Simple Strawberry Cake for Mother’s Day

Forgot Mother’s Day? No problem, this strawberry cake is baked within minutes and comes with very few ingredients. The cake base, for example, consists only of eggs, sugar & ground almonds.

The cake is topped with a mixture of cream & heavy sour cream as well as fruity strawberries. Because the cake gets along without flour, it is also gluten-free. Have fun baking!




Cooked/Baked today: Simple Strawberry Cake for Mother’s Day
Difficulty: Easy – Medium
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
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Simple Strawberry Cake for Mother’s Day

Simple Strawberry Cake for Mother’s Day

Ingredients for a springform pan with 26cm diameter:

…for cake base:

• 4 eggs
• 200 grams ground hazelnuts
• 100 grams sugar

…for cream & toppings:

• 200 milliliters cream
• 200 grams heavy sour cream or creme fraiche
• 1 sachet cream stabilizer
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar
• 600 grams fresh strawberries
• About 50 grams white chocolate

Required kitchen gadgets, helper & preparations:

• Mixing bowl for batter
• Springform pan with 26cm diameter + baking paper
• Mixer
• Mixing bowl for cream

Instructions:




…for cake base:

Preheat the oven to 200 C (top/bottom heat). Line a springform pan (possibly heart shaped) with baking paper. Put 4 eggs & 100 grams sugar into a mixing bowl & mix together with a blender for about 3 – 4 minutes until fluffy.

Preparations

Next, add 200 grams ground hazelnuts & briefly mix in until well combined, then pour batter into prepared springform pan. Bake the cake base in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes, then get the springform pan out of the oven & allow to cool.




…for cream & more preparations:

For cream put 200 milliliters whipping cream, 200 grams heavy sour cream (or creme fraiche) & 1 sachet each of cream stabilizer & vanilla sugar into a mixing bowl & beat until stiff for about 1 minute with a blender. Wash 600 grams fresh strawberries & cut off the green stem base. Coarsely chop 50 grams white chocolate with a knife.

Baking Strawberry Cake

…for strawberry cake:

Transfer prepared cream into the springform pan & spread evenly on top of the cooled cake base. Next press the strawberries evenly distributed into the cream & finally garnish the cake with the chopped chocolate. Next, dish up the cake immediately or store in the fridge until serving. Have fun baking!




Video Tutorial:

Watch the video tutorial to see the recipe and the preparation method precisely (German Audio only, English Subtitles available):