I made this cake for Valentines. According to me, nothing screams romance like fresh strawberries…. dont know why! My local Albertsons was selling chocolate covered strawberries the entire day. Yum. But we didnt buy them because I had already made this cake and we had bought 4 lbs strawberries from Costco. This was the first cake I learnt to make back in India. My friend came over with the necessary ingredients and taught me how to make it while I helpfully stirred the batter. We didnt have an oven, so our pressure cooker filled halfway with sand doubled as an oven. At the end of it, the alluminium pressure cooker was blackened beyond recognition and this delicious cake was the only reason I didnt get a lecture of a lifetime from my dad :) Back home we used fresh cream/malai. Over here I use sour cream. For the frosting I used canned whipped cream. Hop over here at Crafty’s for the crocheted version :)

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Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter(room temp)
1 and half cup All purpose flour/maida
1 cup sugar
3 eggs ( yolks and whites seperated)
1/2 cup malai/sour cream
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder

Method:

Preheat oven 350 degrees F. Grease 2, 6inch round pans and keep aside.

Sift together flour,salt,baking soda,baking powder and keep aside.

Cream together on medium speed butter,sugar,egg whites till light and fluffy (about 3 to 4 minutes).

Then add the sour cream,milk and vanilla essence. Blend till combined.

Then add the sifted flour mixture into the wet batter and blend on low speed until just combined. Donot overmix.

In the end add the egg yolks and stir it in by hand. See that it is well mixed.

Divide it into the pans and bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick come out clean.

Remove from the pans and allow it to cool.

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For the filling, I just chopped up strawberries and mixed them with the canned whipped cream and layered this between the 2 cakes.

I topped it with the same mix.