Easy Strawberry Shortcake

Name: Easy Strawberry Shortcake
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 handfuls fresh strawberries, headed, cored, and quartered; to taste white sugar; quarter cup water; cornstarch slurry; couple drops red food color; pkg desert shells; Reddi whip; red decorator sugar

alley927cat @cook_7853600

So the photo doesn't fit properly, next time no portrait shots. I love strawberries. I make a quick shortcake that anybody can do well. It looks pretty and it's good.

alley927cat @cook_7853600

So the photo doesn't fit properly, next time no portrait shots. I love strawberries. I make a quick shortcake that anybody can do well. It looks pretty and it's good.

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Ingredients

15 minutes

2 servings

4 handfulsfresh strawberries, headed, cored, and quartered
to tastewhite sugar
quarter cup water
cornstarch slurry
couple drops red food color
pkgdesert shells
Reddi whip
red decorator sugar

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Steps

15 minutes

1

Take half the berries, white sugar and water and simmer on medium low heat till mixture bubbles about 5-6 minutes in a small non stick skillet
2

Add red food color and cornstarch slurry to bubbling source in pan, turn off heat
3

Let sit a couple minutes then stir, mixture will be a thick strawberry compote, put skillet in ice bath to cool mixture, I use a pie plate with crushed ice
4

Put pre-prepared dessert shells on plate, add cooled compote, add fresh strawberries for texture, flavor and bite
5

Top with Reddi Whip and red decorator sugar. Enjoy.