Baking cakes for beginners

What you need:

• Dough:
• 200g flour 405
• 200g sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder
• Covering:
• 500g strawberries
• 2 cups of finished vanilla pudding
• For the shape:
• Some butter or margarine
• 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
• Kitchen appliances:
• 2 bowls
• Small kitchen knife
• Cutting board
• Fruit base form with a diameter of 28cm
• Mixer with whisk attachment
• Fine sieve (hair sieve)
• Hand whisk
• Measuring cup or kitchen scale
• Big plate
• 1 toothpick or Shish kebab skewer made of wood
• Paper towels
• Oven with grate

The instructions below are so detailed that they will enable you, as an absolute beginner, to find a perfect one strawberrycake to bake.

How to prepare the cake batter

1. It is best to place your mixing bowl near a kitchen socket.
2. Then insert the two whisk attachments into the mixer and then connect it to the electricity. Please not the other way around.
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3. Now hit the Eggs on the edge of the bowl and pour it completely into the mixing bowl. If the bowl is made of plastic, opening it is not that easy. Then move your bowl to the kitchen sink and crack the eggs on the edge of the sink and then slide them into the bowl in a flash.
4. Then measure out the sugar. Either use a kitchen scale or a measuring cup with a sugar scale. Pour the sugar into the bowl with the eggs and also add the vanilla sugar.


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5. Now you have to stir the eggs until they are "frothy". This means that small air bubbles form in the egg mass. To do this, hold the mixer with the two whisks in the egg-sugar mixture until they touch the bottom of the bowl. Only then can you switch on the mixer. If you do it the other way around and let the mixer run while you dip it in the eggs, it’s a huge mess because the egg is splashing around.
6. After that you will need the second bowl. Measure out 200g of flour. Hold the fine sieve over the second bowl and pour in the flour. Then gently move the sieve back and forth until all of the flour has sprinkled into the bowl. If it goes too slowly, you can use a spoon to stir the flour back and forth in the sieve.
7. When you've sifted all of the flour into the bowl, measure out half a teaspoon of baking powder and mix it carefully with the flour.
8. Now the flour and baking powder mixture has to be put in the mixing bowl with the frothy egg. To do this, pour the flour in Add several small servings to the eggs and stir in with the hand whisk until all the ingredients are good one dough have mixed.

Preheat the oven and prepare the cake pan

1. There is probably a grate in the oven. This should be exactly in the middle between the top and bottom. If you have to move it, you should do it now because the grate will be hot later.
2. To turn the oven on, you need to set two different buttons. Switch the temperature selection to 175 degrees and the second oven button to top and bottom heat. You can recognize this setting by a rectangle with two wide bars.
3. Now take your cake pan at hand. You can tell that it is a correct fruit base shape by the fact that the edge is wavy and there is also a circular indentation in the shape directly on the edge.
4. Take a small piece of butter or margarine and rub it very carefully over the bottom and sides of the cake pan. Then add two tablespoons of breadcrumbs and swirl the mold a little. The breadcrumbs spread and stick to the greased areas. With this measure, the cake Easier to remove from the mold later. It is important that you do this very carefully.

Now the dough is baked

1. Fill the finished dough evenly into the prepared cake pan. As soon as the oven has preheated to 175 degrees, carefully place the filled form on the grid in the oven. Be sure to use pot holders or, even better, pot holder gloves, because the grate is hot.
2. Now wait 10 minutes and then see what color the dough has turned. If it has already been baked golden yellow, you can carefully prick it with the toothpick. If no dough sticks to the wood, the dough is done and you can take the cake tin out of the oven and place it on the stove to cool down. Caution, risk of burns!
3. However, if the dough still sticks to the stick, close the oven door quickly and wait another 5 minutes. Then test again, and if the batter is okay, take the mold out of the oven as described above and turn it off.

The worst is done

1. Now wash the strawberries thoroughly and place them on a layer of kitchen paper to drain. Then cut off the green stalk from each fruit and cut it in half.
2. Check whether the cake has cooled down in the meantime, because then you can take it out of the pan. To do this, place the large plate over the dish, hold both parts together and turn them over in a flash. The cake tin is now with its opening on the plate. Shake it gently so that the cake falls out of the tin directly onto the plate.
3. Spread the two cups of vanilla pudding evenly on the dough and spread the halved strawberries on top.

Your first self-baked strawberry cake is ready!