Meals By Me

Strawberry Short Cake

Hello everyone and welcome to another exciting edition of Tozali's Meals by Me™.

My name is Hapsy Ibrahim-Mahmud and this edition I am going to do a request recipe...which is The Strawberry Short Cake! Yay! I know, I know alot of you my lovely citizens have been writing in ever since they saw me post the cake on Our Saffron FACEBOOK page (which is our catering company). Not to worry guys, the wait is over.

So.....

Strawberry Short Cake

I am using a classic Diner recipe that easy, quick and very moist.

You'll need:

·         1 1/2 cups cake flour          

·         1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

·         1/2 teaspoon salt

·         3/4 cup Buttermilk

·         abt  a teaspoon of lemon zest or essence.

·         3 tablespoons unsalted butter

·         1 tablespoon vanilla extract

·         3 large eggs

·         1 1/4 cups sugar

·         2 pints fresh strawberries

·         Whipped cream for the frosting

Here's what you do:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees with a rack in the middle of the oven.

Butter up and flour 2 (9-inch) cake pans. Line the bottoms with a circle of baking parchment.(use the pan as a guide to help you cut out the circle parchment paper)

Into a large bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and salt together, 3 times. In a small saucepan, bring the milk and butter to a boil. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla and lemon extracts. In separate mixing bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until pale yellow, and fluffy, and doubled in volume. While still beating, drizzle in the hot milk mixture. Fold in the flour mixture. Take a quarter of the strawberry and sprinkle some sugar( draw out the liquid) then add to cake batter. Fold in gently.   Spread the batter in the prepared pans and bake for 15 minutes, or until golden, the center springs back when lightly pressed, and a cake tester comes out clean.

Set the pans on a rack to cool. Run the tip of a knife around the edges of the cakes to loosen them, and turn them out of the pans. while the cakes are cooling, make the whipped cream..(just use a store brought one and follow the instructions on the packet)  and dice some of strawberry and slice the rest into halves.

 After their cooled, put some whipped cream and diced strawberry on the bottom cake. Sandwich it with the one cake and then frost and decorate the cake with rest of the sliced strawberries as you desire. I used the back of a spoon ..no fuss people! Dinner cakes are meant to eaten like...IMMEDIATELY!!! 

So just have fun with it!

TaaDaa! Beautiful, isn't it?!

Hot tip: when you're working with whipped cream, be fast! It doesn't like heat!

Until next Edition folks!

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BY Hafsy Ibrahim Mahmud