A delightfully simple and sweet strawberry cake made with sourdough starter, fresh strawberries and simple pantry ingredients. It makes a delicious dessert served warm from the oven or as an afternoon treat dusted with icing sugar.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Sourdough Discard
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour20 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Calories 265kcal
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
2Eggs
75gVegetable Oil(any light flavored oil is fine)
65gGreek Yogurt(or any natural, plain yogurt)
15gLemon Juice
180gSourdough Starter(active or discard, just not too sour)
5gVanilla Extract
Dry Ingredients
160gSugar(fine sugar is better)
270gAll Purpose Flour
24gBaking Powder(approx. 4 tsp)
Strawberries
500gStrawberries(hulled, washed and dried)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 180C (350F) and spray a round cake tin with cooking oil or grease with butter and set aside.
Prepare the strawberries before you begin the cake batter. Hull all the strawberries, wash and dry. Take 100g of hulled strawberries and slice them once lengthways and then into small slices. Set these aside for the cake batter.
Take the remaining strawberries and slice them in half and set aside for the top of the cake.
Now in a large mixing bowl add the eggs, vegetable oil, lemon juice, Greek yogurt, vanilla and sourdough starter. Whisk until they are well combined into a smooth liquid.
Now, on top of the liquid ingredients add the all purpose flour, baking powder and sugar. Stir well to create a thick cake batter.
Spoon half of the cake batter into the round cake tin you prepared earlier and then layer the 100g of thinly sliced strawberries on top of the batter.
Now, spoon the remaining cake batter on top of the strawberry layer.
Take the 400g of strawberries you sliced in half and arrange these, cut side down on the top of the cake batter.
Bake for 50 minutes at 180C (350F) or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before taking out of the tin and placing on a wire rack to cook.
To serve, dust with icing sugar or serve with a dollop of homemade whipped cream and fresh strawberries.