Strawberry Cake for Midsummer - Jordgubbstårta

Friday was the national midsummer celebration in Sweden. As an expat I like to keep some traditions, and to pass them on to the kids. So we made the same dinner as every Swede eat on this day: Herring, Boiled Potatoes, Egg halves, Cold chives sauce and Knäckebröd. Dessert: Always Strawberries! This time in form of a cake. If you want to make your own one, this is how it is done:

Start with making the cake:

(1 dl = roughly one cup)

50g Butter

1 1/4 dl Milk 

2 Egg

2 dl Sugar

3 dl Flour

1.5 teaspoons of baking powder

2 Teaspoons Vanilla Sugar (Change for Cacao if you want chocolate taste)

Melt butter. Mix Eggs and Sugar and add the rest of the ingredients. Bake for 30 minutes in 175 C.

Let the cake cool down and cut in two, horizontally. Add strawberry jam and vanilla cream (I use the labor and secret recipe of Mr. Likazo, so I let you find your own one or buy it premade) in the middle. Cover it all with whipped cream and put fresh strawberries as decoration and enjoy!