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A mini strawberry cream cake on a plate with a pile of strawberries on top.

Mini Strawberry Cream Cake

Author: Gail Ng
Small personal-sized soft and fluffy cake with whipped cream and fresh strawberries.
4.75 from 4 votes
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Yield 4 servings
Category Dessert
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

Cake

  • 75 g all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 75 g granulated sugar
  • 65 g milk, dairy or non-dairy
  • 30 g light-tasting oil, eg. canola oil, avocado oil, etc
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Toppings

  • 100 g whipping cream, cold
  • 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 10 fresh strawberries, halved or whole

Instructions
 

Cake

  • Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 6" round cake pan with a round of parchment paper on the bottom and set aside.
  • Flour mixture: In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
    Left to right: dry ingredients in a bowl, stirring dry ingredients together with a spoon.
  • Whip eggs: In a medium mixing bowl, add the egg and sugar. Use an electric hand mixer to beat the egg on low speed, working your way up to medium speed, for 5-7 minutes until the mixture doubles in volume and becomes very pale in colour.
    Left to right: beating eggs and sugar with a hand mixer in a bowl, whipped eggs dripping off hand mixer.
  • Combine flour and egg mixtures: Add the flour mixture and mix on low speed just until the flour disappears. Don't overmix.
    Left to right: flour mixture in a bowl of egg mixture, mixing cake batter with a hand mixer.
  • Hot milk mixture: In a small microwave-safe bowl, add the milk, oil, and vanilla extract. Microwave mixture for about 15 seconds until hot but not boiling. Slowly stream the hot milk mixture into the egg mixture with the mixer running on low speed until combined. The batter should be slightly thick but very fluid.
    Left to right: pouring hot milk mixture into cake batter, cake batter in a mixing bowl.
  • Bake: Pour the cake batter into your lined cake pan. Bake for about 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
    Left to right: pouring cake batter into a cake pan, cake batter in a round pan.
  • Cool: Let the cake cool in the pan for at least 10-15 minutes before running an offset spatula around the edges of the pan. Release the cake onto a wire rack and let it cool completely before frosting.
    Left to right: running an offset spatula around the edge of a cake, peeling parchment paper off a cake.

Toppings

  • Whip cream: In a medium mixing bowl, add whipping cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract. Use an electric hand mixer to beat the mixture until it becomes stiff peaks.
    Left to right: ingredients for whipped cream in a mixing bowl, whipped cream in a bowl with hand mixer above it.
  • Decorate: Pile all of the whipped cream on top of the cooled cake and spread it around with a spatula. Top with fresh strawberries.
    Left to right: spreading whipped cream on top of a cake with a spatula, hand placing a strawberry on top of a cake.

Nutrition

Calories: 341kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 71mg | Sodium: 228mg | Potassium: 132mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 457IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 80mg | Iron: 1mg
Keywords mini birthday cake, mini strawberry cake, mini strawberry cream cake, mini strawberry shortcake
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