. He really knows how to teach you how to make the recipes.

Love John so much. He teaches so well that of all the KZfaq "coaches" out there, he's the one where I rarely fail on a recipe. This looks delicious, by the by. :)

I am fortunate enough to own a Harvest Right freeze dryer!! The best way to make my already famous buttercream is to add broken up or powdered peaches, strawberries, bananas, pineapple, etc! I swear that they all taste like soft-serve frutti ice cream!! This machine has been a game-changer not only in food preservation but in my baking. Absolutely no need to worry about fake flavors or extracts or emulsions or buttercream breaking!! I fought with making it all blend together just like you're fighting with it in this video. Until I used my freeze-dried items! The endless possibilities of what can be added to butter now for me is incredible! I'm going to make all kinds of killer buttercreams and spreads. They can be savory now, as well! I always watch you for inspiration so thank you John 💋

I love when you teach and explain thoroughly! THAT is what is missing from many (most) modern baking shows. Thank you so much!

I recently made strawberry buttercream with freeze dried strawberries. Let me just say that they were amazing! It had so much strawberry flavor, I'd definitely recommend giving them a try.

Looks amazing John! Strawberry buttercream is delicious 😋😋

I’ve recently discovered your videos and you make everything easy to understand and why you do what you do. It all started with the lemon cake. WOW Fantastic and then the Apple Bread! My best bread EVER. I EVEN bought your book. You’ve got recipes and videos for everyone!! THANK YOU!! My smile is back and everyone loves my baking. ❤

John, thank you again for another lovely recipe! And the tips are of course very helpful!

THANK YOU JOHN! I’m so happy that I didn’t have to go and buy cream at night. You’re a life saver!

You are such a a talented teacher I love your passion for baking and am implementing all suggestions Thaaaank you From the top of my sweetened heart

Looks great! Thank you for all your hard to entertain us and guide us if we make the recipes.

This video came just in time. My niece just asked for a lemon strawberry birthday cake. Of course I was going to use John's lemon cake recipe and now I have the perfect strawberry buttercream to go with it.

I tried this strawberry buttercream and it came out perfect. Such a rich strawberry flavor. 😊

Absolutely awesome !!! Can’t wait to try!

Happy Thursday John 😊. I'm always excited to watch your videos, I learn so much in a day ❤. Thanks a lot 🎉

That looks luscious! Thanks for sharing!

John you probably get tired of hearing this… you are an amazing teacher.. you keep everything interesting and I love your down to eart mistakes we all at times make❤ . Thank you.❤

I just baked the vanilla cupcakes for the first time using John’s recipe and this strawberry frosting, and they turned out fabulous! I did use a little bit less sugar though. Thanks for the inspiration. ❤ 🇨🇦

How perfect...I was looking for this...❤❤❤❤

Love this recipe!!!!! So good!!!

Ok. I am going to confess. I could eat just the frosting. I love frosting more than I love what you put it on. Butter Cream is my favorite. My family gets frosting extra thick when I make cake or cupcakes.😁🍰

Delicious John as always thank you so much God bless nd your family nd bless weekend

Your recipes have NEVER failed me. I’m gonna be making a strawberry cake with a dark chocolate ganache filling covered by your strawberry buttercream. Omfg it’s going to be amazing

“A mandolin is really dangerous,” as he punches the machete-like knife into the strawberry toward his vulnerable hand. 😂😂😂

That looks absolutely satisfying, fed my sensory first.. my eyes. Thanks for sharing, looks delicious

Thank you for perfectly explaining this.😊

Hello from Northern California. Thank you, again for another great recipe and tips and tricks! Buttercream is my favorite and I would just eat buttercream...but I do not want to turn into a Butter Ball, so I have to watch it and put on the cupcakes🥰 Wish you and family lots of abundance, joy and happiness.

Thank you so much, SUCH A PERFECT TIMEEEEE

Love your receipe ❤

I’m definitely trying this for my granddaughters birthday Wednesday, strawberry is her favorite. This looks delish, thank you! 😊

The recipe looks great a always!

