Strawberry Cake

I've made this cake for years and could have sworn that I'd posted the recipe. But apparently I never have. I made this yesterday for Ben, Jen and the kids and snagged a photo before we devoured it. And now I'm making sure that I post the recipe.

Ingredients

• One stick of butter, cut in pieces plus about another T softened for the pie plate
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 C whole milk
• 1 t pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 C all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 t baking powder
• 1 t pure vanilla extract
• 1 pound strawberries, hulled and halved

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 350.
• Grease a big pie pan with the softened butter (I use a large glass pie pan with high sides).
• Sift together the flour and baking powder in a small bowl and set aside.
• In a food processor, pulse until the sugar/butter is mixed to the point of large gravel. 
• Add in the egg, vanilla and milk gradually and process till the mixture is about the consistency of peas.
• Put the butter/sugar mixture in a large mixing bowl and gradually stir in the sifted mixture until just blended. 
• Pour into the pie pan.
• Remove the green tops from the strawberries, and slice them lengthwise.
• Place the berries on the pie mixture cut side down and completely cover the pie. I covered the pie thoroughly in the photo of the cake, and you can see how they shrink so really cover that surface and gently push each strawberry into the mixture. 
• Bake for 10 minutes then reduce the heat to 325 and bake another 50 or 60 minutes. Generally 50 minutes is enough when I make this.
• Enjoy!