Blueberry Strawberry Shortcake
Fresh, cool and refreshing, this Blueberry Strawberry Shortcake is the perfect dessert for any summer evening, but especially for your 4th of July celebration.
This vintage recipe for biscuits makes the best base for the cool ice cream and fresh fruit topping.
I know there are a lot of folks who will debate with me that best base for strawberry shortcake is a form of sponge cake. However, for me and my house, we serve the biscuits.
The family tradition calls for a slightly sweet, fairly crumbly and soft biscuit. I don’t remember my grandma using a sponge cake until her later years when she opted for a store bought shortcut when serving her strawberry shortcake. (Hostess Twinkies for the win on convenience!)
We also hold a tradition of serving our strawberry shortcake with either a dollop of ice cream or a splash of milk. The milk was in lieu of fresh cream, my grandmother and Aunt Artie would have preferred the cream but since the days of keeping a “house cow” had passed, we made do.
On a hot summer day, the vanilla ice cream makes for a wonderful dessert out of this dish. Heck, it makes a pretty good main dish for supper, too!
The summer I was pregnant with my son was one of the hottest I can remember. I’m not certain if that’s due to temperatures of simply my state of being and how I remember the days.
What I do know for a fact, is the strawberry shortcake I ate for supper before going into labor later that evening was delicious, if not enough to last me through 12 hours of labor. When I got hungry somewhere around midnight, the nurses ever so kindly brought me ice chips instead of the cheeseburger I requested.
This handwritten shortcake recipe was one of the many treasures I found in Grandma Troxel’s recipe box. You can tell it was well loved by the worn edges and the stains along the side.
I haven’t yet made Aunt Hazel’s ice cream. That’s mostly due to the fact that I don’t have a crank ice cream maker nor the energy to hand crank one if I did.
Make It a Meal:
I suppose if you’re looking to use this Blueberry Strawberry Shortcake as dessert for the holiday picnic, you’ll want some other old fashioned picnic foods on the menu: Sour Cream and Chive Potato Salad, Pea and Peanut Salad, Grilled Bratwurst, Nacho Corn Salad and Creamy Cilantro Dip.
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The beauty of fresh fruit is never so evident as when you place it in a bowl in the sun! Don’t you love the way the red strawberries and the purple blueberries just seem to glow?
I sliced my strawberries in quarters for this recipe because I like having the larger size bites. However, you certainly can cut your berries into smaller pieces, more in line with the size of the blueberries.
This vintage recipe is easy, pretty, refreshing and a bit of a walk down memory lane.
Blueberry Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
Ingredients:
Shortcake, blueberries, strawberries.
Recipe Directions:
Mix your shortcake, then bake. Slice the strawberries. Top shortcakes with strawberries and blueberries.
Blueberry Strawberry Shortcake
Grandma's vintage recipe for home baked shortcakes is perfect when topped with fresh fruit.
Ingredients
- 2 cup All purpose flour
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 4 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3 tbsp Shortening (Butter or Margarine)
- 1 Egg
- 1/2 cup Milk
Topping
- 1 pound Strawberries
- 1/2 pound Blueberries
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a muffin tin.
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Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
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Cut in the shortening.
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Beat the egg and add with the milk.
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Stir until just mixed.
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Drop into muffin tins.
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Bake about 30 minutes or until golden on top and toothpick inserted comes out clean.
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While shortcake is cooling, slice the strawberries and mix with blueberries.
Approximate Nutritional Information:
Servings Per Recipe: 12, Amount Per Serving: Calories: 147, Fat: 4g, Cholesterol: 22g, Sodium: 133mg, Carbs: 26g, Protein: 4g
(please remember these are approximate and will vary slightly based on your ingredient selections.)
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What a colorful and tasty looking recipe! And I love the picture of the cute original handwritten recipe. This is the perfect end to any summer barbecue menu.
That original handwritten recipe was so hard to get a good photo of. You’d think it would be easy … but time, fading and stains made it difficult.
Shortcake is such a great summer dessert. Love blueberries in EVERYTHING. This would be the perfect BBQ party dessert. A true crowd pleaser.
This was definitely a crowd pleaser at my house! Those blueberries put this dessert over the top!
what a great summer dessert and its so colorful really pretty to serve family and friends!
I love the impact a pretty dish has! It’s so fun to hear people oohh and ahh! It’s so true that we eat first with our eyes.
The moment I saw this I thought of the 4th of July. Such a beautiful blend of red blue and white. I love shortcake recipes and this twist with blueberries sounds wonderful.
Thanks Veena!
It’s one of my new favorites! I think I’ll be making this often as the summer lasts!
WHy haven’t I thought to add blueberries to my shortcake before?!?! SO good! And perfect for summer!
You just had an A-HA moment didn’t you?! LOL Happens to me so often!
I love family recipes and I have same as you I have many recipes handwritten by my mom such a treasure as she is my angel in heaven. Berry shortcake is my favorite.
It’s such a walk down memory lane looking through those old recipe files, isn’t it?
Strawberry shortcake is such a traditional summertime dessert and rightly so. It is everyone’s favorite and I like the addition of the blueberries to the fruit mix. Very colorful!! And what a treasure to have your Grandmother’s recipe. Are you going to laminate it??
Thanks Marisa … it is a treasure. I’ve thought about laminating or even framing some of grandma’s recipes. I just haven’t decided the best way to preserve them.
Family recipes passed down generations are the best ever. Love the handwritten recipe
This recipe is a party pleaser for sure! It’s easy to make ahead of time and is forgiving if the time schedule of the party is delayed… you can always eat shortcake whenever you want!
What a fun take on a classic strawberry shortcake! I haven’t ever made strawberry shortcakes (lol – terrible right!) so I think now’s the time to finally make them
Stephanie, lol not so terrible … this is a great first recipe, however, so give it a try. If you’re not up to that yet, then use Grandma’s other recipe and buy a box of Twinkies!