What to Do With Oodles of Strawberries

With an abundance of strawberries, baking this cake is a great way to celebrate the fruit.
What to Do With Oodles of Strawberries
This cake makes the strawberry stand out. Lynda Balslev for Tastefood
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Too many strawberries are never a problem. It’s always easy to simply gorge on these sun-sweetened berries straight out of the basket, au naturel. However, when presented with such an abundance, it helps to have a few recipes to choose from to creatively put your bounty to use.

Put aside a pint or two to make this light cake. It’s a simple recipe that celebrates the strawberry, allowing it to shine in a gently sweetened and uncomplicated cake. It’s a guaranteed people-pleaser, meant to be enjoyed for breakfast, brunch, and tea, generously studded with more berries than you know what to do with. Actually, that’s not accurate—we all know what to do with fresh strawberries. Just be sure to save some to make this cake.

Lynda Balslev
Lynda Balslev
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Lynda Balslev is a cookbook author, food and travel writer, and recipe developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her Danish husband, two children, a cat, and a dog. Balslev studied cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris and worked as a personal chef, culinary instructor, and food writer in Switzerland and Denmark. Copyright 2025 Lynda Balslev. Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication.