{"id":3235,"date":"2026-07-12T22:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:31:52","slug":"gussied-up-strawberry-shortcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Gussied Up Strawberry Shortcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend was hosting a party and so I made a gussied up strawberry shortcake. I decided to use diplomat cream and ladyfingers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3236\" style=\"width: 771px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake01-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake01-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake01-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake01-768x1021.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake01.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making Diplomat Cream<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3237\" style=\"width: 989px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake02.jpg 989w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake02-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake02-768x579.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arranging strawberries. Can you see The Vision?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3238\" style=\"width: 771px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembling the cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This may or may not have been inspired by the fact that I had leftover ladyfingers from when I made tiramisu earlier.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3239\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake03-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake03-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake03-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake03-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shortcake03.jpg 1103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tah-dah! The finished dessert ready to eat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend was hosting a party and so I made a gussied up strawberry shortcake. I decided to use diplomat cream and ladyfingers. This may or may not have been inspired by the fact that I had leftover ladyfingers from when I made tiramisu earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}