The Twins Make Strawberry Shortcake with Sweet Biscuits

The twins are at it again! They LOVE cooking and baking.

Strawberry Shortcake with Sweet Biscuits

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, salt,

sugar, and baking powder. Then, add cold butter and cut into dry ingredients. We used a kitchen aid stand mixer with flat beater on speed 2 to cut in butter until butter is the size of peas.

Add milk (or cream) and vanilla. Mix until just combined. Batter will be sticky.

Knead dough briefly on floured surface with floured hands approx 6-8 turns.

Form into medium sized round biscuits for rustic appearance. Or flatten dough on floured surface to 1'' thick and cut with biscuit cutter or drinking glass. **USE A HEART COOKIE CUTTER FOR VALENTINE'S DAY!!!  And pop in the oven! (Nice cookie sheet...I know...can you tell it gets alot of use LOL)

Rinse the strawberries and allow to drain.

Cut stems off and slice strawberries into quarters. The twins use a serrated plastic knife to do this. Place in bowl and gently combine with sugar.

Let strawberries rest while you whip the cream. We used a kitchen aid stand mixer with wire whip and gradually increased speed to 8 until sharp peaks were formed. Don't forget to add sugar and vanilla after cream begins to thicken a bit.

**Optional: Throw some of the sugared strawberries in a mini food processor or use potato masher and puree. This will give a nice puree to drip on your biscuits.

After you have allowed your biscuits to cool for a few minutes, slice them in half, drizzle with strawberry puree and place some sugared strawberries on top.

Slap on some whipped cream, top with biscuit and repeat process.

ENJOY!!!!

Strawberry Shortcake with Sweet Biscuits

Sweet Biscuits

2 cups flour

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp baking powder

2/3 cup sugar (powdered sugar preferred)

1 stick cold unsalted butter

3/4 cup milk (or cream)

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

2) Combine dry ingredients in mixing bowl

3) Cut in butter until butter is size of peas.

4) Add milk (or cream) and vanilla and gently combine. Dough will be sticky.

5) Gently knead dough briefly on floured surface with floured hands approx 6-8 turns.

6) Form into medium sized round biscuits for rustic appearance -OR- flatten dough on floured surface to 1'' thick and cut with biscuit cutter or drinking glass.

**USE A HEART COOKIE CUTTER FOR VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

7) Bake approx 12-15 minutes depending on oven.

Topping - Strawberries

2-3 baskets fresh strawberries

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1) Rinse strawberries and allow to drain.

2) Cut stems off strawberries. Cut into quarters and place in large bowl.

3) Sprinkle strawberries with granulated sugar.

4) Gently combine strawberries with sugar.

5) Allow strawberries to rest for 10 minutes.

6) Optional: In a mini food processor or with potato masher, puree several strawberries to create a nice strawberry puree for drizzling over sweet biscuits.

Sweetened Whipped Cream

1 cup Heavy Cream

3-4 Tbsp Powdered Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
1) In a chilled mixing bowl, add heavy cream.
2) Using electric mixer, beat cream until slightly thicken.
3) Add sugar and vanilla.
4) With mixer, beat cream until sharp peaks form. Careful not to over beat...we don't want butter ;)

Assembly

Sweet Biscuits

Strawberry Topping

Sweetened Whipped Cream

1) Cut biscuit in half. Place half on plate.

2) Drizzle biscuit with optional strawberry puree and strawberry topping.

3) Add a dallop of sweetened whipped cream.

4) Top with other half of biscuit.

5) Drizzle with optional strawberry puree and strawberry topping.

6) Add a dallop of sweetened whipped cream and ENJOY!