376. With Independence Day fast approaching, I have a perfect recipe for you. It is clever in that you can color coordinate with red, white and blue. It is a dessert with pretzels in the crust, cream cheese in the filling and strawberries and blueberries in the top jello layer. As a child I recall this dessert at picnics and gatherings with family friends.
We have a local Strawberry patch down the road with the most sweetest strawberries I've ever tasted. I used all three pints for this recipe and placed it in a 9 X 13" baking dish.
My addition to the traditional recipe is to add pecans to the pretzel crust which gives a richer, nuttier depth of flavor. The salt from the pretzels also adds additional nuance.
I chose to use sugar free jello and sugar free cool whip to slash calories and eliminate extra guilt *wink*. You could go further and use fat free cream cheese as well...but the flavor profile changes drastically when all sources of fat and sugar are removed. If you want to create a more pronounced color profile you could use an additional 3 oz. box of blueberry gelatin with 1 cup of water and mix separately with blueberries and pour this over the red layer after it has hardened.
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"I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, anything with an 'eerie' in it!"
~ Jordin Sparks
"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."
~ Golda Meir
"Strawberries are what make life taste wonderful!" ~ Anthony T. Hincks
