Easy Strawberry Shortcake Croissant Recipe
What if we took the strawberry shortcake you know and love and turned the sophistication up to eleven. Add the delicate buttery layers of Noisette Croissant pastry and you have a summer dessert fit for royalty that takes only moments to create.
How to make strawberry shortcake croissants
You can easily whip a batch of this sumptuous homemade whipped cream and have it on hand to prepare these strawberry shortcake croissants for yourself at any time! Freshly slicing the strawberries and croissants in half, you can either use a decorative tip on an icing bag or just use a butter knife! It doesn’t have to be pretty to be tasty!
The best part about this recipe is that you can easily make them with smaller croissants. By using mini croissants, you can make beautiful looking appetizers or treats, especially for the holidays.
Easy Strawberry Shortcake Croissant Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 3 Tbs Powdered Sugar
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 Tbs Cream Cheese
- Fresh Strawberries
- 4 Fresh Noisette Croissants
Instructions
- Add your heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar into a bowl and blend well until peaks form.
- Add in your vanilla extract and beat or whip until well combined.
- Cut your croissants in half.
- Slice your strawberries.
- Fill a piping bag with a frosting tip (if you wish for your whipped cream to be decorative) and pipe the whipped cream onto one sliced side of the croissant.
- Add sliced strawberries to the top of the whipped cream, fanning them out evenly across, and top with the other side of the croissant.
- Sprinkle powdered sugar on top.
- For the decorative croissants with a “Santa hat” on top, slice the top of the strawberry off, frost the cut end of the strawberry with a little extra whipped cream and place it on top of the croissants.
- Pipe a little whipped cream on top for the wooly top to the “hat” and serve.