Strawberry Banana Shortcake Food

STRAWBERRY BANANA SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325F. In a large bowl, beat the egg whites until they are foamy (not stiff).
• Add the cream of tartar, and beat until stiff.
• Gradually beat in ½ C of sugar at a time until smoothly combined.
• Mix in vanilla.
• Mix in Salt.
• Gently fold in the flour.
• Pour the angel food cake mixture into an angel food tubular pan.*
• Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until the top is nicely browned.
• Add 1 lb. sliced strawberries and 3 sliced bananas to a bowl. Mix with 1 Tbsp. lemon juice.
• Add to the top of cooled angel food cake. Top with a dollop of whipped cream. Enjoy!
• Tips: *For easy cake pan removal, try using parchment paper in the bottom of the pan.

STRAWBERRY BANANA SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Coat a 9" round cake pan with cooking spray and line bottoms with wax paper and spray wax paper with cooking spray; set aside.
• Beat egg at medium speed with a mixer until foamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating well.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• In a separate bowl, combine buttermilk, melted margarine, and vanilla.
• With mixer running at low speed, add flour mixture to egg mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake 28 minutes.
• Let cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan.
• Let cool completely on wire rack.
• Combine yogurt and brown sugar; stir well.
• Using a serrated knife, split cake in half horizontally.
• Place bottom layer, cut side up, on serving plate.
• Spread with half of yogurt mixture, top with strawberries.
• Combine bananas and lemon juice and toss gently. Drain bananas and discard juice.
• Arrange bananas over strawberries; drizzle with remaining yogurt mixture.
• Top with remaining layer.
• Sift powdered sugar over cake.
• Serve with whipped cream also, if desired.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES, DECONSTRUCTED

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
• Sift the flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, the baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the butter and mix on low speed until the butter is the size of peas. Combine the eggs and heavy cream in a measuring cup and, with the mixer still on low, add to the flour mixture. Mix until just combined. The dough will be sticky.
• Dump the dough out onto a well-floured surface. Flour a rolling pin and roll the dough 1/2 to 5/8 inch thick. You should see lumps of butter in the dough. Dip a 2-inch plain round cutter in flour and cut 16 to 18 biscuits. Place on the sheet pan, brush the tops of the biscuits with the egg wash, and sprinkle with sugar. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the tops are browned and the insides are fully baked. Cool on the pan.
• To serve, toss the strawberries with 1/3 cup of sugar and the Grand Marnier in a medium bowl. Place the berries in 6 martini glasses, top each with a dollop of whipped cream, and serve with 2 or 3 shortcakes on the side.

THE BEST CLASSIC STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• For the shortcakes: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Whisk the heavy cream, sour cream and vanilla in a small bowl; refrigerate until ready to use. Pulse the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt in a food processor until combined. Add the butter; pulse until the mixture looks like fine meal. Pour in the chilled heavy cream mixture and pulse until just combined.
• Lightly flour a work surface and dump the dough onto it. Pat out the dough 1/2-inch thick. Cut out as many biscuits as you can with a 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter. Then pat the remaining dough out to 1/2-inch thick again. Cut more biscuits; you should get 12.
• Put 6 of the biscuits on the prepared baking sheet. Brush the tops generously with cream, then top each cream-brushed biscuit with one of the remaining biscuit rounds. (This makes it easier to split once they are baked.) Brush the top of each biscuit stack with more heavy cream and sprinkle 1 teaspoon granulated sugar on each biscuit.
• Bake the biscuits until golden and puffed, about 30 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
• Meanwhile, for the topping: Toss the strawberries and 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar in a medium bowl.
• Just before serving, beat the heavy cream, sour cream, the remaining 2 tablespoons brown sugar and vanilla in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until soft peaks form, about 2 minutes.
• Split the shortcakes in half. Spoon half the cream on the bottom of the biscuits, top evenly with the strawberries and top with the remaining cream. Put each biscuit top on and serve.

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.

