A Recipe for Vegan Strawberry Shortcake

These vegan strawberry shortcakes (The Simple Veganista) will have you preparing for an afternoon tea, in no time! You can use fresh organic strawberries (if you’ve gone overboard at the PYO farm). Or Pack’d sells organic frozen strawberries, in paper packaging.

Keep fresh dough away from young children and pets. Read more on food safety for people and pets.

This is a simple scone dough recipe. Once baked, the presentation comes into its own. Fill with juicy organic strawberries, and top with coconut double cream. Though made with coconuts, it has no coconut taste at all, so you can indulge. A cholesterol-free treat.

Did you know that afternoon tea was invented by Anna Russell (the Duchess of Bedford)? She would always take tea for guests, but around 4pm was always feeling peckish? So she asked her servants to bring her tea, bread and cake, not just a cuppa! This was back in 1840, and the habit has stuck ever since!