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    Home » Recipes » Eggless Cakes

    Eggless strawberry cake recipe, buttercream frosting

    March 24, 2020 by Raks Anand 20 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Eggless strawberry cake with fresh strawberry puree, no artificial colour or flavor. Step by step pictures post.

    eggless strawberry cake

    I wanted to have strawberry flavoured something for a while now. Thought of making a simple recipe with it and share it in blog as well.

    Have tried making eggless strawberry cake in small pan few years back and failed miserably.

    When it comes to baking and fail recipe means I never try to do it again in anytime soon.

    So this recipe was so promising with pureed strawberry in it. What I tried years back was with cut strawberry.

    I have used flax meal in this cake. Am loving flax egg as it gives nutrition as well as nice texture to the cake.

    It turned out flawless cake and I was so happy. The recipe called for strawberry extract, pink food color which I skipped.

    But if you are looking for a cake with intense flavour and colour to treat your eyes, I would recommend both.

    Just make sure you use natural flavour and colors as much as possible.

    strawberry cake recipe

    Variations

    You can make the same with wheat flour/ atta, use melt butter in place of oil too.

    But there will be sure a slight denser result and wheat flavour will be there in the cake.

    So it is up to you to decide what you prefer. I wanted to make it with all purpose flour/ maida as this is my first attempt.

    Pressure cooker cake

    No oven? Heat a heavy bottomed pan/ cooker without any water for 20 mins. Place a metal stand or spread with sand/ rock salt.

    Place the cake pan over it and cook covered for 30 mins or until the tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

    Do not open the lid until 30 mins. If using cooker, make sure to remove the gasket.

    Check out my Indian honey cake recipe.

    Now let's see how to make eggless strawberry cake recipe.

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    Eggless strawberry cake recipe

    Eggless strawberry cake with buttercream frosting. Made with strawberry puree, no artificial colour or flavour. Step by step pictures post.
    Course Dessert
    Prep Time 15 minutes
    Cook Time 25 minutes
    Servings 6
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup all purpose flour
    • ½ cup sugar
    • ½ cup strawberry puree
    • 40 ml oil I used sunflower 2 tbsp+ 2 tsp
    • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract or strawberry extract
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • Few drops pink food colour optional
    • ½ tablespoon flax meal
    • 1 & ½ tablespoon hot water

    For strawberry buttercream frosting:

    • ¼ cup butter at room temperature
    • 2 cups icing sugar
    • 2 tablespoon strawberry puree 30 ml
    • ½ teaspoon Strawberry extract
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    Instructions

    • Take a small bowl with flax meal and mix well hot water to it. Keep aside.
    • Clean strawberries and puree it without adding water.
    • Preheat oven at 180 deg C until the temperature reaches (10 mins)
    • Sieve flour in a mixing bowl. Add sugar, salt, baking soda and mix well.
    • To this add all the rest of the ingredients - puree, vanilla or strawberry extract, apple cider vinegar, oil, flax mixture, food colour if adding.
    • Use whisk or a spatula for mixing. Do not over mix. The batter will be slightly airy.
    • Grease a 6 inch round pan with oil. Line the bottom with butter paper.
    • Pour in the prepared cake batter. Bake in middle rack for 25-30 mins or until the tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
    • Invert over a wire rack to cool completely.
    • For butter cream frosting: Place soft butter at room temperature in a bowl with icing sugar, strawberry puree and extract if adding.
    • Beat using hand blender in low speed first and then gradually increase the speed until the frosting is pale, light and fluffy.
    • We are looking for stiff frosting, so if it is too loose, add more icing sugar. If too thick, add some strawberry puree to loosen.
    • Apply the frosting over the cake. I used bread knife to spread over the cake to cover it completely.
    • I kept the cake in fridge after icing. At the time of serving, decorate with sliced strawberries in the sides and few fresh strawberries on the top.  I used fork to make a pattern around the sides.

    Notes

    • I did not use strawberry extract or colour. I used vanilla essence instead, but recommend to use strawberry extract as the natural flavour may not be that intense. It will be mild. If you are fine with it, you can skip.
    • Make sure to use icing sugar from the stores as it has corn starch in it helps in thick frosting, as well as the right amount of sweetness. Mine was homemade powdered sugar so bit too sugary for me.
    • You can smoothen the frosting after refrigerating if you want using a butter paper.
    • If you want, you can slit the cake to two and apply a layer of frosting in between too for even tasting.
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    Step by step photos

