Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, scones (sweet biscuits) for strawberry shortcake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sweet Biscuits for Strawberry Shortcake The most common use for these sweet biscuits at our house has always been as the base for summer shortcake desserts, especially Strawberry Shortcake. We use whatever fresh fruit or berries are in season to make these delicious, easy desserts; peaches, nectaries, plums, cherries, blackberries, raspberries. This Appalachian inspired Strawberry Shortcake Recipe features biscuit scones, fresh strawberries, strawberry jam and whipped cream.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook scones (sweet biscuits) for strawberry shortcake using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake:
- Get 1 cup AP flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp sugar, plus more for sprinkling
- Get 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 4 tbsp cold butter, cubed
- Prepare 1/3 cup half-and-half, plus more for brushing
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Instructions to make Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake:
- Preheat oven to 400°F
- In cold glass bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Add cold butter and blend with a cold pastry blender or fork until coarse meal is formed.
- Add half-and-half and mix gently with a fork or spatula just until incorporated. It should still be kinda crumbly and that's the way you want it.
- Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and fold over a couple of times just until it holds together.
- Pat to about 3/4 inch thick and cut into 4 3" biscuits. Mine were a little thinner, so I got 5 biscuits.
- Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush tops with half-and-half and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake 12-15 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
- For strawberry shortcake: Split biscuit, add mascerbated strawberries with syrup on bottom biscuit. Add whipped cream then biscuit top.
Biscuits are light, sometimes flaky and moist with a less sweet flavor profile than scones (if sweet). They're made with butter, lard or some other fat and milk, cream or. Too much mixing makes batter tough. And you don't want tough scones. Just as our strawberry shortcake recipe has streusel, we wanted to add streusel to the scones.
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