Strawberry Cake Recipe

Whenever I find myself in excess of a fruit (bananas, blueberries, etc.) I tend to use them in desserts, so recently having way too many strawberries on hand, I decided to make this Strawberry Cake from MarthaStewart.com before they all spoiled.

Of course my finished product looked nothing like the one on the website - I didn't use enough strawberries, for one thing.  So to make it look a little more decent, I decided to drizzle on some Nutella.

The end result was a cake that looked and tasted fab!

Strawberry Cake (Recipe credit: MarthaStewart.com)

Ingredients:

• 6 T butter, plus more for pie plate
• 1 1/2 c flour
• 1 1/2 t baking powder
• 1/2 t salt
• 1 c plus 2 T sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 c milk
• 1 t pure vanilla extract
• 1 lb strawberries, hulled and halved

Directions: 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 10-inch pie plate.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together into a medium bowl.
• Mix butter and 1 cup sugar in a separate medium bowl until light and fluffy.
• Stir in egg, milk, and vanilla.
• Gradually mix in flour mixture.
• Transfer batter to buttered pie plate.
• Arrange strawberries on top of batter, cut sides down and as close together as possible.
• Sprinkle remaining 2 tablespoons sugar over berries.
• Bake cake 10 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees and bake for approximately 1 hour.
• Let cool in pie plate on a wire rack. Cut into wedges.