Crusted Strawberry Cake

Ingredients:

1. Flour - 1.5cups
2. Baking powder - 1.5 tsp
3. Vanilla extract -  1 tsp
4. Strawberry paste - 1/2 tsp(optional)
5. Sugar - 3/4 cup+ 2 tbs
6. Egg - 1
7. Butter, softened - 85gm
8. Salt - a pinch
9. Milk - 1/3 cup
10. Strawberry - 6

Note: All ingredients must be in room temperature. 

Method:

1. Preheat oven for 20 min at 200 Degree Celsius 
2. Blend flour and baking powder well
3. In a mixer bowl, beat butter till fluffy, about 30 sec using hand mixer
4. Add egg and beat for 1 minute
5. Add strawberry paste and vanilla essence and mix well
6. Add half of flour mixture , beat on medium for 2 minutes
7. Add milk and beat for 10 sec or until just mixed
8. Add rest of the flour and beat for 1 minute more
9. Pour into a 9in cake tin with parchment paper
10. Using a spatula level the cake batter in cake tin, batter is somewhat thick. 
11. Cut strawberries. 
12. Place Strawberries on the cake batter
13. Sprinkle some sugar on the cake, so that a nice sugar crust will be formed after baking
14. Bake for 50 minutes, 200 Deg celcius for first 10 minute, then 150 Deg Celcius( a skewer inserted at the center of the cake should come out clean when taken out )