No Fail! Easy Shortcake
- 3 Eggs
- 60 grams Granulated sugar
- 60 grams Cake flour
- 20 grams Butter (softened)
- 200 ml + 15 grams Heavy cream and Sugar
- 24 grams Powdered sugar (or the sugar packet for sweetening yogurt)
- 4 tbsp Water
- 1 tbsp Strawberry Liqueur
- 1 pack Strawberries
- Sheet parchment paper on a 15 cm cake mould.
- Softened the butter in the microwave.
- Sift the flour.
- Separate the egg yolks and whites.
- Put the whites in a large bowl and whip into a meringue by adding sugar in 3 batches.
- Stir in egg yolks, and fold in the flour with a rubber spatula until the flour has blended.
- Mix in melted butter a little at a time, with a rubber spatula until fully blended.
- Pour the batter in the mould and bake for 28 minutes at 340F/170C.
- Then remove from the mould and cool.
- Make syrup using the ingredients marked with .
- They don't need to be measured precisely.
- Prepare the whipping cream.
- Whip 2/3 until it forms soft peaks, and the remaining 1/3 until it forms stiff peaks.
- Slice the cooled cake in half and spread the syrup on the top of the cut portion.
- Layer the stiff whipped cream and 4 sliced strawberries.
- Apply more cream on top.
- Put the top of the cake back on and spread cream all over the cake.
- Use up all of it; it doesn't matter if it's not perfect at this point.
- Frost with remaining soft peak cream, because this cream is slightly less dense, it should spread on beautifully.
- Decorate with strawberries as you like.
- This cake was cut into a heart shape prior to decorating.
- No matter how many times I've made this recipe, it's never failed me.
eggs, sugar, flour, butter, powdered sugar, water, strawberry liqueur, pack strawberries
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/149266-no-fail-easy-shortcake (may not work)