Fabulous Friday Recipe: Strawberry Shortcake Sliders

Well, it's that time of year again when strawberries are being sold everywhere from grocery stores, to roadside stands, to farmers' markets! Here's a cute and fun recipe that will help you put those strawberries to good use!

Shortcakes-

2 cups all purpose flour

1/3 cup sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1 tbsp baking powder

3 tbsp butter

1 egg

1 cup heavy cream

Strawberry Sauce-

4 cups fresh sliced strawberries

1/3 cup sugar- use more or less depending on sweetness of strawberries.

zest of 1 lemon

juice of half a lemon- about 2 tbsp

1 tbsp cornstarch

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Stir together flour, sugar, salt, & baking powder in a large mixing bowl. cut in butter sill crumbly. Stir in heavy cream & egg. Continue mixing till a dough forms and roll out onto a floured surface about 3/4 in thick and cut into 6 pieces using a 3 inch round cutter. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake about 10 minutes or until lightly golden. Meanwhile in a medium sauce pan combine ingredients for the strawberry sauce over med low heat. Stir to coat the strawberries and cook until thickened and a sauce forms, about 8 minutes. Once shortcakes have cooled slice in half and top bottom half with strawberry sauce and fresh whipped cream then top with the top half of shortcake. Top with more whip cream and dust with powdered sugar. 

**Recipe & Photo Courtesy of  food-of-love-mmm.blogspot.com**

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This Sunday's Lesson

Hello sisters! This Sunday's lesson will be based on excerpts from Daughters In My Kingdom, so if you have a copy of the manual at home, please bring it to Relief Society this Sunday! You can also find the manual online, here. 

We look forward to seeing you bright and early!

Love,

The RS Presidency

Lesson Recap: We Are Women of God

We had a great lesson today by Mary Harris that focused on two talks given by Sister Sheri L. Dew: We Are Women of God and Are You The Woman I Think You Are? 

It is so ennobling and wonderful for us as women to be able to participate in the gospel and be Women of God. Here's an awesome quote from the latter talk: 

This is a day when the adversary has launched an all-out attack against womanhood, because he knows—he absolutely knows—that the influence of a righteous woman is enormous and that it spans generations. He would have us be disinterested in marriage and motherhood, confused by the world’s view of men and women, too harried by the pace of life to really live the gospel and to let it penetrate our souls. At all costs, he wants to keep us at arm’s length from Jesus Christ. For if we don’t come unto Christ, meaning that we never turn our lives over to Him, we will go through our probation here on our own rather than experiencing what the Savior promised when He said, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 

And, from the former: 

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God. We were born for eternal glory. Just as faithful men were foreordained to hold the priesthood, we were foreordained to be women of God. We are women of faith, virtue, vision, and charity who rejoice in motherhood and in womanhood and in the family. We are not panicked about perfection, but we are working to become more pure. And we know that in the strength of the Lord we can do all righteous things because we have immersed ourselves in His gospel.

Have an awesome Sunday evening ladies!

Upcoming Lesson: April 14

Hello Sisters!

This Sunday's lesson will be given by the lovely Mary Harris. The lesson will be based on the talk "We are Women of God" by Sheri Dew. In preparation for this lesson Mary has asked that you read it and ask yourself these questions:

What is my heart set on (as evidenced by my daily activities)?

How do I live as a Woman of God each day?

What are some things that I personally can do to come out of the world and come closer to Christ?

We love you sisters and hope that you have a wonderful end-of-the-week!

The RS Presidency

General Conference!

We hope you all enjoyed watching conference this weekend! If you missed any talks, you can access them online here. Have a great rest of your Sunday!