Egg less Strawberry Cake

Its strawberry season here and strawberries are showing up in abundance so how can that happen that I come back from the market without having purchased them.It is mandatory for me to buy strawberries and make their preserve.For past few years every season it has become like a ritual.This time I just thought of putting them in a cake and that too in an egg less cake.Though I love to bake cakes with eggs only as personally I feel they are more flavorful.Egg less baking comes into picture rarely….but this does not mean that I am averse to it.The recipe that I have used here is the one that I use to bake egg less vanilla sponge or an egg less chocolate cake.The cake turned out quiet moist and flavorful and can serve as a good accompaniment to a nice coffee.To see how it was made let us quickly jump to the recipe.

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• Banana ,Walnut & Resin Cake
• Walnut and Resin Dark chocolate Cake Loaf
• Orange Cake with Mascarpone Cheese Frosting

Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 200 gm fresh strawberries chopped
• 3/4 cup castor sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup any neutral oil
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 2 tbsp lemon juice

Method:

• Pre heat the oven .
• Prepare baking tin by lining with a butter paper.
• Fold the chopped strawberries in little all purpose flour to avoid them from sinking at the bottom of the cake.
• Sift all the dry ingredients i.e. all purpose flour,baking soda and baking powder together and keep aside.
• In a mixing bowl whisk together oil,sugar,vanilla essence till creamy.
• Add in the milk and the lemon juice and whisk again.
• Fold in the sifted all purpose flour mixing in one direction using cut and fold method.
• Lastly fold in the chopped strawberries.
• Pour the batter in the cake tin and bake at 150 degree centigrade for about 40 minutes .Check by inserting a clean knife at the center of the cake.If it comes out clean the cake is baked .
• Let the cake cool on the wire rack before taking out from the tin.
• Slice and serve ……………………………….and  ENJOY !!!
  

  Chop the strawberries

  

  Fold the strawberries in all purpose flour

  

  Sift all the dry ingredients

  

  Take oil, sugar and vanilla essence in a a bowl

  

  Cream the oil and sugar mixture and add milk and lemon juice into it.

  

  Fold in the flour.

  

  Add strawberries

  

  Fold in the strawberries

  

  Pour batter in a cake tin

  

  Baked cake

  

  cooled and ready to slice

  

  Cross section of the cake

Tips & Tweaks:

• Let the cake cool down before slicing.
• Dust with some icing sugar or top it with some freshly prepared strawberry sauce before serving.
• Always serve after few hours of baking as this allows time for the flavors to set in  nicely.

Enjoy !!!……………………..and Happy Cooking !!!……………………………….