Strawberry Pound Cake
Jednoduchý recept na jahodový koláč.
Ingredients
- 120 g unsalted butter
- 220 g regular white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 235 g cake flour plus extra for strawberries
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 85 g full fat greek yogurt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 25 g lemon zest or more
- lemon juice from 2 lemons
- 150 g fresh chopped strawberries
Strawberry icing
- 140 g icing sugar
- 150 g diced strawberries
- 3 tbsps water/lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C. Prepare one pound cake tin (regular size) or 2 smaller pound cake tins. Butter up the tin and attach the attachment paper to it.
- Start with creaming butter and sugar. Firstly, rub the 1/2 lemon zest into the sugar with your fingers. Whisk the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on high speed for 3 minutes. You should end up with creamy and soft consistency in the mixture.
- Continue by adding eggs, one at a time. Whisk on medium speed and scrape the sides of the bowl when needed. Mix until the batter is runny and creamy.
- In one bowl mix flour with baking powder and lemon zest – whisk with an egg whisker. Into another bowl add yogurt with lemon juice, and vanilla extract.
- The next step is crucial – start by adding 1/3 flour mixture into the batter, while mixing on low speed. Then add 1/2 yogurt liquid. When it's well combined, add flour mixture, mix, yogurt mixture. In the end, add the rest of the flour mixture. Don't forget the scrape down the sides of the bowl while the batter is mixing.
- Now, I recommend tasting the batter if it's lemony enough. If not, you can add more lemon zest or lemon juice. However, in this case, don't forget to add a little bit of flour and combine it with a spatula (2 tbsps of flour).
- Chop the strawberries and cover them in a little bit of flour. Fold the strawberries into the batter. Pour the batter into the pound cake tin and bake for 45-50 minutes or until the wooden toothpick comes out clean.
- Take cake out of the oven and let cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Then take it out and allow to cool for the next 30 minutes.
- Cook the strawberries in the pan for 10 minutes. They should get soft and watery. You can use this liquid for the sugar icing.
- Prepare the icing sugar into the bowl. Pour the water with a few drops of lemon juice and strawberry liquid. Mix with an egg mixer until it's well combined. The icing should be thick enough to stay on the cake. In this case, use more icing sugar. Put the cooked strawberries on top.