Strawberries and cake, always a good combination!

This cake is simple to make, and tastes absolutely wonderful. You will need:

Yummy Strawberry Cake

4 big eggs
2 cups granulated sugar
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 warm water (not boiling hot!)

Put the oven on 350F. Start out mixing the eggs and sugar with an electric whisk. When it's white and fluffy it's ready. Pass the flour and the baking powder through a sifter. This will avoid the cake to get dense, and will make it lighter and fluffier. Pour down the flour into the egg mix using an electric whisk. Add the water peu en peu. Grease and flour an 11-inch pan, and pour in your batter. Put the pan in the pre-heated oven. Bake for approximately 55 minutes.

Now you can start preparing the vanilla cream that will go on one of the cake layers. Homemade vanilla cream tastes so much better than the prepared ones that you find in the stores.

Vanilla cream

2 cups milk
1 vanilla pod
4 egg yolks
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/2 cup corn starch
1/2 stick of butter

Slice the vanilla pod in half and use the knife to take out the seeds. Put the vanilla pod, seeds, and milk in a sauce pan. Let it cook on low-medium heat. Stir constantly. In a bowl, whisk egg yolks, corn starch and sugar. Pour in the blend in the sauce pan. Heat it up; watch out so it doesn't boil! The cream is gradually getting thicker and thicker. Add the butter while whisking. Let the sauce cool off before putting it on the cake.

Take out the cake and let it cool on a wire rack. Make sure it’s completely cooled off before cutting it into three layers. To add a little flavor to the cake you can use lemon juice and pour it on one of the layers before adding the vanilla cream. Put on the second layer. Here you can basically choose which ever fruit you want. Strawberries, mashed bananas, blueberries, raspberries, you name it! Spread the fruit over the second layer. Put on the 3rd and last layer.

Decoration

1 1/2 cups cream
Strawberries

Whisk the cream in a bowl. Spread a nice thick layer of cream over the cake. Decorate it with strawberries! Enjoy!