Hi friends! I just got back from a visit to Pennsylvania for the annual Mennonite Relief Sale! It’s always a super fun time of eating homemade goods, auctioning off quilts, and much more (and it’s great knowing that all the proceeds go to charity!). While in Pennsylvania, we celebrated my sister’s birthday with a delicious strawberry shortcake. It was so good that I knew it was worthy of being my next recipe post! Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder (NOT BAKING SODA)
• 1/2 cup cold butter, cut into small cubes
• 1 beaten egg
• 2/3 cup milk

Preheat the oven to 450ºF. Combine the flour, sugar, and baking powder together in a large bowl. Using a pastry cutter, cut in the cold butter until the mixture looks like large crumbs.

Measure out the milk in a liquid measuring cup, and then crack an egg into the milk. Beat the egg and milk together until they are thoroughly mixed.

Pour the milk/egg mixture into the dry ingredients. Using a spoon, spatula, or your hands (my favorite tool) mix the ingredients together just until they’re moistened and combined. Don’t overmix it, or else you won’t get a light and flaky shortcake- you’ll get dense bread.

Spread the dough into a greased 8″x1.5″ round baking pan. (We doubled the recipe, which is why you see two pans here.)

Bake the dough for 15-18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes.

While the cake is baking and cooling, you can get your berries going! We used fresh strawberries and blueberries, and just sprinkled sugar over them and let them macerate so that they were really sweet and juicy.

You can also make some fresh whipped cream! All you have to do is take however much you want of heavy whipping cream and, using either a stand mixer or a hand mixer, whip the cream until it forms soft peaks. Then, sprinkle some sugar into the cream until you have your desired sweetness.

And now, put it all together into a sweet, light, and fresh dessert! This cake is so delicious and flaky and buttery, and the berries added the perfect touch of freshness and a slight tart bite. And of course, the whipped cream was just perfect. I hope you all give this recipe a try! Happy baking!