Nigella Lawson's Very Smart Strawberry Streusel Cake

Diets

Vegetarian

Ingredients

Produce
- 8 oz Strawberries, fresh

Refrigerated
- 1 Egg, large

Condiments
- 3 tbsp Strawberry jam

Baking & Spices
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- 2 tsp Cornstarch
- 2 tsp Demerara or turbinado sugar
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 5 tsp Vanilla
- 1 1/8 cup Whole wheat pastry flour

Dairy
- 12 tbsp Butter, salted
- 1 cup Sour cream

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Description

Here, one dough does double the work (way to go, dough!): Make it by rubbing cold butter into the dry ingredients, as you would for pie crust. Reserve a half-cup of this mixture, mix it with a teaspoon of crunchy sugar, and youve cut your crumb top. Boom! Done. Take the rest of the sandy mess, mix in an egg and sour cream (or sub in another dairy product of similar viscosity—see how here), and youll get a sticky batter you might have to tussle with—just a little—to spread into and up the sides of a spring-form pan, like a thick shortbread crust (I find that damp hands help). Pour over a blend of fresh strawberries, strawberry jam (to concentrate the fruit flavor), and cornstarch (to stave off wateriness), then drop more of that wet batter over top. On goes the crumble you already made, and your work is over. Slightly adapted from Nigella Lawsons recipe in the New York Times.

Ingredients

8 ounces fresh strawberries, hulled
3 tablespoons strawberry jam (Ive also used raspberry, and I bet other types—apricot!—would be good too)
2 teaspoons cornstarch
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons whole wheat pastry flour (or substitute all-purpose flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) cold salted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 cup sour cream
1 large egg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons Demerara or turbinado sugar

Directions

In a blender, combine the strawberries and jam and process until combined. Make a slurry of the cornstarch and vanilla extract, add to blender, and blend until smooth. Set aside for later.
Preheat the oven to 375° F and grease a 9-inch springform pan.
In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, flours, baking powder, and baking soda. Sprinkle in butter cubes and use your fingers to rub them in—as if you were making pie dough—until mixture resembles large coarse crumbs with pea- and walnut-sized butter pieces.
Remove 1/2 cup and set it aside for the topping in a medium bowl.
To the large bowl, add sour cream, egg, and vanilla. Mix well.
Dollop a little over half of this batter into pan. With slightly damp hands, pat the batter across bottom of pan and about 1 inch up sides; the mixture will be very sticky and somewhat uneven.
Pour over the strawberry purée in an even layer over the batter, leaving a rim of dough around it. Cover with blobs of remaining cake mixture, trying to spread them as evenly as possible and using damp hands to thin them out. Dont stress about it! (Trust me.)
Add the Demerara sugar to the reserved 1/2 cup dough and stir with a fork to mix. Sprinkle evenly over cake.
Bake cake until lightly golden, about 45 minutes. Cool completely before serving.

Serves: Serves 8 to 10

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Title:

Nigella Lawson's Very Smart Strawberry Streusel Cake Recipe on Food52

Descrition:

Here, one dough does double the work (way to go, dough!: Make it by rubbing cold butter into the dry ingredients, as you would for pie crust. Reserve a half-cup of this mixture, mix it with a teaspoon of crunchy sugar, and you've cut your crumb top. Boom! Done. Take the rest of the sandy mess, mix in an egg and sour cream (or sub in another dairy product of similar viscosity—see how here, and you'll get a sticky batter you might have to tussle with—just a little—to spread into and up the sides of a spring-form pan, like a thick shortbread crust (I find that damp hands help. Pour over a blend of fresh strawberries, strawberry jam (to concentrate the fruit flavor, and cornstarch (to stave off wateriness, then drop more of that wet batter over top. On goes the crumble you already made, and your work is over. Slightly adapted from Nigella Lawson's recipe in the New York Times.

Nigella Lawson's Very Smart Strawberry Streusel Cake

Produce
- 8 oz Strawberries, fresh

Refrigerated
- 1 Egg, large

Condiments
- 3 tbsp Strawberry jam

Baking & Spices
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- 2 tsp Cornstarch
- 2 tsp Demerara or turbinado sugar
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 5 tsp Vanilla
- 1 1/8 cup Whole wheat pastry flour

Dairy
- 12 tbsp Butter, salted
- 1 cup Sour cream

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Here, one dough does double the work (way to go, dough!: Make it by rubbing cold butter into the dry ingredients, as you would for pie crust. Reserve a half-cup of this mixture, mix it with a teaspoon of crunchy sugar, and you've cut your crumb top. Boom! Done. Take the rest of the sandy mess, mix in an egg and sour cream (or sub in another dairy product of similar viscosity—see how here, and you'll get a sticky batter you might have to tussle with—just a little—to spread into and up the sides of a spring-form pan, like a thick shortbread crust (I find that damp hands help. Pour over a blend of fresh strawberries, strawberry jam (to concentrate the fruit flavor, and cornstarch (to stave off wateriness, then drop more of that wet batter over top. On goes the crumble you already made, and your work is over. Slightly adapted from Nigella Lawson's recipe in the New York Times.