Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, strawberry shortcake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Strawberry Shortcake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Strawberry Shortcake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have strawberry shortcake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Strawberry Shortcake:
- Get 1 kg fresh strawberries - destemmed and sliced
- Take 100 g castor sugar
- Take 280 g plain flour
- Prepare 4 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 2 tbs caster sugar
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 70 g unsalted butter
- Get 1 egg
- Make ready 150 ml milk
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 500 ml double cream, whipped
Steps to make Strawberry Shortcake:
- Cut the stems off the strawberries and slice them. Place them all in a bowl with 70-100 g of castor sugar. Mix thoroughly and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 220c, and grease+flour a 20cm/8inch cake pan.
- Add the flour, baking powder, 2 tbs caster sugar, and salt together.
- Rub the butter into the mixture with your hands until is resembles coarse crumbs. If you pinch the mixture between your thumb and pointer finger, it should flatten and briefly hold shape. Make a well in the center of this mixture.
- Beat the single egg. Add the egg and milk to the well in the centre and stir until just combined.
- Spread the batter into the pan and bake for 15-20minutes or until it is golden brown. Be careful not to burn the bottom and overcook. Let the cake cool slightly before transfer it to a wire rack.
- While the cake is baking, whip the cream until it has a light and airy consistency.
- When the cake is cool enough, slice it in half and place a layer of whipped cream down. Put 1/2 of the strawberries on top of the cream. Place the other cake layer on top. Top this with the remaining cream and strawberries! Enjoy!
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