Fall-Inspired Apple Shortcakes

1

Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the grated butter and stir just until the butter is incorporated.

2

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.

3

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.

4

Fold the left side to the middle and then the right side on top like folding a letter to create more flaky layers.

5

We flatten the folded dough, rotate and repeat again three times. This helps create lots of wonderful layers.

6

We cut our the dough into circles with a cookie cutter, brush with more buttermilk and bake in a 450-degree oven.

7

While the shortcakes bake, we cook our apple filling on the stove until it's nice and bubbly -- it's so delicious!

8

As the last step, we whip together heavy cream, maple syrup and vanilla -- just like that, we have our maple whipped cream!

All that's left is to assemble and devour! You will love this fall spin on traditional fruit shortcakes.

I love how these shortcakes came out! The maple whipped cream is perfection too. Such a yummy recipe for fall. I'll be making this one again for sure.

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