You can never go wrong with an easy summer dessert recipe like these Strawberry Shortcake Biscuits! These flaky biscuits, topped with fresh berries and whipped cream, can be made in less than 30 minutes. It's a dessert that makes everyone happy!
The secret to the best strawberry shortcake recipe lies in the biscuit. Shortcake biscuits are essentially a sweetened version of the classic you would serve with savory food. And they are the perfect canvas for topping with fresh fruit and cream, making this the best summertime dessert.
Most of the time, shortcakes come out tough. How you handle your dough is everything! But with only 6 ingredients, you can create flaky, buttery biscuits every single time.
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Why This Recipe Works
- Many biscuit recipes are hard and dry. Not this one! These tender biscuits have a flakey, golden crumb thanks to a combination of butter, baking soda and tangy buttermilk.
- You can have these on the table in no time! This biscuit recipe takes only 30 minutes from start to finish making it an easy last minute dessert.
Ingredients
Ingredient Notes:
- Use COLD butter as melts and creates steam in the biscuits while baking for those irresistible flaky layers.
- The buttermilk adds a great tang to the biscuits (and helps activate the baking powder for lift and rise) but can be replaced with cream if you don't have any on hand.
Instructions
This shortcake recipe is simply a sweetened biscuit and is made with pantry staples. You’ll get the perfect shortcake whenever you follow these easy steps.
Cut COLD butter into flour, baking powder, and sugar. Add whipping cream and stir until just combined.
Roll gently and pat flat to an even layer and cut into shapes with a biscuit cutter
Pro tip: Make sure to press your biscuit cutter straight down. If you twist as you press down, it seals the edges, and the result is a flat, not fluffy, biscuit.
Expert Tip for the Best Shortcake Biscuits
The key to making flaky biscuits with this shortcake recipe is to use really COLD butter. When cutting it into the flour, it allows an even distribution of butter bits. Also, be sure not to overmix! You don't need a smooth dough when cutting out your biscuits. Those little bits of butter melt and create steam during the baking process. The result is lovely, flaky layers!
Cutting in butter can be done in three easy ways:
- Food Processor - Use the pulse button and pulse 5-6 times until ingredients are just combined.
- Pastry cutter - Use a rocking motion to cut the butter into the flour.
- Forks - Don’t have a pastry cutter or food processor? No worries! You can accomplish the same thing using 2 forks. It takes a little longer but will give you the same flaky result!
FAQs
This shortcake recipe is best eaten the same day you make it but can also be refrigerated or frozen until ready to eat.
To store shortcake biscuits, cool completely on a rack. Store them in a single layer in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 5 days. Wrap individually and store in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Macerating is a simple process of soaking fruit in liquid to bring out its sweetness. The easiest way to macerate strawberries is to sprinkle them with a little sugar and let them sit. This process brings out the liquid in the berries and creates a natural strawberry syrup.
Pro Tip: Use superfine sugar when you are macerating berries to avoid a grainy syrup.
Shortcake isn't shortcake without whipped cream on top. You can either buy a can, a tub of cool whip or make it from scratch. Do what is easiest for you!
Traditional homemade whipped cream is pretty much the easiest thing on earth to make and only uses a few ingredients. We like to add a little Greek yogurt to ours to help stabilize it so it can be made ahead of time and still keep the creamy consistency.
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Recipe
Easy Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
Ingredients
Shortcakes
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter very cold and cut into cubes
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon Turbinado sugar
Strawberries
- 3 cups sliced strawberries
- 2 tablespoons superfine sugar
Instructions
To make the shortcakes
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Place flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse to combine. Add butter and pulse a few times until butter is cut into flour mixture.
- Transfer mixture to bowl and add buttermilk. Stir until just combined.
- Pat dough out on floured surface to a rectangle that is about ¾ inch thick.
- Use a 2-inch biscuit cutter (or a glass) to cut biscuits out and place on prepared baking sheet. Reshape dough and cut the rest of the biscuits.
- Brush tops of biscuits with whipping cream and sprinkle with Turbinado sugar.
- Bake in oven for 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool on wire racks.
To make the strawberries
- Combine sliced strawberries and sugar in a bowl and set aside until ready to serve.
- Add powdered sugar, Greek yogurt and vanilla and beat until stiff peaks form.
To assemble the shortcakes
- Slice each shortcake in half. Spoon a dollop of Greek yogurt whipped cream and strawberries on one half of each shortcake.
- Top with other halves of shortcakes and spoon on additional whipped cream.
Notes
- Make sure to not overwork the dough or your biscuits will be tough.
- Press the biscuit cutter straight down instead of twisting to get fluffy biscuits.
- Don't skip the step of brushing cream and sprinkling raw sugar on top. The golden brown color and crunchy sugar make a good shortcake outstanding.
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 4 tablespoons powdered sugar
- ½ cup greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Place the whipping cream in a chilled bowl. Beat whipping cream until medium peaks form.
- Add powdered sugar, Greek yogurt and vanilla and beat until stiff peaks form.
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Nutrition
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Made these last night for a 4th of July BBQ. Crowd pleaser and delicious!