Reduced-Fat Strawberry Shortcakes

Name: Reduced-Fat Strawberry Shortcakes
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 6 cups, strawberries (2 cups hulled plus 4 cups hulled, halved, and sliced); 3 tablespoons, sugar; 2 cups (10 ounces), all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons, sugar; 1 tablespoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 6 tablespoons, fat-free Greek yogurt; 1/2 cup, skim milk; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled; 1/2 cup, heavy cream; 1/4 cup (1¾ ounces), sugar; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 cup, fat-free Greek yogurt

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2010

Desserts or Baked Goods

We kept the real butter and real whipped cream, but got rid of 260 real calories from our favorite strawberry shortcake recipe.

SERVES6

TIME1¼ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Reducing the butter in our Reduced-Fat Strawberry Shortcakes recipe left the cake dry. A little skim milk supplied moisture and added just a few calories per shortcake. In traditional shortcake, when the bits of butter melt, steam escapes a...

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