Perfect! Just what I was looking for in a shortcake to have with strawberries and whipped cream. I used butter-flavored shortening.

perfect. I don't like the crumbly biscuit shortcake, this is a mix between that and cake! Perfect with the strawberries that have been soaked in sugar, lime and tequila.

I loved this cake. I will make again and again! I made it exactly as recipe stated. HOWEVER I needed to cook it almost 50 min.

Our prefferd cake for strawberry short cake..... However I did sub butter for veg shortening!

Lovely recipe! I did substitute butter for shortening, and it baked for much longer than 30min (about 40-50). I'm thinking next time I'll bake this in a half sheet pan to make serving strawberry shortcakes easier :)

This was exactly what I was looking for. Made this for my mother's birthday after she told me this was her and my grandfathers favorite way for for any kind of fruit shortcake wither it be strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc. I doubled the recipe and put it in a 13x9 backing dish and it had to bake for 50+ minutes for the center to cook but came out great. I even had a chunk with sausage gravy over it which was surprisingly quite excellent (course I had to have a second helping) LOL.

Like other reviewers, it took about 50 min. to bake. I believe I should have used two pans instead of one and of course, it probably would have cooked in 25 min. In the directions, you will notice the person who submitted the recipe used the word PANS instead of pan. Therefore, I believe two pans are needed instead of one. I was not impressed with the cake, but my husband liked it. He's like Mikey though, he will eat anything.

This is a KEEPER! The only swap I made was to use butter in place of the shortening. This was perfectly moist w/ the right amount of sweetness. I could see this being a great base to morph other recipes off of.

I admit I had reservations about this cake but wanted to try it because I wanted to make strawberry shortcake and wanted to try something other than my usual and this cake notes that it is for shortcake recipes. I still wasn't convinced when I made the batter, still wasn't convinced when the cake was baked but was overwhelmed when I put it all together because it made the best ever strawberry shortcake! Outstanding!! It's sorta like a cross between a sponge cake and pound cake, not one or the other but both somehow. It soaked up the liquid from the berries, had a perfect crumb, was moist, slightly sweet and just made the dessert. On it's own it doesn't seem to be anything special but when combined with sweet juicey fruit and whipped cream it's perfect. This would be good with peaches too. Thanks Kaylene for sharing your Grandmother's recipe! It's a keeper.

I made this tonight to use with some fresh strawberries. 5 votes of mmmmm from my family!