Strawberry Shortcake
Ingredients:
175g butter
75g caster sugar
175g flour
1 tbsp fine semolina
500g strawberries
extra strawberries for making the coulis
juice of 1 lemon
icing sugar for dusting
1 tub of Kelly’s of Cornwall Cornish Dairy Vanilla Ice Cream
Method:
Preheat the oven to 160ºC.
First make the shortbread biscuit. Soften the butter in a food processor or with a wooden spoon and cream together with the sugar. Add the flour and semolina and mix together. Divide the mixture in two.
Using your fingers, press the shortcake mixture into a round tart tin or ring and repeat the process. Prick the shortcakes with a fork and score eight portions in each with a knife. Place in the fridge to cool.
Hull and quarter the strawberries and place in a bowl with lemon juice. Reserve a handful of the strawberries and blend with some lemon juice until smooth, pass through a sieve and reserve.
Bake the shortcakes for around 30 minutes. Once golden brown, remove from the oven and allow to cool. Remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
Place one shortcake base on a serving plate. You can score it again if you need to, which will make it easier to serve. Arrange half the strawberries on top, drizzle over a little juice and a drop of coulis and place the other shortcake on top.
Add the rest of the strawberries and coulis, sprinkle wirth icing sugar and serve with Vanilla ice cream.
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