let mom eat cake

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but my mother basically has two rules for her cakes: (1) no icing, (2) preferably with fruit. And so I oblige, this time with a strawberry upside-down cake. First off, no, I couldn't afford the cardamom this time around. I'm sure that would've put it over the top. But it's still a good cake: dense, yet moist; sweet from brown sugar and strawberries. I should've put even more strawberries in it; as it is, I'm eating additional fresh strawberries with whipped cream on top. But you can never have too many strawberries, right?

Oh, and I didn't have the right sized pan, either, but my 9x1 1/2" worked fine. Next cake: Father's Day. That ought to be interesting.