Scottish Recipes - Strawberry Shortbread Creams

Strawberry Shortbread Creams

Today I wanted to make some Shortbread

I had already made classic shortbread a few months back see here

So I decided to go with a different recipe in one of my many British cookbooks, this shortbread calls for orange peel, yummy

Strawberry Shortbread Creams.  They taste as good as they sound

Makes 6

You will need

Shortbread Ingredients
100g/4oz Butter
175g/6oz Plain/All purpose Flour
50g/2oz Fine Sugar
Grated rind of 1 Orange

Ingredients

Filling
150ml/quarter pint Whipping Cream
225g/8oz Strawberries, sliced

Ingredients

• Set oven to 160C/325F and grease a baking tray and set aside

• In a large bowl, sift flour

Flour

• Break butter into pieces and rub into flour 

add Butter

• Once mixture resembles breadcrumbs, add sugar and rind

add sugar and peel

• Knead all together with hands to form a soft dough

soft dough

• On a floured surface, roll out dough to a rough 8 inch round

• Using a plate as a guide, cut into a circle, then cut circle into 12 triangles

cut using plate

shortbread round

• Prick with a fork all over to ease equal baking

cut and prick with fork

• Place sections onto baking tray and bake for 30 minutes 

place on tray

• Remove and sprinkle with sugar then place on a wire rack to cool 

cool on wire rack

• Pour cream into medium bowl then whip it up using a hand mixer, until cream forms peaks    

pour cream

cream peaks

• Spoon cream onto 6 pieces of shortbread

Shortbread with cream

• Next lay sliced strawberries over the cream

• Top with a second piece of Shortbread

Strawberry Shortbread Creams

• Enjoy

The nice refreshing orange peel flavor, paired with the cream and strawberries make this a favorite with us

I hope you enjoy these Strawberry Shortbread Creams soon

Thanks for stopping by

Angela

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