Eton Mess Cake

Lately I couldn't make up my mind whether I should bake a strawberry cake or make Eton Mess. So I decided to combine these two things.

For a 26 cm round "springform" baking pan

160 g self-raising flour

80 g sugar

80 g soft butter

some lemon zest

750 g strawberries

200 ml cream

50 g meringue

sugar

Preheat the oven. Mix flour, sugar, butter and lemon zest as if you were making crumble. Grease the baking pan and press the dough into it. Bake for 10-15 minutes on 180°. Allow to cool.
Whip cream, cut berries (but put some nice ones aside) and mix into the cream. Season with sugar to taste and then crumble in the meringue. Fill into the baking form and allow to cool in the fridge for 2-3 hours. 
Carefully transfer from the baking pan to a plate and decorate with the remaining berries.

Enjoy!

We cut the cake in 6 pieces and each had two of them... ;-) But it was worth it!