Sweet Cherry-Red H2o Ice Box Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups whole, pitted sweetness cherries (about 1 lb/1 pint)
1/2 loving cup superfine sugar
1 (.25 oz) envelope unflavored gelatin
2 cups mutual depression temperature heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla edible bean paste
2-3 tablespoons bourbon (optional)
1/2 box Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafer Cookies (about 20)


Directions:
Place the cherries together with saccharide inward a blender together with pulse until smooth. Set aside. Place the gelatin inward a minor bowl. Add iii tablespoons mutual depression temperature water. Allow to sit down 2 minutes.

Pour the cherry/sugar mixture into a minor saucepan. Cook 2-3 minutes, until the saccharide is dissolved fully together with the mixture is only warm. Whisk inward the bloomed gelatin. Allow to cool to room temperature.

Place the cream, vanilla glue together with bourbon (if using) inward a large bowl together with whisk using an electrical or stand upward mixer amongst a whisk attachment until potent peaks form. Using a spatula, gently flexure inward the cherry mixture.

Line a loaf pan amongst foil parchment. Spoon inward all but a 1/4 of the cherry mixture into the pan. Arrange the cookies vertically or horizontally inward the pan, leaving close 1/4 inch infinite betwixt each one. Spoon on remaining mixture. Cover the pan together with freeze until set, at to the lowest degree iv hours. Unmold onto a platter; spell together with serve.

My thoughts:

Another day, some other frozen cherry treat! I love, love, dearest ice box pies but until directly had never had an H2O ice box cake. No bake desserts are the best for hot July days! I had read close H2O ice box cake together with seen pictures of "cakes" made of wafers together with whipped cream but it wasn't something nosotros made growing upward together with no 1 has over offered me a slice. I knew the Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafer Cookies were a telephone substitution element together with that they could survive tricky to find. I don't commonly purchase cookies but I had a hankering for Oreos therefore I was inward the cookie aisle together with spied a box of the wafer cookies therefore I chucked them inward the cart. Since nosotros are only 2 people, I opted against making a giant cake together with instead made 1 that tally into a loaf pan--it yet yielded close 10 servings but I was able to divulge it, together with therefore pose inward dorsum inward the pan together with kept it inward the freezer only slicing off a flake each nighttime for nearly a calendar week for dessert. You tin create the same, only continue it tightly wrapped or purpose 1 of those loaf pans that comes amongst a (freezer-safe) lid. I pureed the cherries therefore every seize amongst teeth has a flake of cherry. Yum. The wafers soften together with teach positively cake-like (it reminded me a lot of the H2O ice cream cakes I'd convey at birthday parties inward the '80s) together with added a nifty non equally good sweetness chocolate note-perfectly paired amongst sweetness cherries. Just similar their cousins the ice box pie (so named because they alone needed the "ice box" to laid up--no baking--and which became pop when abode refrigeration became a reality for many people) this cake requires no baking at all together with minimal effort. Exactly the sort of dessert I similar on a hot July day.