Strawberry Shortcake Sliders

I love this recipe for strawberry shortcake. Strawberry shortcake is the best dessert. Make it after a bbq, after a heavy dinner, family get together. It’s a light, sweet, delicious dessert, perfect for spring time or summer time. The whole family will love these strawberry shortcake sliders. It’s easy, cheap, and oh so decadent.

Strawberry Shortcake Sliders Recipe

Take traditional strawberry shortcake up a notch with this dessert recipe. With moist and tender shortcake bottoms and tops, they are layered with strawberry filling, juicy fresh strawberries, and whipped cream. Served as mini sliders, they make a delicious – and beautiful – dessert.

This strawberry shortcake slider recipe has 3 delicious parts to it – shortcake, strawberry filling, and whipped cream. Combined together, they make a delightfully tasty trio. Here’s how to make them.

Ingredients Needed To Make Delicious Strawberry Shortcake

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons sugar, divided
• 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
• 2 1/4 cups heavy cream, divided
• 6 cups stemmed fresh California strawberries, divided
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Fresh Mint for garnish

How to make strawberry shortcake from scratch

Step 1:

Stir flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl.

Step 2:

With a fork or pastry cutter, cut in butter to fine particles. Don’t use room temperature butter, use cold butter.

Step 3:

Stir in 1 to 1 1/2 cups cream (enough so that dough holds together and is soft but not sticky).

Step 4:

On a floured surface, knead dough lightly a few times to form a ball.

Step 5:

Pat into a 1/2-inch-thick circle.

Step 6:

Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 15 minutes.

Step 7:

Heat oven to 400 °F.

Step 8:

With a 2-inch round cutter, cut dough into 12 circles.

Step 9:

Place on parchment-lined baking sheet; bake 15-20 minutes or until golden.

How to make strawberry shortcake filling

While the shortcakes are baking, prepare the filling.

Step 10:

In a saucepan, simmer 3 cups sliced strawberries with 3/4 cup sugar and 3/4 cup water.

Step 11:

Cook and simmer until the filling becomes thick and jam-like – (about 10 minutes). You’ll know it is done if you dip the back of a spoon in it and the mixture sticks to it.

Step 12:

Set it aside to cool completely before assembling shortcake sliders.

Notes:

I like adding a little lemon zest and a little lemon juice to the fresh berries jam. It gives it a little zip. Really makes this the best strawberry shortcake recipe a little better.

How To Make Homemade WHipped Cream

Step 13

Whip 3/4 cup cream with vanilla and 1 tablespoon sugar until soft peaks form. (Or, if you want to save time, canned whipped cream works great, too!) You can use an electric mixer to make the whipped cream for your homemade strawberry shortcake quicker.

Assemble the strawberry shortcake sliders

To serve, cut shortcakes in half horizontally. Place 3 shortcake bottoms on each of 4 plates. Top with cooked strawberries, whipped cream and sliced strawberries, dividing ingredients evenly.

Place tops on shortcakes; add more whipped cream, fresh strawberry slices, and sprinkle with mint.

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