Strawberry Shortcake Sundaes

Strawberry Shortcake Sundaes. The perfect summer dessert for backyard barbecue season or for birthday parties, picnics or any time!

Strawberry Shortcake Sundaes

This is a variation on one of the most commonly made desserts at our house, especially at summer barbecues and picnics. I love shortcakes made with sweet biscuits, simply filled with fresh fruit and topped with whipped cream.

Here are a couple of examples of other versions featured on this blog in the past:

Strawberry Orange Shortcake

Strawberry Orange Shortcake with Cointreau

Chocolate Strawberry Shortcakes

Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake

Today’s recipe uses Frozen Strawberries to make a very simple sauce and the biscuits are filled with good vanilla ice cream.

When the kids had these at dinner last night, they didn’t look up from their plates for 10 whole minutes of blissful silence. That might be a good enough reason in itself to make these easy and delectable sundaes.

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Strawberry Shortcake Sundaes

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

35 mins

 

The perfect summer dessert for backyard barbecue season.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: strawberry

Servings: 12 sundaes

Author: Barry C. Parsons

Ingredients

• 2 liters/quarts of good quality vanilla ice cream

For the Shortcake Biscuits

• 1 ¾ cups flour
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 cup very cold butter cut in cubes
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• ½ cup milk

For the Strawberry Sauce

• 6 cups frozen strawberries
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup apple juice or water
• 1 rounded tbsp corn starch dissolved in a little cold water

Instructions

1. In a food processor, combine the flour, sugar and baking powder.
2. Add the cold butter and pulse process until this mixture resembles a coarse meal. It is very important that pieces of butter remain in this mixture. Transfer from processor to a large bowl.
3. Mix together the vanilla extract, lemon juice and milk.
4. Pour over the dry ingredients and toss together lightly just until a soft dough forms. Do not over mix.
5. Drop the dough in large rounded tablespoons into greased muffin tins or baking ramekins . Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 15 minutes or until evenly golden brown.
6. Cool completely on a wire rack after removing the biscuits from the pans.
7. Split in half and fill the biscuits with scoops of good vanilla ice-cream. Top with Strawberry Sauce and some sweetened whipped cream.

To make the Strawberry Sauce

1. Gently bring the ingredients to a boil. It is important not to boil too vigorously or the strawberries will not maintain their shape.
2. After boiling gently for a few minutes, thicken the sauce with a slurry of the corn starch dissolved in a little cold water. Cool completely before serving.

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