How to Make Cake with Fresh Fruits- Recipe on FirstCry Parenting

Cake with Fresh Fruits

Ask your child help decorate this cake, by allowing her to spread the whipped cream and arrange the pieces of fruit. Next, you can give her various sweetened fondant shapes and ask her to use them in decorating the cake. Let her creativity run wild while you just sit and observe – who knows you may have an artist in the making!

Serves Preparation Time Cooking Time
6 People 25 Minutes  55-60 Minutes

Ingredients

  • 60 g unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 100 g cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp (teaspoon) baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 100 g sugar
  • 1 large egg plus 1 large egg yolk
  • 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 60 ml whole milk
  • 1 cup strawberries, hulled and thinly sliced
  • 1 cup apples, peeled and cut into stripes
  • 150 g cream, whipped

Method

Step 1

Keep the oven for preheating to 350 degrees. Take a cake pan and butter the bottom of it, while lining with a parchment paper.

Step 2

In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.

Step 3

With the help of an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on high speed. It should become light and fluffy.

Step 4

In this butter-sugar mixture, add egg and the yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla essence.

Step 5

With the mixer on low speed, add the add flour mixture alternatively with milk. Make sure that you begin and end with the flour mixture; mix just until well combined.

Step 6

Pour the batter in prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in centre of the cake comes out clean. This will take approximately 30 to 35 minutes.

Step 7

Remove and cool for 10 minutes. Next, invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Step 8

Using a serrated knife, split the cake into half horizontally; and place the bottom half, cut side up, on a serving plate.

Step 9

Combine strawberries and apples with 2 teaspoons sugar. Using a hand blender, beat cream and 3 teaspoons of sugar in a large bowl until very soft peaks form.

Step 10

Now you can ask your kid to pitch in. Tell her to cover the cake bottom cake layer with whipped cream and on top of it, arrange the strawberries.

Step 11

Cover with top half of cake, cut side down. Top cake with remaining whipped cream. Ask her to sprinkle the sweetened edible cake decorations like colored fennel etc., on top.

Nutritional Information

Calories 296 K cal
Proteins 4.2 g
Total Fat 15.1 g
Total Carbohydrates 37.8 g
Cholesterol 73 mg
Sodium 204 mg
Potassium 223 mg
Tip -This cake can be kept in the refrigerator and consumed the next day.
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