Poke cake of strawberries with cream

The poke cake is a very original biscuit with a rather strange name. This dessert is of American origin, and it is characterized by having a few holes that are filled with some kind of liquid or semi-liquid preparation.
For this recipe we will use strawberries with cream, but the options are many, it may be juices, juices, sauces, syrups, including custard. This is it covered with some sort of cream and ready.
A recipe high in calories, but what's life without these delicious delights?

Ingredients

For the cake

• 2 eggs
• 200 g sugar
• 100 g margarine
• 250 g flour
• 5 g of yeast
• 2 g of baking soda
• 100 ml milk

For the Strawberry Syrup

• 50 ml of coconut milk
• 50 ml water
• Fresh strawberries
• 70 g sugar

Cream

• 100 g egg whites
• 200 g sugar
• 1 pinch of salt

Preparation

• We beat the margarine, that it must be at room temperature, with the sugar and dissolve well the sugar granules.
• Add eggs one by one and continue beating until obtaining a homogeneous mixture generously.
• Once you have this you can preheat the oven to 150 ° C.
• Add to the mix half of the flour, the yeast, sifted in a sieve to avoid lumps, and adding milk.
• After adding the milk, we can add the rest of the flour and the baking soda. Remember that throughout this process you must be vigorously beating.
• Enharinamos and enmantecamos round baking pan (it may be of the type that you want, but we recommend the round more for aesthetic reasons that for any other reason), and pour the mixture on the inside.
• We left that they baking for 45 minutes and when ready leave it to cool.

While you're waiting your cake ready can start preparing the strawberry syrup.

• Cut the strawberries into cubes, dissolve sugar in water and Add strawberries. Leave to rest for 20 minutes.
• Then heat the mixture over medium heat and add the coconut milk. Stir until you get a consistent, a little thick mixture. Once list let stand until cool.

We must now assemble all our recipe, you will see how it is not difficult.

• Put your cake on a a large plate or tray covered with butter paper.
• With a small spoon starts to make holes large to the cake without transferring it to the other side, so don't spill fluid. For this step it is important that the cake has cooled slightly, otherwise of unravel in contact with spoon or you can burn you while you manipulate it.
• Take the syrup and fill each hole with it.
• Tries to be generous with your parts, will thus be better tasting your poke cake.
• Try to reserve a little of the syrup for later. Now you have to take it to the fridge and leave it there for an half an hour for that is secure within the cake filling, also gets to refrigerate the syrup that you have booked.

While waiting to make the cake cool proceeds to prepare the cream.

• Put in a bowl to bath the egg whites and add the salt.
• He begins to stir them up to bring them to snow.
• Add the sugar slowly and still beating.
• You'll know you're ready because once the sugar has dissolved and whites reach the point of snow mixture will shine a little.
• Pass the half-hour takes the cake from the refrigerator and cover with syrup reserved, trying to fill the entire surface.
• Then decorate it with cream that you have prepared taking care not to get it with syrup.
• Now take a few more strawberries and cut them into slices, or use them whole and decorate the surface of the meringue.
• You can add a little cinnamon or crushed crackers, the options are many.

Once you've done that, you can have your poke cake ready to enjoy. Accompany it with a cup of coffee, chocolate or tea, or simply set aside and enjoy it at any time. This sinful pleasure will give you great satisfaction.

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