Name: Easy Strawberry Cake
Ingredients: 6 Tbs. unsalted butter; 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder; 1/2 tsp. salt; 1 cup (plus 2 Tbs. sugar); 1 large egg; 1/2 cup milk; 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract; 1 lb. strawberries (hulled and halved)

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Easy Strawberry Cake

This recipe of Martha Stewart's is a favorite, so easy, colorful, and delicious.

Course Cake

Ingredients

6 Tbs. unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup plus 2 Tbs. sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 lb. strawberries hulled and halved

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 10-inch pie pan. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together into medium bowl.
Beat butter and 1 cup sugar in a bowl until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Mix in egg, milk and vanilla
Gradually mix in flour mixture. Transfer batter to buttered pie plate. Arrange strawberries on top of batter, cut sides down and as close together as possible. Sprinkle remaining 2 Tbs. sugar over berries.
Bake cake 10 minutes. Then reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees. Bake until cake is golden brown and firm to the touch, about 1 hour.
Let cool in pie plate on a wire rack. Cut into wedges. Cake can be stored at room temperature, loosely covered, up to 2 days.