Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the grated butter and stir just until the butter is incorporated.
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Pour buttermilk on top of flour mixture. Stir just until combined -- you don't want to overwork the dough. The dough will look crumbly like so.
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Turn the dough out onto a floured surface. Gently use your hands, to combine the dough and pat the dough into a 1-inch-thick rectangle.
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Fold the left side to the middle and then the right side on top like folding a letter to create more flaky layers.
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We flatten the folded dough, rotate and repeat again three times. This helps create lots of wonderful layers.
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We cut our the dough into circles with a cookie cutter, brush with more buttermilk and bake in a 450-degree oven.
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While the shortcakes bake, we cook our apple filling on the stove until it's nice and bubbly -- it's so delicious!
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As the last step, we whip together heavy cream, maple syrup and vanilla -- just like that, we have our maple whipped cream!
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