Fresh Strawberry Bundt Cake

NY Times recipe from Yossy Arefi who states, “Strawberries from the farmers’ market are tiny, packed with flavor, red all of the way through, and they put their supermarket counterparts to shame. This summery Bundt packs a double dose of strawberry flavor, so use the very best ones you can find. (You’ll need 1 pound of strawberries for the cake and glaze.) A couple of tips for Bundt unmolding success: Make sure to butter and flour the pan generously and evenly, and let the cake cool for 15 minutes on a cooling rack, then flip it out on to the rack to cool completely. Don’t worry too much if your cake isn’t perfect: The blanket of pink glaze will cover many mistakes.”

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Fresh Strawberry Bundt Cake

  • Total time: 2 Hours
  • Servings: 1 Cake

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 3/4 Cup (170 g, 1 1/2 sticks) Unsalted Butter, softened, plus more for greasing the pan
  • 3 Cups (385 g) All-Purpose Flour, plus more for the pan
  • 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1 1/4 tsp Kosher Salt
  • 1 3/4 Cups (350 g) Granulated Sugar
  • Zest from 1 Lemon (about 1 tsp)
  • 3 Large Eggs, at room temperature
  • 1 1/4 Cups (300 ml) Whole-Milk Yogurt, not Greek
  • 1/4 Cup (60 ml) Fresh Lemon Juice
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 2 3/4 Cups Fresh Strawberries (about 1 lb, 410 g), hulled and chopped into 1/2-inch pieces

Glaze:

  • 1/4 Cup (40 g) Strawberries
  • 2 Cups (245 g) Confectioners' Sugar (unsifted)
  • 2 to 3 tsp Fresh Lemon Juice

Directions

  • 1)

    Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat oven to 325°F. Carefully butter and flour a 16-cup Bundt pan, making sure to get in all of the cracks and crevices.

  • 2)

    In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

  • 3)

    In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the butter and sugar until combined. Add lemon zest, and then cream the mixture until light and fluffy on medium-high speed, about 5 minutes.

  • 4)

    With the mixer on low, add the eggs one at a time, making sure each egg is completely incorporated before adding the next. Add the yogurt, lemon juice and vanilla, and stir on medium speed to combine, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary to incorporate all the ingredients. The mixture may curdle a bit, but don’t worry too much about it.

  • 5)

    Add the flour mixture all at once and mix on low until almost completely combined.

  • 6)

    Remove the bowl from the mixer, scrape and fold any excess flour into the batter, and scoop out roughly 1/2 cup (100g) of batter. Drop tablespoons of batter into the bottom of the prepared pan, and smooth into the bottom of the pan. (This batter will prevent the strawberries from sinking to the bottom of the pan and sticking.) Add the chopped strawberries to the remaining batter in the bowl and gently fold in until the strawberries are evenly distributed. The batter will be thick.

  • 7)

    Spoon the batter evenly into the pan, smooth the top and tap the pan firmly on the counter a few times to release any large air bubbles. Bake the cake until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean (a few small crumbs are ok), about 70 minutes. Cool the pan on a rack for 15 minutes, then turn the cake out onto the rack to cool completely.

  • 8)

    When the cake is cool, make the glaze: In a medium bowl, use a fork to mash the reserved 1/4 cup (40g) of strawberries. Whisk in the confectioners’ sugar and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. The glaze should be thick but just pourable. If it seems thin, add a bit more confectioners’ sugar; if it is too thick to stir, add a bit more lemon juice. Pour the glaze evenly over the cake (you can glaze it over a rack if you prefer to let the excess glaze drip off), let it set for a few minutes and serve. Once the glaze has dried completely, refrigerate any leftover cake, loosely draped with plastic wrap.

Notes

I made this with the following alterations suggested by the comments: I reduced the amount of sugar to 1 1/4 cups and used strawberry yogurt instead of plain. The cake turned out delicious and moist. Only issue was that the glaze was quite thin, despite keeping to only 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and increasing the powdered sugar to almost 3 cups.

From the Website:

“Try adding a good quality strawberry yogurt, it really helps to intensify the strawberry flavor.”

“This is delicious with good berries. I can see how grocery store strawberries would be flavorless. I cut the sugar by half and still found it sweet, but delicious, but would not use a single grain more of sugar. I used double the berries and puréed half for a pink, strawberry flavored cake. I subbed flax seed and aquafaba for the eggs and used cashew yogurt, which is a comparable substitute.”

“This works with a regular sized bundt pan. I used cake flour, 1/4 cup less sugar in the cake and a bit extra yogurt. I also did a 50/50 mix of strawberries and raspberries, skipped the glaze and served with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. A moist and tender cake.”

Source: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019441-fresh-strawberry-bundt-cake