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Delicious and Healthy Gluten Free Strawberry Shortcake Recipe with Cottage Cheese
Hello, my name is Nicole Bonilla. I’m an urban cowgirl deliciously supporting your digestive and mental health.
Transcript: Gluten Free Strawberry Shortcake with Cottage Cheese Recipe Video
I’m showing you how to easily make my delicious and healthier Twist on classic Strawberry Shortcake I’ve made it higher in protein with cottage cheese and lower in sugar with maple syrup and all natural ingredients the light and spongy almond vanilla short cake is baked in a sheet pan and can be cut into mini cakes or.
Served as a layer cake then it’s topped with cottage cheese whipped cream fresh strawberry sauce and of course strawberries in this recipe we’ll be using 1 and 1/2 cups of cottage cheese and you can use large curd small curd non-fat lowfat whatever your preference I like to remove the curdled texture by blending it down first so that it is.
Smooth and creamy you can do this in any upright blender I’ll be using my Chopper cup that comes with my immersion blender I’ve added 1 and 1/2 cups of cottage cheese and then I’m going to put on my lid and simply blend it until smooth well that is smooth and creamy so we’ll go ahead and set this aside to.
Bake the cake you could use a standard 9×13 pan I really like using a jelly roll pan because it’s a little bit bigger and then the cake bakes a little bit thinner I also like to line it with parchment paper which makes it easy to get the cake in and out of the pan I’ll go ahead and spray it with a little bit of coconut oil to make this delicious.
Vanilla almond Shortcake we’re going to start by adding our wet ingredients which includes four eggs half a cup of organic cane sugar 1/4 a cup of light olive oil 2 tbsp of maple syrup 2 TP of vanilla extract 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and half a teaspoon of almond extract and then I’ll simply whisk these together until they’re well.
Combined and now the cottage cheese is undetectable in the cake but it’s going to make it extra moist and flavorful next we’re going to add our dry ingredients which includes 2 cups of almond flour 1/4 a cup of tapioca flour and then I have 2 taspo of baking powder and half a teaspoon salt and then I’ll just mix these together until well.
Combined and then we have this very beautiful and wonderfully smelling batter and then now we can simply pour our batter into our prepared pan and I’ll go ahead and spread it out with my spatula and I’ll jiggle it back and forth a couple times give it a few good Taps and then.
This is ready to go into a 350° oven for 28 to 32 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean while our cake is baking in the oven we’re going to go ahead and make a really delicious whipped cottage cheese cream and it’s going to taste fantastic with our strawberries and our Shortcake we’ll begin with 1 cup of our Blended cottage cheese and then for a.
Little more flavor and Tang we’re adding 1 teaspoon of lemon juice a pinch of salt and half a cup of organic powdered sugar and then we’ll mix these together until they’re well combined and then to make it extra dreamy and creamy I’m adding 1 cup of whipped cream you can use store-bought whipped cream or you can mix your own with heavy whipping.
Cream and then we’ll gently mix these together well that looks delicious but I think we need a quick quality control pinky test oh that is so good it’s just light and creamy with a little bit of sweetness as well as a little bit of Tang and some of that natural kind of cheese flavor I absolutely love this and.
I’m going to let it hang out in the fridge until our cake is ready to assemble now we’re going to make a very easy and naturally sweetened strawberry sauce we’re going to begin with two cups of either fresh or frozen strawberries I’m just going to pour them down into a sauce pan over medium heat then I’m going to add 2 teaspoons of lemon juice.
2 tbsp of maple syrup two dashes of salt and then we’ll give us a quick stir to make sure all the strawberries are well coated and now we’re going to bring the strawberries to a simmer and I’m going to put a lid onto my pot just to help speed that up so now that our strawberries have come to a nice little simmer I’m going to go ahead and stir it.
And then I’ll put the lid back on and then Stir It about every minute just until those strawberries are completely cooked through well my strawberries have been simmering for about 5 minutes and you can see that they’re nice and soft and easy to squish I’m just going to come in with a little whisk and start start to break them down now if you’d.
Like your sauce to be a little bit on the thinner side you can go ahead and take it off of the heat at this point or you can let it simmer for about 3 to 5 minutes if you’d like it to become a little bit thicker so I’m going to go ahead and let it simmer uncovered for another 3 minutes it’s been about 3 minutes and this sauce looks amazing and.
Now you can decide if you want to leave it nice and chunky or if you’d like to have it Blended smooth so I’m going to turn off the heat and then I’m going to blend this down using the chopper cup of my immersion blender so I’m just going to pour this right into the chopper cup and then to put on my lid and just blend it for a few seconds until it’s nice and.
Smooth o that looks perfect now I’ll transfer it to a bowl I’m going to put this in my fridge so that it can cool completely before assembling our short cake well here is our beautiful short cake which I allowed it to cool on my counter in the pan for a few minutes then I flipped it over to put it onto this cooling rack and then put the rack.
Inside my freezer for about 10 minutes so it could cool completely it still has the parchment paper on the bottom which makes it really easy to slide onto my cutting board now you can decide how you want to assemble your Strawberry Shortcake you can just spread all your toppings on one layer right on top of the cake and then slice it and serve it.
I like to cut mine out into some small mini cakes cuz it reminds me of those little circular angel food cakes that I used to love eating as a little girl so I found that just this 2in cookie cutter works really well so I’m just going to put it up into the corner of my cake stamp it down then I have this very adorable little mini cake so I’ll just.
Continue to stamp these out making the best use of the space next I’m going to slice a few fresh strawberries by simply removing the top then using my Nifty Little Egg slicer give it a good press I instantly have these very adorable and uniform little strawberry slices it’s also very #.
Satisfying so now that we have our baked Shortcakes and our strawberry sauce our fresh straw strawberries and our cottage cheese whipped cream we are ready to assemble our short cake I’m going to start by placing one of my short cakes in the middle of my plate and then add a drizzle of the strawberry sauce and I want it to ooze over the sides and I.
Want it to really soak into that cake then I’ll add a delicious plop of our cottage cheese whipped cream and a few little fresh strawberry pieces that can poke out over the edge then I’ll add our second Shortcake and another spoonful of sauce and another plop or I guess doop that’s the fancier word of our cream on top and then a few aesthetic.
Strawberries to finish it off well that looks gorgeous and I think we just made art with our Strawberry Shortcake but the most important question is how does it taste we’re about to find out M that is so delicious that is seriously so good oh man sorry I need a second bite that is.
Seriously a dreamy creamy bite of strawberry short cake as soon as I bite in I get that vanilla almond spongy cake that has so much flavor and just the right amount of sweetness and then I get the Tang coming in from the strawberry sauce and then that smooth cottage cheese whipped cream is just so creamy and adds just a perfect amount of.
Sweetness around the whole bite and then topping it off with that fresh strawberry bite just seals the deal that is the most delicious strawberry shortcake I have ever tasted and I love that it’s made with clean natural ingredients which means I’m going to feel just as good after I eat it and I love sharing my creatively healthy.
Recipe so that you can enjoy them too well thank you so much for hanging out with me today in my kitchen and I’ve included a link to the full recipe and it’s in the video description below and it leads you to my website gy.com and I also invite you to like And subscribe to my channel and if you know someone else who you think would love this recipe.
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