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Strawberry Cake with Chantilly Cream

17/11/2023

The Strawberry Cake with Chantilly Cream is a fresh and delicious dessert, perfect for spring and summer. Here’s how to prepare this classic sweet with a hint of Italian flair.

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 200 g of sugar
  • 200 g of type 00 flour
  • 1 packet of baking powder
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • Vanilla essence or the seeds of a vanilla bean
  • 500 ml of fresh cream for whipping
  • 75 g of powdered sugar (for the Chantilly cream)
  • 500 g of fresh strawberries (keep aside some nice strawberries for decoration)
  • Powdered sugar to dust

Preparation

  1. Start with the cake base: whip the eggs with the sugar until you get a fluffy and frothy mixture. Add a pinch of salt and vanilla essence.
  2. Gently fold in the sifted flour with the baking powder, stirring gently from top to bottom to avoid deflating the mixture.
  3. Pour the batter into a buttered and floured cake tin (or lined with parchment paper) and bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for about 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
  4. While the base is baking, you can prepare the Chantilly cream: whip the well-chilled fresh cream, gradually adding the powdered sugar until it is firm and swollen.
  5. Wash and cut the strawberries into pieces (except those for decoration) and mix with a bit of sugar if you like the fruit sweeter.
  6. Once the cake base is cooked and cooled, slice it horizontally into two or three layers, depending on the desired thickness.
  7. Fill each layer with a generous amount of Chantilly cream and chopped strawberries, then gently layer them.
  8. Cover the top layer and the sides of the cake with the remaining Chantilly cream and decorate with the strawberries set aside.
  9. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.

The Strawberry Cake with Chantilly Cream is a timeless classic, but with its simplicity and freshness, it always conquers all palates.

Curiosity

Chantilly cream got its name from the Château de Chantilly in France, where it is said that the castle’s maître d’hôtel, Vatel, invented this cream for a banquet in honor of King Louis XIV. Chantilly cream is nothing more than sweetened and vanilla-flavored whipped cream, but it carries centuries of history and culinary delights.

Strawberry Cake with Chantilly Cream