reverse strawberry shortcake;

This reverse strawberry shortcake recipe is a cool twist on a classic!  Basically it plays with the ratios of strawberry to cake, and instead of a dry shortcake instead swaps in buttery pound cake!  I really love this recipe because it’s a snap to whip up, can be made in advance, and really is an elevated dessert.  So you can feel fancy.  Pinkies out!

This was actually one of the first recipes I ever made when I graduated college and was on my own.  I mean, of course I made my own food, but up until that point it was really just staples that I learned from my mom.  I didn’t really look up recipes or go outside my comfort zone.  I had only just “discovered” the food network and how much fun it was to watch, and I grabbed this recipe after watching Giada one afternoon!  I actually really love Giada’s recipes, and kind of attribute my start to cooking partially to her.  Her recipes are made with fresh, easy-to-find ingredients, and despite the elevated dishes you’re making, they’re not particularly hard or over-complicated.

Like I mentioned in the first paragraph, this is a perfect make-ahead recipe for company, and you can even use some slightly-past-their-prime strawberries.  You make the strawberry soup and stow it in the fridge the night before, and then just cut up the pound cake and toast it off the day of!  Even better if you have a toaster oven to throw the cake in, and then you don’t even need to heat up the oven.  Of course, you can always serve the pound cake cold, it’s still just as good, but it gives it an extra decadence with the toasty warm, and the cold soup!

Try it out, and let me know what you think!  This is another recipe, like cinnamon puff sticks, that I swapped out some white sugar for some vanilla sugar!  (Check back later this week to learn more about it!)

Do you like this idea of backwards strawberry shortcake?  Or are you still a purist?  Let me know in the comments below!

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