Delicious melt-in-the-mouth shortcake biscuits packed with lightly whipped cream and fresh raspberries, topped with a light dusting of powdered sugar
Shortcake
To make the shortcake dough, cream together softened butter and caster sugar till light and fluffy, and add the egg yolk and lemon rind and mix till combined. Sieve in the flour and mix to a firm dough. The dough is very soft so roll it in between 2 pieces of grease-proof paper until about 1.5 cm thick. Cut into shapes and bake for 10 minutes in the oven. While the shortcakes cool, lightly whip the cream to soft peaks and then place it in a piping bag. Cut half the biscuits in half. Pipe the cream onto the whole biscuits and add the fresh raspberries. Butterfly the biscuits you cut in half and sprinkle with icing sugar. Place a swirl of cream on the top of the biscuits and place a raspberry on top.
Everyone will love these delicious shortcake biscuits, Serve them for any dinner party or family meal. Cut into different shapes for different occasions i.e heart shapes for valentines day making the perfect romantic dessert. You can change the flavour and filling easily why not try
Whatever your favourite flavours these biscuits are ideal!
Raspberries and cream are the perfect combination, coupled with buttery crisp shortcake you can't go wrong, The light dusting of icing sugar adds the perfect sweetness to the raspberries and cream
What is shortcake
Shortcake is made in the same way as cake, by creaming together butter and sugar, adding eggs and then flour, because of this is technically a cake rather than a biscuit, because it is high in fat and has fewer eggs it has the texture of a biscuit rather than a cake. The addition of the fat makes the cake short hence the name shortcake. It originates from North America and is usually filled with cream and fruit, though you can fill it with buttercream
