Strawberry Summer Cake Recipe

Strawberry Summer Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 1/2 cup / 180 grams
Sugar - 1 cup + 2 tblspn for topping / 200 grams + 2 tblspn
Unsalted Butter - 6 tblspn / 85 grams
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Egg - 1
Milk - 1/2 cup / 120 ml
Baking Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Strawberries - around 2 cups or as needed

(My 1 cup measures 240 ml)

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a 9 inch round tin with oil and dust with flour. Set this aside.

Mix together flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.

Now take butter, vanilla and sugar in a bowl and use a beater to whip this up.

Now add in egg and whip again till fluffy.

Now add in half of the flour and fold gently. Add in milk and the remaining flour and fold gently. The batter will be thick.

Now spoon this batter in the baking pan and top with halved strawberries. Now sprinkle sugar on top and bake for 50 to 60 mins.  Insert a toothpick to check whether the cake is done, If the toothpick comes out clean then the cake is done.

Now let the cake cool in the tin for 15 mins or so.Now slice and serve.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

Grease a 9 inch tin with oil and flour it well..Set aside

Take flour in a bowl

add in baking powder and salt

mix well

in another bowl, take butter

whip it till creamy

add vanilla

add sugar and whip again till creamy

now it is fluffy

add in half the flour mix in

fold gently

add half of the milk

add in remaining half of the flour mix in

fold again gently

now the batter is done

spoon the batter in the pan

spread evenly on top

now it is spread

take your strawberries

remove the top

slice in half

arrange it on top

sprinkle little sugar on top

now bake this for 50 to 60 mins

done

Slice and serve