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Strawberry Shortcake with Sourdough Biscuits

By Traci · Jump to Recipe

Tender, light and melt in your mouth, Strawberry Shortcake with Sourdough Biscuits is simple to whip up and is make ahead ready. Use your sourdough discard for these tender shortcake biscuits! This recipe is vegetarian and egg free. 

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Strawberry Shortcake with Sourdough Biscuits on a plate ready to be shared.

Sourdough Discard

Why is it called discard? I never throw it out. Carefully tucked away in the fridge, I use it in biscuits, scones, pancakes, and waffles. There’s more on my list too…

So many ways to use sourdough discard to obtain a rustic and delightful sourdough flavor in baked recipes. The more I work with sourdough discard, the more I learn how it shows up in recipes.  I’m learning that it completely tenderizes and softens the end result while also offering its signature sourdough tanginess.

Such a delight! 

RELATED:  Learn how to make an Easy Homemade Sourdough Starter!

Diced butter in a bowl of flour.    Cutting the butter into the flour using hands. Adding a mix of cream and sourdough into the flour.    Mixing the flour and wet ingredients with a fork.

The Difference Between Scones and Biscuits

I’ve read much about this topic, and it’s sometimes difficult to discern the technical difference between the two. They both are considered quick breads, and can go sweet or savory. My takeaways are: 

  • Scones tend to be dryer than biscuits, contain more sugar if sweet and often have some sort of inclusion like fruit, nuts and/or zest. They’re typically made with eggs. 
  • Biscuits are light, sometimes flaky and moist with a less sweet flavor profile than scones (if sweet). They’re made with butter, lard or some other fat and milk, cream or buttermilk. They typically don’t contain eggs. 

This sourdough biscuit recipe is somewhat of a crossover. I’ve incorporated butter and cream with a hint of lemon zest into the dough creating a short dough that’s tender, light and melt in your mouth.  These biscuits are flakyish and moist! 

Because this dough is heavy on fat, it’s easy to work with and I don’t worry so much about overworking the dough.  Fat tenderizes gluten! Hooray!

Biscuit dough on a work surface.    Cutting biscuits with a biscuit cutter. Cut biscuits on a parchment lined sheet pan.    Baked sourdough shortcakes.

How to Make Strawberry Shortcake with Sourdough Biscuits

This recipe comes together with ease, and is make ahead ready. In summary here’s how to make it:

  • First, make the biscuits by cutting the butter into the flour mixture. Make a well and pour in the sourdough/cream mixture. Incorporate the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix the dough, then fold/knead until the ingredients create a cohesive dough. 
  • Second, pat or roll out the dough and cut it into rounds, knead and reroll the dough as needed to cut the remaining biscuits. 
  • Third, refrigerate for 20 minutes while preheating the oven. 
  • Fourth, prepare the strawberries by cutting into quarters, sprinkling sugar over the top and macerating for up to a few hours. 
  • Fifth, brush the biscuits with cream, sprinkle with sugar and bake the biscuits.
  • Next, whip the cream.
  • Last, build the short cakes with warm or cool biscuits. 

Biscuits are best straight out of the oven and slightly cooled, but, I didn’t get any complaints even after they were frozen and reheated!

Strawberries in a bowl.   Sliced strawberries in a bowl with sugar sprinkled over the top.Sourdough Strawberry Shortcake Biscuits on a plate ready to be shared.

Working with Cold Ingredients

To keep these biscuits light and tender, start with cold, straight from the refrigerator ingredients. Sourdough is more difficult to incorporate into cream when mixing cold, but it will ensure the most tender biscuits for this shortcake. 

When making biscuits, the goal is to coat the pieces butter in flour like when making pie dough, rather than incorporating it into the flour like a cake or cookie. If you find at any time the butter begins to soften or melt when working the flour and butter, pop the entire bowl in the fridge for about ten minutes. This will allow the butter to solidify, then you can carry on. 

Sourdough Strawberry Shortcake Biscuits on a plate ready to be shared.

A Few Recipe Notes

  • Looking for a Sourdough Starter? I have an easy DIY a Sourdough Starter on the blog!
  • Work quickly when working the butter into the flour. The butter should remain cold and pliable throughout the mixing process. If the butter starts getting melty, pop the whole bowl in the freezer (before adding any liquid) for about 10 minutes. 
  • When kneading the dough, use a folding and pressing motion, scooping up bits of flour and butter from the bottom of the bowl and pressing the dough over and on top of itself. This helps build fluffy layers.
  • Because this dough has plenty of fat, I don’t worry about working the dough too much. It’s pretty forgiving for shaping, rerolling and cutting. 
  • When cutting the dough, flour the cutter first, then press down and pull right back up. Avoid twisting the cutter. The cleaner the cut the better the rise. 

Biscuit Making Tools

Tools I use to whip up this moist sourdough biscuit recipe (these are affiliate links):

  • Bench Scraper
  • Rolling Pin
  • 2 3/4″ – 3″ Biscuit Cutter
  • 4.5 Qt Mixing Bowl
  • Parchment Paper
  • Sheet Pan
  • Pastry Board – I use this SO much!

RELATED: Use your sourdough starter to make the most fabulous Seeded Multigrain Sourdough Bread, Sourdough Pizza and Easy Sourdough Bread!

