Strawberry Ice Box Cake

 I rarely try recipes from cooking magazines these days because I have so many selections from cookboos that I own, also from previous old recipe collections of mine, the Internet, and even better, recipes from my foodie friends' blogs which I could be trying out every single day. I also have the newest issues of Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, and Food and Wine, but for now, those are just reading materials for now until I can catch up with all the others.

For the tutorial video, with the proper round wafers...click: Strawberry Ice Box Cake
I'm linking the Strawberry Ice Box Cake to: 
 Hearth and Soul Hop #60 @Zesty South Indian Kitchen

So what's wrong with this dessert?...the wafer cookies!...the directions!

I bought the August, 2011 issue of Woman's Day, at the checkout isle, from my local Publix supermarket, and I was so thrilled with all the light summer recipes, as in my previous post with the Watermelon Feta salad. I still want to try a few more recipes in this issue, but I have to resolve this wafer, and directions problem first. I was looking for a good quality of chocolate wafer cookies...the ones I remember, from 20 or 30 years ago, that were such high quality for ice-box cakes. No Luck!

I had no other choice than to buy a much less quality wafers, that turned out to be a dry, tasteless, soggy tasting mess, that totally ruined my yummy, tasty, and healthy frozen delight!

I will post the recipe, as it is in the magazine, and you be the judge as to what went wrong, besides the tasteless wafer cookies. We enjoyed the frozen delight...minus the wafers. I will make this again, now that I googled the wafers, and found out that I can actually buy Nabisco wafer cookies online! While I was googling, just check this awesome recipe out on this site with Oreo Fridge Cake

This also is a must try for me!

Here are the list of ingredients you will be needing for this recipe:

One pkg. of chocolate wafer cookies
heavy cream,for whipped cream
1 lb. fresh strawberries
gelatine
Fat free Greek yogurt
pure vanilla essence

Strawberry Ice Box Cake

Woman's Day magazine, Aug. 2011 issue

Line the bottom of an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on two sides.

In a food processor, pulse l lb. hulled strawberries, with 1/2 cup sugar, and 1 tsp. pure vanilla until smooth.

Transfer 1/4 cup of the strawberry mixture to a small saucepan, and sprinkle

1 1/4-oz unflavored gelatin, from a 1 oz. box

Cook over low heat, stir occasionally for about 2 minutes. Transfer the gelatin mixture to the food processor, and pulse to continue.

For the cream filling:

1 1/4 cups heavy cream

1 cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt

Add the 1 cup fat-free yogurt to the heavy cream.

Beat the yogurt and heavy cream in a large bowl, until stiff peaks form... just like in the photo on the right!

Fold the strawberry mixture into the yogurt-cream mixture until fully incorporated.

Arrange 3 cookies (I added 4) on the bottom, spacing them evenly.

Placing 3 cookies against each long side of the pan.

(this is the part that seems confusing)

Note: When you do this process, you would have to cut the cookies in half, which I did, but it did not come out right.

Also, the type of cookies does make the difference.

Maybe with Oreos, would this work well.

OK...so here's the way it looks after adding the creamed mixture. The cookies disappeared....floating around somewhere on the bottom, the sides?...don't know!

Just noticed: Go to,

Strawberry Ice Box Cake 

for instructional video, which I did not go to!

(also, now it makes sense. They used the round wafers. Problem solved...LOL)

Cover with aluminum foil, and freeze up to 8 hrs.

When ready to serve, Invert the cake unto a cutting board, remove pan, and parchment, and cut slices, crosswise!

So there you go...learn something new every day! No Top 9 for this either, but that's OK!
I buzz everybody, as I go down the list, but even when I get 97 buzz, which I got on my Rosemary Focaccia...still could not get into Top 9. Sorry for griping, just wanted to get it off my chest!