Eggless Strawberry Cake Recipe

Updated: June 14, 2024, By Swasthi

This Eggless Strawberry Cake is soft, spongy, moist and delicious. If you love serving seasonal fruits with desserts, you will adore this easy cake baked with fresh strawberries. It’s perfect for a tea-time snack or to share with friends. In this post I share my easiest egg-free sponge strawberry cake.

Eggless Strawberry Cake

Recipe Comments

This is the easiest cake you can bake with fresh strawberries. You don’t need a stand or a hand mixer to make the batter. We are going to mix the dry ingredients and then the wet with the dry using a whisk or a spatula. If you don’t have an oven, you can also dry bake this in a heavy bottom aluminum pan or a pressure cooker, following this pressure cooker cake post.

Many years ago I was looking for an egg-free strawberry cake that does not require food coloring. I found a few and tried out but was disappointed with the way they turned out without food coloring. Strawberry puree oxidizes upon baking/heating and changes its color.

The baked cakes though tasted fantastic, never had the charming looks I adored. Finally I gave up the idea of trying. Years later I found this idea of topping a vanilla cake with strawberries in one of Martha Stewart’s Strawberry cake. But her recipe had eggs and I wanted to make an eggless version.

So I used my tutti frutti cake batter and was really surprised with the outcome. Though this tastes different from the pureed version, it still has a great refreshing flavor of strawberries. On occasions I also made the strawberry syrup to serve over the cake and it was mind-blowing.

Ingredients you need

  • Flour: I use organic all-purpose flour. Pastry flour or white wheat flour are close substitutes. Though the recipe works with wheat flour, the flavor would be different and the cake turns out dense.
  • Fresh strawberries: Use fresh strawberries at room temperature. It is essential to wipe dry them before using. We don’t want any moisture on the cake.
  • Leavening agents: You need baking powder and baking soda for this recipe. They don’t make 1:1 substitution for each other.
  • Sugar: Use organic or refined sugar.
  • Milk: This recipe requires full fat milk at room temperature.
  • Lemon juice or vinegar: This acidic ingredient is used to make buttermilk with helps leaven the baking soda and make the cake fluffy and light.
  • Butter/oil: Use unsalted butter or neutral oil.

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1. Here are the ingredients needed. Bring milk to room temperature or warm it in a small pot. Melt the butter. You can also use oil. You can do all in one bowl in the microwave.

preparing ingredients for strawberry cake

2. Wash and wipe dry strawberries. Slice them and set aside.

sliced strawberries on a chopping board

3. Grease a 7 or 8 inch cake tray. Line it with butter paper or dust some flour evenly.

line a cake pan

4. To a mixing bowl, pour milk, add sugar, vinegar or lemon juice.

mixing wet ingredients with sugar for strawberry cake

5. Pour melted butter or oil.

melted butter to make eggless strawberry cake

6. Add vanilla extract or strawberry extract. Mix well until the sugar dissolves.

7. Place a sieve over the bowl. Add flour. Here is the correct way to measure the flour in case you do not have a weighing scale. Fluff up the flour in the jar. Spoon it to the measuring cup. Level it with a spatula.

8. Add baking powder, baking soda and salt.

9. Give a light mix.

10. Sieve half of the flour. Mix just until combined, using a whisk or a spatula.

11. Sieve the rest of the flour.

12. Mix until just combined. Do not over mix. The batter is slightly thick but of pouring consistency.

13. Pour this to the greased tray. Tap it to the counter a few times.

14. Place the strawberries gently covering the top. Avoid placing them towards the extreme end. Sprinkle sugar.

15. Bake this for 10 mins at 360 F -180 C. Later at 340 F – 170 C for 20 to 25 mins. I baked it for a total of 40 mins as I wanted the cake top to be crusty. To have a moist cake top, check the cake after 30 mins. Tester comes out clean when the cake is baked.

