Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, scones (sweet biscuits) for strawberry shortcake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Scones tend to be dryer than biscuits, contain more sugar if sweet and often have some sort of inclusion like fruit, nuts and/or zest. Biscuits are light, sometimes flaky and moist with a less sweet flavor profile than scones (if sweet). They're made with butter, lard or some other fat and milk, cream or.
Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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:
- Prepare 1 cup AP flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp sugar, plus more for sprinkling
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 4 tbsp cold butter, cubed
- Prepare 1/3 cup half-and-half, plus more for brushing
And you don't want tough scones. Just as our strawberry shortcake recipe has streusel, we wanted to add streusel to the scones. Butter, flour and sugar mix together in sweet crumbles. The streusel gets baked into the top of the scones and give a sweet crunch to each bite.
Steps to make Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake:
- Preheat oven to 400°F
- In cold glass bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Add cold butter and blend with a cold pastry blender or fork until coarse meal is formed.
- 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.
- Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and fold over a couple of times just until it holds together.
- Pat to about 3/4 inch thick and cut into 4 3" biscuits. Mine were a little thinner, so I got 5 biscuits.
- Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush tops with half-and-half and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake 12-15 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
- For strawberry shortcake: Split biscuit, add mascerbated strawberries with syrup on bottom biscuit. Add whipped cream then biscuit top.
This Appalachian inspired Strawberry Shortcake Recipe features biscuit scones, fresh strawberries, strawberry jam and whipped cream. 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.
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