I have finally caved. I have finally bought some strawberries.
Usually I let berry season pass me by because I have been burned so many times by buying very tasteless berries, that it just puts me off buying them for a long time. And this is especially true with strawberries. All I need to do is think back to the strawberries that I ate years ago in my grandmother’s garden to realise that I can never buy strawberries as good as those. So why bother trying?
Until I realised that strawberry cake is the perfect reason to buy strawberries.
Usually I only bake with a batch of berries if the batch I bought tastes flavorless and boring. So it is both a good and bad thing when I am in the kitchen baking with strawberries. Without bad batches of strawberries, I wouldn’t have made my Strawberry Hand Pies or my favourite Strawberry Sour Cream Pie.
But today, I wanted to bake something easy. Something that doesn’t require me to make my own dough. Something that I could just mix up in one bowl, put in the oven and be done with. Chalk this up to wanting to make the most of my relaxing summer as possible.
If you are also looking for a one bowl, super easy strawberry cake, this one is for you!
The hardest part is washing the dishes at the end. Which, if you have a dishwasher (which I, sadly, don’t), should be a snap.
Also, this cake has fruit in the form of baked strawberries, which totally makes it breakfast food! Cake for breakfast is my new favourite thing. And cake for dessert. And for sneaking into my mouth between meals..
Easy Strawberry Cake
Ingredients
- 6 Tbsp salted butter, softened
- 18 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup milk of choice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 lb strawberries, hulled and halved
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly spray an 8 inch cake round cake pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 1 cup of white sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the egg, milk and vanilla, and mix until fully combined.
- Add in the flour and baking powder, and mix in until just combined.
- Pour in the batter into the prepared cake pan. Arrange the strawberries on top of the batter cut side down as close to possible. Sprinkle the remaining 2 Tablespoon sugar over the berries.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 325°F, and bake for an additional 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
The cake looks really moist and delicious. I believe other fruits, like plum or peach, would work great with this recipe too.
I know what you mean – homegrown strawberries always taste so much better than commercial ones – but, strawberry cake is the perfect reason to buy those commercial strawberries – your cake looks delicious, Cathleen
Love how simple this is! It looks so good!
You had me at easy and cake! Throw in some stellar strawberries and YESSSSS! This cake looks perfectly moist and super delicious! Cheers, girlie!
Nobody can resist beautiful sexy strawberries. LOL! The only thing that holds me back is the price. Super expensive over here 🙁
This looks so good Cathleen! Somehow I am never able to make berries' cakes that good.. Need to give this a try soon!
See you around 🙂
I have no problem eating cake for breakfast. Especially when it looks this good. Plus it has strawberries, so it's health food, right? 😀 It looks fantastic!
I cant wait to try this recipe, it looks delicious!!
Thank you for linking back to my recipe! Nice bloggers are the best bloggers :). I am so glad you liked it!
For sure! I love your blog, and have been quietly stalking it for some time 😉
HI! This cake looks delicious! I know this is a very old post but I just wanted to let you know that there is visible strand of hair strung over the top of the cake.
oh no hahah. I tried looking through the photos and I still can’t see it!! I must be blind! Regardless, I think it’s time for me to update these photos 😉