Title: Chocolate-Strawberry Shortcake
Categories: Dessert
Yield: 8 Servings

		Shortcake:
2	c	All-purpose flour
1/2	c	Sugar
1/3	c	Unsweetened cocoa
3	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Butter
1	c	Milk
2	tb	Sugar
		Filling:
5	c	Fresh strawberries
1/2	c	Sugar
1	c	Whipping cream, -- whipped
		With:
2	tb	Sugar -- until stiff,
		Glossy
1/2	c	Premade fudge sauce -- for
		Drizzling on top

Preheat oven to 400. Grease 2 round cake pans. In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Stir in milk just until moistened. You may not need all of the milk. Spread in greased cake pans. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons sugar over batter. Bake 15-20 minutes or until cake begins to pull away from sides of pan. Cool 15 minutes. Remove form pans. Cool completely. Set aside a few whole berries for garnish. Halve remaining berries lengthwise. Mix together halved berries and sugar. Place 1 shortcake, bottom side up, on serving plate. Top with half the berries and half the whipped cream. Place second shortcake on top, right side up. Top with remaining berries and whipped cream. Drizzle with fudge sauce and garnish around outside edge with whole berries.

Recipe By : THE DESSERT SHOW SHOW #DS3193

From: Meg Antczak Date: 05-23-96 (12:51) Online Connections (410) National C

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