Ah, lovely.
Side note: It's kind of cute what the Japanese imagine is "strawberry shortcake". Comes from their obsession with presentation, I expect. So, proper strawberry shortcake is messy, and put together on the spot either by someone who's serving it up or by the person who's gonna eat it. It involves three things:
1. A bunch of whipped cream, like a big bowlful
(Ideally, don't use spraycan whipped cream; it tastes fine, but it's too light; you want whipped cream with some heft)
2. Sliced, lightly sugared strawberries with plenty of juice oozing around--again, you got a big bowl of this
3. Traditionally, these things like large, just slightly sweet baking powder biscuits, although I suppose in a pinch you can use those weird yellowish mini-cake things they sell in stores sometimes. But the biscuits are really easy to make.
You take a biscuit and half it, so you've got two halves with the centre face up. You ladle on a bunch of strawberries and a stack of whipped cream. You devour. If there are still biscuits left, you do it again. I myself have never gotten into the whipped-cream-on-top versus strawberries-on-top factional conflicts.
That's real strawberry shortcake, not some kind of bakery cake with orderly layers and a few strawberries stuck on top.
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