Strawberry Cake

This cake is made by fresh strawberries and it tasted sooooooo good...........kids enjoyed it because it was colour full and had very good strawberry flavor..........as now good strawberries comes here in this season.So I had a good amount of strawberries on my fridge.And this fruit can't be kept for many days I thought will make out something from this.I gave a strawberry icing also for this and it came out well..........

Ingredients:

2c All purpose flour

1c Powdered sugar

1/2c Butterroom temp

1/2c Oil

3 Eggs room temp

1 1/2 tsp Baking powder

1tsp Strawberry essence

1/2tsp Vanilla essence

3/4c Fresh strawberry puree

For Frosting:

1/2c Butter room temp

3/4c Fresh strawberry puree

4tsp Cream Cheese

1c Icing sugar or as per taste

1/2tsp Strawberry essence

Sliced strawberries for filling and topping

Method:

1.Beat butter,oil and sugar in a bowl.

2.Beat till creamy and add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.

3.Sieve the flour and baking powder and keep aside.

4.Add the essences and mix well.

5.Now add the flour mixture and fold in.

6.In between add the strawberry puree and mix well.

7.Grease a cake tin and pour the batter to it.

8.Preheat the oven at 200 degree C for 10 mins.

9.Now bake the cake at 165 degree C for 40 to 45 mins or till the tester inserted comes out clean.

10.Once finished baking cool the cake completely.

11.Make the icing by mixing all the ingredients for icing and beat well.

12.Keep this in the fridge for one hr or till the cake gets cool.

13.Once the cake is cooled cut the cake into 2 halves.

14.In the bottom part spread some frosting and keep some slices of strawberries.

15.Again spread some frosting on top of the strawberries.

16.Keep the other part ok cake on this.

17.Spread the frosting all over the cake and sides.

18.Decorate with sliced strawberries.

19.Refrigerate it for 1 hr.

20.Slice and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

This goes to torviews akheela event.