Crohn's Quine Cooks: Strawberrry Shortcake

Hi everyone I hope you are all having a grat day. Seeing as Summer has finally come to the UK I thought I would share with you one of my favourite Summer dessert recipes, Strawberry Shortcakes.

Serves: 6
Ready in: 1 and a half hours


Ingredients

• 115g butter
• 50g caster sugar
• 175g plain flour
• 250g mascarpone
• 2tsp clear honey
• 2tbsp milk
• Few drops of vanilla extract
• 400g strawberries, hulled
• 1tbsp icing sugar, plus extra for dusting

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Cover two baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
2. Beat the butter and caster sugar until creamy. Add the flour and gather together using your fingertips to make dough.
3. Put on a sheet of baking paper and roll out under a piece of cling film to the thickness of a pound coin. Cut out as many rounds as you can using a 7cm cutter.
4. Bake for 10 minutes, then leave on the tin to cool for 10 minute. Remove and finish cooling on a wire rack.
5. Mix the mascarpone with honey, milk and vanilla. Halve 3 strawberries and set aside. Whizz half of the remaining strawberries in a blender with icing sugar to make a coulis.
6. Slice the remaining strawberries and divide between six biscuits, with most of the mascarpone. Top the other biscuits. Dust with the icing sugar and decorate with mascarpone and half a strawberry. Serve with the coulis.

If you do happen to make these please leave a comment saying if you like them or not.