Simple Strawberry Shortcake

Now...before you comment and tell me that this "sure doesn't look like strawberry shortcake" -just hold on a minute and listen.

While I call this "Strawberry Shortcake," it doesn't mean that you can't change things up and make this work for you. I did just that and look at this yummy dessert pictured above.

So, please keep reading and hopefully you'll like this recipe enough to give it a try.

Ingredients:

1 yellow cake (made according to package directions)

fresh whipped cream (or cool whip - you're choice...but really is their any choice except the real kind?)

4 cups fresh berries - strawberries (for an actual "Strawberry Shortcake"), blueberries, blackberries...really any that you have

1 to 2 Tb. sugar

Slice strawberries and place in a large bowl. Add the other fruit, slicing the blackberries in half. Sprinkle sugar on top of fruit and allow it to sit for 15 minutes - this will allow the juices to come out of the fruit and create a "sauce" at the bottom of the bowl.

Put a piece of cake on a plate. Place some fruit on the top. Make sure and get some of that yummy fruit juice on the bottom of the bowl. Add a huge dollop of whipped cream and serve.

*As a side note, you can add more or less sugar depending on your preferences. Just know that the more sugar you add, the more juice you will have at the bottom of the bowl.

This technic is called "macerate" - so you would then have macerated strawberries. Ever heard of this before? I'm sure that you have.

Just don't tell your husband that they are called "macerated strawberries", or he will laugh and laugh and laugh every time you make these. : )