Fluffy sponge cake alongside balsamic strawberries

There is almost zero that says summertime every bit much every bit a elementary , fluffy sponge cake amongst cream in addition to strawberries. And spell I practise taste that every bit it is , inward all its simplicity , I wanted to add together something. And strawberries in addition to balsamico is pretty much a fit made inward sky , I know that since I made a cream soda amongst balsamic strawberries for a magazine non likewise long ago. It was honestly i of the best things ever , that I volition brand many times this summer.

Or allow me telephone phone it "summer" , thence far at least. If you're from a nourthern solid soil , yous in all probability know what I hateful past times that. When I was at the First We Eat workshop inward Barcelona inward March , Patricia of Sabores y momentos asked me why I was thence obsessed amongst checking my conditions app all the time. I told her that where I alive , nosotros demand to brand the most out of the few sunny days nosotros accept , because it tin literally endure weeks until nosotros come across the Sun again. And that the conditions is definitely a topic of conversation inward Sweden. She told me inward her happiest vox "Well , that's non a work hither , it's almost ever sunny!". Well , at to the lowest degree this cake certain makes it feel similar it's sunny outside.

FLUFFY SPONGE CAKE
WITH BALSAMIC STRAWBERRIES
yields i 24 cm (9.5 inch) cake , serves 6-8

This cake does non proceed good inward the refrigerator every bit the strawberries tend to larn a petty mushy afterwards a spell , thence brand certain to ready the strawberries in addition to cream topping correct earlier serving!

Ingredients
For the sponge cake
150 g butter
1 loving cup (225 g) granulated sugar
three medium eggs , at room temperature
1 loving cup (150 g) all piece of work flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
zest from 1/2 lemon
ii tbsp milk

For the balsamic strawberries
300 g fresh strawberries
1 1/2 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp balsamico
pinch of salt
1/4 tsp vanilla powder
zest from 1/2 lemon

For the topping
1 loving cup heavy whipping cream
ii tsp granulated sugar
Fresh mint leaves

Directions
Sponge cake
1. Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F)
2. Grease a 24 cm (9-9.5-inch) cake pan amongst a removable bottom. Sprinkle pan amongst breadstuff crumbs or flour , brand certain yous larn some on the sides of the pan aswell.
3. Melt butter in addition to allow cool.
4. Beat the eggs in addition to saccharide until lighter inward colouring in addition to texture , close 1-2 minutes. Stir inward the melted butter.
5. Mix flour , baking pulverisation in addition to tabular array salt inward a modest bowl. Gently stir the flour mixture into the egg mixture. Add lemon zest in addition to milk in addition to stir until batter is smooth.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan in addition to shine transcend amongst a spatula.
7. Bake for thirty minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
8. Let cake cool for 10 minutes earlier sliding a knife merely about the border in addition to removing the sides of the pan. Let cool to room temperature.

Balsamic strawberries & topping
1. Hull the strawberries in addition to cutting them into thirds lengthwise. Place them inward a bowl in addition to toss amongst saccharide , balsamico , tabular array salt , vanilla in addition to lemon zest. Cover the bowl in addition to allow represent thirty minutes until the berries unloose their juices. Toss every straightaway in addition to then.
2. Prick holes inward the cake amongst a toothpick in addition to spoon some of the juices from the berries on transcend of the cake.
3. Whip the cream amongst the saccharide to soft peaks. Spread the whipped cream on transcend of the cake. Spoon strawberries on transcend in addition to decorate amongst some mint leaves. Drizzle whatever leftover "juice" on transcend of the cake.