Recipe For Strawberry Fresh Cream Cake

If you mention 'cakes' to me, I will think of chocolate cakes and strawberry cakes. My children love chocolate cakes with thick chocolate. If I want a lighter treat, I would like to have a strawberry cake, and it is always such a 'girly' thing.

Recipe for Strawberry Fresh Cream Cake

Ingredients for cake :

• 5 eggs



• 100 g castor sugar



• 2 tablespoons self-raising flour



• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence



• 100g flour



• 20g cornflour



• 125g melted butter

Method :

1. Mix eggs and flour using electric cake mixer in high speed for 10 minutes until mixture is creamy white and fluffy.



2. Add in self-raising flour and vanilla essence. Then pour mixture into a mixing bowl.



3. Sift flour and cornflour together, fold them into the creamy white mixture using a wooden spoon in the same direction.



4. Add in melted butter when the flour is thoroughly folded into the mixture.



5. Pour the mixture into a 26-cm diameter round cake tin that is laid with greaseproof paper. Bake in a pre-heat oven (Reg.5 -6, 350 degree F or 175 degree C) for 25 to 30 minutes. Remove cake from oven to cool, then slice it into 2 halves.

Ingredients for Strawberry Filling

• 250ml water



• 60g castor sugar



• 250g fresh cream



• 150g gelatin powder (jelly powder)



• 250g chopped fresh strawberries



• 12 whole fresh strawberries



• extra whipped cream for cake decoration

Method :

1. Boil water, add sugar and gelatin powder, dissolve, remove from heat to cool.



2. Beat fresh cream using high speed until its volume is increased 2 to 3 times. Add half-cooled gelatin mixture to the cream.



3. Add in the chopped strawberries, mix well. And when the jelly mixture is about 90% solidified, sandwich the jelly mixture between the 2 slices of cake, spreading evenly. Put the cake into the refrigerator to harden the filling.



4. To decorate the cake, we can cover the cake with some more whipped cream on the sides and top. Using a cream pipe to pipe some cream patterns onto the cake and place the whole strawberries all round the cake's top.

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