{"id":1182,"date":"2011-08-06T05:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:09:09","slug":"summer-fruit-shortcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Summer Fruit Shortcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/wp-content\/images\/summer-fruit-shortcakes.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Fruit Shortcakes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perfectly ripe, juicy summer fruit needs only a few simple accompaniments to be transformed into a gala dessert.  And a gala dessert that requires no baking on a hot summer day? Even better!  Macerating the fruits in a mixture of sweet wine and lavender honey perfumes them, plus creates a richly-flavored syrup for soaking ladyfingers, used as a lighter alternative to the traditional biscuit-type shortcake.  A dollop of cr\u00e8me fraiche  and a drizzle of lavender honey complete the shortcakes\u2014 or use French vanilla\/honey yogurt, if a lighter dessert is desired.<\/p>\n<p>The shortcakes are delicious with just about any combination of stone fruits, berries, or melons. Grapes don&#8217;t work terribly well; their impermeable skins prevent the fruit from picking up any flavor from the honey-wine mixture. <\/p>\n<p><em>&mdash; Serves 4<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Items marked in <span class=\"ingredient\">green<\/span> are available from The Gourmet Corner.<\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients<\/h3>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 package <span class=\"ingredient\">Grand Jury Biscuits a la Cuillere<\/span> (French ladyfingers)<\/li>\n<li>1 to 1.5 lb ripe summer fruits: peaches, plums, nectarines, berries, apricots, cherries, or&#8230;?<\/li>\n<li>1 cup <span class=\"ingredient\">Cr\u00e8me fraiche<\/span> <em>or<\/em> 2-3 Saint Beno\u00eet Honey or Vanilla Yogurt <em>or<\/em> 2-3 Mamie Nova Honey or Vanilla Yogurt <\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cup Pierre Amdieu 2010 Muscat de Beaumes de Venise<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbs <span class=\"ingredient\">Miel de Lavande<\/span> (lavender honey from Provence), plus a little more for drizzling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Directions<\/H3><\/p>\n<p>In a non-reactive bowl, whisk together the honey and Beaumes de Venise until the honey has dissolved. <\/p>\n<p>Cut the fruits into petty, bite-sized chunks and put them with the wine mixture in a shallow container with a tight-fitting lid. Place in refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>Macerate the fruit in the liquid for at least 2 hours, gently mixing it every half hour or so to redistribute the fruit in the soaking liquid.  <\/p>\n<p>To assemble, break the ladyfingers into 2&#8243; chunks.   In each of four dessert bowls, place a layer of ladyfinger chunks, then sprinkle with a 1-2 tablespoons of the wine mixture (the exact amount will vary with personal preference: some prefer the ladyfingers to retain a bit of crunchy texture to contrast with the fruit, others prefer them meltingly tender under the fruit). Put a layer of fruit on top of the ladyfingers, then spoon a layer of cr\u00e8me fraiche or yogurt over the fruit (if using yogurt, stir until smooth before using it).  Repeat layering, then top  with a dollop of cr\u00e8me fraiche\/yogurt.  <\/p>\n<p>Drizzle a little lavender honey over the topping, then add a final berry\/cherry to top it off. Serve immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfectly ripe, juicy summer fruit needs only a few simple accompaniments to be transformed into a gala dessert.  And a gala dessert that requires no baking on a hot summer day? Even better!  Macerating the fruits in a mixture of sweet wine and lavender honey perfumes them, plus creates a richly-flavored syrup for soaking ladyfingers, used as a lighter alternative to the traditional biscuit-type shortcake.  A dollop of creme fraiche  and a drizzle of lavender honey complete the shortcakes\u2014 or use French vanilla\/honey yogurt, if a lighter dessert is desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,139,92,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacocotteverte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}