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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Strawberry shortcake


Strawberries are in season now and both my son Aditya and my hubby Manish looooooove strawberries (just the same as i looooooove mangoes:)) So for some reason I thought that last Sunday was the father's day and myself and Aditya decided to make a cake. Strawberry shortcake happens to be Manish's favorite , so we decided to do that. I would make the cake and Aditya would help me put together the strawberry shortcake. When everything was ready, I realized that father'day was not that Sunday but is on the 19th of June:)). Anyways who needs an occassion to celebrate.;-) The main purpose was to make Manish happy and that we sure did.






We as a family loooove strawberries. So whenever strawberries are in season , you will most likely find atleast 3-4 strawberry boxes. We eat them as is for snacks or use them in smoothies. But my husband loves the strawberry shortcake. Its a great dessert option thats very easy to put together.


Strawberry shortcake means strawberry sauce over a shortcake which usually is a biscuit. The whole thing is then topped with some whipped cream typically flavored with sugar and vanilla. I  do the strawberry shortcake in a different way. This  recipe is adapted from the recipe my co- sister's recipe. As a base she uses the dessert cake cups/shells you get in the grocery store. Instead of that, I use a slice of pound cake as the base. Pour the strawberry sauce over the pound cake and top it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and strawberry shortcake is ready. Its an easy recipe but very very delicious.

To prepare the shortcake, we need to prepare the strawberry sauce first.

RECIPE FOR STRAWBERRY SAUCE :

INGREDIENTS:

  • Strawberries (cut in to 4 pieces) : 2 cups
  • Sugar : 1/2 cup  (Increase or decrease according to taste)
  • Water : 3/4 cup

PROCEDURE:
  1. Heat water, strawberries and sugar.
  2. Once the mixture comes to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes. Turn off heat when the sauce is slightly thick.
  3. You can use this in strawberry shortcakes or just with vanilla ice cream.
Now that sauce is taken care of, we will now see how to pout together the strawberry short cake:)

Strawberry shortcake.

INGREDIENTS:
Serves 1
  1. Slice of  Pound Cake - 1 (You can find the recipe for home made pound cake here)
  2. Strawberry sauce - 4 tbsp or as required (Recipe is given at the end)
  3. Vanilla ice cream - 1 scoop or as  required 
METHOD :
  1. Place the slice of pound cake on a plate or bowl. 
  2. Pour the strawberry sauce over it
  3. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
  4. Pour some more of the sauce.



Note:
  • As mentioned earlier, you can make this  recipe "Semi-homemade" by using the dessert cake cups/shells. If you have the sauce and the ice cream in hand, this is an easy to put together dish:)
  • Instead of ice cream you can use whipped cream flavored with vanilla and sugar.
  • As an alternative to the pound cake, you can use a biscuit slit in to 2. But again I prefer the cake. :))

So prepare this easy breezy dessert for your loved ones.. believe me it is sure going to be a super hit:)



5 comments:

  1. Simply awesome. I love strawberries so much and when I read Shortcake, it made more interesting.
    When I get some fresh strawberries will try.
    TFS Shubha.

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    1. My family too loves strawberries (although i am little more partial to mangoes;))if u dont want to bake the cake, you can easily use Monginis slice cake too..get the ice cream.. all you have to do is prepare the sauce..voila dessert ready:)

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  2. This looks absolutely delicious! I can’t wait to try it!

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