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**__HOW TO MAKE A STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE?__**
Remember that you always have room for dessert in a full stomach, sometimes I even believe that I have a separate compartment in my stomach for dessert. Strawberry shortcake is one of my top ten of my favourite desserts. The smell of fresh strawberry alone is enough to make my mouth water copiously together with the rich and attractive cake with cream, this make up the savory strawberry shortcake.



__ Ingredients Needed ( **//SERVES 8)//** : __

 * 225 grams of plain flour
 * half table spoon of baking powder
 * 100 grams of castor sugar
 * 1 table spoon of icing sugar
 * 1/2 tea spoon of salt
 * 225 grams of unsalted butter
 * 150 grams of white chocolate chips
 * mug of double cream
 * 2 pounds of strawberries (needs to be enough to fill up the top of the shortcake)

__Other Equipments Needed:__

 * Oven
 * Measuring spoons
 * Baking paper
 * Two mixing bowls
 * Whisk
 * Round cake tin
 * Sieves
 * Wire cooling trays

__Important Preparation:__
Wash your hands and all equipments THOROUGHLY with clean water.

__Steps:__

 * 1) Wash the strawberries throughly and cut the stalk off and slice it in several pieces.
 * 2) Then, preheat the oven at the temperature of 150°C.
 * 3) Take a mixing bowl and place in the butter, castor sugar and beat it until smooth, light and fluffy.
 * 4) After that, use a sieve to put the flour and baking powder into the same mixing bowl and stir it form a dough.
 * 5) Later, mix the white chocolate chips into the dough.
 * 6) Push the dough into a round cake tin (you can decide the thickness by yourself).
 * 7) Bake the cake in the preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, and left it cool down completely to let the shortcake base harden up. (leave it cool in the tin for a while, then transfer to the wire cooling tray to cool completely)
 * 8) After the shortcake base is cooled, whip the the cream to stiff peaks and carefully spread it over the short cake.
 * 9) Arrange the strawberries on the top of the cream.
 * 10) Lastly, sprinkle some icing sugar on the top of the cake.

After 40 minutes of hard working, the delicious Strawberry shortcake is completed, now sit down and enjoy your dessert! Hope you like it!