Shortcake is an English cake, in fact, do not confuse this with sweets. This layered cake is stacked on top of each other and is a very popular Christmas cake. The first recipe for shortcakes was written in an English book in 1588, but was combined with strawberries in 1850, and the cake was harvested as a strawberry harvest on June 14, summer. The French mixed the pastry cream with the cake shorts and it has become the final shape today. Today in cook plans, we will teach you very tasty strawberry cake short. Children will surely fall in love with this cake. This cake does not have much sweetness, and you must use confectionery cream and strawberry fruit.
Ingredients :
- Strawberries: 250 grams
- Flour: 2 scoops
- Sugar: 2 tablespoons
- Milk: 1/4 cup
- Baking powder: 2 teaspoons
- Eggs: 1 piece
- Cold butter: 70 grams
- Buttermilk: 2/3 measure
- Vanilla: 1/4 teaspoon
Recipes :
Rinse the strawberries well and remove the leaves, then pour into a strainer to dry. Cut the strawberries in half and pour into a bowl. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to it and stir and set aside until the sugar is absorbed by the strawberries. Turn on the oven to heat for 15 minutes.
Pour the flour with the baking powder and 1/4 of the sugar into the food processor and beat well for a few seconds until the coarse grains of sugar become finer, then chop the butter into smaller pieces and add to the flour and beat again a few times to mix. To prepare buttermilk at home, mix 2-3 cups of milk with 2 teaspoons of white vinegar and set aside for 10 minutes until the milk is cut. When it is sliced and thickened, our buttermilk butter is present. And beat a little with a fork, then add to our dough with vanilla and turn on the machine again to get a soft dough.
Cake short do not need to rest, but you can refrigerate for 10 minutes.cake short are a little sticky. Sprinkle flour on the work surface and gently open the dough with a rolling pin to a diameter of 2 cm and cut it into a round mold with a diameter of 8 cm and place it in the oven tray that you have previously greased.
Then place the baking tray in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for 20 minutes until the cake shorts are cooked and puffed. Remove the tray after baking and remove it from the greaseproof paper when it is hot. Pour the pastry cream that you have already formed into the funnel and pour it with a simple pipette. Take one of the round cakes and pipe the cream on it and put strawberries on the creams and put another cake shorts on the cream and put strawberries on it, make the whole cake in the same way.
