Lemon cake with cream cheese and strawberries
Delicious cake with the perfect combination of fruits. Tangy lemon cake layered with cream cheese frosting and strawberries.
Equipment
- Silicone cake mold
- Blender
Ingredients
- 150 g butter
- 1 cup whole milk
- 3 eggs
- 1 lemon
- 250 g Strawberries
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
For cream cheese icing:
- 60 g cold butter (chopped in bits)
- 250 g cold cream cheese
- 1 cup icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius. Grease a round (6 inches) pan with butter and set aside.
- Peel half of the lemon zest and place into a blender, add the eggs, milk, sugar, lemon juice and butter, then blitz.
- Sieve the flour and baking powder into a bowl. Pour in the blended liquid mixture and mix together into a smooth batter.
- Pour the batter into the greased pan, place into the preheated oven and bake for 45-50 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Set the cake aside to cool.
- In the meantime prepare the frosting by whipping the butter and cream cheese in a bowl. Add the icing sugar in 3 parts continually whisking until smooth and creamy but not runny.
- Also, prepare the fruits, cut most of the strawberries in half, a couple into quarters and leave one or two whole. Cut the lemons into half and slice into half-moons. Set the fruits aside.
- Now the cake should be cool. Slice into three layers, you cake do this with a slicer, leveller or just a knife. Lay the first layer unto a flat dish with a small scope of cream cheese at the bottom to help keep the cake in place.
- Spread 1/4 of cream cheese frosting on top then place some halved strawberries all around the edges of the cake and place a few rough pieces in the middle with a little more frosting.
- Place the second layer of cake on top and spread a generous amount of the cream and follow with the last layer of cake.
- Place the remaining frosting on top and spread all over the whole cake (sides and top), it doesn't have to be perfect.
- Now start placing the remaining strawberries on top, across the middle of a cake (making sort of a line across).
- Finish by adding the slices of lemon to both sides of the strawberries. Slice and enjoy!
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Nutrition
Calories: 650kcalCarbohydrates: 77gProtein: 10gFat: 35gSaturated Fat: 21gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 153mgSodium: 357mgPotassium: 225mgFiber: 2gSugar: 44gVitamin A: 1.221IUVitamin C: 26mgCalcium: 128mgIron: 2mg
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