Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake

Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake.

You can cook Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake

1. You need of AP flour.
2. Prepare of sugar, plus more for sprinkling.
3. You need of baking powder.
4. It's of salt.
5. You need of cold butter, cubed.
6. It's of half-and-half, plus more for brushing.

Scones (sweet biscuits) for Strawberry Shortcake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. In cold glass bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt..
3. Add cold butter and blend with a cold pastry blender or fork until coarse meal is formed..
4. Add half-and-half and mix gently with a fork or spatula just until incorporated. It should still be kinda crumbly and that's the way you want it..
5. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and fold over a couple of times just until it holds together..
6. Pat to about 3/4 inch thick and cut into 4 3" biscuits. Mine were a little thinner, so I got 5 biscuits..
7. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush tops with half-and-half and sprinkle with sugar..
8. Bake 12-15 minutes. Cool on wire rack..
9. For strawberry shortcake: Split biscuit, add mascerbated strawberries with syrup on bottom biscuit. Add whipped cream then biscuit top..