Strawberry Cake – really easy cake recipe
65 mins
Easy
Dessert
Sweet
Ingredients
- 500 g strawberries
- WET:
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp grated lemon rind
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 cup plain unsweetened yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- DRY:
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- SERVING:
- Canned whipped cream
- Extra strawberries
- Icing sugar
Steps
- Preheat oven to 200°C/390°F (180°C fan).
- Grease and line a 23 cm / 9" cake pan with baking paper/parchment paper. (Any type of cake pan is fine)
- STRAWBERRIES: For inside of cake: Dice some strawberries into ~1.5cm / 1" pieces to make 1 cup (about 1/3 of the strawberries) Topping: Cut the remaining strawberries in half.
- Place Wet ingredients in a bowl and whisk well for 1 minute.
- Add Dry ingredients then whisk well until lump free.
- Pour half into cake pan, smooth surface. Scatter over diced strawberries.
- Top with remaining batter. Smooth surface, then top with halved strawberries, cut face down.
- Bake 50 minutes or until skewer inserted into centre comes out clean. If you need to cook longer, cover with foil if it starts getting too golden.
- Stand 15 minutes in the cake pan before turning out onto cooling rack.
- Cool 15 minutes+ before serving warm or at room temp. Dust with icing sugar, and serve with cream or if serving warm, ice cream!
Please be mindful of any allergies you and/or your family may have before you try out this recipe.