Smart Cookie Strawberry Shortcakes Food

SMART COOKIE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES

Steps:

• Crush about 1/4 of the strawberries with a fork. Mix together with the remaining strawberries, sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest in a medium bowl. Set aside to macerate for up to 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Mix cream, eggs, and almond extract together in a separate bowl.
• Cut cold butter cubes into the flour mixture using a pastry cutter until texture resembles damp sand. Make a well in the center and pour in the cream mixture; fold it in gently with a wooden spoon until a shaggy dough forms.
• Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead a few times until dough comes together. Pat out until 1/2-inch thick. Fold dough in half and then in quarters, and pat out into a 1/2-inch thickness again. Repeat folding one more time.
• Using a 3-inch biscuit cutter and taking care not to twist the cutter in the dough, cut out 12 rounds and place at least 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter and sprinkle with sanding sugar.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown on top, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.
• While the shortcakes are cooling, make the whipped cream. Combine heavy cream, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla bean paste in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until stiff peaks form, about 4 minutes.
• Split the shortcakes in half and top with macerated strawberries and a dollop of whipped cream.

STRAWBERRY-SHORTCAKE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine strawberries, lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons granulated sugar. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and remaining 7 tablespoons granulated sugar in a large bowl. Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter, or rub in with your fingers, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in cream until dough starts to come together, then stir in strawberry mixture.
• Using a 1 1/2-inch ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment, spacing evenly apart. Sprinkle with sanding sugar, and bake until golden brown, 24 to 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool. Cookies are best served immediately, but can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 day.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Mix strawberries with 3 tablespoons sugar and refrigerate while juices develop, at least 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, remaining 2 tablespoons sugar, and salt in a medium bowl. Add heavy cream and mix until just combined. Place mixture in an ungreased 8-inch square pan and bake until golden, 18 to 20 minutes.
• Remove shortcake from pan and place on a rack to cool slightly. Cut into 6 pieces and split each piece in half horizontally.
• Spoon some of the strawberries with their juice onto each shortcake bottom. Top with a generous dollop of whipped cream and then the shortcake top. Spoon more strawberries over the top and serve.
• Using a mixer, beat the heavy cream, sugar, vanilla, and lemon zest until soft peaks form, about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.

STRAWBERRY & VANILLA SHORTCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7 and lightly flour a baking sheet. Put the flour, butter, sugar, half of the vanilla seeds and ¼ tsp salt into the bowl of a food processor, then pulse until fine. Tip into a large bowl. Beat the milk, egg and a good squeeze of lemon together, then tip into the bowl and bring together with a knife, using a cutting action, until you have a clumpy dough. Finally bring together with your hands if you need to.
• Lightly flour the work surface, tip the dough onto it, then quickly shape into a smooth-ish disc. Using a rolling pin, pat out to 2cm thick. Cut out 8 rounds with a smooth 7cm cutter (you'll need to pinch together the trimmings). Glaze just the tops with beaten egg, transfer to the floured sheet, then bake for 10-12 mins until risen and golden, and they sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. Cool on a wire rack.
• Beat the remaining vanilla seeds and icing sugar into the clotted cream. It will get runnier at first, but keep beating and it will thicken again. To serve, slice the very top from each shortcake to give a flat surface, then spoon over about 1 tsp jam. Top with a good dollop of the vanilla clotted cream and finish with the strawberries.

