You know what blows? Unemployment. Rain. Crappy day time television. Job applications. Extreme boredom. Put those things together, let it marinate for two weeks, and you’ll have yourself a big mess of complete and utter, “get-me-out-of-this-house-before-I-kill-the-cats” stir craziness.
You know what doesn’t suck, though? Light, fluffy vanilla cake stuffed with fat, juicy strawberries. A perfectly moist cake made with simple ingredients that are sure to be sitting in your pantry/fridge right now. A sweet treat that can be mixed, baked, cooled, and devoured in less than an hour.
This cake is the only thing keeping me sane today. There’s something about cracking eggs and stirring batter and slicing strawberries that’s really soothing. It’s familiar, it’s easy, and I’m guaranteed to get something great at the end of my labors. I’m still a little stir crazy, but after a few slices of this stuff I’m starting to feel like maybe life isn’t so bad when there’s strawberry cake to eat.
Recipe can be here, courtesy of the Gourmand Recipes blog.
** I didn’t have milk in the house, so I used 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream instead. Worked just fine, and I think probably added some extra sweetness/richness to the cake.
Your strawberry cake looks smashingly beautiful! Hope your day gets better after a slice of this strawberry cake. Thanks for the mention 🙂
Couldnt agree more with all of your 'what sucks' points, but if you have this cake it would definitely make life seem a hellofalot better 🙂 Gorgeous!
So sorry to read about your aggravation… I have always been one of those "does not work well with others" types who opens businesses (opened 4 (now 5), sold three for profit and lost my ass in one… time will tell on this last one.
It all started the first (and last) time I was fired.
Find a passion, seize it and love your whole life… including your job.
And eat more strawberry cake!
Oh, and netflix has that streaming thing going … you can watch every episode of Star trek or 24 (plenty of dead lawyers in 24).
Find a joy … even a small one will help get through the day
So elegant and stylish. I love the way you feature this strawberry cake.
Thanks, guys!
@Inspired: Thanks for your words of encouragement 🙂 I'm going to start taking up more hobbies. Paint a couple rooms in the house, maybe. It's just an adjustment from being busy 9-6pm to not doing much at all. Good luck with your business!
@myfudo: Thanks!
Hey. That cake is amazing. I remember among it last time but I lost the recipe. By chance do you have it? Ellie from gourmand took it down so I can’t find the recipe anymore.
Sadly, I don’t have the recipe anymore. BUT, based on what I remember, I can tell you that the recipe was very similar to my Blackberry Cobbler recipe, which is actually more cake-y than your average cobbler. Maybe give that a try? Good luck!
Hey Nash, I’m pretty sure I found the recipe – if you’re still looking for it, that is!
1.5 cups/250g self-raising flour
1 stick/125g butter
3/4cup or 150g sugar
2 eggs
1/2cup or 125ml milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
9oz fresh strawberries, halved
2 tbsp light brown sugar
1. Preheat oven to 325F
2. Grease and line an 8-inch round cake tin.
3. Add the flour, butter, sugar, egg, milk, vanilla extract in an electric mixer bowl and mix with low speed for 30s and continue to mix with medium speed for 2-3min, or until well-combined.
4. Pour the batter in the greased and lined cake tin.
5. Place the fresh strawberry halves (cut side down) gently on top of the batter and scatter with the brown sugar.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 45min or until a cake tester comes out clean.
7. Cool in cake tin on a wire rack for 5 min and remove the cake from tin and continue to cool further on the wire rack.
8. It is best served warm with whipped cream.
Hope this helps!