Today’s post for Tuesdays With Dorie--Baking Chez Moi are Strawberry Shortcakes Franco-Amercian Style (pages 338-340 and 424-425). They are basically a ladyfinger dough, piped onto a baking sheet. Two cookies/cakes are sandwiched with fresh whipped cream and berries. Dorie’s recipes has a great filling with a strawberry compote as well as another option for roasted strawberries. My family likes fresh berries, so I made the cakes, whipped some fresh cream and washed some berries—raspberries, blackberries and strawberries and let everyone choose what they wanted.
It was fun to make the ladyfinger batter, which I hadn’t done before. The simple dough is made with whipped egg whites added to minimal ingredients of the yolks, a little flour and sugar and some cornstarch. So easy and I liked doing something new. The dough is put in a piping bag and piped into three inch circles and baked for a short time. The cookies are tender and cake-like. I tasted a little piece of one. They could easily be made with a gluten free flour and organic sugar. I will try that next time.
If I have learned anything from all my years baking from Dorie’s cookbooks with TWD, it is mise en place—everything in its place. I love getting everything ready to go before I begin assembling a recipe. The parchment is ready to go and the piping bag.
Quite the simple batter and piping is easy—don’t be afraid of it. Yes, filling the bag gets just a little messy, but that’s what baking is all about, right?
Baked to a perfect golden color, the shortcakes are ready to go with whipped creamy goodness and fresh berries!
I set up a quick dessert station and let my family have at it.
9 comments:
Great idea for a dessert station. Everything looks yummy, and the cake was so easy.
I LOVE the idea of a dessert station :)
I love your dessert station! And that everyone gets to choose their own fruit!
Love yours with the mixed berries! SO pretty!
I love that you used other berries too! Great idea!
I love your bumbleberry variation! And the dessert station is a great idea.
Your shortcakes are so pretty - those gorgeous fresh berries make me wistful for the summer.
I'm glad this recipe gave me the opportunity to try a recipe that I always thought would be too difficult. I'm planning the dessert station for the 4th of July.
These look great! Love the fresh berries!
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