Strawberry Sponge Cake (Dairy Free Recipe)

A super easy-to-make cake which can be made with fresh strawberries or strawberry jam.

What you see in the pictures is made with wheat flour (which contains gluten) but this recipe can be made gluten-free if you use the appropriate flour and the result will be similar, and delicious, although a bit less fluffy.

You will need:

For the cake:

• 4 eggs

• 50ml sunflower/vegetable oil

• 50ml water

• 200g sugar

• 150g flour

• 10g baking powder

• 1 teaspoon vanilla or strawberry extract

Optional - 5 large strawberries chopped into cubes (100g)

For the filling

• 300g Strawberry jam or 300g chopped strawberries plus 40g caster sugar and another 100g of sliced strawberries for decorating

• 50g dairy-free spread/vegan butter

• 40g icing sugar

If you decide to use strawberry jam, ignore this part, otherwise, if you're using fresh strawberries, put them in a pan with the 40g of caster sugar and simmer for 5-10 minutes, mixing constantly, until you obtain a fresh chunky strawberry jam. Leave it to cool down completely before using it as the cake-filling

How to:

1. Mix all the cake ingredients in the order they are written above

2. Pour the mix into two cake tins lined with baking parchment.

3. Bake for 20 min at 180 C/gas 4 (or until golden and until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean).

4. Leave to cool in the tins for a few minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.

5. When they've completely cooled down spread the jam on one of the layers,

6. Mix the icing sugar with the dairy-free spread and spread it on the other layer,

7. Sandwich the two together.

8. Leave the cake to rest for a couple of hours.

9. Slice the cake and enjoy!

If your diet allows, you can use whipped cream instead of the dairy-free spread (you can add it on top of the jam, but with this dairy-free version, I would highly recommend you do as written above).

You can powder some icing sugar on top of the cake before serving, or spread another layer of dairy-free spread mixed with icing sugar (same measurements as for the middle layer) and top it with a few chopped fresh strawberries, either way, it will be a delicious cake.

If you give this a try, please let me know how it goes.

I hope life is treating you well.

Take care