Strawberry Buttermilk Cake

This cake suuuuuure smells delicious when it's baking. I adapted it from a recipe from Gourmet magazine where it called for raspberries, but since I had made a recent trip to the farmers market and bought a bunch of strawberries, strawberry cake it was! Very yummy, probably would have been good with the tart flavor of the raspberries though....or maybe a little rhubarb.

Strawberry Buttermilk Cake
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 stick unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup plus 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar, divided
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 large egg
1/2 cup well-shaken buttermilk
1 cup fresh berries

* Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter and flour a 9 inch round cake pan.
* Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
* Beat butter, and 2/3 cup sugar with an electric mixer, about 2 minutes, then beat in vanilla. Add egg and beat well.
* At a low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour and mixing until just combined.
* Spoon batter into cake pan, scatter berries over top and sprinkle with remaining sugar.








* Bake until cake is golden and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 25 t0 30 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto rack and cool to warm, 10 to 15 minutes more. Invert onto to plate, and serve!



We gobbled this up with french vanilla ice cream (a la Rite Aid) but whipped cream would be great too.....make it and enjoy!