Chocolate sour cream cake with strawberries
125g butter, softened
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup low-fat sour cream
125g self-raising flour
¼ tsp baking soda
½ cup cocoa powder
½ cup cream, whipped
1 punnet strawberries, to serve
Icing sugar, to serve
1. Heat oven to 180°C (160°C fan bake). Grease two 20cm round sandwich cake tins.
2. Place butter, sugar, eggs and sour cream in a bowl and beat until creamy. Sift flour, baking soda and cocoa into mix, then beat briefly to combine.
3. Spread mixture into prepared cake tins, dividing the mixture evenly. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Turn cakes out on a wire rack to cool.
4. Sandwich cakes together with whipped cream. Decorate with strawberries and dust with icing sugar to serve.
TIP
If you're baking the cakes the day before, wait till just before serving to fill with cream to sandwich the cakes together.
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