Excellent Strawberry Shortcake

That is probably the most scrumptious strawberry shortcake recipe we’ve ever made! We layer our buttery selfmade shortcake with strawberries, whipped cream, and an irresistible strawberry syrup to make it additional scrumptious.

These strawberry shortcakes are nearer to an genuine shortcake than most recipes I’ve seen. The shortcakes have a buttery biscuit taste with probably the most fantastic, tender, nearly cake-like consistency (because of an egg within the batter). They’re really scrumptious and surprisingly easy to make!

We labored on this unbelievable strawberry dessert with Richard Hattaway, and we’ve all fallen head over heels for it. What I really like most is the easy strawberry syrup, which we drizzle over the bottom of our shortcakes earlier than including whipped cream and contemporary strawberries.

Key Components

Strawberries: I exploit 2 kilos of contemporary strawberries. A 3rd of them are cooked with sugar to make a easy strawberry syrup. I drizzle this over the bottom of our shortcake earlier than including the whipped cream and strawberries.

Flour: I exploit all-purpose flour, however gentle white wheat flour (like White Lilly, Martha White, and Bob’s Purple Mill Superb Pastry Flour) can be glorious.

Baking Powder: I exploit 1 tablespoon of baking powder to make the shortcakes fluffy and tender. It’s additionally my secret for the very best fluffy biscuits!

Sugar: I exploit sugar in 3 ways: within the shortcake batter, for the strawberry syrup, and to sweeten the whipped cream. Granulated sugar, cane sugar, or coconut sugar are advantageous.

Milk, Butter, and Egg: These are mixed with flour to make the shortcakes tender and scrumptious.

Cream: I exploit chilly heavy cream or heavy whipping cream to make the whipped cream topping.

How one can Make Strawberry Shortcake

Selfmade strawberry shortcakes have three elements: the shortcake, strawberries in syrup, and whipped cream. However don’t fear, they’re all tremendous straightforward to make (I promise!).

The shortcakes are surprisingly easy, extra like biscuits than cake. You’ll “minimize in” chilly butter to the flour combination till it varieties small butter crumbs. I like to make use of a pastry blender, however two knives or your fingers work simply as nicely. These butter crumbs are key to creating tender, scrumptious shortcakes as a result of they soften and puff within the oven. The identical is true when making selfmade biscuits.

For baking, you possibly can drop spoonfuls of the batter straight onto a baking sheet or use English muffin rings for completely spherical shortcakes (see picture under). I actually have a tip within the recipe for making one massive, family-style shortcake you could slice and serve like a cake.

Whereas the shortcakes bake, you’ll make the strawberry syrup. Merely prepare dinner a few of your strawberries with sugar till the sugar melts. Take it off the warmth and gently toss with the remaining strawberries till they’re coated within the syrup, earlier than popping them within the fridge to relax.

Selfmade whipped cream is simple and tastes a lot better than the canned stuff! Use a stand or hand mixer to beat heavy cream with sugar and vanilla till it’s thick and softly whipped. It solely takes a couple of minutes.

Now for the enjoyable half: assembling your shortcakes! Cut up the shortcakes in half, drizzle a spoonful of that scrumptious strawberry syrup over the underside, and prime with whipped cream, strawberries, the opposite half of the shortcake, extra whipped cream, and much more strawberries. So good!

I can’t wait so that you can do this strawberry shortcake recipe! For extra strawberry recipes, check out our contemporary strawberry cake or this unbelievable strawberry pie!