Milk and Honey loaf cake with vanilla-honey sweetened strawberries and fresh cream

Directions

1. Combine strawberries, vanilla, and honey in a bowl. Toss them together and press down with a fork occasionally while preparing the cake.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and dust pan with flour.
3. In one bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
4. In another bowl whisk together yogurt, milk, honey, and vanilla (or zest).
5. Beat the butter with a mixer until smooth, scrape down sides with a spatula.
6. Gradually add the sugar. Beat together scraping down sides of bowl, until light in color and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes).
7. At medium speed add eggs gradually until combined.
8. On low speed, add dry and wet ingredients alternately. Mix until just combined and smooth. Do not over beat.
9. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to be sure all is combined before pouring batter into prepared pan. Smooth and lay a few slices of strawberries on top.
10. Bake 45-50 minutes or until done- a wooden skewer should come out clean. Allow to cool about 10 minutes before removing from pan.
11. Make whipped cream. Pour cold cream into a cold bowl (add sugar/honey to sweeten if desired) and whisk until double in volume and light and fluffy.
12. Slice cake and serve topped with fresh whipped cream and the honey-vanilla sweet strawberries.