Easy Vegan Strawberry Shortcake with homemade biscuits, lightly sweetened strawberries and fluffy coconut whip in less than an hour.
The strawberry season is upon us! These juicy red strawberries are abundant at the farmer’s market right now, and I even have a little strawberry patch in our backyard that is producing quite a lot this year. My 2 year old loves to wake up in the morning and go outside to pick a few strawberries. He’s so cute, he will even save a couple in the fridge for daddy or his brother/sister.
I can hardly stand conventional strawberries anymore after tasting these beauties. They are almost a different food altogether! There is nothing like the deep redness and sweetness of a freshly grown strawberry.
How do you make the biscuits for vegan strawberry shortcake?
The biscuits are easy to make and are ready in under 30 minutes. It involves combining the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Then cut cold vegan butter into squares and cut it into the dry using a pastry cutter (or your hands like I do!) until it’s fine and crumbly. Then pour in the ‘vegan buttermilk’, which is simply non-dairy milk and apple cider vinegar. Mix, cut into biscuits and bake for 15 minutes. Easy peasy.
TIP: If you don’t have a biscuit cutter, you can use a round glass to cut them.
What about the coconut whip?
You can make your own using canned coconut milk (see instructions in the recipe below). OR if you have a natural food store like Whole Foods nearby, they will probably have this So Delicious Cocowhip which makes this recipe even easier! Homemade tastes better, but this stuff is pretty dang delicious and totally vegan.
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Inspired by Sally’s Baking Addiction.
Easy Vegan Strawberry Shortcake
Ingredients
Strawberries
- 6 cups sliced strawberries
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
Biscuits
- 1 1/4 cup almond milk
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup vegan butter, cold and cubed
Coconut Whip
- (2) 14-oz cans full fat coconut milk OR coconut cream*
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Prepare the strawberries: Stir the strawberries and sugar in a large bowl. Cover and set in the fridge until ready to use.
Make the Biscuits
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and lightly grease a baking sheet. Measure the 1 1/4 cup almond milk and add the tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to it, stir a little and set aside to curdle (this is your buttermilk).
- Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Add the cubed vegan butter and cut into the dry ingredients (may also use a food processor for this). Use a pastry cutter or just your hands. It will look fine and crumbly.
- Pour the vegan buttermilk into the bowl, and stir until just combined. The dough will be quite sticky. Lightly flour a working surface (such as a clean countertop), and your hands and work the dough into a ball. Gently flatten to about 1/2 inch thick, then cut into circles using a biscuit cutter or even a rounded glass. You should have about 10 biscuits.
- Place on the pan and bake for about 15 minutes, until golden brown on top. Let cool for 10 minutes or so before assembling.
Make the Coconut Whip (if not using store bought cocowhip)
- Chill the canned coconut milk or cream overnight, being careful not to shake the cans so the cream will remain separate.
- Remove the cans, open and scoop out the hardened coconut cream, leaving the liquid in the can. Add to a large bowl, and beat with a mixer for a minute until creamy. Add vanilla and powdered sugar and beat until creamy, smooth and fluffy. Refrigerate until using so it doesn't melt!
Assemble the shortcakes
- Slice the biscuits in half and layer with strawberries and coconut whip cream. Serve immediately and enjoy!
Notes
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Loved this recipe
Another awesome recipe! My family LOVED this, fresh Ontario strawberries, the biscuits and whipped coconut cream. YUM ??
Sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review and comments!
Very delicious, thank you for a great reicpe.
Like all of the other recipes I have tried of yours, these biscuits turned out lovely. Soft and tender on the inside and crisp on the outside. So delicious!
I’m so glad this turned out wonderful for you! Thank you for sharing! This is a great time for strawberry shortcake!
Super easy to make and very delicious! My biscuits didn’t rise too much, but it didn’t seem to affect the taste at all. Love how easy the dough was to flatten and cut, and of course, there’s no better combination than strawberries and whipped cream!
