Strawberry Buttercream Filling for Chocolate Dream Cake

Strawberry Butter Cream Filling
Ingredients

     3 cups butter, room temperature
      1 cup butter flavoured crisco or regular
      2 – 32 oz. bags 10X sugar (powdered sugar)
      1/2 - 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
      1 over-flowing Tablespoon vanilla bean paste
      Dash Sea Salt
      24 oz jar of Strawberry Preserves low sugar

Instructions

 Beat for 8 minutes:
 3 cups butter, room temperature
   1 cup Crisco

 Add (slowly):

2 – 32 oz. bags 10X sugar (powdered sugar)

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 over-flowing Tablespoon Vanilla Bean Paste
 Dash sea salt
Beat for 8 minutes and slowly add the rest of the heavy whipping cream, On the highest speed, beat out for another 5- 8 minutes
Out of this icing, take what you think will be enough for your cake filling and put it into a separate bowl.
With a large spoon, add: 1/2 of a 24 oz. jar of Strawberry Preserves by folding into the butter cream and place between the layers of your cake.
Use the rest of the butter cream to crumb coat your cake.

Note: This makes a LOT! You can refrigerate and add preserves as you need to leftovers.