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Hi everyone, and welcome to my kitchen.

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My name is Camilla Hamid

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and I am a cookbook author,
TV chef and home economics teacher.

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Today is the Swedish National Day

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and there is no Swedish National Day
without a delicious strawberry cake.

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And the first thing I'll do
is to cream together

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room-temperatured butter
with granulated sugar.

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Now that is what I call
a really creamy batter.

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And now we will add the eggs,
but only the egg yolks.

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When you mix in the egg yolks,
you do not want to mix too much.

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Only until the egg yolk is well incorporated
into the batter and then you stop.

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Now it's time for the next egg yolk.

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This batter is just getting creamier
and creamier, and that is a good sign

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for a very moist vanilla cake.

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Now it's time for the dry ingredients,
which are flour...

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...baking powder, vanilla sugar...

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Just sift this in.

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And don't you worry,
I know we still have the milk left

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but that won't be added in until the end.

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You don't want to overwork this.

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Time for the milk,
and carefully mix that in...

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You don't want
to get the milk all over you.

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Now, it's time to spread this batter out
on a baking plate with a baking sheet.

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The egg whites are already prepared

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so I will just whisk it
until we get a firm foam.

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And then I will add in the sugar,
little by little, while I whisk all the time.

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That is beautiful.

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And before I put this beauty into the oven,

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I'll just sprinkle it with flaked almonds.

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This will give the cake
that extra crispiness and texture

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that will make everyone love this cake.

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If you are allergic to almonds,
you can, of course, exchange it,

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with anything else that gives
the cake crispiness, anything you like

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that becomes crispy in the oven.

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Now, it's time to bake this cake base

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at 150 degrees for about half an hour
in the middle of the oven.

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My cake base is done

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and as soon as it came out
of the oven, I cut it in half

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because this cake is a two-layer cake.

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And while the cake base is cooling down,
I will be making the filling.

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I love to put some cream cheese in
my filling, to give it some extra fullness

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and to also make it a little bit more stable

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because I love
to put a lot of filling in my cake.

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The first thing I'll do is to cream together
cream cheese and whipped cream.

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You know you're done when you have
these beautiful stiff peaks

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and now you won't need the whisk anymore.

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Just sift in the powdered sugar,
and then carefully fold it in...

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And last but not least,
it's time to flavour this filling.

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I love to flavour it with lemon zest.
You can take vanilla or lime zest

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anything you like –
and the more the better.

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And now just gently fold it in –
you don't want to lose to consistency.

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And that's it. Now it's time to cut
my strawberries in smaller bits

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and then we're going
to fill the cake and decorate it.

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And there is no rule as to
how many strawberries you need to have.

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You just take whatever you like.

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Most of my strawberries are cut.

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I saved some of them
to decorate with later

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but now it's time to fill the cake.

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I put it on different places
on the cake base

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because the meringue topping
is very fragile

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and if I put everything in one place
and just scrape it out, I will mess it up.

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And then you can take a spoon
or spatula or whatever you have

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and just spread it out in an even layer.

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Beautiful! Okay, so now
we'll take some of the strawberries

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and just spread them out
on the cake base like this.

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And you can be as generous as you like.

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If you ask me,
the more strawberries, the better.

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Now, it's time for the second layer.

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This is the hard part,
I don't want this to mess up.

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Oh my God, I'm so happy
I got it off the baking sheet...

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You can press down a little bit,
since we have an uneven layer underneath.

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And then you just put on
the rest of the filling.

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The cake is almost done,

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I just want to decorate
with some lemon balm

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because we also eat with our eyes.

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My strawberry cake is finished
and I'm so proud of it.

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It is really the perfect cake to celebrate
the Swedish National Day with.

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A Swedish classic, and I really hope
you try it out because it's amazing.

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Have a beautiful day and take care!