Shortcake with berries

A wonderful shortcrust cake with berries will be a great addition to the evening on the summer cottage, and on a cold winter evening it will remind you of a sunny summer.

Ingredients

• flour 180 g
• butter 150 g
• egg yolk 1 pc.
• cold water 3 tbsp. l.
• salt 1 tsp
• cream 35% 250 g
• vanilla sugar 1 tsp
• white sugar 3 tbsp. l.
• berries (fresh, frozen) depending on the season 300-500 g

Directions

1. Sift flour with sugar (2 tablespoons) and salt, add butter (pre-cut 100 g into cubes), yolk and begin to grind, then add cold water and continue to stir, form a ball from the resulting dough, place in the refrigerator. After half an hour we take it out, put it in a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes. at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.
2. Prepare the cream (I like the cream in butter, but for those who follow the figure, you can lighten it a little, for example, with gelatin): Heat 100 g of cream over low heat with butter (50 g) until the butter dissolves. Transfer to a cup and let cool to room temperature. Beat the remaining cream with sugar (1 tbsp. White and 1 tsp. Vanilla) until a soft peak, pour in the butter mixture at a low beating speed and beat until a hard peak.
3. Final stage: collecting the cake. Put the cream on the cooled crust and decorate the pie with berries: you can use one type of berries, you can use two, you can three ... here you are absolutely free. Some of my berries were frozen (black and red currants - by the way, they give a very pleasant sourness) and strawberries.