Strawberry Cake

Strawberry Cake

The cake is baked between two layers of sticky and sweet strawberry sauce. To make the strawberry sauce, you will need:

- 3 cups of chopped fresh strawberries

- 1/3 cup of sugar

- 1/4 cup of water

- 1 1/2 tsp cornstarch

Heat oven to 400F. Butter a 9” square glass baking dish.

Put 2 cups of strawberries, cornstarch, sugar and water into a quart pan. Cook the strawberries over medium heat until they are soften and reduced to a sauce. Stir occasionally. This takes about 20 minutes. Stir in remaining 1 cup of strawberry into the sauce at the end. Let the sauce to cool to room temperature.

To make the cake, you will need:

- 1 cup all-purpose flour

- 1/2 cup of sugar

- 1 3/4 tsp baking powder

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 2 large egg

- 1/2 cup sour cream

- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly

- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and sugar in a bowl.

In another bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, melted butter and vanilla extract.

Mix the dry and wet ingredients together until just combined. Be careful not to over mix; otherwise, the cake will turn out tough. I suspect I over mixed my batter and my cake turned out a little too dense than I would like it to be.

Pour half of the strawberry sauce into the bottom of the glass dish. Spoon the cake batter on top of the sauce. Pour the remaining strawberry sauce on top of the batter. At this stage the cake batter looks very wet, but don't worry it will rise in the oven.

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean after it is inserted into the cake.

Now you are done, Enjoy!!!