50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Cakes and Frostings -- Stars And Stripes Shortcake
50+ Friends Club Cookbook
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Stars And Stripes Shortcake
From the Kitchen of: Pepper
Source: Possum Kingdom Lake Cookbook
| 6 | cups | fresh berries -- washed |
| 1/2 | cup + 1 Tbsp. | sugar, divided use |
| | | Non-stick cooking spray |
| 1 1/2 | cups | oat bran |
| 2 | cups | all-purpose flour |
| 1 | tablespoon | baking powder |
| 1/2 | teaspoon | salt |
| 1/2 | cup | vegetable oil |
| 2 | large | egg whites |
| 2/3 | cup | skim milk |
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Combine berries with 1/4 cup sugar and let stand for 30 minutes at room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray.
- Combine oat bran and flour with 1/4 cup sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Cut oil into oat bran mixture with pastry blender or with fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Combine egg whites with milk and add to oat bran, stirring until just moistened.
- Sprinkle cutting board with a little flour. With rolling pin, roll the shortcake dough to 1/2" thickness.
- With medium-size star-shaped cookie cutter, cut dough into stars. Try to keep dough scraps to a minimum and reroll dough only 1 time so it doesn't toughen. Place stars on cookie sheet. There should be 16 stars. Sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake stars for 10 minutes or until they are lightly browned and firm to the touch. Remove stars from cookie sheet and cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack.
- Place 2 stars in each serving bowl and cover with fruit.