Buttermilk Cake with Strawberries

The recipe Buttermilk Cake with Strawberries can be made in roughly 2 hours and 30 minutes. This recipe makes 12 servings with 311 calories, 6g of protein, and 7g of fat each. For $1.18 per serving, this recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 260 people have made this recipe and would make it again. It is brought to you by Eating Well. A mixture of vanillan extract, sugar, grand marnier, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. Overall, this recipe earns a not so great spoonacular score of 32%. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Strawberry Buttermilk Cake With Preserved Whole Strawberries, Buttermilk Poppyseed Custard Cake with Roasted Strawberries, and Lemon And Semolina Buttermilk Cake With Fresh Strawberries.

Servings: 12

Preparation duration: 60 minutes

Cooking duration: 90 minutes

 

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 tablespoon butter

1/3 cup buttermilk

1 1/2 cups unsifted cake flour

2 tablespoons canola oil

2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

2 tablespoons fine dry breadcrumbs

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1/4 cup Grand Marnier, or other orange liqueur

1/4 cup mascarpone, (Italian cream cheese)

2 cups nonfat vanilla yogurt, drained overnight in a cheesecloth-lined sieve in the refrigerator

1/4 cup fresh orange juice

1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange zest

1/2 cup red currant jelly, melted

Pinch of salt

4 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced

1/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup sugar

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Equipment:

cake form

oven

sauce pan

frying pan

bowl

hand mixer

mixing bowl

spatula

whisk

skewers

wire rack

serrated knife

pastry brush

plastic wrap

Cooking instruction summary:

To make the cake: Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly oil a 9-inch round cake pan or coat it with nonstick cooking spray. Add breadcrumbs, tilting the pan to evenly coat the inside. Tap out excess.In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Cook, swirling the pan, until the butter turns a nutty brown, about 30 seconds. Pour the butter into a small bowl. Whisk in oil, then buttermilk; set aside. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a small bowl; set aside.In a mixing bowl, combine eggs and sugar. Beat with an electric mixer on high speed until the mixture is thick and pale and falls in a ribbon when the beaters are lifted, about 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla.Sift half of the reserved dry ingredients over the egg mixture; fold in with a rubber spatula until blended. Fold in half of the reserved buttermilk mixture. Repeat with remaining dry ingredients and buttermilk mixture.Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then turn out of the pan and place right-side up on the rack to cool completely.To make filling and syrup and assemble cake: In a bowl, whisk drained yogurt, mascarpone, confectioners' sugar and orange zest until smooth.In a small saucepan over low heat, dissolve sugar in 1/2 cup water. Simmer gently for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in orange juice and liqueur.With a long serrated knife, cut the cake horizontally into 2 layers using a gentle sawing motion. With a pastry brush, brush all of the syrup on the cut sides of the cake. Place the bottom layer on a cake plate, cut-side up. Spread half of the orange-mascarpone filling over the bottom layer. Arrange about one-third of the sliced strawberries in an even layer on top. Spread with the remaining filling. Place the second cake layer on top, cut-side down.Brush the top of the cake lightly with about 2 tablespoons of the melted jelly. Arrange the remaining sliced strawberries in straight rows on top. Overlap the slices and reverse the direction of the slices in each row. Cover the cake with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill for at least 1 hour.Just before serving, remelt the remaining currant jelly and brush it over the strawberries on top of the cake.

 

Step by step:


1. To make the cake: Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly oil a 9-inch round cake pan or coat it with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Add breadcrumbs, tilting the pan to evenly coat the inside. Tap out excess.In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Cook, swirling the pan, until the butter turns a nutty brown, about 30 seconds.

3. Pour the butter into a small bowl.

4. Whisk in oil, then buttermilk; set aside. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a small bowl; set aside.In a mixing bowl, combine eggs and sugar. Beat with an electric mixer on high speed until the mixture is thick and pale and falls in a ribbon when the beaters are lifted, about 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla.Sift half of the reserved dry ingredients over the egg mixture; fold in with a rubber spatula until blended. Fold in half of the reserved buttermilk mixture. Repeat with remaining dry ingredients and buttermilk mixture.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.

6. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.

7. Let the cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then turn out of the pan and place right-side up on the rack to cool completely.To make filling and syrup and assemble cake: In a bowl, whisk drained yogurt, mascarpone, confectioners' sugar and orange zest until smooth.In a small saucepan over low heat, dissolve sugar in 1/2 cup water. Simmer gently for 5 minutes.

8. Remove from the heat and stir in orange juice and liqueur.With a long serrated knife, cut the cake horizontally into 2 layers using a gentle sawing motion. With a pastry brush, brush all of the syrup on the cut sides of the cake.

9. Place the bottom layer on a cake plate, cut-side up.

10. Spread half of the orange-mascarpone filling over the bottom layer. Arrange about one-third of the sliced strawberries in an even layer on top.

11. Spread with the remaining filling.

12. Place the second cake layer on top, cut-side down.

13. Brush the top of the cake lightly with about 2 tablespoons of the melted jelly. Arrange the remaining sliced strawberries in straight rows on top. Overlap the slices and reverse the direction of the slices in each row. Cover the cake with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill for at least 1 hour.Just before serving, remelt the remaining currant jelly and brush it over the strawberries on top of the cake.


Nutrition Information:

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312k Calories
5g Protein
7g Total Fat
54g Carbs
3% Health Score
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Calories
312k
16%

Fat
7g
11%

  Saturated Fat
2g
16%

Carbohydrates
54g
18%

  Sugar
37g
42%

Cholesterol
39mg
13%

Sodium
75mg
3%

Alcohol
1g
8%

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Protein
5g
12%

Vitamin C
32mg
40%

Selenium
12µg
18%

Manganese
0.35mg
18%

Phosphorus
150mg
15%

Calcium
127mg
13%

Vitamin B2
0.17mg
10%

Potassium
284mg
8%

Folate
29µg
7%

Fiber
1g
6%

Vitamin E
0.77mg
5%

Vitamin B12
0.3µg
5%

Magnesium
20mg
5%

Vitamin B1
0.07mg
5%

Zinc
0.68mg
5%

Copper
0.09mg
4%

Iron
0.74mg
4%

Vitamin A
173IU
3%

Vitamin B6
0.07mg
3%

Vitamin K
3µg
3%

Vitamin B5
0.31mg
3%

Vitamin B3
0.54mg
3%

Vitamin D
0.27µg
2%

covered percent of daily need
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