Strawberry Cake

Labels: Breads and Bakes, Dessert
No, this is not a birthday cake! Candles are merely for the fun of it! Ha Ha!

This is one of the desserts I made for Christmas Eve Dinner. Yeah, I made two desserts! Well, this is one is my daughter's favorite cake.

Anyway, this is yet another recipe I have adapted from Tessa Kiros cookbook. They are so easy to bake.

Strawberry Cake

Ingredients

220 g (1 3/4 cups) Cake Flour or All Purpose Flour, plus extra for dusting
180 g (3/4 cup) Sugar
3 tsp Baking Powder
180 g (6 oz) Butter, melted
185 ml (3/4 cup) Warm Milk
4 Eggs, separated
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
800 g (1 lb 12 oz) Strawberries
1 tsp Lemon Juice
4 Tbsp Icing (Confectioners) Sugar
750 ml (3 cups) Thick (Double/Heavy/Whipping) Cream

Method

Preheat the oven to 180˚C (350˚F). Grease and flour a 22 cm (8 1/2 inch) springform cake tin,or a bundt pan.

Put the flour and sugar in a bowl with 1 tsp of baking powder. Mix in the butter and then stir in the milk. Add the egg yolks and vanilla and beat well. Whisk the egg whites to soft peaks, incorporating the rest of the baking powder when the eggs have started fluffing up. Fold the egg whites into the cake mixture.

Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake for about 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean and the top is deep golden and crisp. Remove from the oven and leave to cool a bit before turning out onto a rack. When cool, slice the cake in half horizontally and put the bottom half on a large serving plate.

Clean the strawberries and hull them. Dice about half the strawberries and sprinkle with a little lemon juice and 1 Tbsp of the icing sugar. Whip the cream into stiff peaks with the remaining sugar. Mix the diced strawberries with about a third of the whipped cream and spoon over the bottom of the cake. Put the other half of the cake on top and thickly spoon the remaining cream over the top and side, then decorate with the rest of the strawberries. This is best eaten immediately. Any leftovers will keep for a day in the fridge.