Strawberry Shortcakes

About

I love strawberry shortcakes as the weather warms up! The combination of the sweet and tart berries with the lightly sweetened whipped cream is simply delicious with the biscuit whose job is to soak up all the sweet strawberry drippings!

Ingredients

1 cup almond flour
¼ teaspoon coarse kosher salt by morton
2 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoon the ultimate icing sugar replacement by swerve
4 large raw egg, white
1 tablespoon the ultimate icing sugar replacement by swerve
2 cup, sliced strawberries
¼ cup the ultimate icing sugar replacement by swerve
1 teaspoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup heavy cream
2 tablespoon the ultimate icing sugar replacement by swerve

Instructions

Preheat an oven to 400 F. Combine almond flour, kosher salt and Swerve together in a medium mixing bowl. Dice the butter and add it in cold, cutting it into the dry mixture with a pastry cutter.
Place egg whites in a liquid measuring cup and whip with a hand mixer until frothy. Add 1 T Swerve and continue whipping until medium to stiff peaks form.
Fold half of the egg whites into the dry mixture to lighten it. Then add the rest and fold it in until combined.
Line a cupcake tin with 6 liners and divide batter among the lined cups.
Bake for 12 minutes or until the biscuits are golden brown.
In the meantime, slice the strawberries by cutting each in half and then slice them thin in the other direction. Add in ¼ cup Swerve, a pinch of salt, the vanilla and 1 t water. Mix and refrigerate until strawberries have started to release their juices. They will look cloudy at first and as they stand in the fridge, the liquid will start to become translucent.
When strawberries have released juices, add heavy cream to a liquid measuring cup and whip with a hand blender until frothy. Add in 2 T Swerve and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
To assemble shortcakes, remove biscuits from their liners and cut them in half. Spoon strawberries on top of biscuit with some juice as well as a good spoonful of whipped cream! Serve immediately.