FRESH STRAWBERRY AND ALMOND CAKE
One of our favourite cakes to go with coffee or for dessert served with a dollop of cream.
Ingredients
- 115g butter – softened
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1 teaspoon each: almond extract, vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ cup ground almonds
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups fresh strawberries – sliced
- ½ cup slivered almonds
Method
- Preheat oven to 180oC (160oC fan bake). Line a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper.
- Cream together the butter, oil, eggs and sugar.
- Beat in the orange zest, almond and vanilla extract.3w
- Add the flour, ground almonds, baking powder and salt to the mixture and mix well.
- Fold in the strawberry slices and tip the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
- Top the cake with slivered almonds.
- Bake for 40 – 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.