Tuesday 17 March 2015

Strawberry Cake

Strawberry Cake






 I got 3 packets of fresh strawberries today. Yaaayyy!!! And ever since then I have been imagining what all I can do with them. 

So first up on the agenda is a simple Strawberry Cake. The cake is a simple vanilla cake and I have garnished the top with halved strawberries. As the cake bakes the strawberry flavour is infused in the batter. It will not be overly strawberry like but with each bite you can chew on the baked glazed strawberries. 

There is something so fine about fresh fruit be it the taste or the fragrance. And there are so many fruits that can be incorporated into cakes, fresh, mulled or pureed. Berries are always a good choice for cakes, be it blackberries, strawberries, mulberries, etc. 

Once we were driving from Bhatinda to Dehradun during the strawberry season. The foothills near Dehradun are good grounds for this berry and all along the roadside we found vendors selling strawberries by the kilos. The only problem with this fruit is that it bruises easily. So out of the 3 kilos we bought we could actually eat only the topmost layers. The ones below went bad the very next day. Learning from that experience I decided to make cakes and smoothies and finish off this lot as soon as possible. 


Ingredients

100 gms butter
1 ½ cups flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 egg
½ cup milk
1 tbsp vanilla essence
6-8 strawberries, halved

Preheat the oven at 170 degrees Celsius. Line and grease a 8” cake tin. 

Beat the sugar and butter  till light and fluffy. Beat in the egg. Add the milk and vanilla essence. 

Sift together the flour and baking powder. Fold into the egg mixture. Pour the batter into the cake tin. Place the halved strawberries on the cake. Sprinkle some sugar on the strawberries.


 Bake at 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 160 degrees and bake for 30 minutes. 





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