strawberry shortcake

In honor of the wonderful strawberry season I decided I should go strawberry picking. After a couple of days of nursing sore muscles from bending down and picking berries, I decided I needed to do something with the over 5lbs of berries that I picked. Then I opened up the May/June issue of Cook's Illustrated and saw exactly what I needed to make, "The Best Strawberry Cream Cake" on page 24. It was a fun and pretty easy recipe to make. The cake tasted like a perfect strawberry shortcake. It was sweet but not too sweet, you mostly taste the fresh berries in the wonderful whipped cream. The chiffon/sponge type cake had a good structure and I did a decent job of cutting it into three layers even though it was my first time cutting a cake into layers. The cake cut easily next time I need a longer knife. I also think it might be a good blueberry cream cake, but I might add more cream cheese and sugar to the frosting for a slightly different taste. cheerio.