Ginger Sour Cream Bundt Cake Wginger Infused Strawberries Recipes

Steps:

• For cake:
• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Brush softened butter generously all over inside of 12-cup Bundt pan. Sprinkle raw sugar over butter in pan, tilting pan to coat completely.
• Whisk flour, ground ginger, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat 1 cup butter in large bowl until smooth. Add 2 cups sugar; beat on medium-high speed until blended, about 2 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in 1 egg yolk and vanilla, stopping to scrape down bowl as needed. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with sour cream in 2 additions, beating on low speed just until blended after each addition. Mix in crystallized ginger. Spread batter in pan, being careful not to dislodge raw sugar.
• Bake cake until top is light brown and tester inserted near center comes out with a few small crumbs attached, about 55 minutes. Transfer to rack; cool in pan 15 minutes. Gently tap bottom edge of pan on work surface while rotating pan until cake loosens. Place rack atop pan and invert cake onto rack; remove pan. Cool completely.
• For ginger-infused strawberries:
• Combine first 4 ingredients in small saucepan. Bring to boil over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil until mixture is reduced to scant 1 cup, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat; cool ginger syrup to room temperature (do not strain). DO AHEAD: Can be made 2 days ahead. Cover and chill.
• Place berries in medium bowl. Strain ginger syrup. Pour over berries and toss. Cover; chill at least 1 hour. DO AHEAD: Can be made 2 hours ahead. Keep chilled. Cut cake into slices and place on plates. Spoon berries with syrup alongside. Sprinkle with mint, if desired, and serve.
• Also called turbinado or demerara sugar; available at most supermarkets and at natural foods stores.

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Brush softened butter (2 T) generously all over the inside of a 12 cup Bundt pan.
• Sprinkle turbinado sugar over butter in Bundt pan
• Whisk flour, ground ginger, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl; set aside
• In mixer, add 1 C softened butter, mix until smooth.
• Add 2 C sugar, mix about 2 minutes.
• Add eggs one at a time, mixing well in between each egg.
• Beat in 1 large egg yolk and vanilla.
• Add flour mixture in 3 additions.
• Alternate flour with adding sour cream in 3 additions.
• Mix in crystallized ginger.
• Spread batter in pan, carefully avoiding mixing in sugar. You want the sugar to stay on the outside of the cake, not mix it with the batter.
• Bake until light brown, about 55 minutes.
• Transfer to rack, cool 15 minutes.
• Gently tap bottom of pan, and using a spatula, carefully loosen on all sides.
• Place cake plate atop Bundt pan and turn over. The cake should fall onto the cake plate.
• Cool completely.
• For strawberries:.
• Combine ginger, water, sugar, and lemon juice in small saucepan.
• Bring to a boil over medium high heat.
• Boil until mixture is reduced, about 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat, cool to room temperature.
• Place hulled and cleaned strawberris into a medium bowl.
• Strain ginger water and pour over the berries.
• Cover and chill at least one hour.
• Cut cake into slices, add berries with syrup.
• Garnish with mint leaf.

Steps:

• Fill a small saucepan with about 1 inch of water and set over medium heat until the water steams.
• Meanwhile, coarsely chop about a quarter of the strawberries and combine in a medium heatproof bowl with the sugar. Cover the bowl tightly and set it over the saucepan. Reduce the heat if necessary to keep the water just below a simmer and allow the berries to sit, swirling the bowl once or twice to dissolve any stubborn sugar clumps, until they've released all their juices, are mushy, and swim in a translucent red liquid, 35 to 45 minutes. Remove the bowl from the heat, uncover and strain through a fine-mesh strainer. (You should have 1/2 to 3/4 cup of strawberry syrup.) The mushy berries will have given off their color and flavor, and even though you won't use them in the cake, they're still tasty. Reserve the berries for spooning over pancakes or yogurt.
• In a separate medium bowl, combine the heavy cream, crème fraîche and salt. Whisk the mixture vigorously by hand, or beat with a hand mixer on medium-high, until thick, light and holding a medium peak. Chill the bowl of whipped cream. Thinly slice the remaining raw strawberries lengthwise.
• Invert the sponge cake on a flat serving plate or cake stand. Holding a long serrated knife horizontally and parallel to the work surface, use it to lightly score all around the side of the cake at the midway point. Then, using long, even strokes and still holding the knife parallel to the surface, slice clean through the cake, using the score marks as a guide, to cut it into two even layers. Set the top layer aside.
• Use a pastry brush to dab several tablespoons of the strawberry syrup across the bottom layer, lightly soaking the entire surface. Pull the bowl of cream from the refrigerator and dollop about half of it across the soaked layer, then spread in an even layer all the way to the edges. Arrange half of the sliced strawberries on top of the cream, then place the second cake layer on top of the first, cut side up. Lightly soak the top layer of cake with the strawberry syrup, reserving any remaining syrup for serving. Spread the remaining cream on top of the cake, then pile the remaining sliced strawberries over top. (If not serving immediately, cover loosely and refrigerate until ready to serve.)
• Slice the cake with a serrated knife and serve. Drizzle the slices with any remaining strawberry syrup. The cake is best served the day it's made, but will keep, covered and chilled, for up to 3 days.

Steps:

• Make the batter following the directions on the box, EXCEPT replace 2 teaspoons water with an equal amount of vanilla. Fold in sour cream. Bake according to directions given for baking a bundt cake. Cool on rack, place on serving plate, and dust with confectioners sugar.