A new cake made each week by Erica Crotts

Week 15: Strawberry Shortcake

Tis the season for strawberries!  My folks came up for a visit and brought us a bucket-full from Strawberry Hill, U.S.A.  What better thing to do with them than bake a cake?  I followed an old southern recipe that gives the cake a “biscuit bottom” (a newly learned term) good for soaking up the strawberry juices that run down when a little sugar is sprinkled on them.  Spring goodness.

Yup, it’s a short cake.

Yup, it’s a short cake.

Ready for chopping

Ready for chopping

Whipped cream

Whipped cream

Pouring cream

Pouring cream