I Tried Making Homemade Strawberry Shortcake Bars | Claire Recreates

Summary by Krater

Claire Saffitz attempts to recreate the Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake frozen dessert bar from memory, making homemade vanilla and strawberry ice cream bases, a vanilla and strawberry cake, and a cake crumb coating.

From the video

Answers: How do you make homemade Strawberry Shortcake ice cream bars?

• recreating strawberry shortcake ice cream bars
• making homemade ice cream base
• making cake crumbs for ice cream coating
• custard based ice cream
• freeze dried strawberry powder

Ingredients

• nonfat milk
• bleached wheat flour
• sugar
• palm oil
• salt
• baking soda
• artificial flavor
• soybean oil
• FD&C Red 40 lake
• soya lecithin
• water
• corn syrup
• fructose
• coconut oil
• strawberry puree
• whey
• coconut
• mono and diglycerides
• citric acid
• guar gum
• natural and artificial flavors
• locust bean gum
• tara gum
• Red 40
• polysorbate 80
• Red 3
• caramel color
• strawberries
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 3 cups whole milk
• 1/2 vanilla bean
• 8 egg yolks
• hibiscus powder
• freeze-dried strawberries
• buttermilk
• vegetable oil
• 1 large eggs
• 2 egg whites
• levain
• baking powder
• lemon

What it concludes

• The strawberry ice cream core and ice cream bars have an authentic strawberry shortcake flavor, although the crumb coating needs adjustment in texture and color.
• Using all-purpose flour instead of bleached cake flour resulted in a denser cake crumb coating than the original store-bought ice cream bars.