Strawberry is in season now. The attractive red colour & flavour of strawberries is so tempting.This cake has fresh strawberry extract & the frosting has real strawberry flavour. I have not used any artificial colours for the typical pink of strawberries. I decided to bake a strawberry cake for my 100th blog post.
Ingredients
2 cup Flour
Pinch of salt
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
2 eggs 1/2 cup strawberry pulp 1tsp strawberry essence (optional)
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup thick yogurt
2 tsp Vanilla essence
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup Milk (can be adjusted as required)
300 ml heavy whipping cream
Method
Roughly chop fresh strawberries & cook them with sugar till they get soft. Cool this mixture & grind it. Strawberry Pulp is ready.
Preheat oven at 180 degrees celcius for about 10 minutes.Sift flour, salt, baking powder & baking soda together.
Beat oil & sugar till light. Then beat eggs on high speed one at a time. Mix vanilla essence.Add Strawberry pulp.Then add yogurt & beat again.
Now add the dry ingredients & milk alternating with each other. Add water & mix well.
Grease 2 pans of 8 inches & place parchment paper below. Pour the cake batter & bake for about 30-35 minutes.
Demould the cakes when cooled. After the cakes are completely cooled then frosting can be done.
Whip about 300 ml cold heavy cream till firm peaks. Mix 2-3 tbsp strawberry pulp.This gives a baby pink colour to the cake.
Cut the each cake into 2 layers & frost in between & the outer side. Wet the layers with sugar syrup to keep the cake moist.
Refrigerate for 6-7 hours before serving. This cake is medium size which serves 10.