COOKIES & CREAM STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Beat cake mix, water, oil and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed until moistened. Beat 2 min. on medium speed. Stir in 1/2 cup of the chopped cookies. Pour evenly into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
• Bake 25 to 30 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 min.; remove from pans. Cool completely.
• Add 1 cup of the chopped cookies and the sliced strawberries to whipped topping in large bowl; stir gently. Place 1 of the cake layers on serving plate; spread with half of the whipped topping mixture. Cover with second cake layer; spread top with remaining whipped topping mixture. Sprinkle with remaining chopped cookies just before serving. Garnish with whole strawberries. Store in refrigerator.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE WITH MINI ANGEL FOOD CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 360 degrees F. I know that sounds like an odd temperature but the oven needs to be slightly hotter than 350 degrees F for this to bake properly.
• Prepare a 12 cup muffin pan with paper cup liners.
• Make sure that the mixing bowl, whips, beaters and muffin tin are free from any grease or fat residue.
• In a medium bowl mix half the super fine sugar with salt and cake flour. Set aside.
• Either in the bowl of a stand mixer with a whip attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, slowly beat egg whites with water, all extracts and cream of tartar for two minutes. Increase speed to medium, add remaining sugar and beat until the mixture has medium peaks.
• Remove from mixer. Place a sifter over mixture and slowly sift dry mixture over top of whipped egg whites while you gently fold in. Do this a little at a time until all of the dry has been folded in.
• Using a scoop, divide the mixture between the 12 cups. The batter will fill to the top and pile slightly higher than the edge of each cup. This is what you want.
• Gently place the tin in middle rack of preheated oven for 15 minutes. Insert a tooth pick into the center of a cupcake and if it comes out dry, remove the pan from the oven. If not, bake for 30 to 60 seconds longer.
• As soon as the cupcakes are cool enough to touch, remove to a cooling rack with paper cups left on. Once they cool, the paper will peel right off so try not to peel them until completely cool.
• Clean the mixing bowl and whip attachments then place both in the refrigerator. These will be used later to whip the cream and whipped cream comes out better with cold utensils and bowls.
• To prepare the strawberries, wash them and drain but do not dry them. Remove the green top then slice the berries vertically into thick slices and place into a medium bowl. They will be wet to handle which is what you want.
• Add the confectioner's sugar and toss. Over a period of 10-20 minutes, the confectioner's sugar will mix with the liquid and make a nice sauce. For a thicker sauce, add more powdered sugar. Set aside.
• Remove the chilled bowl and whips and whip cream to whipped consistency. The berries are sweet enough so no need to add more sugar to the cream.
• To assemble, peel two cooled cakes and place on a serving dish. Ladle berries and sauce over both and top with whipped cream.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Wash the fruit and pat dry. Slice strawberries and place into a bowl. Add in the sugar and gently stir together. Cover and place in the refrigerator for two hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Cut the angel food cake into cubed pieces and place them onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes until they are slightly toasted.
• Remove from oven and cool.
• In clear glasses, layer the angel food cake, strawberries and whipped cream. Repeat layer once again and top with whipped cream.
• Serve immediately.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES

Steps:

• Mix strawberries and 1/4 c sugar. Set aside.
• Heat oven to 425°F.
• Mix Bisquick, 2 T sugar and milk until soft dough forms.
• Divide dough into fourths. Drop each fourth onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
• Split warm shortcakes. Fill and top with strawberries and whipped topping.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE BITES

Steps:

• Combine the sugar and 1/2 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a rolling boil over medium heat. Add the sliced strawberries and continue to cook until the syrup thickens slightly and forms small foamy bubbles, about 5 minutes. Let cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
• Whisk the heavy cream in a medium mixing bowl until it forms soft peaks. Add 1 tablespoon of the strawberry syrup and whisk to firm peaks. Remove the sliced strawberries from the syrup and discard or save for another use.
• Process the shortbread cookies in a blender or food processor or crush by hand to make fine crumbs. Transfer the crumbs to a plate.
• Holding one of the strawberries by the stem, dip it into the syrup, let the excess drain off and then dip it into the cookie crumbs. You may need to pat on the crumbs a bit to make sure they adhere to the strawberry. Place the strawberry on a plate. Repeat with the remaining strawberries.
• Spoon the whipped cream into a piping bag fitted with a small star tip. Pipe a small rosette of whipped cream in the middle of each strawberry. Serve within an hour.