Strawberry and Cream Cake
Serves 6
Ingredients
Cake
- Butter for greasing
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 Meyer lemon or regular, zested (plus more for garnish)
- ½ cup full fat Greek yogurt room temperature
- 2 eggs room temperature
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
- ⅛ tsp pure almond extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour plus more for dusting the pan
- ½ cup almond flour lightly packed
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp kosher salt
Honeyed Whip Cream
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp honey more to taste
- ½ tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
- Pinch of salt
Strawberries
- 10 oz strawberries quartered
- Olive oil
- Honey
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line an 8-inch round cake pan with parchment paper. Butter the pan all over and dust flour. Set aside.
- Add sugar to a large bowl. Add zest and massage the zest into the sugar to bring out its oils.
- Add in yogurt, eggs, oil, vanilla, and almond extract. Whisk to combine.
- Sift flour, almond flour, baking powder, and salt over the bowl with the wet ingredients.
- Gently mix until just combined. Don’t over-mix!
- Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
- Bake for 30-45 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Carefully invert the cake onto a wire rack to continue to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, make the whipped cream. Add cream, honey, vanilla, and salt to a medium bowl. Whip to medium peaks. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- Right before you are ready to serve, prepare the strawberries. Add the strawberries to a bowl and toss them with a drizzle of olive oil and a touch of honey. Add more honey or olive oil to taste.
- When ready to serve, top the cooled cake with the honeyed whipped cream and strawberries. Garnish with more meyer lemon zest and olive oil if desired. Serve.
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Such an amazing and delicious cake! Made it for my mother in law’s birthday and everyone loved it! Super moist and the addition of almond flour gave it such a good taste and texture. Plus that cream is so dreamy. Highly recommend!