    1. Take a small bowl with flax meal and mix well hot water to it. Keep aside.
      step-2-flax-egg
    2. Clean strawberries and grind it without adding water.
      step-1-puree
    3. Preheat oven at 180 deg C until the temperature reaches (10 mins) Sieve flour in a mixing bowl. Add sugar, salt, baking soda and whisk well.
      step-3-dry-ingredients
    4. To this add all the rest of the ingredients - puree, vanilla or strawberry extract, apple cider vinegar, oil, flax mixture, food colour if adding.
      step-4-wet-ingredients
    5. Use whisk or a spatula for mixing. Do not over mix. The batter will be slightly airy because of vinegar strawberry and baking soda.
      step-5-mix
    6. Grease a 6 inch round pan with oil. Line the bottom with butter paper. Pour in the prepared cake batter.
      step-6-pour
    7. Bake in middle rack for 25-30 minutes or until the tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
      step-7-baked
    8. Invert over a wire rack to cool completely.
      step-8-invert
    9. For butter cream frosting: Place soft butter at room temperature in a bowl with icing sugar, strawberry puree and extract if adding.
    10. Beat using hand blender in low speed first and then gradually increase the speed until the frosting is pale, light and fluffy.
    11. We are looking for stiff frosting, so if it is too loose, add more icing sugar. If too thick, add some strawberry puree to loosen.
      step-9-butter-cream
    12. Apply the frosting over the cake. I used bread knife to spread over the cake to cover it completely.
    13. I kept the eggless strawberry cake in fridge after icing. At the time of serving, decorate with sliced strawberries in the sides and few fresh strawberries on the top.  I used fork to make a pattern around the sides.
      decorate eggless strawberry cake

    Eggless strawberry cake stays good for 2-3 days at room temperature or 1 week in fridge.

    eggless strawberry cake recipe

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Sriya Vinoth Kumar

      April 01, 2020 at 12:49 pm

      5 stars
      Hello Madam i am your great fan of your blog after reading your blog only i get inspired to start a blog. The above posted recipe is very good and looks very beautiful.

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        April 01, 2020 at 1:54 pm

        Thanks dear!

        Reply
    2. Sangeetha

      April 02, 2020 at 1:47 pm

      Hi can we use wheat flour instead of APF. Thanks for the recipe. I have tried lot of your recipes which turned sooo... good. Latest I tried your khoya kesar burfi everyone liked it sooo.. much

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        April 02, 2020 at 3:12 pm

        Sure, it turns slightly dense/ heavy. Otherwise nice. Watch out for water content, if too thick, add 2 more tbsp of water. Thank you so much for your feedback too 🙂

        Reply
    3. Mythraeyi

      April 10, 2020 at 7:21 am

      Is Flax meal absolutely essential? What can be a substitute?

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        April 10, 2020 at 1:06 pm

        It is egg replacer. You can use plain yogurt, same amount

        Reply
        • Sujatha Suresh

          October 12, 2020 at 5:55 pm

          Should we measure half cup strawberry and then purée or purée and then measure out half cup of it?

          Reply
          • Raks Anand

            October 13, 2020 at 7:36 am

            I pureed about a cup and measured it and used in the cake and frosting. Did not measure before pureeing.

            Reply
    4. Sowmya

      April 11, 2020 at 3:50 am

      Hi Raks,

      In the ingredients list baking soda is mentioned but in the procedure (step 3), baking powder is mentioned. Which one to use?

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        April 11, 2020 at 6:01 pm

        So sorry will update it. It is baking soda.

        Reply
    5. Anu

      April 22, 2020 at 5:01 am

      Hi I tried this , it came out yummy , but the cake wasn’t as moist as I expected it to be, and are you sure the one that we see is a 9 inch Pan? In my pan the whole batter speard a little less and the cake was v thin..

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        April 22, 2020 at 8:44 am

        Hi, first of all really sorry, it was a mistake from my side to mention 9 inch. It's around 6.5 inch 🙁 Otherwise my cake was really moist.

        Reply
    6. Pireetha

      June 21, 2020 at 6:26 pm

      Hi, Can we skip apple cider vinegar? What can be replaced it with?

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        June 22, 2020 at 2:08 pm

        You can swap with lemon juice.

        Reply
    7. Chandana

      July 10, 2020 at 10:16 pm

      Hi mam flax meal means flax seed raw powder are dry roast powedr

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        July 11, 2020 at 4:05 pm

        Raw powdered dear

        Reply
    8. Kirtiga

      August 30, 2020 at 4:29 am

      5 stars
      This cake came out really good. Tried it for my son's birthday. Thank you.

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        August 30, 2020 at 7:04 am

        Thank you so much for your feedback 🙂

        Reply
    9. vimala

      January 01, 2021 at 9:32 am

      can we use normal vinegar.?

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        January 01, 2021 at 6:28 pm

        Yes

        Reply

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