Bake of the Day: Celebration Cakes -- Eggless Berry Cake (with Sour Cream)
After my son's birthday cakes (Cookie cake & Dulche de Leche cake), I made this eggless berry cake for my niece. I was volunteering to bake cakes left and right, so I can bake new cakes for the marathon. I think some of my friends & family were even creeped out on how obsessed I was to bring a cake to the party -- poor people ;-)
This Eggless Berry cake is adapted from Gayathri's eggless strawberry cake. Gayathri's cake is a beautiful pink cake with even more beautiful frosting and pearls. The big mistake I made was to use homemade mixed berry jam that made the cake purple colored instead of pretty pink. I almost cried looking at the color, but then I didn't have too much time for a redo. I went with it and covered it completely with frosting and fondant. I sprinkled some sugar syrup (equal parts sugar and water boiled for couple of minutes) on the cake to keep it moist and then decorated it.
All in all, a delicious cake (forget about the purple color) that attracted the kids and adults with its outside looks ;-)
Recipe adapted from Gayathri's Strawberry Cake: Ingredients: Makes 1 8" round cake. All purpose flour - 1½cups
Baking powder - 1tsp
Baking Soda - ½tsp
Salt - ½tsp
Unsalted Butter - 6tbsp @ room temperature
Sugar - ½cup
Strawberry Jam - ⅓cup
Pure Vanilla extract - 1tsp
Sour Cream - 1cup
Method:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 8" round cake pan.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In another mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the jam, vanilla extract and sour cream. Mix well until combined.
- Stir in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until everything is incorporated.
- Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 25~30 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove from the pan after 5 minutes onto a wire rack to cool completely.
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