I’m glad you enjoyed the strawberry shortcake, thanks!
Found local strawberries at the farmers’ market today and went searching for a good vegan shortcake recipe. OMG! I’m so glad your recipe was there! The combination of these biscuits with the coconut cream and the fresh berries was phenomenal. I can’t wait to make it for company. It’s a keeper! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your comments! I’m glad you loved the shortcake!
Oh my word! These are SO much better than anything I’ve had before. Forget store bought – they can’t hold a candle to these. I didn’t have almond milk – So I used hemp seed milk (got to use what you have, right?! Turned out delicious. Thanks for sharing it.
Hi Diana. I’m glad you loved the strawberry shortcake! Yes, any plant based milk works! Thanks for taking your time to share your wonderful review!
Wow! Great recipe, I followed exactly, but instead of making individual cakes, I split the dough into two and pressed them into two large round pans to make one large stacked cake. Worked perfectly! I made the whipped cream with coconut cream and it is beyond delicious – I even snuck a dollop into my coffee (highly recommend). Will be adding this recipe to my collection!
Hi Rachel. Thanks for sharing your fantastic review! I’m so glad the cake worked out perfect for you and that you loved it!
I’m glad yours was the first comment. I wanted to bake it the way I remembered doing it as a kid which was in two large rounds. Not sure how the recipe would react I took to the comments so thank you for verifying that for me!
I forgot to leave my rating haha
Thanks Leslie! I appreciate you sharing your review!
I’ve made this recipe a couple of times and every time my family just goes bonkers over it. Thank you so much for this, it’s really delicious.
These were really good! They didn’t raise much but we still really liked the flavor. We mixed the batter up by hand and that worked well. We thawed frozen strawberries and made the cool whip using coconut milk instead of cream and it was all very tasty. Thank you for the great recipe!
These biscuits are so good. This was my first attempt to make homemade shortcakes and there is just no comparison to store bought spongy cakes. I’ll never buy those again. Easy to make, quick to bake, delicious to eat. Thanks for a fabulous recipe!
I appreciate you sharing your review, Lori! I’m glad the shortcake turned out great for you. I’m a big believer in easy, quick, and delicious!
Very excited to make these. Can I use soy milk instead of almond milk? Thanks!
Yes, that’s fine! Hope you enjoy!
Delicious and easy (but super sticky when making the biscuits).
Can you make the biscuits ahead of time and freeze them?
Absolutely, that works.
Do the biscuits need to be refrigerated?
No, they do not.
These were so easy to make and so delicious to eat. I made them for Father’s Day because my dad is vegan and we all LOVED them. Would recommend!
OMG, these were so easy to make and so DELICIOUS to eat. 5 out of 5, soooooo good.
Yum! Just made a half batch with coconut oil. Great with strawberries or with a little vegan butter! Would definetly recommend.
I made the shortcake batter then morning and mixed blueberries into the batter and it came out like a scone / shortcake hybrid. The family loved it!
That sounds really good!!
Thank you! Great recipe. My coconut whipped cream tasted yummy but didn’t whip bc I forgot to fridge it and used the freezer instead. Oh well, still tasty tho!
Glad it was tasty!!
Can I bake these as drop biscuits to cut in half?
I’m sure you could, yes.
I dont understand what you mean by ” cut into the dry mix “?? How does cold, cubed butter fold into powder mixture? I might be dense, but it doesnt make any sense. Please help! I’d love to make these
Hi there! Cutting cold butter (even vegan butter) into flour is a common technique used in biscuits, shortbread and many other baked goods. Here is a video that may help: Cutting Cold Butter Into Flour. You can use a pastry cutter or 2 forks. Sometimes I even use my hands but that’s not really ideal. 🙂 Hope that helps, thanks!
I haven’t had the privilege of making the full strawberry shortcake yet, but the coconut whipped cream is so fluffy and delicious I almost ate it all out of the bowl!
So delicious! Those biscuits are divine.