Strawberry cakes

Name: Strawberry cakes
Ingredients: 2 eggs; 50 ml/2 fl oz/¼ cup double (heavy) cream; 115 g/4 oz/½ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup self-raising (self-rising) flour; finely grated rind of 1 lemon; fresh strawberries; strawberry jam; small quantity sugarpaste; 2.5 ml/½ tsp baking powder; 50 g/2 oz/4 tbsp butter, melted; 2 sizes of sugarpaste strawberry flowers; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting; pink and green food colouring; pink and green food colouring

Preparation info

Makes
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

This pretty decorative design has to be assembled just before serving so that the fresh fruit doesn’t discolour the sugarpaste topping. All the components can be made ahead of time though.

Ingredients

2 eggs
115 g/4 oz/½ cup

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4 and line 10 holes of a bun tin (pan) with paper cases. Beat the eggs with the sugar. Beat in the cream for 1 minute, then add the lemon rind. Sift the flour with the baking powder, then fold lightly into the mixture, followe