LOVE THE STRAWBERRY CHUNKS

I AM on a spree of cooking all the recepies from this wonderful human being and let me tell you all recepies I mean "ALL" Recepies are great..I tried Choc chip cookie bars lemon bars crumble cake they are all delicious 😋 ❤

it looks so beautiful and tasty😋🍓

Omg thank you for this video! ❤

sounds lovely 💕

Looks delicious

Looks so yummy😍

This looks so tasty! I am excited to make it!

Many thanks from GREECE 🇬🇷

الوصفه رائعة وشكلها حلو كتييير ولذيذة ❤ شكرا لك

Mouth watering cream l love it.

John is awesome and UH-MAZING in each and every video ! I love his idiosyncracies (buttercream on the handle, texture of cornstarch...); mine are so less endearing !!

made this to decorate my mum’s birthday cake and safe to say everyone loved it

I always love your videos and I loved this one even more! This looks so yummy! You are so adorable! The bit about the mandolin is right on. They freak me out too! My mom was an elementary school teacher. I’d go to help her and she was always afraid to let me use the paper cutter even when I was a young adult! When I finally became a teacher myself, I called to ask if I was allowed to use the paper cutter now! We had good laugh about that. I am going to give you a similar compliment to the ones I get on my KZfaq channel. I’m always told that they can tell I was a teacher because of how well I explain things, and they feel like they are sitting in my kitchen with their favorite aunt! Keep these wonderful, fun videos coming!

i really love your natural and fresh food take on baking - its refreshing in the midst of all the food-dye-heavy and fondant-using bakers out there! (there's nothing wrong with neither food dye nor fondant, i just personally dont like using them very much and i feel like baking content is oversaturated with the more artificial look)

Love this guy

I was expecting other as It is afternoon tea week. Quite enjoyed learning how to make strawberry frosting. Birdy

Going to try

I'd add or substitute some powdered freeze dried strawberries to this, they are light and crispy, and maintain a reasonably bright/raw, but concentrated flavor. This is because they aren't heated/cooked as in regular dehydration. Real full-spectrum fresh strawberry flavor, layered with a genuine punch in flavor from the freeze dried strawberries. Texture improvements because the freeze dried strawberries will absorb excess moisture from the fresh ones, since water and butter don't like to mix. Also due to freeze drying, the powdered bits won't be leathery/chewy like regular re-hydrated dehydrated fruit. Trader Joe's has freeze dried strawberries, but otherwise can be tricky to find locally. Nice recipe as usual, well presented and with good tips.

Alton Brown (from "Good Eats") uses a large open star decorating tip to hull his strawberries. It works! This looks wonderful. Your recipes are always so good. With young kids around, it's a good idea not to use a mandolin. They are sharp.

Beautiful

Happy Thursday John 🤗👋🏾 great video. Beautiful icing 😁 this is s must try. I want to make a strawberry cake and cupcakes. You're do awesome Hun. Thank you for sharing. You sre truly a GEM 💎 Peace 🕊️ Love 😍 and Blessings 🙏🏾

Well done I like it very much 👍

Great video John😊😊

I Love to Making an Amazing Flavor Fresh Strawberry Buttercream and i love it 🍓

I do all of your baking there so good❤🎂💖

Another great video, I don't have a huller either, I've found that the opposite end of a spoon works well. Or an iced tea spoon.

I am thankfully I found a video to make buttercream

I have a mandolin, it’s just a pain to mess with 😁 Mom was my favorite taste tester and she absolutely loved strawberries. Her birthday was in April, she won’t mind a strawberry 🍓 cake “just because”

I can't stand the frosting or batter on the spatula handle either! I have solved the problem of it getting on my hand by buying a spatula with an extra long handle. Game changer! Thanks for the video! This frosting is so delicious!

Love it

Hi preppy kitchen l love your amazing recipes ❤❤❤

Very nice recipie John! They looks amazing! I love strawberries! Is my favourite fruit! More recipies with strawberries please! Have a nice day and good weekend! Have a good week! 👍👏🍓🍓🍓

Yummy!!!

