Recipe details
Prep time
15
min
Cooking time
50
min
Total time
65
min
Ingredients
- A 400g punnet of fresh strawberries
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- Juice and zest of one lime
- 125ml coconut oil
- 250g Greek yoghurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 330g plain flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Optional to serve:
- Fresh cream / Thick yoghurt / Fresh strawberries / Ice Cream
Instructions
- Start by pre-heating your oven to 190ºc and greasing and lining your cake tin with greaseproof paper.
- Next, hull ALL of the strawberries, then quarter 1/3 of them and halve 2/3. Put to one side.
- In a medium mixing bowl add the sugar, egg, coconut oil, Greek yoghurt and vanilla and whisk until smooth. Grate in the lime zest and pour in the lime juice. Mix briefly.
- Fold in the flour, baking powder and salt until you have a thick smooth batter.
- Pour half of the batter into the prepared tin and smooth over. Scatter over the quartered strawberries, then pour over the remaining batter and smooth the surface. Press down the halved strawberries, covering the top of the cake.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes, testing with a skewer at 45 minutes. If it comes out clean it’s ready, if not give it another 5 minutes. In the unlikely event it browns a little too quickly on top, cover with foil for the remaining bake time.
- Allow to cool for 10-15 minutes then remove from the tin and allow to cool.
- Delicious served with thick, creamy yoghurt and a fresh strawberries.
I don't have a 9" inch tin
I used a 9” cake tin, but you can still bake this cake if you don't have one this size. Whilst you can use a larger or smaller one just be mindful you may have to reduce or increase the bake time. A larger tin will make the cake shallower and it may bake faster, whilst a smaller tin will be deeper and therefore may take longer to bake all the way through. If at any point the top seems to be browning a little too fast, cover with kitchen foil for the remaining bake time.
When is strawberry season in the UK?
Whilst you can buy strawberries all year round they are at their very best duing the months of June and July. Other times of the year they are mostly imported and lack that sweet juicy flavour that British seasonal strawberries have.
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