Recipe {Strawberry White Chocolate Bundt Cake}

As you may have guessed I had an overflow of strawberries in our garden. After canning enough strawberry jam for the year and gifts I still had more coming. So naturally I decided to bake with them. I recently inherited a bundt pan so figured I should get to using it. I searched the internet for some bundt cake recipes adjusted a few here and there and came up with this delicious cake. Seriously y'all it was fabulous! I ate it for snack and breakfast and before I knew it the cake was gone and I failed to take one single picture. But just so you know this is definitely a strawberry cake you should make!

Strawberry White Chocolate Bundt Cake

2.5 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

zest of one lemon

2 sticks unsalted butter

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 tablespoon lemon juice (about the juice of 1 lemon)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

8 ounces greek yogurt (I used greek goddess strawberry honey but you could do plain)

2 cups fresh strawberries, chopped

1 cup white chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325* and grease bundt pan. In a bowl combine flour, baking soda, salt, and lemon zest. 

Cream butter and sugar in mixer. Then add eggs one at a time. Once those are creamed together add lemon juice, and vanilla extract. Alternate beating the flour mixture and yogurt until just blended. Gently stir in strawberries and white chocolate chips. 

Pour into bundt pan and bake for about 70 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. 

Let cool for 30 minutes before flipping out onto wire rack and then try to let it cool completely before digging in.

Let me know if you try it! It really was delicious. I also experimented with strawberry banana bread, also delicious, strawberry shortcake, and strawberry muffins. I really do love having fresh strawberries right out my door and am a little sad strawberry picking has come to an end. But with the end of strawberry season comes the beginning tomato and pepper season...can't wait to start cooking with those beauties!

what are you all doing with the abundance from your garden?

Garden overflow

First wanted to say thanks for all your sweet comments on my life stay at home mom post. I just needed to get that off my chest and figured there is no better time to do it then now. Appreciate your comments and if you were offended feel free to email me and we can discuss and I'll pray over you. K? Now on to our regularly scheduled programming.
Garden recap: Our herbs are doing great this year and so are our peppers. Sad year for tomatoes but we are still getting a good sized crop just not as big as we hoped. 

Here is our pear tomato plant

Still full of blooms

Our roma tomato plant has seen better days but it is still producing some. 

Last weekend I collected all our jalapenos and herbs and got to canning. We had quite the weekend full of canning goodness. We added some other things that we don't grow but most of the things we did came straight from our garden.

From left to right (salsa, plum jelly, peach bellini jelly, peach jalapeno jelly, lemon honey jelly, pickled pear tomatoes and onions, herb jelly, mint jelly, and hot pepper jelly)

The whole loot 47 jars

Have you all ever had hot pepper jelly? It is one of my favorite snacks to eat. Hot pepper jelly scooped over a bit of warm cream cheese served with homemade wheat thins. Delish. I got a little excited for Thanksgiving time after making the herb jelly. I tasted like Thanksgiving in a jar. I used basil, thyme, and rosemary in the recipe and once we tried it both W and I knew it would be on our table this year with warm croissants. The mint jelly was not as minty as the ones you buy in the store but I liked that. It will be nice to serve with lamb and not be in your face minty. I am so glad I have finally found a use for our mint bush. Never grow mint. Unless you are a huge fan of mint and even then you should contain it to a planter. It grows back every year and just gets larger and larger. 

And that peach bellini jelly? It will be served with pound cake. Can't wait. In fact I may have to bake up a pound cake this weekend to test it out. 

So, what have you all been doing with your overflowing gardens? And how did your crop turn out this year?

Here they come...

Slowly they are arriving

Nice juicy fat berries

 Its quite the treasure when we find one ready to pick

But this year we have someone beating us to each perfectly ripe delicious berry...

I don't blame him really, they are so good right off the vine. And I know a secret he doesn't... soon there will be many and mommy and daddy will sneak out at  night to pick them while he sleeps, leaving only a few on the vine for his hands to grab. So glad he loves strawberries and it is quite cute seeing his face stained red from his plunder. 

How are your gardens coming along?