Whole Wheat Strawberry Cake - Eggless

Eggless Strawberry Cake made using Whole Wheat Flour topped with strawberries and a nutty Streusel topping. 

Ingredients:

For the cake:

Whole Wheat Flour	1 cup
Baking Powder	1 tsp
Baking Soda	¼  tsp
Sugar	1/3 cup
Butter	3 tblsp
Thick curd	4 tblsp
Milk	½ cup
Vanilla essence	1 tsp
Strawberry halved	8

For the Streusel topping:

Wheat flour	2 tblsp
Butter	1 tblsp
Sugar	2 tblsp
Almonds sliced	¼ cup

Method:

• Preheat oven to 170 ° C.
• For the topping take the butter and flour and mix using finger tips till you get a crumbly mixture.Add the sugar and sliced almonds and mix well. 
• Sift the flour,baking powder and baking soda twice.
• Take the room temperature soft  butter in a bowl and add sugar. Beat with a hand whisk or electric beater till light and creamy. Add curd and mix with a whisk.Finally add vanilla essence and milk.
• Now add the sifted flour and mix till the flour is mixed well with the wet ingrediends and there are no lumps.
• Transfer the batter to a prepared cake pan(I have used 7 inch pan here). Tap the pan on the counter once and level it. Arrange the halved strawberries on the top. Now spread the prepared streusel toppping evenly over the strawberries covering the entire cake.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 170 °  for 30 to 35 mins or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Allow the cake to cool in the pan completely and then take it out.

Note:

• The cake is mildly sweet.Increase sugar if you want a very sweet cake.
• I have used fine granulated sugar in this recipe.
• All ingredients like butter,curd and milk are to be at room temperature .