Holy flaming flying balls of strawberries!
Fine Cooking does it again. This time they have provided me with The. Best. Strawberry. Shortcake. Recipe.EVER. I am not embellishing or exaggerating or hyperbolizing. No. Seriously. This is THE BEST. Period.
Behold – the biscuits. They are insane. Slightly crisp on the outside. Lightly sweet. Rich and buttery, yet fluffy. And yes – my super-local, picked from our own backyard, beautiful strawberries might have had something to do with the total awesomeness. But we’ve eaten a lot of shortcake around these parts and these biscuits are hands down the finest. (Get it, finest? Fine Cooking? I crack myself up!!)
In fact, the next day I took a leftover biscuit to work and toasted it for a morning snack with my tea.
Hello!!
A little butter, and a lot of OMG can I eat one of these everyday please I promise to go on the elipitical for 15 minutes an hour if I have to!
Look – it’s a bonus peek into my day-to-day office life – crappy radio that only gets 3 crappy stations, mechanical drawings in a messy pile, giant mug of tea to get me through the morning. Yup, that’s a pretty accurate picture. Other than the awesome biscuit which sadly is not my usual morning snack because I don’t actually want to go on the eliptical hourly.
The biscuits kept very well in a zip-top bag, although they lost a bit of that light, lovely crispness. They still tasted like a dream. Actual conversation as my husband ate it again the next night:
He: These biscuits are awesome.
Me: Thanks. I know.
He: Can you make them again? I mean, exactly the same the next time?
Me: Well, yeah.
He: Are you sure? Because these are the best ever. Best you’ve ever made. You have to make them the same.
Me: I followed the recipe exactly. Yes, I can do it again!
He: Exactly? Ha. You never do that.
But I actually did this time. Really. So much so I am not even going to include the recipe in this post because you can just go here and look at it yourself and make it yourself immediately. I have nothing to add to perfection. Go. Do it. Strawberry shortcake awesomeness of your dreams awaits!
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OMG! *running around* OK, OK, I’m making them right now!
(OK, not RIGHT now, but you know what? I might actually try that. I just bought strawberries and everything. It’s Meant. To. Be.)
Do it! You won’t be sorry.
Wow! Oh, if I could only reach into the screen and swipe a finger-full. Nice post–thanks for sending us the link, we love seeing this recipe in action!
Michaela @finecooking
Thanks, Michaela! I bow down to Fine Cooking and this recipe awesomeness.
Isn’t that an amazing version of the classic? So “straightforward” (but complicated to make, for sure–yours are so real, so perfect). Are you going to make the other recipe, the reinvention? Didn’t it involve Captain Crunch or something?
Mark, these were so good my husband might protest if I use our precious berries for the funky version. There definitely was cereal involved, which I recently found isn’t so bad in a corn dog. Not convinced it belongs here.
Love shortbread and those look super duper delicious with strawberries!
It was really fantastic and I see these biscuits in the future this summer with other fruits.
I am going to make some! I love a good biscuit anytime. I have been thinking alot about strawberries lately so this post will make me do it. Thanks…great writing too!!!
Thank you! Do it, you will love them!!!
YOU followed a recipe exactly? WOW! I am laughing at the fact that hubby even commented on that. I, too, am inspired; however, I don’t think my little offshoot from your berry patch will “berr(y)” me any fruit. Chipmunks or some other type of critter gets em as soon as they turn red, the varmits.
We have chipmunk issues too. We sprinkle granulated fox urine around the berry patch to try to keep them away. We also put down the bird netting but unfortunately they get caught in that. I had to rescue one from it the other day.
Soooo. . .what I really wanted to know, originally, was what some better cooks than me were inventing from zillions of CSA greens(nice soup by the way), but then I spied this biscuit. This beautiful biscuit. As it happens I am meeting friends to pick strawberries in the morning. Fate. I read on,laughing b/c MY husband takes issue when I deviate from HIS favorite Bisquick box recipe. Dare I boldly go where only Fine Cooks have gone before? Shall I screw my courage to the sticking place and try? Have Star Trek and Macbeth ever been in a foodblog mashup before? I think I will be brave and give it a whirl as the recipe comes so highly recommended. Bisquick be d@*”ed!
Thank you for your comment, Nancy. It made me smile. And honestly, I think these bicuits will kick Bisquick’s butt, yea verily!
My Mom made her first batch of Strawberry Shortcake yesterday for our Father’s Day celebration. This is one of my favorite seasonal treats. Right up there with Sweet Corn. Now, to go take my wife into making that Strawberry pie you got posted today.
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