Strawberry Cake with butter icing

Hi friends,hope you all had a wonderful Xmas,New Year and great pongal.Sorry i couldn't write post for a long as we were tight scheduled,we went for a vacation to Goa and it was wonderful,i am still in the same mood.
Coming to the post,let me start my first post of the year with a cake.This cake i made for my niece baptism and it came out well,the only thing is the icing was little salty since i used salted butter.


Ingredients:

p.time-15min ,bake time- 40- 50 mins.

• Flour-2 cup
• Powdered sugar- 1 3\4 cup
• Butter-100gms / oil-1 1\2 cup(i used oil)
• b.powder- 1 tsp
• eggs-2
• Vannila essence- 1 tsp
• Strawberry mix- 1to 2 tsp
• Milk- 1\2 cup
• Fresh strawberries-for decoration
• Edible silver beads to sprinkle

Method:

1.Grease the baking pan with butter and dust it with flour.Pre heat the oven.

2.Sieve flour and baking powder twice for even mixing.

3.Beat sugar and oil well ,add one egg at time and beat well untill it becomes double in volume.

4.Now add the sieved flour little by little and mix well,if the mix is very thick you can add little milk and mix well.Add strawberry mix and & vanilla essence to it and mix well.Your batter is ready.

5.Now pour the batter in to the greased pan and bake it for 40-50mins or till done.Mine got over in 50mins.

6.Cool it completely on racks and remove from pan.


Icing

Icing sugar-100gms
Butter- 50gms

Beats icing sugar and butter well & keep it in fridge for some time and then apply on cake.

Decorate as per your wish.I decorated it with fresh strawberries and edible silver beads.

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