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🍰 Grandma's Strawberry Cream Cake

317 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 vanilla pod
• 3 eggs
• 1 pinch salt
• 150 g sugar
• 90 g flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 60 g cornstarch
• 3 tbsp almond liqueur
• 500 g strawberries
• 125 ml strawberry juice (or rhubarb juice)
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 40 g cornstarch
• 3 tbsp lemon juice
• 50 g sliced almonds
• 400 g heavy cream
• 2 packets cream stabilizer
• 2 tbsp vanilla sugar
• 2 tbsp chocolate shavings

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
2. 2. Slice the vanilla pod lengthwise.
3. 3. Scrape out the seeds from the vanilla pod.
4. 4. Separate the eggs into yolks and whites.
5. 5. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.
6. 6. Stir the sugar into the egg whites.
7. 7. Add the egg yolks and vanilla seeds to the egg mixture.
8. 8. Mix flour, baking powder, and starch in a separate bowl.
9. 9. Sift the flour mixture over the egg batter.
10. 10. Gently fold the flour mixture into the batter.
11. 11. Line a springform pan with baking paper.
12. 12. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
13. 13. Bake the cake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven.
14. 14. Perform the skewer test to check for doneness.
15. 15. Let the cake cool on a wire rack.
16. 16. Slice the cooled cake base horizontally into two halves.
17. 17. Soak both cake halves with liqueur.
18. 18. Wash the strawberries thoroughly.
19. 19. Remove the stems from the strawberries.
20. 20. Dry the strawberries on kitchen paper.
21. 21. Quarter the strawberries.
22. 22. Keep about 15 whole strawberries for decoration.
23. 23. Bring the strawberry juice with 125 milliliters of water, sugar, and the vanilla pod to a boil.
24. 24. Mix the starch with the lemon juice until smooth.
25. 25. Stir the starch mixture into the boiling strawberry juice.
26. 26. Let the mixture boil again briefly.
27. 27. Remove the vanilla pod from the mixture.
28. 28. Fold the quartered strawberries into the cream.
29. 29. Place one cake base on a cake plate.
30. 30. Surround the cake base with a cake ring.
31. 31. Spread the strawberry mixture evenly over the cake base.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 317
• Protein: 5 g · Fett/Fat: 15 g · Carbs: 39 g