Every Christmas eve calls for a happy meal, including a delicious dessert. Here is the ideal dessert option for your Christmas dinner to impress your guests and make your evening even more memorable. This strawberry shortcake is a very easy-to-prepare recipe made with super-fresh strawberries, a berry cream filling, and soft ladyfingers. Moreover, it’s a no-bake recipe, making it even easier to put together. This sweet and creamy dessert will undoubtedly become a family favourite.
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Ingredients
- 32 ounces fresh, ripe strawberries, washed, hulled and dried
- 3 ounces orange juice
- 1 (14-ounce) box of graham crackers
- 3 cups heavy whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions For Strawberry Shortcake
Prepare the filling
- Merge the diced strawberries and sugar and put them aside while you prepare the rest of the stuffing.
- Now, grab a large bowl, and add the cream cheese and sugar to it.
- Beat the mixture until incorporated and smooth.
- Take another bowl, mix the whipped cream, sugar and vanilla extract and whip on high speed until it becomes stiff.
- Add approximately 1/4 of the whipped cream to the cream cheese combination and fold the mixture to combine. Keep on adding the leftovers of the whipped cream to the mixture.
- Beat until all the mixture has been combined.
- Add the strawberries (without the juices) to the cream cheese mixture and gently fold them together.
Assemble and Chill the Cake
- Spread a layer of ladyfingers in the bottom of an 8×8 glass pan.
- Add almost half of the strawberry cream cheese mixture to the top of the ladyfingers layer and spread it evenly.
- Add one more layer of ladyfingers above the strawberry layer, then repeat the step of adding strawberry cream cheese and smoothen it.
- Wrap the pan tightly and keep it in the fridge overnight.
- Keep it chilled when you serve. You can even keep it in the refrigerator for a day or a few days.
Recipe Notes
- I cut up the strawberries in my bowl and beaters for whipping the cream and cool them in the freezer. It’s a good idea to keep extras on hand in case, you can’t resist swallowing them. Whip the cream to a light, frothy consistency. Using an electric mixer takes less than five minutes. You may now start assembling.
- The graham crackers won’t slide about when you try to add the next layer if you spread a thin layer of whipped cream on the bottom of the pan. So, a thin layer of graham crackers followed by a dollop of whipped cream. Some of them will need to be chopped to suit the gaps.
- Place a layer of whipped cream on top, followed by a layer of strawberry slices. Repeat the layering process from there, finishing with a layer of attractively placed strawberries. Refrigerate for at least four hours or overnight with a plastic wrap covering. Your friends and family will be grateful, the crackers will resemble a cake, and the strawberries will have given the cream its fresh flavour.
Storage
To Store in the Fridge: This cake can be kept in the fridge for up to 3-4 days.
Nutrient Value
- Calories: 325
- Sugar: 20.5 g
- Sodium: 98.6 mg
- Fat: 21.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 30.7 g
- Protein: 4.2 g
- Cholesterol: 87.7 mg
- Calcium: 60mg
- Iron: 1.2mg
To Sum Up
You can easily prepare this strawberry shortcake to make your Christmas evening more amazing. In case you want to have some dessert along with your main course menu then also you can just make it. This cake is considered one of the tastiest cakes which can be made at home with no more difficult procedure. You just need to collect some of the ingredients and follow the simple steps. So there you go enjoying the delicious cake sitting on your couch.
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