Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake
Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, scones (sweet biscuits) for strawberry shortcake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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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. You can think of a homemade shortcake as a cross between a biscuit and a scone, so a recipe for shortcake will look very familiar.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have scones (sweet biscuits) for strawberry shortcake using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake:
  1. Take 1 cup AP flour
  2. Take 1 1/2 tbsp sugar, plus more for sprinkling
  3. Take 1/2 tbsp baking powder
  4. Take 1/4 tsp salt
  5. Make ready 4 tbsp cold butter, cubed
  6. Make ready 1/3 cup half-and-half, plus more for brushing

A simple but elegant strawberry jam dessert, for Valentine's Day and Kentucky Derby Parties. You are going to love it! If you're thinking of strawberry shortcake or similar there are a lot of regional variations. sometimes sweet scones, angel food cake, of even just regular old biscuits. The name shortcake i think is derived from the way the dough is made.

Instructions to make Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake:
  1. Preheat oven to 400°F
  2. In cold glass bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
  3. Add cold butter and blend with a cold pastry blender or fork until coarse meal is formed.
  4. 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.
  5. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and fold over a couple of times just until it holds together.
  6. Pat to about 3/4 inch thick and cut into 4 3" biscuits. Mine were a little thinner, so I got 5 biscuits.
  7. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush tops with half-and-half and sprinkle with sugar.
  8. Bake 12-15 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
  9. For strawberry shortcake: Split biscuit, add mascerbated strawberries with syrup on bottom biscuit. Add whipped cream then biscuit top.

This strawberry scone recipe is from The Alaska From Scratch Cookbook by Maya Wilson, author of the blog Alaska From Scratch. Maya lives on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. And to be completely forthright, the scenes that she shares from Alaska on social media were what initially beckoned me to follow her many years ago. Too much mixing makes batter tough. And you don't want tough scones.

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