Super Summery Strawberries and Cream Tray Bake | Recipe

This week was my turn for bake club at work and I really couldn’t not do something summery. Years ago (when I first started blogging) I made these Strawberries and Cream Cupcakes. But I remember the cake with the fresh strawbs being a bit damp and they didn’t rise well. This time I’ve used freeze dried strawberries that I got at Waitrose. They are a little expensive, but totally worth it to stop from making a gloopy cake. Instead it made a wonderfully light fluffy Strawberries and Cream Tray Bake.

Strawberries and Cream Tray Bake

An absolutely delicious, summery tray bake!

 Prep Time 30 minutes

 Cook Time 30 minutes

 Author MissPond

Ingredients

• 225 g Softened unsalted butter
• 225 g Caster sugar
• 250 g Self raising flour sieved
• 1 tsp Vanilla bean paste
• 4 Eggs
• 7 g Freeze dried strawberries
• 250 g Icing sugar sieved
• 200 ml Whipping cream
• 2 tbsp Water
• Strawberry jam

Instructions

For the cake

1. Heat your oven to 170C fan/180C. Line a 21″ x 27″ brownie tin with parchment.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Then add the vanilla bean paste and 2 tbsp of the already measured out flour.
3. Start beating (I used my kMix to make the cake) and each egg individually.
4. Fold in the flour and 2/3 of the freeze dried strawberries.
5. Pour the mixture into the tin and put in the oven for 30 minutes. Or until a skewer comes out piping hot/clean.
6. Leave to cool for a bit, then remove from the tin and allow to cook fully.

For the cream filling

1. Whip the cream and 50g of the sieved icing sugar until stiff peaks form.

For the icing

1. Mix 2 tbsp of water with the leftover 200g icing sugar (add more water if it doesn’t mix well – just be careful not to make too runny).

Decorate

1. Slice the cake in half (when completely cool). Spread jam on one half then layer the cream on top. Put the cake together, then cover in the icing. Sprinkle over the remaining freeze dried strawberries!

Recipe Notes

Enjoy on a lovely summers day in the garden with a glass of fizz or a cuppa!