Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie ...

Oh, your boys will love the treat, I'm sure!

Many years ago I took my two sons to pick strawberries and stopped to pick up supplies for shortcake on the way home.

I was headed for the whipping cream and they took some of the canned topping from the shelf and kept saying I should just buy that and not bother with whipping cream and save myself some trouble.

I insisted that since it was fresh berries that everything else be fresh too, and they couldn't understand why I wouldn't take the easy way out.

Well let me tell you that after I made that shortcake with fresh whipped cream, they told me they would never let me put the 'fake' stuff in the shopping cart again!

That is very funny Ldy.
Oh yes, even the kids know the difference with the real creme..you cannot beat it. xoxo

I found at Aldi's Shortcake biscuits. They were the size of the grand biscuits. They were good and quick to make. Naturally, I can't find anymore, just glad I bought two cans when I found them.

I like sponge cake too, but not for shortcake. I think it would be much too rich and sweet with a heavy whipped cream too.

These biscuits with just a bit of added sugar were perfect. Bigger and lighter than a normal biscuit.

Not to sweat at all. Just tends to pick up the juice from the berries and you really have the consistency of the cake and the taste of the berries because of the juice it soaks up.

I'll bet it looked great and tasted good too.

No, I haven't applied yet. I'm still busy writing at AC. I have just the four published still, but seven more waiting in the hopper.

I've made dump cake before and it is delicious.

I make mine by putting cherry pie filling in the bottom of the cake pan, then adding a yellow cake mix and dot that with butter and bake. Sometimes I add nuts too.

Served with vanilla ice cream is the best!

I'm sorry you weren't feeling well. I had a bowl of tomato soup for lunch too.

Strawberries are good with just about anything, aren't they?

The only thing that would have made this better is if the strawberries were picked fresh outside my window. Next year for sure.

We've had a lot of strawberries from mom's garden this year. Mine haven't started yet (odd i got them from her plants 2 years ago). This morning she picked 1/3rd of a row and had over a gallon of berries. Her rows are wide enough to fit dads cultivator in i'd say 25 feet long and she has two of them.

It really was good mixed up that way. I made the cream pretty thick, so it mixed in well.

I had saved a few strawberries and a bit of cream and there were two biscuits left too, so guess what we had last night?

:)

I've never had any myself. I believe that the words 'Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie' were the first words in some little childhood ditty, maybe a jumprope song or something.

Did you have a doll/cartoon character named Strawberry Shortcake over there? They made 'friends' of hers too, and one was named Huckleberry Pie, I presume because of the song.

We had Strawberry Short cake all the little 3 year old girls went mad on her

everything smelt of and tasted of STRAWBERRIES.

HICCUP/

Huckleberry Pie was first released in 1979. There are three regular versions for him. The first is the flat hand first issue, then the curved hand first issue, and finally the second issue with Pupcake. He was made into a vinyl headed rag doll and J. C. Penney's made him into an all cloth rag doll.

I found it, its a DOLL, thing for kids/

HICCUP/

LOL. See my answer to hiccup above.

It really was delicious. I had a bit of cream, strawberries, and two biscuits left so I whipped up the last of it yesterday.

My scale wasn't happy this morning, though!

Hmmm ... dunno about the watermelon thing.

Me either

LOL
But, it does make an interesting story as we all sat eating it.