Gina Maya Iyer, who runs a baking group Knead it, shares her favourite Kneader recipe!
Gina Maya Iyer
Strawberry butter pound cake
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup or 175 gm softened butter
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1-1/2 cup castor sugar
- 3 eggs lightly beaten
- 250 gm fresh strawberries (mashed)
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour (sieved)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Method
- Heat the oven to 160 C. Grease and line baking tin.
- Get ingredients ready, mash strawberries, sieve flour, add salt and baking powder to your flour.
- Making the batter by creaming butter and sugar until pale light.
- Slowly add beaten eggs to the mixer, on a low speed setting, a bit at a time. If the mixture starts to curdle or split, add a spoonful of sieved flour, keep adding eggs, and bit of flour if necessary.
- Add half milk with half flour, mix on slow. Once combined, add vanilla extract, the rest of the milk and flour. Right at the end, fold in the mashed strawberries.
- Transfer cake mixture to the greased and lined loaf tin. Place in the oven for 1-½ hours. Allow to cool.
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