Have plans to go berry picking this summer? If you are, you may find yourself with an overabundance of fresh fruit. After snacking endlessly on berries between every meal, use some of that fresh summer fruit to create an amazing dessert at home, like strawberry shortcake. This 100% from-scratch recipe is better than those processed store-bought cakes from the grocery store.
June officially marks the start of strawberry season, which means now is the perfect time to try out a recipe that will highlight these sweet berries’ beautiful color and taste.
First, you’ll need to make your shortcake biscuits out of flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt and pepper. Use a pastry blender to mix cold butter until it’s crumbly and then add it into the flour mixture along with fresh diced strawberries and buttermilk. Oh yeah, this shortcake recipe even has berries in the biscuits….