Essentials: Strawberry Shortcake

Essentials: Strawberry Shortcake takes roughly 45 minutes from beginning to end. Watching your figure? This lacto ovo vegetarian recipe has 321 calories, 4g of protein, and 19g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 12 and costs $1.69 per serving. A couple people really liked this dessert. It is perfect for Mother's Day. 15 people have made this recipe and would make it again. A mixture of unsalted butter, whipping cream, strawberries, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. It is brought to you by Serious Eats. Overall, this recipe earns a solid spoonacular score of 43%. Similar recipes include strawberry shortcake , how to make vegan strawberry shortcake, Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Smoothie with Carnation Breakfast Essentials, and Strawberry Shortcake w. Mini Strawberry PopTarts.

Servings: 12

 

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon baking powder

2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

4 pint baskets strawberries

About 6 tablespoons sugar

1/2 cup unsalted butter

1 1/2 cups whipping cream (for whipped cream)

Equipment:

blender

cookie cutter

baking sheet

oven

Cooking instruction summary:

Procedures 1 Wash, dry, and hull the berries. Crush about one-quarter of them and slice the rest into the crushed berries. Toss with sugar to taste--a tablespoon or so per basket--and chill until serving time. The strawberry mixture should be very juicy. 2 When you're ready to make the biscuits, get the berries out of the refrigerator to come up to room temperature. Mix the flour, salt (unless you are using salted butter), baking powder, and 2 tablespoons sugar. Cut in the butter until the mixture looks like cornmeal with a few larger pieces of butter in it. You can use a pastry blender, two knives, or quick rubbing fingers. (I use two knives and then fingers, and honestly, it never looks like cornmeal. It is very dry. This is okay.) Stir in 3/4 cup cream, just until most of the dry mixture has been moistened; it will still be quite dry. Turn out on a board and knead just a few times, until the dough just comes together. It might still be a little crumbly at the edges. Roll or pat 1/2 inch thick and cut into squares or circles or whatever shape you like. This recipe will make 12 individual shortcakes. You can use cookie cutters, but then you'll have scraps--I prefer simply to carve up the patted-out dough into 12 pieces. 3 Put the shortcakes on an unbuttered baking sheet. If you used cookie cutters, lightly knead together any scraps and roll again and cut. Brush the tops with the remaining 2 tablespoons cream. I like to sprinkle them with a little turbinado sugar at this point, too, but it isn't necessary. Bake in a preheated 425°F oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until the tops are lightly browned and the dough is set. Cool on a rack and serve while warm. Make the whipped cream while the biscuits cool a bit. 4 To serve: Warm the shortcakes if necessary, split them, and spoon berries liberally over the bottom halves. Set the tops back on and spoon some whipped cream over them. There should be lots of berries and lots of cream.

 

Step by step:


1. 1

2. Wash, dry, and hull the berries. Crush about one-quarter of them and slice the rest into the crushed berries. Toss with sugar to taste--a tablespoon or so per basket--and chill until serving time. The strawberry mixture should be very juicy.

3. 2

4. When you're ready to make the biscuits, get the berries out of the refrigerator to come up to room temperature.

5. Mix the flour, salt (unless you are using salted butter), baking powder, and 2 tablespoons sugar.

6. Cut in the butter until the mixture looks like cornmeal with a few larger pieces of butter in it. You can use a pastry blender, two knives, or quick rubbing fingers. (I use two knives and then fingers, and honestly, it never looks like cornmeal. It is very dry. This is okay.) Stir in 3/4 cup cream, just until most of the dry mixture has been moistened; it will still be quite dry. Turn out on a board and knead just a few times, until the dough just comes together. It might still be a little crumbly at the edges.

7. Roll or pat 1/2 inch thick and cut into squares or circles or whatever shape you like. This recipe will make 12 individual shortcakes. You can use cookie cutters, but then you'll have scraps--I prefer simply to carve up the patted-out dough into 12 pieces.

8. 3

9. Put the shortcakes on an unbuttered baking sheet. If you used cookie cutters, lightly knead together any scraps and roll again and cut.

10. Brush the tops with the remaining 2 tablespoons cream. I like to sprinkle them with a little turbinado sugar at this point, too, but it isn't necessary.

11. Bake in a preheated 425°F oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until the tops are lightly browned and the dough is set. Cool on a rack and serve while warm. Make the whipped cream while the biscuits cool a bit.

12. 4

13. To serve: Warm the shortcakes if necessary, split them, and spoon berries liberally over the bottom halves. Set the tops back on and spoon some whipped cream over them. There should be lots of berries and lots of cream.


Nutrition Information:

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320k Calories
3g Protein
19g Total Fat
35g Carbs
6% Health Score
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Calories
320k
16%

Fat
19g
30%

  Saturated Fat
11g
74%

Carbohydrates
35g
12%

  Sugar
13g
15%

Cholesterol
61mg
20%

Sodium
112mg
5%

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Protein
3g
8%

Vitamin C
92mg
113%

Manganese
0.76mg
38%

Folate
77µg
19%

Phosphorus
149mg
15%

Fiber
3g
15%

Vitamin B1
0.21mg
14%

Vitamin A
692IU
14%

Selenium
7µg
11%

Potassium
389mg
11%

Vitamin B2
0.17mg
10%

Iron
1mg
10%

Calcium
93mg
9%

Vitamin B3
1mg
9%

Magnesium
27mg
7%

Vitamin E
1mg
7%

Copper
0.11mg
5%

Vitamin K
5µg
5%

Vitamin B6
0.09mg
5%

Vitamin B5
0.37mg
4%

Zinc
0.45mg
3%

Vitamin D
0.35µg
2%

Vitamin B12
0.07µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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