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Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

May 19, 2016 by Joy the Baker 49 Comments

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Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Do you want to know how ready I am for Summer?  I bought a one piece, long-sleeve (yup) bathing suit like… 2 months ago.  It was on a whim, on a cloudy day, on a day I thought that a long sleeve bathing suit would definitely have me looking super Charlie’s Angels on the beach come Summer.  It came in the mail a few days after I ordered it and I thought…. YES, I’m ready for this…. I’m totally ok with this life choice.  This is what separates the women from the girls (not true). It’s chic and I don’t have to put sunscreen on my back (at least that last part is accurate).  

So I’m ready (or delusional).  Please tweet me your pool party invitations.  I’ll take them to heart and bring my bathing suit.  Did I mention that it has sleeves?  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

This is the fourth time in a few months I’ve tumbled strawberries out of their plastic clamshell and onto the countertop in my new house.  

It’s a prelude to summer christening and now that the bathing suit situation is solved, I show no signs of stopping. 

Basil is a surprising and really lovely compliment to strawberries.  It’s delicate in its herbaceous quality, but distinct enough to stand up to sweet strawberry.  Where strawberries can be predictable and sometimes cloying, basil (in the form of whipped cream here) adds an unexpected and balancing note.  Basically, we’re geniuses… and by ‘we’ I mean, my man-friend who texted me this idea from a restaurant in Philly and I ran with it.  To bring this all full circle, he has no idea why a woman would buy a bathing suit in early March and is highly skeptical of swimwear with sleeves.  At least I can bake. 

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

You know when you can’t finagle the cutting board you want from precarious pile of other cutting boards, sheet pans, and tupperware lids?  Well… just grab a plate to slice and hull the strawberries.  It’s exactly like perfectionist rocket science in my kitchen.  You’re probably much more organized and I salute you.  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Strawberry shortcakes are usually served with fresh strawberries but we’re different.  We’re roasting our strawberries with sugar and a splash of balsamic vinegar to deepen their flavor and impress our tastebuds.  

Trick is:  cover a rimmed sheet pan completely with foil to catch the juices as the fruit roasts.  That is delicious and it’s going on our shortcakes!  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

There are two different ways to make infused whipped creams.  Cold infusions, done over time in the refrigerator with fresh, delicate herbs.  Hot infusions, done in a saucepan with simmering cream, add-ins, and steeping.  Either works for this basil-infused whipped cream.  If you’re simmering your cream, just be sure to steep the basil and then remove so it doesn’t get weirdly bitter.  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

We’re making sweet biscuits.  

Buttery, buttermilky, flakey and soft.  It all starts with cold butter.  Don’t act like I haven’t wrangled you into making biscuits before.  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Cold butter bits are broken down into flour, sugar, and leavening creating a crumbly mixture ready for buttermilk and egg yolk.  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

The wet ingredients combine with the dry to make a shaggy, imperfect, still-chilled and ready for shaping dough. 

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

This is a small batch of shortcake dough, making just six round biscuits.  Butter marbling is encouraged and preferred. 

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

The biscuits are brushed with extra buttermilk and baked until irresistibly fluffy and golden brown. Your nose will tell you when they’re about perfect.  They smell dang delicious from the oven.  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

While the biscuits bake, whip up the infused cream (basil removed, of course) with sweetener and vanilla.  A whisk if you’re looking for an arm work out (I’m thinking about my swimsuit here).  Electric hand beaters if not.  Keep the cream soft and loose.  You’ll want it ‘soupy sexy’ which is a culinary term I just coined and I’m sure someone will be knocking on my door shortly to take away my Official Food Writer Identification Card.  Little do they know I never had one to begin with, so joke is on them, really. 

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

These are our parts.  Let’s continue. 

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Here’s the hard part:  getting the warm biscuits, roasted strawberries, and sweet basil cream aaallll together before eating up all the delicious parts separately.  Trust that they are better together.  Quickly spoon together.  Quickly manuever towards face.  

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

Juicy, concentrated, surprising, and irresistible.  All words to describe our take on strawberry shortcakes and… I’ll leave the bathing suit joke to you and your imagination.  

Here we are friends, on the brink of delicious Summer success.  

