Strawberry Shortcake Coffee Cake

This cake is from a recipe of Laura in the Kitchen. It smells just like strawberries. The cake, and the strawberries in it, just melt in your mouth. I never made strawberry cake before, and am glad I tried this one! 

As I can't have butter (too rich), I used instead a combination of coconut and corn oils for the cake, and coconut oil in the topping. In place of sour cream (also too rich for me), I used thick, creamy, whole-milk yogurt. I made the cake in an 8-inch glass baking dish, and when I thought the dish had enough batter, the rest went into a smaller glass container for baking. That's why this cake looks different, height-wise, than the original.

Laura in the Kitchen Website, Strawberry Shortcake Coffee Cake 

Laura in the Kitchen YouTube, Strawberry Shortcake Coffee Cake

Laura in the Kitchen Facebook

Fresh Strawberries 

(sprinkled with sugar and cornstarch)

These are leftovers from a strawberry cake I made yesterday afternoon. However, I decided the cake would not be cool enough to eat, before nightfall. I thought it would look nicer, photographed in the daylight. Hence, these strawberries are here for today. I know what I'd like to make with them, and if it works out, I'll share a photo here soon. Yay, strawberries! 

Strawberry-Pomegranate & Cream Sorbet

This is based on the sorbet recipe of Gemma Stafford. This sorbet contains frozen strawberries and some pomegranate syrup. There's no actual cream in the sorbet, but I added twice as much sweetened condensed milk as the recipe called for. (The homemade sweetened condensed milk recipe is also from Gemma Stafford.) I made the pomegranate syrup from store-bought pomegranate juice. Very bright and colorful!

Gemma Stafford Facebook

Gemma Stafford Website, Homemade Raspberry Sorbet

Strawberry-Peach Sorbet

Strawberry-Peach Sorbet, according to the Sorbet recipe from Gemma’s Bigger Bolder Baking on YouTube. Very simple: just sweetened condensed milk with frozen fruit. (I add a pinch of salt.) Super delicious! Cooling and soothing after a spicy meal. She even has recipes for sweetened condensed milk, dairy and non-dairy, if you can’t find it where you live.