Triple Berry Shortcake Recipes

TRIPLE BERRY SHORTCAKES

Steps:

• Toss berries, sugar and liqueur. Let stand 1 hour.
• Top each shortcake cup with sorbet and berries.

TRIPLE BERRY CREAM CHEESE SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• For the cream cheese swirl: Mix together the cream cheese, sugar and egg white in a small bowl until smooth.
• For the berries and cream: Gently toss the mixed berries with the sugar, lemon juice and orange zest in a large bowl. Let stand, gently stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is juicy (some of the raspberries will break down), about 1 hour. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9-inch square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray and line the bottom with parchment.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and egg. Add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the milk and beginning and ending with the flour. Beat until the flour is just incorporated.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared baking dish and smooth with an offset spatula. Add big dollops of the cream cheese mixture all over the surface and use a small spoon to swirl it in slightly, then smooth the top again.
• Bake the cake until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool the cake in the baking dish for 10 minutes, then remove and cool it completely, cream cheese-side-up.
• Cut the cake into squares and serve topped with the berries. Add a dollop of whipped cream. Garnish with the mint.

MIXED BERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• For the biscuits: Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• Add the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt to the bowl of a food processor (or a large bowl). Add the butter pieces and pulse until the butter is completely cut into the flour mixture (or use a pastry cutter if using a bowl). Combine the buttermilk and vanilla in a measuring cup and while pulsing (or stirring) the dough, drizzle in the buttermilk mixture until the dough just comes together and is no longer crumbly.
• Drop the mixture in 8 clumps between 2 baking sheets, then bake until golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Set aside and allow to cool completely.
• For the berries: Wash the berries, slice the strawberries and transfer to a bowl. Sprinkle on the granulated sugar, then add the orange zest and juice. Stir gently, then set aside for 15 to 20 minutes to allow a syrup to develop.
• For the sweet yogurt cream: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip the cream, yogurt, granulated sugar and brown sugar on high until stiff. (Note: It won't get quite as stiff as regular whipped cream.)
• To serve, lay one biscuit on a plate, top with syrupy fruit, then top with a good spoonful of cream.

TRIPLE BERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition., Transfer batter to a greased 13x9-in. pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 25-30 minutes. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack., For topping, in a large bowl, combine berries; add sugar and toss gently to coat. Serve with cake; top with whipped cream if desired.

THREE-BERRY SHORTCAKES

Steps:

• Sprinkle fruit with 1/3 cup granulated sugar; let stand 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 425°F.
• Stir Bisquick mix, milk, 3 tablespoons granulated sugar and the butter until soft dough forms. Turn dough onto surface dusted with Bisquick mix. Knead 8 to 10 times. Roll dough 1/2 inch thick. Cut with floured 3-inch cutter.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
• Mix sour cream and brown sugar. Split shortcakes; spoon fruit between halves and over tops. Top with sour cream mixture.

PERFECT BERRY SHORTCAKES

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat to 425 degrees. Mix flour, salt, baking powder and 3 Tbs. sugar in a medium bowl. Grate 2 Tbs. of the butter on the coarse holes of a box grater into dry ingredients; toss to coat. Repeat grating and tossing with remaining butter. Combine egg and half-and-half; pour into flour mixture. Toss with a fork to form large clumps. Lightly press clumps into a ball; add a teaspoon more half-and-half to the bowl if dough won't come together.
• Turn dough onto work surface; press into an 8-by-4- to 5-inch rectangle. Cut into 6 squares, placing them 1 inch apart on a small baking sheet. (Can be refrigerated up to 2 hours before baking.) Before baking, brush tops with optional egg white for a particularly attractive sheen. Sprinkle with remaining 2 Tbs. sugar. Bake until golden brown, about 12 to 14 minutes. Let cool until warm, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Mix thawed and fresh berries with sugar in a bowl; let stand until sugar dissolves. With a hand mixer, beat cream to soft peaks, gradually adding 1 Tb. sugar, then vanilla.
• Split each cake crosswise; spoon a portion of berries over each cake bottom, then a dollop of whipped cream over berries. Cap with cake top and serve immediately.

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease 2 9" round pans.
• In a small bowl slice 2 cups of strawberries and add 1 Tbsp brown sugar and stir to coat, set aside.
• In another bowl haul the remainder of the strawberries, half or leave whole.
• Add the remaining Tbsp of brown sugar and stir to coat, set aside.
• In a large bowl add sugar and butter, beat at medium high speed until smooth.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Combine flour, cocoa, soda and salt and gradually beat into the egg, butter mixture.
• Melt the chocolate into the boiling water, or microwave to melt chocolate.
• Gradually beat into the batter (The batter is thin).
• Divide the batter pouring it into the two pans.
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• Cool in pans for 20 minutes, then remove from the pans and cool completely.
• In a bowl beat cream and confectioners' sugar until slightly thick at medium speed.
• Add the melted white chocolate to the cream increase the speed to medium high and beat until stiff peaks form.
• Put 1 1/2 cup of the cream in a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip, set aside.
• When cake has completely cooled spread 1/2 the jam on the the top of the bottom layer.
• Spread the other 1/2 of jam on what will be the bottom of the top layer.
• Use 2 cups of whipping cream and spread on top of jam of bottom layer of cake.
• Arrange the strawberry slices evenly over the whipped cream layer.
• Then place top layer of cake on the cake with the jam side going on top of the strawberries.
• Use remaining whipped cream spread evenly to cover the cake.
• Arrange the whole or halved strawberries on the top of the cake leaving about a 1" boarder on the outer edge.
• Take the pastry bag and pipe rosettes around the edge of cake.
• Enjoy.