Since I am new to cake decorating, I need to know if I can use strawberry glaze - the kind you buy at a grocery store near the strawberries - as a filling for a wedding cake? My client does not want to mix in real strawberries, she just wants the filling. I have no idea of what I am doing...so please help me ---somebody!!!
hmmm I have never used that myself ... I have however used a strawberry filling that my local cake store caries .. its in a clear bag about a little over a foot long and just about five inches wide .. its also excellent in danishes!!! HTH! 
I use one from the produce dept. of my grocery store. It is made by Marie's and is quite good. Just rinse and sliced the berries, spoon some of the filling over, mix together and fill your cake. You can control how much filling to add, you don't want so much that it oozes out the sides of your cake, but not too dry either. Make a buttercream icing dam with a #10 plain piping tip just inside the edge of your bottom cake layer, add the filling inside that ring of icing, add the top layer and then with the same piping tip, pipe a line of icing all the way around the outside of the cake where the two layers meet, fill in that space with icing, smooth with an icing spatula, crumb coat your cake, chill and then do the final icing coat and smooth. Making the dam and especially filling in that space on the sides really helps to keep the filling in place and prevents that ugly bulge on the sides of your finished cake.
Uh Oh, I just reread your post about her not wanting real strawberries in it. In that case I would buy the clear plastic sleeve of strawberry filling because it has more flavor than Marie's or strawberry jam. We have them at our local party store in the cake decorating supply section, or we have a store called Cash & Carry who also stock it. Use the same dam method and fill in that side space. Michaels might carry them as well.
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