Ingredients in Strawberry Shortcake Bars
How to make Strawberry Shortcake Bars
Ingredients
Strawberry Sauce
- 4 cups strawberries sliced
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 Tbsp. cornstarch
- 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp. butter sliced in small pieces
Cookie Layers
- 2/3 cup butter softened
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
Sweetened Whipped Cream
- 3/4 cup whipping cream
- 1 Tbsp. sugar
- + 2 cups sliced strawberries and maybe a few more to add on top
Instructions
Strawberry Sauce
- Puree the strawberries until smooth. In a medium saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch and then stir in the pureed strawberries. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Stir in lemon juice and butter and then remove from heat. Transfer to a bowl and chill for at least 2 hours before using.
Cookie Layer
- Beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds. Add the sugar, baking powder and salt. Beat until combined and then beat in the eggs and vanilla until well mixed. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer and then stir any remaining flour in by hand. Divide the dough into fourths.
Whipped Cream
- In a chilled mixing bowl, beat cream and sugar together until soft peaks form. Keep in the refrigerator until ready to use. You can also just use Cool Whip if you prefer.
- Grease a 9X9 inch baking pan. Line with parchment paper and pat in a quarter of the dough until it is evenly spread across the bottom. Bake 10-12 minutes at 375. Cool in pan for a few minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack. Once pan is cool, make two more identical layers. For the fourth layer, make sure that your parchment paper extends up on two sides of the pan so that you easily remove the bars once they are all assembled. Don't remove the fourth layer from the pan once it is baked. Note: If you have more than one 9X9 pan, you can make multiple layers at the same time to speed up the process.
- To assemble the shortcake bars:
- Spoon half of the strawberry sauce on the sugar cookie layer that is still in the pan. Add another cookie layer, half of the whipped cream and 2 cups of the sliced strawberries. Add another cookie, remaining strawberry sauce, and remaining cookie. If necessary, gently press cookie layers down. Cover and chill cookie bars and remaining whipped cream overnight. Add a dollop of the remaining whipped cream on top of each bar right before serving.
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HOW DO YOU WHIP CREAM?
Whipping cream is easy to do, especially if you know a little trick! Use a metal bowl and freeze it for at least 30 minutes before whipping the cream. This cuts so much time from the process! Before I learned this trick, it would take 8-10 minutes of beating the cream before it would get stiff, but now it only takes 3-4 minutes!
Place the whipping cream in the bowl immediately after removing the bowl from the freezer. Use an electric mixer turned up fairly high to beat the whipped cream. The whipped cream is ready when stiff peaks form as you lift up the beaters.
Make sure to use a fairly large bowl, even if you don’t have much cream – it does tend to splatter if your bowl isn’t big enough! You can whip the cream a few hours or even a couple of days in advance – just store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to use.
ENJOY STRAWBERRY RECIPES? HERE ARE MORE TO TRY:
- Easy Strawberry Trifle recipe
- Strawberry Jello Pretzel Salad recipe
- Easy Strawberry Crisp recipe
- Easy No-Pectin Strawberry Jam
- Mini Glazed Strawberry Cupcakes
- Strawberry Ice Cream Pie
- Glazed Strawberry Fruit Pizza
- Frosted Strawberry Cookies
- Strawberry Cheesecake Bites
- Easy Strawberry Butter
- Quick Strawberry Ice Cream recipe
- Strawberry Crumb Bars
- Strawberry Shortcake Cake
- Strawberry Shortcake Oreo Balls
Strawberry Shortcake Bars are made with layers of sugar cookies, fresh strawberries, homemade strawberry syrup and sweetened whipped cream. These icebox cookie bars are somewhere in between traditional strawberry shortcake and fruit pizza.
Leslie says
What a gorgeous strawberry dessert! This is more unique than other I've seen, and it looks really good! I love shortbread crusts!<br />Blessings,<br />Leslie
Valerie says
I need some of this….NOW
Karly Campbell says
My family would absolutely love this! Thanks for linking up with What's Cookin' Wednesday!
Beth says
These look so delicious and tasty! I can’t wait to make these! My daughter absolutely loves strawberries!
Justine says
OMG……these are amazing – I’m drooling just thinking about them!
angie says
these sound super tasty thanks for sharing I love strawberries and want to give these a try soon
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Sue says
When you said that your’s did not look like the pictures in the magazine, don’t be hard on yourself. Magazine pictures of foods shown are the product of food stylers. They sometimes use things like glue to show drizzles, etc….. your pictures are just fine!
Alison says
Thank you so much Sue! You are so kind!