Wimbledon slices

With Wimbledon starting today its only the done thing to give you all a little bit of Summer heaven in the form of a delicious treat. I created these from a recipe for strawberry drizzle cake, but I added my own naughty little twist by filling these babies with tenderised strawberries right through the entire mixture. This creates the softest and most moist slices. They are divine and they get better the next day when all the juices have settled. Sticky, sweet and so sensational you will be rolling those eyes as you gobble them up.

P1160164 Wimbledon slices

 

You will need:

  • 600g box of strawberries
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbs vanilla essence
  • 50g Icing sugar
  • 100g Salted Dairy Butter, at room temperature
  • 200g self raising flour
  • 200g caster Sugar

Wimbledon slicesPut the caster sugar and the butter in to a bowl and mix into crumbs.
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Add 1/2 of the strawberries cut into slices.
P1160129 P1160130Then add the flour, vanilla essence and the eggs. Mix to a creamy consistency.

P1160131 P1160134Pop it in to a greased lined baking tray. Cook in a preheated oven gas mark 6 or 200c for 45-60 minutes depending on your oven. Just make sure its cooked through. P1160135 P1160138While this is cooling add the remainder of the strawberries to a dish along with 25 of icing sugar and let the juices start to come out.
P1160139 P1160142Put the other 25g of icing sugar into a bowl and strain off the juiced strawberries.P1160143 P1160147Mix this up and pour over your creation, Its best to make small holes all over the cake to let the icing drizzle down into the sponge. Then let this cool off completely before turning out, dusting with a little icing sugar and then lastly cutting into nice sized chunks. P1160164 P1160165Perfect with a Wimbledon cocktail…..Recipe for that coming soon!

Cant have you over indulging too fast can we. Its a recipe worth waiting for I assure you! P1160167 P1160180I hope you make a batch of these while watching the games as they are amazing! Let me know if you do and pop me a quick tweet @sarahbacchus. For loads more recipes head over to our lifestyle magazine www.slbstyle.com and for photographic work check out www.sarahbacchus.com