Strawberry Daiquiri Shortcakes

This is my first month participating in the The Secret Recipe Club, where you are assigned another person's food blog to make a recipe from and we all post what we made on the same day.    The blog I was assigned was Fallon's Cucina.   I spent a long time going through her blog and in the end decided on the Strawberry Daiquiri Shortcakes, as I really enjoy making desserts and Randal loves strawberries, so I thought this would be a great choice.

This recipe, which originated at Booze Cakes, was a little heavy on the rum for us.   If we ever made them again, we would at least halve the amount of alcohol.

Shortcakes:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup rum
1/4 cup strawberry yogurt
1 cup strawberries, chopped

Mascarpone fluff:
8 oz mascarpone cheese
2/3 cup icing sugar
1 tsp strawberry jam
1 cup heavy cream
1 tsp rum
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes.  Beat in eggs one at a time. Mix in vanilla and rum, followed by the flour and salt. Stir in the yogurt and strawberries and fill each cupcake liner 2/3 full and bake for 18-20 minutes.

To make the marscapone fluff, in the bowl of an electric mixer, beat all ingredients together until smooth.
Top each shortcake with the fluff and a a few strawberry slices.