SKILLET STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a 10-inch cast iron skillet; line the bottom with a round of parchment paper.
• Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt for shortcake together in a large mixing bowl. Whisk buttermilk, egg yolk, and vanilla together in a glass measuring cup until evenly combined; set aside.
• Scatter the butter pieces over the flour mixture. Use a rubbing motion with your fingertips and cut the butter into the flour mixture to distribute. Create a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour the buttermilk mixture into the center of the well. Use a rubber spatula to mix the flour into the buttermilk mixture to form a moist, shaggy dough.
• Transfer the dough to the prepared skillet. Smooth the dough to distribute evenly in the pan. Press the sliced strawberries gently into the surface.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and baked through, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes.
• To prepare the topping, stir together the quartered strawberries, sugar, and lemon zest in a medium mixing bowl to macerate.
• To prepare the whipped cream, combine whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla in a chilled mixing bowl. Using an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat at medium speed until soft peaks form.
• Spoon the strawberries and juices over the shortcake. Serve with whipped cream.

BANANA SPLIT SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Place cake slices on four dessert plates. Top each with bananas and ice cream. Drizzle with chocolate sauce.

STRAWBERRY BANANA SPLIT CAKE

Steps:

• Combine the crumbs, butter and sugar; press into an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. dish. Chill for 1 hour., In a bowl, beat the butter, confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth. Spread over crust; chill for 30 minutes. Layer with bananas, pineapple and strawberries. , In a small bowl, beat cream until soft peaks form. Add confectioners' sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Spread over fruit. Sprinkle with nuts. Chill until serving.

CHEF JOHN'S CLASSIC STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Melt butter over medium heat in small saucepan. Stir continually, letting foam dissipate, just until butter begins to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Whisk together self-rising flour and 1/4 cup white sugar in a bowl. Add milk, 1/4 cup cream, and toasted butter. Mix just until ingredients come together. Wad up dough and transfer to floured surface. Press or roll dough into a rectangle about 1-inch thick. Cut in half lengthwise, and then cut each half into 3 portions. Place shortcake pieces on prepared baking sheet. Brush with cream; sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven until gold brown, 15 to 18 minutes. Transfer shortcakes to a rack to cool completely.
• Sprinkle sliced strawberries with sugar; stir until sugar begins to dissolve. Refrigerate until juice from berries is extracted, about 1 hour.
• Whip 3/4 cup cream with 1 tablespoon sugar and a few drops of vanilla in bowl with an electric mixer.
• Split biscuit in half. Place bottom half in a bowl. Spoon strawberries and juice over shortbread half. Top with shortbread top and spoon on more strawberries and juice over the shortbread. Finish with a dollop of whipped cream.

CHASEN'S BANANA SHORTCAKE WITH BANANA SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour 12 individual charlotte or cake pans.
• In large mixing bowl of electric mixer on high speed, cream butter with the sugar until pale and fluffy for approximately 5 minutes.
• Scrape bowl down often. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Continue beating on high speed for 6 minutes while frequently scraping down the sides of the bowl. Set aside.
• Resift flour with salt and baking powder. Add flour to cream mixture using lowest speed of the mixer. When incorporated, add cream. Beat only until blended.
• Place cake pans on baking sheet and divide the batter equally. Bake on the center rack 25-30 minutes or until toothpick interted in middle of each cake comes out clean.
• Cool 5 minutes on a wire rack in pans; remove and place right side up on cooling rack until completely cooled.
• For the whipped filling beat or whip the cream until stiff; fold in sugar and vanilla.
• Set aside (chill).
• For the banana sauce, toss the banana slices with the rum. Set aside. Whip the cream with sugar and vanilla until stiff. Fold softened ice cream into the whipped cream.
• Fold in the macerated bananas (with the rum) into the whipped cream mixture.
• To assemble:.
• Slice each cake horizontally into two equal layers. Place cake tops upside down on dessert plates. Poke or prick each cake with fork and drizzle with the rum. Spread chilled whipped filling generously on top of cake. Place a single layer of bananas to cover filling. Cover with more filling and top with the remaining cake layer. Spoon a dollop of filling on top of cake. Chill.
• When ready to serve, place remaining banana slices on top of the cake. Spoon on the Banana Sauce and Hot Fudge Sauce.