16. Cool the cake in the pan, placed over a wired rack for 10 minutes. Then remove it to a wire rack.

17. Cool it completely before slicing.

cooling eggless strawberry cake on a wired rack

18. Dust some powdered sugar just before serving.

sliced eggless strawberry cake

Serve eggless strawberry cake.

eggless strawberry cake recipe

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Eggless Strawberry Cake Recipe

Eggless Strawberry Cake

5 from 31 votes
Light and fluffy egg-free cake topped with fresh strawberries and baked to perfection.
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Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Total Time1 hour
Servings8
AuthorSwasthi

Ingredients (US cup = 240ml )

  • 200 grams strawberries
  • cups all-purpose flour ( maida – 190 grams) (prefer organic)
  • 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • Pinch salt
  • ¾ cup sugar (prefer organic)
  • 1 cup milk (full fat) at room temperature
  • ½ cup butter melted , or oil
  • 1 ¼ tbsp. lemon juice (or vinegar)
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract or 1 tsp strawberry extract
  • 1 to 1½ tbsps. sugar


Instructions

  • Prepare Strawberries: Bring strawberries close to room temperature. This helps to keep them away from excess moisture. Rinse them and wipe dry with a clean kitchen towel. Remove the stems, cut each strawberry vertically into 2.
  • Prepare the pan: Grease a 7 or 8 inch cake tray. You can also use a 8.5 by 4.5 inch loaf pan. Dust flour lightly or line a parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 360 F – 180 C for at least 15 mins.
  • Make the batter: Add milk, sugar, vinegar, melted butter and vanilla to a mixing bowl. Stir together until the sugar dissolves. Place a sieve over the bowl and add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • Mix everything lightly with a spoon. Sieve half of the floor to the mixing bowl. Gently mix with a whish or a spatula just until combined. Sieve the rest of the flour and mix through to make a lump-free batter. Do not over mix.
  • Transfer the batter to pan: Pour the batter to the cake pan. Tap the cake tray to kitchen counter twice. Begin to place the sliced strawberries on top. Keep them as close as possible, avoiding the edges. Sprinkle sugar all over the berries.
  • Bake the Cake: Bake at 360 F – 180 C for 15 mins. Later at 340 F – 170 C for 20 mins, if baking in a 7 inch tray.
  • You can adjust the timings to get a moist or crusty cake top. For moist top check after 30 mins. For crusty cake top, bake for 40 mins. In either cases, a tester/ skewer inserted comes out clean but moist from strawberries.
  • Cool the cake in the pan placed over a wired rack for 10 mins. Gently remove to the wire rack and cool completely before slicing. Dust with powdered sugar just before serving.
  • Slice the eggless strawberry cake after cooling completely. A strawberry syrup is great on this.


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NUTRITION INFO (estimation only)

Nutrition Facts
Eggless Strawberry Cake
Amount Per Serving
Calories 292 Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Fat 12g18%
Saturated Fat 7g44%
Cholesterol 33mg11%
Sodium 194mg8%
Potassium 182mg5%
Carbohydrates 40g13%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 21g23%
Protein 3g6%
Vitamin A 405IU8%
Vitamin C 15.6mg19%
Calcium 79mg8%
Iron 1.3mg7%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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5 stars
Tried this recipie for my dads birthday cake and everyone loved it ๐Ÿ˜ Thank u ๐Ÿ˜Š

I did follow the procedure but what Iโ€™ve noticed was that the strawberries sunk inside the cake. What did I do wrong? Itโ€™s delicious otherwise.

5 stars
Hi Swasthi, just love all your recipes.
Just wanted to know, if we could put small strawberry pieces inside the cake batter apart from placing on the top?

beautiful receipe

Hi Swasthi,

Can I use dried strawberries for this recipe?

Hi , can this cake be covered with fondant & decorated. Will it be too soft to hold a tiered cake?

5 stars
Awesome strawberry cake. Made it and my kids loved it very much