Food Desserts & Baking 9 Delicious Shortcake Recipes By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on April 4, 2023 Trending Videos Photo: Carson Downing Find both traditional and creative ideas for shortcakes with strawberries, cherries, blueberries, blackberries and other flavor twists. 01 of 09 Earl Grey Strawberry Shortcakes Carson Downing Tea leaves speckle the shortcakes and infuse the whipped cream, giving this favorite summertime dessert a pinkies-up twist. Throw a Strawberry Party With These Fresh, Fruit-Forward Recipes View Recipe 02 of 09 Blueberry Shortcake Serve warm shortcake with a rich filling of sweetened blueberries and whipped cream. Blueberry Recipes You'll Love View Recipe 03 of 09 Pink Lemonade Strawberry Shortcake Pink lemonade concentrate gives a summery twist to classic strawberry shortcake. View Recipe 04 of 09 Chocolate-Strawberry Shortcake Sliders Classic strawberry shortcake reveals its dark, chocolatey side with these luscious mini cakes. The recipe makes 18, so they're perfect for parties. View Recipe 05 of 09 Strawberry Shortcakes It's hard to top the divine trio of a tender biscuit, soft whipped cream and juicy strawberries. But our recipe includes four variations that keep those basic elements and add a little twist. View Recipe 06 of 09 Tropical Ambrosia Shortcake Classic shortcake meets church-basement standard ambrosia salad in this surprising and crowd-pleasing dessert that's packed with tropical fruit flavor. View Recipe 07 of 09 Cherry-Berry Shortcake Stars Tossing the cherries and blueberries with a little sugar draws out the juices. The sweet syrup is a perfect complement to the flaky, sconelike shortcakes. The dough for these shortcakes will be sticky. To easily cut out the star shapes, dip the cutter in flour between each cut. View Recipe 08 of 09 Strawberry-Walnut Shortcakes Nuts and orange zest give a crunchy and flavorful twist to this summer classic. View Recipe 09 of 09 Cherry-Berry Rich Shortcakes Michigan's fruit belt inspired our Cherry-Berry Rich Shortcakes. We played up the sweet cherries grown in the Great Lakes State, along with blueberries and raspberries. A shortcake biscuit base and sweetened whipped cream complete the dessert. View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit