Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make Strawberry Shortcake.
Strawberry Shortcake is a beautiful dessert that's perfect for spring and summer when strawberries are in season.
To start you'll need 4 cups of all purpose flour.
You want to place that into the bowl of a food processor.
Now you could also do this in a bowl with a pastry cutter,
but trust me, a food processor is a lot easier.
Next add in 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar,
2 tablespoons of baking powder,
and 2 teaspoons of salt.
Then we'll pop the lid on and give this a quick pulse.
Now this is a lot of the flour mixture,
so depending on the size of your food processor you may need to do this in batches.
We are making a three layer strawberry shortcake, so it's a lot of dough.
Next you'll need 8 tablespoons of cubed salted butter.
We'll place that in and we'll start mixing that in as well,
or you can use a pastry cutter if you're doing this by hand.
So just a few pulses to combine until it looks like cornmeal.
Once the butter is all cut in we're going to pour this into a large mixing bowl.
Now if you don't have a food processor,
you'd be using a pastry cutter like this and rocking it gently back and forth to cut all of the butter in.
Or if you don't have a pastry cutter you'd use two butter knives
and simply cross them against each other to cut the butter in that way,
but that is significantly harder.
Then we'll pour in 1 cup of milk,
and I'd use either 2% or whole milk,
as well as 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream,
and we're going to stir this together.
You should end up with a nice sticky dough.
Divide it into 3 pieces.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and lightly grease three 9-inch cake pans,
and I like to add a little piece of parchment paper on the bottom to make sure our cakes come out super easy.
Take each piece of dough and press it gently into the bottom of that pan,
and you want it to be as flat and smooth as possible.
Once they're all smooshed in the pan we're going to bake these at 400 degrees fahrenheit
for 20 to 25 minutes until the tops are golden brown.
Meanwhile we're going to put together our strawberry and whipped cream fillings.
You'll need 2 pounds of quartered strawberries in a bowl.
You'll want to sprinkle on 2 tablespoons of sugar,
the zest from 1 lemon,
and the juice from 1 lemon which is about 4 tablespoons,
and toss it all together.
Set those aside and they'll get all sweet and syrup-y and delicious.
I love adding the lemon and lemon zest because it adds a lot of brightness to the strawberries.
Next we're going to make our whipped cream,
and we want to make a stabilized whipped cream,
so we have some special additions today.
Pour 2 cups of heavy cream into the bowl of a stand mixer,
or if you don't have one you can also use a hand mixer.
Then we'll sprinkle in 1/3 cup of powdered sugar,
which has cornstarch cut in and will help stabilize it,
then I add in 2 tablespoons of actual cornstarch as well,
and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract,
and we'll start this whipping.
Now instead of using the cornstarch and powdered sugar
you could also use gelatin,
but I find that this is an easier way to stabilize whipped cream at home.
After a few minutes of whipping,
stiff peaks will form and you're ready.
Place your whipped cream in the fridge until you are ready to assemble the cake.
You need the cake layers to be completely cool before assembling or your whipped cream will melt.
Start assembling by placing a bunch of strawberries on the first layer.
Then we're going to take our whipped cream,
I've put mine in a piping bag but you can just scoop it on with a spoon as well,
and we'll give a nice layer of whipped cream as well.
Get some of those berries back on,
and then just keep on layering until you get to the top.
On this top pieces I'm just going to give a swirl in the middle and finish it off with a little pile of berries on top.
This cake is best eaten fresh and needs to be stored in the refrigerator.
Now I'm sure you're all wondering how to cut it.
The trick is to use a serrated knife.
That'll give you a clean slice.
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