Recipe for Easy Strawberry Cake
A super simple bake using seasonal strawberries - just right to go with your tea or coffee. Get the recipe here!
Ingredients
- 85 grams unsalted butter (at room temperature, soft, 6 tbsps)
- 1 cup castor sugar (+ 2 tbsps)
- 1 egg large
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup maida (all purpose flour)
- 1/2 cup jowar flour (sorghum )
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted butter)
- 300 grams strawberries fresh, hulled & halved horizontally
Instructions
- Prepare a 9 inch round baking pan with baking paper or butter and flour it and keep aside.
- Preheat oven at 180°C.
- With an electric hand mixer, beat the sugar (1 cup) and butter for 3-4 minutes until pale and creamy. If your granulated sugar has very big granules (like we get in India), it is worthwhile, running it in the mixer (mixie) for a few seconds, just to break down the granule size and then proceeding with the recipe.
- Add the egg and beat for another 30 seconds.
- Whisk in the milk and vanilla extract.
- Sieve all the dry ingredients and add into the wet ingredients. Mix until just combined, or blend with hand mixer for a brief 20-30 seconds.
- Scrape out the batter into the prepared baking pan.
- Place the strawberries in a single layer on the top, cut side down. Sprinkle the 2 tbsp of sugar on top of the strawberries.
- Bake at 180°C (in preheated oven) for 10 minutes, after which reduce the temperature to 175°C and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean (don't mind the strawberry jam sticking to the tester).
- Allow to cool completely before slicing. Or not :).
Notes
By all means use all purpose flour fully, instead of using any alternate flours. In that case, it will be 1.5 cups maida (all purpose flour) and no jowar flour.