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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

"That Strawberry Dessert"

There's this strawberry dessert that usually gets pulled out in the summer months around our house.  I don't really have a true name for it.  We've always just referred to it as "that strawberry dessert".  It's a super easy dessert that can be made quickly and with few ingredients.  It's very light and cool, so it makes a great summer dessert for potlucks and such.  I recently made it for a friend that had just gotten home from the hospital and thought, as I was making it, that it's a rather festive dessert for Christmas as well!  It's a really pretty red and white dessert and looks classy in a clear glass dish.  So I thought I'd share it here.  :)

Ingredients
1 Angel Food cake
1 three ounce package strawberry gelatin
1 1/4 cup water
1 small tub Cool Whip
10 ounces frozen strawberries, thawed*

Directions
Bring the water to a boil and add gelatin; stir until all is dissolved well.  Stir in the thawed strawberries and mix well.  Set the gelatin in the fridge about 10 or 20 minutes to slightly begin to set up.  Meanwhile, tear the Angel Food cake into bite size chunks.  Pull out your slightly set up gelatin and strawberries and gently fold in the Cool Whip.  Do not stir this too much, Cool Whip has a tendency to completely fall apart if it gets manhandled too much.  It's finicky stuff.  Pour this mixture over the Angel Food pieces -- you may want to do this in a separate bowl and make sure the pieces get a little more evenly coated, plus this lets your pretty clear bowl stay clean.  ;)

*I've been buying the 16 ounce frozen strawberries because I've been unable to find 10 ounces.  Personally, I don't feel like there are "too many" strawberries vs the other ingredients.

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