Sourdough Strawberry Shortcake Biscuits on a plate ready to be shared.
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Strawberry Shortcake with Sourdough Biscuits

Prep Time:45 minutes
Cook Time:30 minutes
Refrigerate:20 minutes
Total Time:1 hour 20 minutes
Servings:6 Biscuits
Calories:589kcal
Author:Traci York | Vanilla And Bean
Tender, light and melt in your mouth, Strawberry Shortcake with Sourdough Biscuits is simple to whip up and is make ahead ready. Use your sourdough discard for these tender shortcake biscuits! This recipe is vegetarian and egg free. 
To Stretch This Recipe Further (or to cut the calories): This recipe makes six generous biscuits. Share this recipe in 1/2 portions for a more petite version and save the remaining biscuits for later.
NOTE: Prep time below is an estimate based on my experience making these biscuits. This time can vary depending on baker experience.

Ingredients

For the Biscuits:

  • 2/3 C (145g) Heavy Whipping Cream + more for tops
  • 1/3 C (100g) Sourdough Discard 100% hydration, stirred down
  • 1 3/4 C (245g) All Purpose Flour
  • 3 Tbs Cane Sugar + more for tops
  • 1/2 tsp fine Sea Salt
  • 1 Tbs Baking Powder
  • 1/2 C (114g / 1 stick) Unsalted Butter cold, just from the fridge, cut into 1/2" pieces
  • Zest of One Lemon

For the Strawberries:

  • 3 C (425g) Strawberries about 1 1/2 pints
  • 1 - 3 Tbs Cane Sugar to taste
  • 1 Tbs Lemon Juice

For the Whipped Cream:

  • 1 C (210g) Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 1 - 2 Tbs Cane Sugar to taste
  • 1/2 Vanilla Bean Pod, beans scraped or 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Instructions

Make the Biscuits:

  • Line a sheet pan with parchment paper and set aside. Make room in the refrigerator for the sheet pan.
  • In a spouted measuring cup add whipping cream, and sourdough discard (just out of the fridge). Whisk until the starter is incorporated. Set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. To the flour mixture, add the cold butter.
    I like using my hands here, but a fork or pastry cutter may be used instead. Start incorporating the butter pinching and mashing the butter pieces in between your fingers, working quickly so the butter stays cold. The point is to coat the butter in flour, pinching and tossing the pieces. Once the flour and butter is incorporated, there should be small (pea size) and larger pieces (almond size) of butter remaining, coated in flour. If the butter starts to melt, put the whole bowl in the freezer for about 10 minutes to firm the butter back up.
  • To the butter/flour mixture, stir in the lemon zest until evenly distributed.
  • Make a well in the flour mixture and pour in the sourdough/cream mixture. Use a fork to pull the dry flour into the well, then mix until a shaggy dough forms. Put the fork down and use your hand to scoop up the dough and press it over and on top of itself, doing this several times until a shaggy dryish dough forms.
  • Flour your work surface and turn the dough out. Lightly flour the top of the dough and knead it a few times (folding and pressing) until a cohesive dough forms. Lightly flour the top again and roll or pat the dough out to between 3/4" to just below 1" (1.9cm - 2.5cm) thick disk. Dip the biscuit cutter into flour, then cut the biscuits with a 2 3/4" - 3" (7cm - 7.6cm) biscuit cutter, without twisting the cutter, and transfer to the parchment paper-lined sheet pan, spacing them evenly and a few inches apart. Reroll the dough as needed (I do this twice). Refrigerate the biscuits for at least 20 minutes.
    Make Ahead: At this point the biscuits can be frozen, then transferred to a lidded container and held in the freezer for up to three weeks. You can bake completely frozen scones straight from the freezer same as you would refrigerated biscuits adding a few minutes on the bake time as needed.
  • While the biscuits are in the fridge, preheat the oven to 350F (180C) and arrange a rack in the center of the oven. Just before baking, brush the tops of the biscuits with cream and sprinkle a bit of sugar over the top.
    Bake the biscuits from refrigerated or previously frozen on a parchment lined sheet pan for 30-35 minutes and until golden (you'll need to bake a few more minutes when baking from frozen - keep an eye on the bottoms and internal temperature). The internal temperature will be between 200F-205F when baked through (93C - 96C).
  • Store baked biscuits at room temperature in a covered container for up to two days or in the freezer for up to three weeks. Biscuits are best fresh, but if needed, they can be gently reheated at 350F (175C) for about 10-15 minutes. Wrap in foil when reheating to retain their softness.

For the Strawberries

  • While the biscuits are in the fridge chilling, trim the green stems away from the strawberry and slice strawberries into rounds or quarters. Sprinkle the strawberries with sugar using some or all of the sugar depending on how sweet your berries are, and/or your taste. The sugar is optional, and sometimes I leave it off, but it helps create a bit of syrup.
    Squeeze in the fresh lemon juice and if you like, add an empty vanilla bean pod. Stir, cover, then refrigerate for up to two hours. They will soften the longer they sit.

For the Whipped Cream

  • In a medium mixing bowl, add the whipping cream, sugar and extract or vanilla beans. Whip until soft peaks form. Make up to one day ahead and store in the fridge in a lidded container.

To Assemble:

  • Cut a biscuit in half and scoop strawberries over the top. Dollop with cream, then top with the other biscuit half. Pile up more strawberries and cream if desired!

Notes

I enthusiastically recommend an oven thermometer! for the best baking outcome.  
Recipe inspired by The Grand Central Baking Book.
Nutrition is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate. If this information is important to you, please have it verified independently.
Serving: 1Shortcake, | Calories: 589kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 40g | Saturated Fat: 25g | Cholesterol: 131mg | Sodium: 225mg | Potassium: 401mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 1453IU | Vitamin C: 44mg | Calcium: 151mg | Iron: 2mg
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