As I've mentioned before, I absolutely love strawberry season. I have sweet memories of warm spring days spent picking in the strawberry field before heading to my great-grandmother's home on the far edge of the field and canning strawberry jam with her. 
Over the past several days, I have been baking a lot of strawberry desserts so we could quickly use up the berries before they turned bad. After canning the jam for my wedding favors plus enough to last my family for the year, I made four strawberry pies, two strawberry shortcakes, and froze the remaining strawberries for fruit smoothies in the future.
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photo courtesy of Google ImagesI use the following Cream Cheese Pound Cake recipe for strawberry shortcake. It is extremely easy, moist, and delicious!
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1 1/2 cups butter
3 cups white sugar
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325 degrees and grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar gradually and beat until fluffy. Add eggs two at a time, beating well with each addition. Add the flour all at once and mix in. Add vanilla. Pour into a 10 inch tube pan. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Check for doneness at 1 hour. A toothpick inserted into center of cake will come out clean.
Strawberry Pie is another easy recipe that is a big hit in my family.
1 pie crust
1 cup of sugar
1 1/2 cups of water
2 heaping tablespoons of cornstarch
1 box of strawberry Jello (doesn't have to be the Jello brand...)
strawberries
Prepare and bake pie crust. Stir together sugar, water, and corn starch and bring to a boil; allow mixture to boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in strawberry Jello. Semi-congeal. Add in strawberries (there isn't really a set amount- I just add enough until it looks good). Pour in crust and leave in fridge for several hours before eating.
freshly baked bread with butter and strawberry jam from a couple days ago
For strawberry jam (and other jams as well), my great-grandmother taught me to use the instructions inside the Sure-Jell fruit pectin box. Canning used to seem intimidating, but it has become a very rewarding project and I get to enjoy the fruit of my labor for many months afterward. Also, I think home canned goods sitting on a cute shelf in a kitchen is such a lovely decorating touch!
Strawberry Pie is another easy recipe that is a big hit in my family.1 pie crust
1 cup of sugar
1 1/2 cups of water
2 heaping tablespoons of cornstarch
1 box of strawberry Jello (doesn't have to be the Jello brand...)
strawberries
Prepare and bake pie crust. Stir together sugar, water, and corn starch and bring to a boil; allow mixture to boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in strawberry Jello. Semi-congeal. Add in strawberries (there isn't really a set amount- I just add enough until it looks good). Pour in crust and leave in fridge for several hours before eating.
freshly baked bread with butter and strawberry jam from a couple days agoFor strawberry jam (and other jams as well), my great-grandmother taught me to use the instructions inside the Sure-Jell fruit pectin box. Canning used to seem intimidating, but it has become a very rewarding project and I get to enjoy the fruit of my labor for many months afterward. Also, I think home canned goods sitting on a cute shelf in a kitchen is such a lovely decorating touch!
21 comments:
How long before you get tired of berries? LOL. The pie and shortcake look wonderful.
We used to have blackberries on our lane at our cottage in N Wisconsin and they were fun to pick before the bears got to them.
Have a wonderful week.
I love strawberry season too! I think that giving your home-canned strawberry jam for wedding favors is such a GREAT idea! Wow!
Looks lovely Meredith! Are you all coming down for the Memorial Day picnic? You should enter in the young ladies' pie-making contest! :) -Rachel
YUM!!
They all look so delicious :)
The wedding favors look absolutely beautiful Meredith! You did such an awesome job.
In His unfailing love,
Ali Ann
Thank you all!
Rachel,
My family is going to the Memorial Day picnic, but I will most likely be finishing up May's bushhogging work in NC. I hope y'all have a great day and I look forward to hearing all about it. Good luck in the pie making contest!
Love your wedding favor idea!!!
Thank you for posting those recipes! I look forward to trying some of them when strawberry season hits Ontario! They look simple but tasty.
I had considered privately emailing to ask, but felt shy because I've only just started reading your blog Meredith.
So thank you!
Katrina
YUM!! I shall have to try some of these recipes!!! I wish there were places we could pick strawberries in abundance around here!!
Thanks for the cream cheese pound cake recipe. I have everything I need for it in my kitchen. :) I learned how to make and can jam last summer. (Nectarine and plum. Mmm.) It wasn't any harder than baking a loaf of bread. I was so surprised! And there is such a feeling of accomplishment.
Ack, I think I spelled my own name wrong in my last comment.
Everything looks so delicious! :) Thanks for sharing.
Blessings,
Luci
This all looks so yummy!! Thanks for posting - each time I see a new post from you, it becomes my new favorite. [grin]
Cake is in the oven. :)
We do get fresh strawberries here in the grocery store in the Spring, but they really are not too plentiful in Colorado. I wish they were, I would love strawberry picking. Our harvest is green chili picking in the fall. I love your strawberry jam idea for wedding favors what a fun thing to do. You may start a new trend. I think your guests will be delighted.
Blessings,
Pam
It turned out perfectly. My husband doesn't like cake, so I halved the recipe and poured it into a loaf pan, renaming it "Cheesecake Loaf." He likes it!
Your ideas are so cool! It is strawberry season here and I can apply all these in a gathering!
Oh, yum! Thanks for the recipes! We have a really tasty Strawberry Pie that's almost the same as yours. Maybe, I'll post about it sometime this week. :)
That looks so yummy, Meredith! :)
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Meredith,
I made the Cream Cheese Pound Cake for the first time tonight, and it was DELICIOUS! I was so careful about not cooking it too long (because I wanted it to still be wonderfully moist) that I actually cooked it too short. As a result, it was a bit gooey; but my husband, sweet man that he is, declared that he liked the gooiness (that's probably not a word).
The shortcake recipe that we always made growing up was not as sweet and was more like a biscuit. Although I'll probably still make that one from time to time for memory's sake, I think your recipe will now be my family's favorite shortcake recipe...and I'll remember you while we eat it. :)
Your recipes look so good! Your strawberry pound cake recipe made it to my menu plan for this month. :) Check it out!
http://domesticbydesign.com/2010/06/my-june-menu-plan/
I've been so encouraged by your lifestyle! You have so much going for you at such a young age. Your fiance will truly be blessed!!!
I just made strawberry jam for the first time this year. It was a little intimidating, but I was pleased with the end result and we have enough for the rest of the year. Great idea for using the jam as wedding favors! Our family loves strawberry shortcake in the summer - Delicious! Great post!
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