Strawberry Celebration Cake

Egg Free & Vegan Recipe

With strawberries in abundance in the shops I bought a large box and wanted to make something that was extra special to welcome my son who returns from holiday today. I came up with this recipe and was very pleased with the way the texture of this cake came out and the aroma of strawberry was extremely appetising.

Ingredients:

Dry mix:

• 2 cups self rising flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2/3 cup castor sugar or less depending on your taste and sweetness of strawberries

Wet mix:

• 200 ml fresh strawberry pulp ( I crushed about 12 large strawberries with a blender)
• 50 ml sour yoghurt (either dairy or non diary)
• 5 tablespoon sunflower oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Decorations:

• Fresh strawberries
• 1 packet vegetarian friendly strawberry flavour jelly
• Fresh vanilla whipped cream (dairy or non dairy) to serve

Method:

• Sieve the flour, castor sugar and baking powder together in one large bowl
• Whisk the wet ingredients separately in another bowl
• Add the wet mix to the dry ingredients and fold gently to combine
• Put the mixture into a greased and floured flan baking tray
• Bake at 180c for 20 to 25minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle of the cake comes out dry
• Once baked allow to cool
• When ready to serve, make jelly using quarter less water than stated on the packet
• Decorate cake with strawberries and glaze with the strawberry jelly. For best results don’t do this more than 4 hours before cake is to be served otherwise the cake may become too moist from the strawberries releasing their juice
• Serve with vanilla whipped cream

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