EASY STRAWBERRY CAKE
Ingredients
- 500 g (1 pound - 17,5 oz) fresh strawberries you can use other seasonal fruit. Frozen strawberries/fruit work well too, but if you can, I suggest to use fresh season fruit!
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 210 g (1 cup) sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 245 g (1 cup) plain yogurt You can use sweetened or unsweetened plain yogurt according to your taste.
- 90 g (1/2 cup) vegetable oil
- 240 g (2 cups) all purpose flour
- 8 g (2 tsp) baking powder
Instructions
- Chop about 260 g of strawberries in large chunks (for the cake batter) and 240 g in half (for the top of the cake). Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix eggs, sugar and vanilla with a hand/stand mixer for at least 5 minutes until you get a thick and pale mix.
- Add salt, yogurt, vegetable oil and mix at low speed for few seconds just until combined.
- Sift in baking powder and flour in two times: mix at low speed and stop when it's almost combined: do NOT overmix!
- With a spatula gently incorpoate chopped strawberries in the batter.
- Place the batter into a lined 20,5cm-8inch springform cake pan.
- Top the cake with the halved strawberries.
- Bake in preheated oven (no fan, upper+lower heat) at 180°C-350°F for about 52 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. After about 35 minutes baking you can place an aluminium foil on top to prevent burnt.
- Cool down mostly in the pan then cool down completely onto a wire rack.
- You can sparkle some powdered sugar on top (optional).
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Notes
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Tips:
This cake is incredibly easy to make, you just need to use one bowl. My tip is to start making the batter with a hand or stand mixer: mixing the eggs and sugar a long with a hand/stand mixer, helps to give a taller and softer cake becuase you incorporate a lot of air in the batter. For this reason you should mix the eggs and sugar for few minutes with a hand/stand mixer until it turns out very pale and thick.
I made this cake both with sweetened than unsweetened plain yogurt and I liked both of the version. If you are a very sweet tooth, you can choose a plain sweetened yougrt; if you don’t like dessert too sweet, choose an unsweetened plain yogurt. In this case, Greek yourt works well too!
Since this cake features a lot of fruits, it is simply amazing if you use fresh seasonal fruits: peaches, berries, apricots, apples…go for your favourite: your home will smell sooo good when you make this cake!
You can also use frozen fruit, but fresh fruit is better in taste and consistency.
