Tiny Heart Shortcakes with Strawberries

I just made some cute little scones for Tea! The recipe came from a 

cookbook in my collection called HORS D'OEUVRES by 

Eric Treuille & Victoria Blashford-Snell.

These little two bite cream scones are topped with sweetened whipped cream 

and a strawberry half.  So yummy and the perfect size for Tea! I 

added a bit of pink food coloring to my whipped cream of course!

After the scones cool, pipe some whipped cream on each one.....

Top each with one half of a Strawberry.......

Finish with a sprinkling of powdered sugar!

Tiny Heart Shortcakes with Strawberries

from HORS D'OEUVRES

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cups all purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

3 tbsp butter, diced

1 1/2 tbsp sugar 

1 egg, beaten

1/4 cup cream

1/2 cup heavy cream

2 tbsp sugar

10 strawberries, halved

2 tsp powdered sugar for dusting

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Sift flour, baking powder & salt.

Crumble butter into flour with fingertips until mixture resembles

fine crumbs. Stir in sugar. With a fork, mix in the egg & enough 

cream to make a soft dough. Turn dough onto a floured surface

and knead lightly until smooth. Gently roll out to a 1" thickness

and cut out 10 rounds with a pastry cutter. Place rounds on a

greased & floured baking sheet. Bake until firm & golden,

8-10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

Cut each scone in half!

Whip cream until it holds stiff peaks. Beat in the sugar.

Fill piping bag with cream. Pipe 3 small rosettes onto

each scone. Top with a strawberry and dust with

powdered sugar. Makes 20 scones.

I have to confess that many times I'll quickly read through a recipe and

miss something important in my haste! That is exactly what happened

in this recipe. As I was adding the recipe to this post, I realized that the 

recipe says to cut each scone in half after cooling! (This would make

your scone base thinner.) Will I ever learn?!

You could change these up by adding raspberries, blueberries or 

blackberries in place of the strawberries. You could also

add a kick of flavor to the whipped cream by adding a

tbsp or so of jam. You might create a pretty tray of

scones by using a variety of berries! 

These would be so cute for a Valentine's

Day Tea or any Tea!