The BEST Strawberry Shortcake Recipe!

Easy Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

I love the summer months and since we don’t get a lot of summer here in Canada, I try to enjoy it as much as possible. Mostly with food and getting all the in season fruits and veggies.  One of my favourite in season fruit during this time of the year are strawberries! They just taste so much better than the grocery stores one where they honestly just taste like water to me.  I love shopping at the local farmer’s market for berries and one of my favourite places to get amazing and sweet strawberries is from Springridge Farm in Milton! If you haven’t been, go check them out!




My favourite strawberry dessert is obviously the strawberry shortcake. This delectable treat have been around since the 1800s! The original and traditional way of making these is actually a biscuit like dough for the “shortcake”.  But the recipes have been adapted in so many different ways all around the world that you often see more of a spongecake instead. (Which is just as tasty!) I like the original biscuit version better since I don’t like my dessert overly sweet and in this recipe, the only added sugar is in the whipped cream. In my opinion, good strawberries during this time of the year is sweet enough on its own and there’s no need to drown it with more sugar!

If you are on a low carb/keto diet, you can simply switch out the flour to almond or coconut flour for the shortcake part. For the whipped cream, you can simply not add sugar to it. And limit the number of strawberries you put on. You can still have this tasty and in season treat if you are on a different diet!

Easy Strawberry Shortcake Recipe



Easy Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

The BEST Strawberry Shortcake Recipe!

This is the easiest and tastiest Strawberry Shortcake recipe you will try! What a crowd pleaser!
Course Dessert
Servings 6 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups All Purpose Flour
  • pinch salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda (This will make the biscuits puff up!)
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 cups 35% heavy cream (You can use a lower percentage or milk of you like)
  • 1 cup whipped cream You can make your own by simply beating heavy cream with a little vanilla and sugar on high for 5 minutes)
  • 1 cup fresh strawberries
  • Mint (Optional for garnishing)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375 F
  • In a mixing bowl, add flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder and heavy cream and mix. This will be a thick and lumpy batter so don't worry and no need to over mix it.
  • Use a non stick liner sheet or spray bottom of square pan with non stick spray
  • Bake dough in a square baking dish for 20 minutes or until the top and bottom starts browning
  • Remove from oven and let cool for about 10 minutes
  • Cut biscuit into 6 pieces and slice each piece horizontally (like a hamburger bun)
  • Assemble like a sandwich and add whipped cream and strawberries ontop of the bottom of the biscuit and top with the top half of the biscuit! You can get creative and put as many strawberries and as much whipped cream you like. You can also add other berries like blueberries, raspberries and blackberries!
  • Optional: Garnish with mint.
Keyword strawberries, strawberry shortcake
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