I’ve never been a huge fan of either sponge cake or pound cake. Sponge cake is… well… spongy and mighty flavorless, and pound cake is heavy and there isn’t much bang to it. So changing things up in a strawberry shortcake recipe and replacing the boring ‘ol cake with fudgy brownies is pretty much a brilliant idea.
Glorious Layered Desserts:
This recipe comes from Glory Albin’s new book > Glorious Layered Desserts. Glory is the writer behind the popular blog, “Glorious Treats.” She is wicked talented, so the desserts on her blog are worthy of visiting and re-creating. In Glorious Layered Desserts, you’ll find all kinds of unique ideas for layered desserts. This Brownie Strawberry Shortcake was absolutely fabulous, but I’d also like to try her recipes for Caramel Apple Cheesecake, Chocolate-Peanut Butter Trifle, Key Lime-Coconut Cheesecake and Lemons on a Cloud. In addition to the layered desserts, Glory includes all of the base recipes needed to make the layered treats- such as Chocolate Mousse, Lemon Curd, Pumpkin Spice Cake and Caramel Sauce. I’m happy to have this book added to the dessert section on my ever-expanding cookbook shelf!!
The Brownies:
I mentioned that Glory includes all of the base recipes needed to make the desserts. Here’s one of them > Fudge Brownies! My husband thought these were so good that I had to keep slapping his hand away from eating them. The good part is, you get to make a batch of brownies, and then you only use about 1/3 of them to make this recipe. The rest you can eat or freeze or give to the nice neighbor next door 🙂 If you wanted to make a boxed brownie mix instead, that’s perfectly okay. But you should know that this brownie recipe is really, really good (and easy to make).
Assembling the Brownie Strawberry Trifle:
It’s a very simple recipe » layer of crumbled brownie, layer of whipped cream, layer of strawberries, then repeat. I garnished with a mint leaf, but that’s optional.
These are the perfect dessert for a summer dinner party because you can assemble them early in the day and then just pull them out of the refrigerator and serve them after dinner. No fuss! They’re pretty enough to be called a fancy summer dinner party dessert, and they’re easy and casual enough that if you wanted to serve them at a summer barbecue, you can layer them in plastic throw-away cups instead. My son (RecipeBoy) featured another of Glory’s recipes from the book: Red, White and Blue Berry Cheesecake Mousse– also an awesome recipe (and great for 4th of July), so check out his too!
Here are a few more shortcake recipes you might like to try:
Strawberry Shortcake Skillet Cobbler Lemon Berry Shortcakes Strawberry and Brown Butter Shortcake Strawberry Shortcake Mug Cake Strawberry Shortcake Cake
