Shortcake biscuits filled with homemade sweet cherry pie filling and topped with vanilla whipped cream. Summer desserts just got easier!
If you hear someone yell, Shortcake! You might wonder what the heck is going down, but eventually you'll think about strawberries.
Strawberries have cornered the shortcake market for sure, and that's not fair. Spread the love and introduce some new fruit to the flaky buttery biscuit. Maybe cherries!
Cherries are everywhere right now an the prices are low. I remember seeing them in the store a few months ago costing more than my mortgage. Happily the price is lower now.
Unlike my mortgage.
Every shortcake dessert needs to start with an awesome biscuit and this is one of the best. It's light and flaky with that crackly sugar topping but soft inside when you cut it in half.
Annnnd, for the record it doesn't have that weird chemical taste to it from the baking powder. That drives me bat crazy.
So do we just plop down a handful of cherries on the shortcake and slap on some cream?
No, that would be so not cool.
Take the pits out from the cherries and bring them to a boil in a pan with some butter, sugar and apple juice. Cook the cherries over a low heat for almost an hour and let cool overnight in the fridge if you can.
Now you have a thick cherry filling that will soak into the shortcake and be happy with some vanilla heavy whipped cream on top.
If you need an easy dessert this summer, this is it right here, I pinky promise you'd if you have any leftover cherry mixture, throw it over some vanilla ice cream for another ridiculously easy summer treat.
Have an awesome week friends.
