Elderflower strawberry shortcake

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elderflower strawberry shortcake

Someone slid into my DMs the other day and asked me…what’s an easy-ish dessert to make in the summer?! I immediately responded with STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES. But then I realized I don’t really have a thorough recipe on the blog for this. Which is weird since it’s my absolute go-to because everyone loves them. It’s also great for a party because you can bake off the biscuits the morning of and assemble them in, like, 5 minutes. Every summer during my wondrous childhood, my mom would buy these mini sponge cakes that they would sell in cellophane packaging. Next to it was always this strawberry fake-tasting syrup. She would buy them, along with a huge flat of strawberries. This grocery shopping day would make me joyful, truly. That syrup was probably awful, filled with lots of corn syrup and other garbage but I didn’t care. I loved the strawberry combo with cake and syrup and whipped cream. I like to this of this as more of a real foods version! (Even tho there’s obviously sugar and flour lol.) True story: one of the most popular recipes on this blog is How to Make Perfect Flaky Biscuits. I would go as so …

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