Mixed Fruit Short cake

Cake sounds good,when you are feeling low or for me after a very good nap in the afternoon and that too with fruits sounds yummy. I like fruits in all of the things like cake,ice cream and even cereal. They are best things made by nature with amount of sweetness ,sourness and healthiness..most important :P

Anyways here is the recipe of mixed fruit short cake which my cousin tried out from food network's strawberry short cake recipe and tweaked a little bit .

Ingredients:

All purpose flour- 2 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 teaspoon
salt - pinch
Heavy whipping Cream - 1 1/2 cups
Strawberries - quartered
Kiwis - Sliced
oranges - peeled and sliced

Procedure:

Mix all the fruits in a bowl with half a cup of sugar and refrigerate it for 30 mins.
Now take all purpose flour in a bowl,add remaining sugar,salt,baking soda and heavy whipping cream,mix all of them together and pour the batter into a baking pan.

Preheat the oven to 400F and bake the cake for 20 to 22 mins until it turns golden brown.
Remove it from the oven and let it cool for a while. Meanwhile,make the whipping cream
( procedure written below).

Remove the cake from the baking pan and place it on a cake stand, bring the fruits from the refrigerator,you can see the by adding sugar fruits leaves juices , pour these juices all over the cake, so that the cake becomes moist. Now apply the whipping cream evenly all over the cake and place the strawberries,kiwis and oranges on top and serve.


Procedure to make whipping cream :

1 1/2 cups heavy cream, chilled
3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
Using a mixer, beat the heavy cream, sugar, vanilla, and lemon zest
until soft peaks form, about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.