For Independence Day I decided to make this wonderful parfaits. Oh boy did they turn out delicious! The only problem was the red, white, and blue theme I was going for… didn’t exactly turn out so red white and blue.
Although they didn’t give you the Americana feel I was going
for they turned out delicious seriously delicious!! I used broken butter
cookies in between each layer of delight and let me tell you the crowd went
wild.
Although I would have loved to have a nice bright red and
blue color for each of these layers I wasn’t going to add food color to pull of
the affect.
So simple and so delicious!
Ingredients:
Red Layer:
- Puréed Fresh Strawberries
- 8 ounces of whip topping
- Sweetened coconut flakes
- Coconut extract
- 8 ounces of whip topping
- 1 can of black berry pie filling
- 8 ounces of whip topping
- Butter Cookies (or Biscotti, Nilla Wafers, or ANY plain cookie)
- Stevia as needed
Directions:
- Pretty basic directions here. For each container of whipped topping combine enough fruit to make sure that the whipped topping has a generous amount of fruit. Test to make sure the whipped topping is sweet enough. If not add some stevia.
- With the white coconut layer add a few tablespoons of coconut flakes, then start adding the coconut extra slowly. I would suggest about ¼ of a teaspoon at a time. Keep in mind you can always add more you can never take it away.
- Crumble butter cookies still leaving them a bit chunky so that they will not get too soggy.
- Start off by layering from the bottom blackberry, cookies, coconut, cookies, strawberry, cookies, or the other way around. It doesn’t matter what you do to it… its delicious!
- I topped mine off with a cute pretzel butter cookie.
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