Strawberries with Lavender Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 1 cup white flour
  • 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lavender flowers
  • 8 tablespoons cold butter
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 quart fresh strawberries
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 6-8 tablespoons creme fraiche

Directions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flours, sugar, baking powder, salt and lavender flowers in bowl of a food processor and pulse a couple of times to mix. Drop in butter, one tablespoon at a time while pulsing blade. Just mix until dough resembles coarse meal. Slowly add cream, pulsing, until just mixed. Dough will be tacky. Drop 8 large scoops on ungreased cookie sheet, (optional: brush top with a bit of heavy cream and sprinkle with sugar) and bake 18-20 mins. When done, remove from pan and let cool on a wire rack.
  2. While the biscuits are baking, prepare your strawberries. Rinse the berries, stem and hull them. I usually cut them in half because they are small to begin with. Toss the berries with a tablespoon of brown sugar – this part is a matter of taste and sweetness of the berries. Try not to handle the berries too much, you don’t want to mush them, but you do want the berries natural juices to come out. That’s it.
  3. Now it’s time to assemble your Strawberries with Lavender Biscuits. I cut my biscuits in half and serve in a bowl. Lay the bottom of the biscuit in your bowl. Scoop some berries and their juice over that. Add a dollop of creme fraiche (again, this too can be sweetened a little, depending on personal taste, I like the sourness) and top with the other half of the biscuit.