Strawberry Cake

A dessert with strawberries always brings smiles. It pleases your eyes as much as it pleases your taste buds. And the chocolate chips only act as a cherry on this berry cake

This cake with a crusty top and moist center was loved by all at my home. Do try this recipe.

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients:
All purpose flour : 1 n ½ cup
Baking powder : 1 n ½ tsp
Unsalted Butter : 3 tbsp
Curds : 3 tbsp
Sugar : 1 cup
Egg -1
Milk : ½ cup
Vanilla Essence : ¾ tsp
Chocolate Chips : ¾ cup
Strawberries : 10 (3 chopped and remaining cut into halves)
Salt : a pinch
Butter – 1 tsp ( For lining the cake tins)
All Purpose Flour – 2 tsp (For lining the cake tins)

Method of Preparation:

1. Prepare the cake tin by placing a parchment paper and buttering lightly and sprinkling all purpose flour lightly.
2. Sift cake flour, baking powder and salt together 3-4 times. Keep aside.
3. Add butter, curd and sugar to a mixer and beat well.
4. Add egg and run the mixer for another minute till the mixture is light and fluffy.
5. Add milk, vanilla and run mixer for another 20 seconds.
6. Add this mixture to the flour mix and stir gently till both are combined.
7. Add chocolate chips to this batter and 3 chopped strawberries and mix gently.
8. Pour the batter to the prepared tin.
9. Preheat oven to 160 degrees and bake for 45 min. You know its done when a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Once cake is ready, get it out of oven and place the tin on a cooling rack. Invert the tin and gently remove the parchment paper. The top of this cake is a bit crusty and that only makes it more tasty.

Note: For cakes, its always better to get the eggs at room temperature before adding. So I get the eggs out of the fridge atleast 30 minutes before I start making the cake. Also over mixing the batter can result in a harder cake. So the mixing should be gentle just to incorporate all the ingredients together.