Strawberry Cake

The good weather has arrived and you just don’t feel like cooking. Grilling, yes, absolutely. Recently we had a barbecue for 25 people. There were two of us cooking, and we could barely keep up. But it was worth it.

A quick one today: although I haven’t made anything new, I still have a cake to post that Ninka made (with a little help from me 😉 for Mother’s Day. A rather odd cake, because it’s a cake, yet very muffin-like. Almost a babka, you could say. Well, a babka — a cake, but also a woman in Polish — is perfect for Mother’s Day, isn’t it?

Anyway, we bought a heart-shaped tin and carried out a scientific experiment to find out whether muffin batter would make an edible cake. It worked. And although it tasted like muffins, it was a proper strawberry babka 🙂 Recommended.

Recipe at a glance:

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Baking time: 25 minutes

Baking temperature: 190 degrees Celsius

Serves: several people

Calories: a strawberry-load

Ingredients for strawberry cake:

• about 20 medium-sized strawberries
• 2 glasses wheat flour
• 2 hen’s eggs
• half a glass of sugar
• 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar with cardamom (it can also be without that hint of cardamom, as it said on mine 🙂
• half a teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• half a glass of olive oil
• 1 glass milk (I used 2%)

Recipe for muffin-style strawberry cake:

Ninka mixed the flour, ordinary and vanilla sugar, baking soda and baking powder in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl, she mixed the olive oil with the milk and eggs. Then we combined the contents of both bowls and mixed thoroughly (with a spoon, not a mixer).

We added the sliced strawberries to the batter and mixed thoroughly once more. We poured the contents of the bowl into a tin (ours was heart-shaped) lightly greased with olive oil and put it in the oven preheated to 190 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes.

The cake should rise beautifully. It’s worth waiting for it to cool a little, then gently running a knife around the edges to loosen it from the tin and turning it out onto a platter. Ninka also wrote „I love you” on top in icing. If you’re making the cake for no particular occasion, you can skip that part, although „I love you” is always worth saying and writing 🙂 Enjoy!