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Red, White and Blue Dessert

7/4/2012

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Hope everyone had a great 4th!  It's a hot one here where I live so I whipped up a beautiful cool patriotic treat and just wanted to show you.  I got the recipe from taste of home website and thought I would make it as healthy as I could so here's the recipe:

Ingredients
  • 2 packages (8 ounces each) organic cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup organic sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 2 cups raw (unpasteurized) heavy cream, whipped
  • 2 quarts organic strawberries, halved, divided
  • 2 quarts organic blueberries, divided
Directions
  • In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and extracts until fluffy. Fold in whipped cream. Place a third of the mixture in a 4-qt. bowl. Reserve 20 strawberry halves and 1/2 cup blueberries for garnish.
  • Layer half of the remaining strawberries and blueberries over cream mixture. Top with another third of the cream mixture and the remaining berries. Spread the remaining cream mixture on top. Use the reserved strawberries and blueberries to make a "flag" on top. Yield: 18 servings.  

  • If you do not have access to good ole raw heavy cream from a local farmer then you can use any heavy store bought cream.  My biggest objection to store bought cream is that most of them are UHT (Ultra High Temp.) pasteurized meaning that the protein in the milk has been damaged due to high heat.   Pasteurization doesn't kill all bacteria in milk, just enough so that you don't get a disease from all those sick cows in the confined lots given antibiotics to stay alive (sad).  UHT, on the other hand, kills everything and destroys some of the vitamin content and UHT milk can sit out for 6 months without spoiling - hint - there's nothing alive in it to spoil.  For more about UHT see this website from Food Renegade and if anyone can find non UHT heavy cream in the store, please let me know:   http://www.foodrenegade.com/just-say-no-to-uht-milk/

6 Comments
Jan
7/4/2012 09:10:59 am

And here, we just had plain ol' banana pudding! This is beautiful and I bet it was yummy, too! I love Taste of Home recipes! Hope ya'll have a Happy 4th!

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Debbie Vail link
7/4/2012 02:03:46 pm

Jan,
I bet your banana pudding was good too. We did have a good 4th and will continue celebrating on Friday when the family comes for a birthday gathering and fireworks.

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Carol Avery
7/5/2012 08:00:54 am

Beautiful, Debbie. Thanks for your tips on the cream, too. We had coconut water ices. After having been without power so long we wanted something cold, cold, cold.

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Carol link
7/5/2012 01:58:35 pm

Coconut Water ices sounds great! Do you have power now? If not, come live with us for a while and you can visit all my chickens and help me in the garden.

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Carol Avery
7/5/2012 09:22:25 pm

We do have power! Would enjoy visit to your farm....on my wish list.

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Timmins swingers link
10/1/2013 09:56:31 am

Google linked me to this page, nice reading

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