Love for you ❤❤❤ from chile 🇨🇱

Love the explanations! Wondering what happens to the buttercream’s texture after you pipe them and don’t eat right away???

Fabulous

John, I'm with you on the mandolin. I would love to be able to have the beautifully sliced vegetables one gets from the mandolin, but I do like my fingers in tact.

Omg, I could totally just eat this frosting on its own 😂

I still miss the other camera because it looked more like film and didn't distort the color like this one does on my screens, but I love your recipes. I watch all the time. 🍓🍓🍓

Making my mouth water lol

Delish!

I’ve used freeze dried fruits in my American buttercream with excellent results. Thanks so much for explaining how to use fresh strawberries! Wish I wasn’t allergic… 😢

Does this hold better than the recipe with the cream cheese added? I’m finally gonna try to make your strawberry cake today as well as this recipe for the icing and I couldn’t be more excited!

First Edit: But I love your content! I will 100% be trying to make these this weekend!

A potato masher works great for fruit or guac... easy-peasy😊

I melt my wafers or chocolate in a ramekin in a microwave at 15 second intervals in smaller batches as I go along. It’s never burned, the small cup is perfect for dipping, I don’t need crisco, and it never cracks.

Nice.

What about adding a tsp of rose water or essence along with the vanilla and a reduced amount of cream?

I think John knows exactly how much I hate scraping the bowl down. Begrudgingly, I will oblige.

You can use your fingers and give that green krone a litle twist and of they go. So easy.

John, you need a strawberry huller; you can also remove the cores from tomatoes with it😁

Imagine my friend.... I am a diabetic lucky lady, but still I try everything. Just 2 spoons( tea spoons) 😂😂😂😂. Helen from Athens😋😋🇬🇷

Hi John A few months ago I decided to bake the chocolate cake with the strawberry buttercream. The buttercream was a disaster. It cuddled TWICE! I had to throw away so many strawberries and butter as a result. I ended up making the chocolate buttercream since I had already baked the cakes. My guests were delighted. It turned out that one of them is allergic to strawberries!!!! It’s amazing how things work. I just wanted to know what I did wrong @because I followed the instructions on the chocolate strawberry cake video. Thanks.

New camera? Video quality looks great, just in a different way than usual

Can you Show us how to make a Chocolate Fudge Crème Filled Wafer. I had got some from Walmart and they were delicious.

Take a plastic straw and starting at the top run it through the strawberry and the stem is removed. Super easy. This frosting looks delicious.

John, why don't you get one of the beaters with the scraper built in? I have them and they are wonderful. Give it a try.

You are such a sweetheart ❤❤❤

Hi i was wondering if we could use less sugar??

Hello i was woundering if i can frize the buttercream for use on another time

Www bravo 👍

Could you do this with Swiss meringue buttercream or any of the other less sweet varieties of buttercream?

Hi John! Looking for a cookie dough cheesecake recipe and can’t find a detailed one like you usually do your vids. If you have a recipe that would be helpful thank you!

cool

the cup cake turn nice soft but I haven't make the icing yet. my daughter inlaw asking me to make this cup cake with Lemon icing not sure if it will taste good together? anyway I will try to make both icing just incase, 12 cups cake with lemon icing and 12 cup cake with strawberry icing. just incase lemon icing didnt taste good together with this cup cake lol thanks for sharing

I noticed you use kosher salt in your recipes, and I have some questions. Is it a fine kosher salt? Coarse? Could I use plain salt? I’m trying to plan a few of your baking recipes and I’m unsure what kind of salt to purchase. I figured plain (noniodized) salt would be okay, but in a video you mentioned if using a fine table salt to increase or decrease the amount. Thank you.

Will try this, luckily my blender has a little cup for the strawberry blending part 😂 Oh and I ll be sure,to whisk whisk whisk , don't want that "foamy nonsense" happening😂

Nice videos.