Quick & Dirty Strawberry Shortcake
An incredible, dairy free and delicious, Strawberry shortcake, ready in minutes.
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 4servings | 10minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 10minutes |
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Ingredients
Basic Quick Shortcake Biscuit (see notes of chocolate variation)
- 1cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4teaspoon salt
- 2tablespoons sugar(plus more for sprinkling on top)
-
1/4cup
coconut oil, melted[Nutiva Organic, Neutral Tasting, Steam Refined Coconut Oil from non-GMO, Sustainably Farmed Coconuts, 54 Fluid Ounces
]
- 1/3cup plain non-dairy milk
- 1/2teaspoon vanilla extract
]
Macerated Strawberries
- 4cups hulled and sliced strawberries
- 1/4cup sugar
Instructions
Macerated Strawberries
- Wash and hull the strawberries. Slice them and add to a large bowl. Add sugar and mash them lightly with the bottom of a cup or with a fork, letting their juices release. Refrigerate until ready to use. The longer they can macerate, the better, but 30min-1 hour is fine too).
Basic Quick Shortcake Biscuit
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the oil, non-dairy milk and vanilla extract.
- Mix it all together until well combined and dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
- Section out into 4 pieces, form into a biscuit (patty) shape and place on an UNGREASED baking sheet.
- Sprinkle tops lightly with additional sugar.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until bottoms are just lightly browned. (Be sure to check after 9 minutes —> the bottoms can burn fast!)
- Take out of oven and let cool.
- Slice biscuits in 1/2 carefully. Place bottom half on a plate, spoon 1/4 of the strawberries onto the biscuit. Top strawberries with whipped cream or ice cream and then put the top biscuit on. Garnish with additional cream and strawberries if desired.
Recipe Notes
(*) You can use any type of vegetable oil here, but I find coconut oil to give the best result. I use refined coconut oil so it doesn’t have that coconut flavor and is just a nice mellow oil. If you use olive oil or any strong flavor oil, expect it to show in the final product.
Chocolate Quick Biscuit Variation:
Use 4 tablespoons sugar and add 2 tablespoons cocoa powder to the dry mix. Increase the milk to 1/2 cup. Follow instructions as normal.