Strawberry Shortcake

By polloazul

Ingredients

• 300 g creme fraiche
• 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
• 50 g brown sugar
• strawberries, hulled and sliced
• 50 ml sweet wine
• handful of baby basil leaves
• Shortcake;
• 75 g raw almonds
• 2 cups flour
• 250 g butter
• 1/2 cup caster sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Combine creme fraiche, brown sugar and vinegar. Put in fridge till needed.

Shortbread;

Process the almonds till they become like coarse breadcrumbs.

Cream butter and sugar.

Add flour, pinch of salt and almonds.

Stir till a dough forms.

Roll and cut into pieces, rounds or squares, large or small.

Bake till lightly brown around the edges (about ten minutes)

Cool.

When you are ready to serve, soak the strawberries in the wine for 5 minutes.

Then pile the fruit and creme on top of the shortbread and sprinkle with basil.