Strawberry Cake Recipes

Ingredients :

1 cup

2 tsp

5

1/4 cup

2 tbsp

1.25 cups

5

1.5 cups

1/2 tsp

1 tbsp

2x250g

caster sugar

grated lemon rind

egg yolks

boiling water

lemon juice

self-raising flour

egg whites

cream

vanilla essence

icing sugar

punnets strawberries, washed and hulled

1. Preheat oven to 180C, grease and flour two 20cm square cake tins.
2. Stir together sugar and lemon rind.
3. Beat egg yolks until light, then gradually beat in sugar.
4. When very thick and creamy, stir in boiling water and lemon juice.
5. Sift flour twice, then sift over top of egg yolk mixture.
6. Fold in lightly but thoroughly.
7. Whip egg whites until thick and fold in lightly.
8. Divide mixture evenly between tins.
9. Bake for 30 minutes, or until top springs back when touched.
10. Turn out onto wire racks to cool.
11. Whip cream with vanilla and icing sugar until stiff.
12. Chop most of the strawberries and fold through three-quarters of the cream.
13. Save remaining cream and some whole strawberries for decoration.
14. With a sharp knife, carefully cut both cakes through the centre making four layers.
15. Sandwich layers together with strawberry cream.
16. Pipe reserved cream in a trellis pattern over the top, and decorate with whole strawberries.

Makes 1 cake

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