A classic yet extraordinary Homemade Strawberry Shortcake recipe with Grand Marnier Whipped Cream.
If my mom would have had Instagram when I was a kid, I’m pretty sure that 90% of the photos she would have taken during the early summer months would have included me with red stained fingers, clothes and lips from all the strawberry snacking I would do. My grandpa’s strawberry patch always produced the most beautiful, juicy red strawberries… you know the berries you would swear had sugar on them straight from the garden, they were so sweet?
While my cousins would be off trying to catch the fish out of my Grandpa’s pond, I would be sneaking off for “just one more strawberry”. This would cause my Grandpa to exclaim “Well, I sure could have sworn I had a good bunch of strawberries for you to pick today. I wonder where they all went? Darn rabbits!” With a side eye glance and a wink towards my juice stained face, he never once got after me for eating all the strawberries.
Things haven’t changed much over the years. I still can’t resist strawberries fresh from the field. I’ve grown a few of my own strawberry snatchers too… we just can’t help ourselves!
Nothing beats strawberries fresh from the fields, but one thing comes close…homemade strawberry shortcake. This recipe is a classic strawberry shortcake biscuit recipe, with a few special touches to make it extraordinary. I just know you’ll love this homemade strawberry shortcake as much as we do! Enjoy!
Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Grand Marnier Whipped Cream
Ingredients
- For the shortcake:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup cold butter
- 1 cup milk
- 1 Tablespoon orange zest
- 3 Tablespoons Sugar in the Raw
- 2 pints strawberries sliced (add sugar if desired)
- For the Grand Mariner Whipped Cream:
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Grand Marnier
Instructions
- For the biscuits:
- In a large bowl, combine flour, 3 tablespoons granulated sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Gradually stir in milk and orange zest until a soft dough forms.
- Drop the dough by heaping tablespoonfuls into six mounds on a lightly greased baking sheet. Sprinkle each dough mound with Sugar in the Raw. Bake at 425° for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
- For the Grand Mariner Whipped Cream:
- Using an electric mixer, beat cream, sugar and Grand Marnier together until soft peaks form.
- To assemble shortcake:
- Slice each biscuit in half. Layer biscuit, strawberries, whipped cream, biscuit, strawberries, whipped cream, then garnish with a strawberry on top. Enjoy!
Notes
You’ll love these strawberry dessert recipes from around the web:
Strawberry Freeze from Food, Faith Fitness
Strawberry and Chocolate Nachos from Our Best Bites
Strawberry Pretzel Dessert from Simply Happenstance
Strawberry and Lemon Cookie Pie from Life Love & Sugar
So jealous of your strawberry haul! I need to find a good strawberry farm around to take the kids to… and then make your shortcakes! 🙂
Your kids would love it! May be a little tough in a wheelchair but I bet you could figure out a way to make it work 🙂
Strawberry picking is on our summer list! My kiddos can’t wait to go! I agree that nothing beats strawberries from the field – so sweet and so gorgeous! Your shortcake looks incredible! The whipped cream with grand marnier is genius!
Now I can’t wait for blueberry season so we can go blueberry picking!
Thanks for your kind words!
Oh my goodness. Can we pick strawberries together, then make this together and sip coffee and talk about life?! That would be a fantastic afternoon!
Yes, yes and yes!! 🙂
Strawberry shortcake is one of the most simple, but BEST summer desserts ever. Even these photos make me happy 🙂
Awww thank you! It was a happy day out in the strawberry fields, for sure!
Ooh yes please. Strawberries warmed by the sun are absolutely unbeatable! Love this recipe – I’d have to leave out the orange liqueur , as allergic to oranges – but I’m thinking, vanilla whipped cream? Thanks for beautiful pics and a delicious recipe. Sammie x http://www.feastingisfun.com
Ohhhh that would be a great addition! You can’t go wrong with vanilla!
I have to confess – I used to hate strawberries as a kid. Until I went strawberry picking with my nanny that is – and I never looked back! It’s such an amazing thing to do.
This recipe makes me smile, it’s such a reminder of summer and good times!
It really is a fun thing to do – makes me want to have a garden!
Strawberry shortcake is the best thing to do with fresh strawberries. Such a classic for a reason! I’m so jealous of your strawberry patch picking – wish we had something like that where I live!
It’s such a treat to be able to take my kids out to pick strawberries! I tend to always remember too late in the season!
Looks fabulous, but you do mean Grand Marnier liqueur, right?
Well, that’s embarrassing! I can’t believe I spelled it wrong throughout the entire post. I got it in my head that way and apparently never caught it! Thank you soooo much!
Thank-you! I was just going to comment on the same thing-even googled the spelling of Grand Marnier.
That’s what I get attempting to write before I have my morning coffee! So glad you two caught that. Thank you!
I am so excited to take the boys strawberry picking next month!! Red-stained fingers are the best start to summer. 😉
Definitely – nothing better… except maybe captain sundae stained shirts 🙂
i can’t wait for Caroline to be old enough to go strawberry picking. It was one of my favorite things to do as a kid. Pick one… eat two… 😉
You two will have so much fun together!!
My grandma had a HUGE blackberry field so for us it was out to pick blackberries in the morning, and blackberry pie for dessert. So this post brought back sweet memories for me – and now I want to make strawberry shortcake! 🙂
Oh I can’t wait to go strawberry picking this year. It’s our favorite thing to do every summer with the kids. Love the gorgeous haul you got! These shortcakes are perfect for using some up! They look amazing!
Now THIS is a dessert! I love the photos of the family, wish we had strawberry fields to wander through. Your cake. Gorgeous, and a total Friday Fave.
YUM! YUM! YUM!
Kristen, if t here was one dessert for me to eat for the rest of my life… it will be this one. YUM!!!
gorgeous dessert Kristen! I am a huge fan of strawberries and love the memories that bring of your grandpa!
Lovely. The best part of spring by far!
This is really beautiful, Kristen! I need Grand Marnier whipped cream in my life.
I made this tonight as a special request for my 82 year old step-dad’s birthday. I usually make the better homes & gardens shortcake recipe. Never again! The orange zest, raw sugar and grand marnier in your recipe take it a step beyond the everyday and add no substantial extra work. Presentation was gorgeous and the taste was unbeatable. Thank you!!
Well you just totally made my day. Thanks for the kind words, Jen!
Love this recipe Kristen. How did we miss this! Honestly these tech issues get old, but strawberry recipes never do. Can’t wait to try this! we still have strawberries until next month. Hope all is well! xoxo-Nicole
Oh my, oh my! What a beautiful dessert. Or maybe I’ll just have this for the entree(?) You’ve absolutely nailed the Strawberry Shortcake. And if that wasn’t enticement enough you went and threw in the Grand Marnier Whipped Cream! OMGEE! Clearly you’re a dessert sadist and I like it. Laters.
look so delicious