Ingredients:
Dry Ingredient
- All-purpose flour – 2 ½ cups
- Granulated sugar – 1 ½ cups
- Baking powder – 2 tsp
- Salt – ¼ tsp
Wet Ingredient:
- Egg – 2 nos + 1 yolk
- Softened butter – ½ cup
- Canola oil – ½ cup
- Whole milk – ½ cup
- Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
- Fresh strawberry puree – ¼ cup
Strawberry whipped cream Frosting
- Heavy whipping cream – 1 pint
- Confectionery/ powdered sugar – 1 cup
- Chopped strawberries – 2 tblsp
- Strawberry puree – ¼ cup
- Food color (pink) – 2-4 drops
For Greasing
- Softened butter – 1 tblsp
- All-purpose flour – 1 tblsp
Procedure:
- Step 1: Pre-heat the oven to 350 degree F and grease the baking pans (I used 6 inch and 8 inch-spring form pan). Keep aside
- Step 2: Grind the fresh strawberries and filter out the excess and keep aside.
- Step 3: Take a mixing bowl, add all the dry ingredient except sugar and mix well. In a wide mixing bowl add sugar, butter and oil. Beat well until it become light and fluffy. Add egg one at a time, adding egg yolk alone enhance the cake texture.
- Step 4: Now add milk and vanilla essence to the wet ingredient mixture. Beat until everything incorporated well. Later, add the dry ingredient mixture slowly and whisk together.
- Step 5: Finally add the fresh strawberry puree to the cake batter. Gently fold the batter and the batter is all set to bake.
- Step 6: Pour the batter over the greased pans and bake it for 25-30 mins or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool completely.
- Step 7: In a Wide mixing bowl pour the heavy whipping cream along with confectionery/ powdered sugar and beat on high speed until stiff peak form.
- Step 8: Add the fresh strawberry puree to the cream. Gently fold together and separate the cream (depends on your decoration need) into two bowls.
- Step 9: Add pink food color to one cream bowl and fold gently. Keep the another cream bowl as it is.
- Step 10: Now place the bottom layer cake over the cake stand and take a spatula full of strawberry whipped cream. Spread the cream from center to edges and repeat the process on the upper layer of the cake. Take off the excess cream; now start piping (floral design) the bottom layer with food color added cream and upper layer with fresh strawberry puree cream.
- Step 11: Ends off with some fresh chopped strawberries and enjoy with your family and friends.
Note: Adding food color is purely optional, I have made this cake for my daughter’s birthday party. So I have added some mild food color to one part of the cream.
