Strawberry Summer Cake Recipe

Strawberry Summer Cake Step by Step

This cake is a basic vanilla cake recipe, but has strawberries in them. You can in fact use any berries as you like. And any fruits will be good as well, specially mangoes. This cake fits for any special occasion, or you can make any day special with this cake.

About Strawberry Summer Cake Recipe

Strawberry cake is a cake with strawberries as the main ingredient. It can be used in the cake batter, on top of cakes, and in the frosting of a strawberry cake, and they are typically served cold. Strawberry cakes can be made with strawberries in the batter,strawberries on top, strawberries or a strawberry filling in between the layers of a layer cake, or any combination of these ingredients. Some are made with strawberries mixed into a frosting. Strawberries can be used fresh or frozen. Some people use strawberry-flavored gelatin as an ingredient, which can turn the cake pink when mixed in with the batter. Strawberries were first used in a recipe for Strawberry cake published in The Ohio Cultivator on June 1, 1845. Eliza Leslie of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania popularised the recipe in her book The Lady’s Receipt-Book (1847). Strawberry Sparkle Cake Mascarpone Strawberry Cheesecake Strawberry Shortcake6 Layer Rainbow CakeEggless Chocolate CakeDevils CakeTriple Chocolate Cake Baking PowderBaking powder is used to increase the volume of baked goods and lighten their texture. It works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter or dough via an acid–base reaction, which causes bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus leaven the mixture.

Strawberry Summer Cake Preparation

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. 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. 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.