Strawberry Shortcake - the dessert, not the cartoon

In my quest for easy recipes to try out I always overlook the most obvious ones. So last weekend, as I scraped the last of my roommate's Bisquick to make crepes (AKA fruit tacos), I noticed the back of the box had a couple of recipes, most of them which were not pancakes (gasp!) One of them was strawberry shortcake. See, this is what I like about Bisquick. It's so versatile. I can make biscuits, pancakes, chicken fingers, dumplings, strawberry shortcake. Maybe even my own house, if my heart felt so inclined. Bisquick is your kitchen's McGyver.

So this is my week's culinary delivery to my roommates. I haven't sent anyone to the hospital just yet.

Ingredients
2 cups of Bisquick
3 tablespoons of butter
1/2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of milk
4 cups of strawberries
1 tube of Cool Whip or real whipped cream, as your heart desires

Preheat the oven to 425 F. In a pan, melt the butter mercilessly, which is not difficult I guess. Combine the Bisquick, milk, 3 tablespoons of sugar and the butter in a bowl and mix until you have dough of some sorts. I'm not quite sure what the consistency was supposed to be, but whatever I did turned out fine. If you follow the instructions, you can only pray yours will turn out fine too. But my success bodes well for the rest of humankind.

Anyway, I digress. Spoon the dough onto a buttered baking pan to make six biscuits. Make sure there is enough room in between them for the biscuits to expand. It's like your teenage kids, you have to give them some space.

While the biscuits bake, slice a boatload of strawberries, put them in a bowl and mix them with an unhealthy amount of sugar.

After12 minutes in the oven, your bread should be golden brown. Take it out of the oven (thank you, Captain Obvious). Slice the biscuits in half and fill them with strawberries. Place the biscuit halves back together and top with whipped cream. You can also get some strawberry syrup and squeeze some of that on the strawberry shortcake. I just thought of that. I wish I had.

You know how I take pictures every week? These were gone before I had a chance. That's how good it was.

This week's groceries

1. Bisquick - $2.64
2. 1 lb. strawberries - $2.49
3. Market Pantry milk - $1. 69
4. Market Pantry berry juice - $0.77
5. Market Pantry soups (x3) - $4.11
6. Del Monte fruit cocktail (x2) - $2.64
7. Cadbury eggs - $2.79

Total = $17.13