Let's Make a Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

A good strawberry shortcake recipe has to be everyone's favorite dessert. Whether its a basic dessert for a family meal, a dessert for a tea or shower, or a decadent, sinfully rich dessert for a very special occasion, you can't go wrong with strawberry shortcake.

A strawberrry shortcake recipe doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming to be good. My mother's strawberry shortcake was as simple as they come, but it was good! She didn't actually use a recipe.

Here are the instructions for

Mother's Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

1. 1 one-egg cake
2. 1 pint of whipping cream, whipped, sweetened and flavored with a bit of vanilla
3. 1 pint of strawberries, washed, sliced, sprinkled with sugar and allowed to sit until juice forms in the bowl

Bake the one-egg cake in an eight inch square pan. I'll include a recipe for a one-egg cake below. Cool the cake in the pan, remove from pan and slice in half to form two layers. Assemble at serving time. Spread whipped cream over the top of one layer, then spoon half the strawberries and juice over this. Place the second layer over the top of the whipped cream and berries. Place the remaining whipped cream over the top, then add the remaining berries and juice.

Recipe for Simple One-Egg Cake

1. 1 3/4 cups flour
2. 1 1/4 cups sugar
3. 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
4. 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. 1/3 cup butter
6. 1 cup milk
7. 1 teaspoon vanilla
8. 1 egg

Method: Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Set aside. In a second bowl, mix together the sugar and butter. When well mixed, at the egg and mix until light. Add milk and dry ingredients to the batter alternately, one third at a time. Blend. When batter is moist, pour into prepared eight in pan and bake at 350 F for about 45 minutes or until tester comes out clean.

This one's a traditional recipe.

Shortcake Dough:

1. 2 cups flour
2. 4 tsp baking powder
3. 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
4. 1/2 tsp salt
5. 2 tsp sugar
6. 1/2 cups hard butter
7. 2/3 cup cold milk

Filling and Topping

1. 1 quart of strawberries
2. 1/2 pint whipping cream

First, set aside about a dozen large strawberries to be used as decoration. Wash, hull and slice remaining strawberries. Add 1/4 cup of sugar and let sit to form juice.

To make the dough, sift the dry incredients together, including the sugar. Using a pastry blender, cut in the hard butter until it is the size of small peas. Add milk, mixing quickly until the flour is moistened. Press dough into a ball. Pat it out on lightly floured board until it is 3/4 of an inch thick. Cut in rounds with floured three inch cutter, then bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for eight or nine minutes.

When cool, cut each in half and butter the bottom half. Cover with sliced berries. Cover with the top half. Put more berries on the dop half, then add the sweetened, whipped cream. Garnish with the whole berries that you set aside earlier.

If you prefer, you could cook the dough for this strawberry shortcake recipe as one big round, rather than making individual cakes. Bake as above for 12 to 15 minutes.