Strawberry Short Cake Recipe

Today,Deepsrecipes is sharing,the MOST FAMOUS STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKES...!!!

Short cake recipe has many variations.This one is a very quick ,delicious method, tried and tested and the results were great.Sharing this wonderful recipe here.

You can even use this as a simple birthday cake.

Ingredients

For the short cake

Flour-2cups

Baking powder-1tbsp

Sugar-5tbsp

Butter-80 g

Oil-1tbsp

Buttermilk-1 cup

Vanilla essence-2tsp

For Filling

Fresh Strawberry-8-10 no

Sugar-2tbsp

Heavy Cream-1cup

Vanilla essence-1tsp

Icing sugar-2 tsp

Crush the strawberries with fingers and add in the sugar.Keep this refrigerated for 30 minutes-1 hr.

Method of preparation

Mix all dry ingredients for the cake.

Cut the butter into the dry flour mixture and mix with fingers until the mixture is coarse.

Pour in the buttermilk little by little and make a thick batter.(Thicker than usual cake batter)

Now bake for 30-40 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees or until the top turns golden brown.

Cool the cake well.

Filling

Beat the cream,icing sugar and vanilla until you get fluffy peaks.

Cut the cake horizontally with a serrated knife into 2 or 3 layers.I made 2 cakes at a time,using the same batter above.

Add one layer of crushed strawberry filling on the cake layer.Then whipped cream,now,close this with another layer of cake.Repeat the layering process.You can serve this chilled topped with whipped cream.

But,I have coated the whole cake with whipped cream.

Isn't this simple?Try this at home and please don't forget to comment here.

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