Recipe: Breakfast Strawberry shortcake

Breakfast strawberry shortcake!
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Here's a photo of our yummy food!

Ingredients:
Pillsbury Biscuits, butter, strawberries, whipped cream, confectioners sugar, water.

Materials:
Bowl, Tablespoon, knife, cutting board, baking sheet, oven pre-heated to 350°F / 176.67°C.

Procedure:
- Open your Biscuit container. We do this by ripping off the cover then banging the middle against a countertop.
- Place the biscuits on the baking sheet.
- With your cutting board and knife, slice your butter 🧈 . Now you have many pads of butter.
- Place one pad of butter on the top of each biscuit.
- Place the baking sheet in the pre-heated oven.
- As your biscuits are baking, you should have time to prepare your strawberries.
- In a bowl, mix 1 Tablespoon of confectioners sugar with 2 Tablespoons water. Now you have a sugar glaze.
- On a cutting board, using a knife, chop the green ends off strawberries. Then slice the strawberries.
- Drop the cut strawberries into the bowl with the sugar glaze. Toss the strawberries in the glaze so they are evenly coated.
- When the biscuits are brown on the top, take them out of the oven.
- Place each biscuit on a plate. Top the biscuit with whipped cream. Spoon glazed strawberries on top.

Enjoy!!!

The savory biscuits mellow out the sweetness of the strawberries and whipped cream.

We found this recipe simple and fun. We made them alongside children, and they found this recipe delicious.

Want to make whipped cream from scratch? Our friend made a great video to teach us how! https://youtu.be/i94F1U2fUJY?si=8eHXKdJvxXtNmouo

Plant Anatomy Lesson

While we cut the strawberries we learned plant anatomy. As we cut off the tops we called them the calyx. We spoke about flowers and what part of the strawberry flower grows into the fruit. Those little leaves are sepals. We looked at the colors inside the strawberries. We spoke about how they are pink or red on the outside and white in the middle. We called the middle the pitch, and looked at how the veins are arranged throughout the fruit. We looked at the seeds and spoke about how what we think of as seeds are really individual fruits, called achenes.

Here is a resource about simple strawberry anatomy from a university that does research with strawberries: https://strawberry.calpoly.edu/news/test-your-strawberry-anatomy-skills-part-2

Compassion and Nurturing

When we finished eating our tasty breakfast, we fed our strawberry tops to our rabbits. We sat beside our rabbits, pet them, and told them all about strawberries as we fed them out of our hands.

Art

Can you draw a strawberry inside and out? 

Let's doraw some together! 

What materials would you like to use?