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Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes with Basil Cream

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  • Author: Joy the Baker
  • Prep Time: 30
  • Cook Time: 30
  • Total Time: 1 hour
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Ingredients

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For the Basil Cream

  • 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
  • 1 large handful fresh basil leaves, plus more for serving
  • 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • pinch of salt

For the Strawberries

  • 1 1/2 pound fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced in half
  • 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

For the Biscuits

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
  • 1 large egg yolk, lightly beaten
  • scant 1/2 cup cold buttermilk, plus more for brushing

Instructions

  1. To make the cream, in a small saucepan heat the cream over medium heat to just simmering. Remove from heat, lightly tear the basil leaves into the heated cream. Stir, cover, and allow to steep for 15 minutes. Remove the basil leaves, cover the cream, and chill in the refrigerator until chilled through, at least 1 hour.
  2. When the cream is chilled, pour into a large bowl. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. Beat with a pair of electric hand beaters until just firm. Keep cool until ready to serve.
  3. To make the strawberries, place a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil so that the foil extends over the sides to catch any juices that accumulate during baking. Place sliced strawberries on the baking sheet. Add strawberries, salt, and vinegar and toss to coat. Place in the oven and roasted until softened through and bubbling, about 15 to 20 minutes. Tossing once during baking. Remove from the over and allow to cool.
  4. To make the biscuits, increase the oven temperature to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  5. In a mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Using your fingers, quickly work the butter into the dry ingredients until some bits of butter are the size of oat flakes, some the size of small peas. Chunks of cold butter is what we want in our dough.
  6. In a small bowl or liquid measuring cup, combine egg yolk and buttermilk and beat lightly with a fork.
  7. Create a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the egg mixture all at once. Stir into a shaggy mixture. The dough will be moist, but not overly wet.
  8. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured board and use a floured rolling pin to roll the dough to a 3/4-inch thickness. Use a 2-inch round biscuit cutter to cut biscuit, re-rolling and pressing the dough to cut 6 biscuits total.
  9. Place 1-inch apart on the prepared baking sheet and brush lightly with buttermilk.
  10. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown on top.
  11. Allow to cool to a warm room temperature. Slice in half. Top with strawberries and cream, a small fresh basil leaf and the top biscuit. Enjoy!


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  1. dessertfortwo

    May 21, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    I’m craving these big time. BIG time.
    Loving the man-friend hoopla ;)

    Reply
  2. Kevin

    May 21, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    Joy, this year I bought a little bikini skirt tor my tanking. There is also a long sleeved shirt to slip over it. Super stylish. These strawberry shortcakes look just fabulous. We have had so much rain this spring, not sure there will be any strawberries. Much of the peach crop was damaged by a late frost. It looks like summer fruit will be scarce and spendy.

    Reply
  3. Isabelle

    May 21, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    That looks lovely yumyum

    Reply
  4. Kylie Perry

    May 21, 2016 at 5:45 am

    Amazing recipe!!!!

    Reply
  5. Heghineh

    May 20, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    Very original idea.Looks really good!

    Reply
  6. Cy

    May 20, 2016 at 12:20 pm

    I have seen those swim suit/ cool wet suits and I think they are pretty cute. Totally get why a guy might not be convinced as men live for swimsuit season:))

    Reply
  7. Cy

    May 20, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    I have also been reading you for 100 years, except you are not very old , but probably since the beginning of your blog. I also tell everyone about you, because basically there are only three blogs I read regularly. Anyway, you are are pretty, spunky and very talented, so it was/is only a matter of time before some man snapped you up. I will not use the b word, but it is kind of fun to say it. (????. I am all for things strawberry these days, especially after the strawberry pistachio crisp( yum!) will be making these after, I make the Nigella strawberry, streusel cake. Sorry, girl crushed on Nigella first. I know you feel the same.

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  8. Considering The Radish

    May 20, 2016 at 11:42 am

    Oh yes. I actually prefer roasted strawberries to raw unless the strawberries are perfect, which is so difficult to find. I have not, however, turned roasted strawberries into strawberry shortcakes and I’m very sorry that I haven’t yet.

    Reply
  9. Aysha

    May 19, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Where did you get your biscuit cutters?! I love how many different sizes you have!

    Reply
    • joythebaker

      May 20, 2016 at 9:05 am

      Here’s a similar set to the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017MT9W96?psc=1

      Reply
      • Aysha

        May 20, 2016 at 12:43 pm

        Thanks!

        Reply
  10. Tracy

    May 19, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    Girl I think of summer all year long! What a great way to start off the season!

    Reply
  11. Diana

    May 19, 2016 at 1:50 pm

    Basil infused whipped cream? Killing it.

    xo, Diana

    Reply
  12. Chrissy

    May 19, 2016 at 1:46 pm

    So pretty! Also, since your bathing suit is long sleeved, you don’t have to whisk by hand. Save the energy! I also bought my suit already. Pretty sure it was in February, because I really like to be prepared.

    Reply
  13. Adanya

    May 19, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    You know we love you with or without a boyfriend but YAY happy for you and you know your readers want the deets

    Reply
  14. Melisa @ Honeybee Genealogy

    May 19, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    Omg, that pic where the roasted strawberries have soaked into the shortcake… I just passed out. Beautiful!

    Reply
  15. sweetteasweetie (@SweetTSweetie)

    May 19, 2016 at 12:25 pm

    Yum! What a great tea time snack!
    Kari
    http://www.sweetteasweetie.com

    Reply
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