strawberry shortcake

It's strawberry season in California. Yay!

Last weekend I threw a coed wedding shower for my wonderful friends. The shower was at a beautiful park and I decided to make strawberry shortcake for dessert. This way I didn't have to worry about icing melting on a cake or having something that was difficult to transport. I think the dessert was absolutely delicious and perfect for strawberry season.

I have to admit that I have never made biscuits before. I used this recipe. I was super impressed and it was easy-peasy.

Strawberry Sauce
2 pts. fresh strawberries cleaned and quartered
1/4 C sugar
1 lemon

Put 1 pt. of strawberries in a large bowl and mix in the sugar. Lightly mash the strawberries to bring out the juices. Don't mash them too much. You don't want to make a pulp or strawberry juice.

Zest the lemon into the mixture and squeeze in the lemon. Add the rest of the strawberry and stir. Let the mixture sit for at least an hour so that the flavors can combine.

For the shower, I just set out the strawberry sauce, the biscuits and the whipped cream and let people assemble everything themselves.

I did buy the whipped cream for the shower. I didn't want the whipped cream to fall and I didn't want to have to hand whip the cream at the shower. However, I rarely buy whipped cream. I usually make it myself because it's SO simple to make from scratch.