Orange and Strawberry Summer Cake
 
 
This orange and strawberry cake is perfect to welcome summers and bid adieu to the glorious strawberry season! Tangy and sweet, this cake is a perfect tea time cake!
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Recipe type: Cake
Ingredients
  • • All purpose flour (maida), 1 ¼ cup or 160 grams approx.
  • • Baking powder, 1 teaspoon
  • • Softened butter, ½ cup or 100 grams
  • • Caster sugar, ½ cup or 100 grams approx.
  • • Buttermilk*, ½ cup or 120 ml (learn how to make instant buttermilk below)
  • • Orange zest, of 1 orange
  • • Fresh orange juice, 4 tablespoons
  • • Vanilla essence, 1 teaspoon
  • • Strawberries, 5-6 (sliced in half)
  • • Strawberries, 7-8 (chopped in cubes)
  • *To make buttermilk take a cup of milk (or 240ml) and heat it, once it reaches a boil add a tablespoon of lemon juice to it. Boil the milk until it curdles, then sieve out the curdled part and use the remaining liquid as buttermilk. Let it cool down completely before you use it.
Method
  1. Grease a 6” round baking tin and line it with butter or parchment paper.
  2. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
  3. Whisk butter until light and fluffy for a couple of minutes then add in the caster sugar and vanilla essence and whisk again until everything is creamed together.
  4. Add in the orange zest and orange juice, mix it in.
  5. Sieve in the flour and baking powder directly in the bowl with wet ingredients. Add in the buttermilk little by little; do not whisk it, only mix using a spatula very lightly until you no longer see dry flour. The batter will be slightly thin but that’s okay! Mix in the chopped strawberries until evenly dispersed.
  6. Pour the batter in the prepared tin, arrange sliced strawberries on top of it and bake for 40-45 minutes or until the cake is done at 180 degrees Celsius. If you’re using a bigger tin reduce the baking time (read the post above for details).
  7. Orange and Strawberry Summer Cake
  8. Let the cake to cool completely before you take it out of the tin.
  9. Serve with tea, store in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Recipe by Sugar & Spice by Radhika at https://sugarnspicebyradhika.in/orange-and-strawberry-summer-cake/