Best Uncle Sams Red White Blue Parfaits Recipes

RED, WHITE AND BLUE PARFAIT

Steps:

• Cap strawberries, cut into bite-size pieces and place them in small mixing bowl.
• Sprinkle sugar over berries and stir. Use spoon to crush berries slightly so they will release juice. Set aside.
• Place cookies in zipper-top plastic bag and use rolling pin to crush them finely. Set aside.
• In small bowl or 2-cup measure, stir together 1/2 C of whipped topping and yogurt until well blended. Set aside.
• Divide cookie crumbs evenly in bottom of 4 parfait glasses or other dessert dishes (that hold at least 1 cup).
• Spoon strawberry mixture evenly over crumbs.
• Spoon yogurt mixture evenly over strawberries.
• Divide blueberries evenly, and scatter them over yogurt mixture in each dish.
• The dishes may be served at once or covered with plastic wrap and refrigerated until ready to serve, up to 3 hours.
• Just before serving, dollop 1 tsp of whipped topping on top of each dish as a garnish.
• Note: Plain shortbread cookies, vanilla wafers or butter cookies may be substituted for the pecan sandies.

RED, WHITE AND BLUE PARFAITS

Steps:

• Stir 1-cup boiling water into each package of gelatin in separate bowls two minutes or until completely dissolved. Stir in 1/2-cup cold water into each bowl of gelatin. Pour into separate 8-inch square pans. Refrigerate three hours or until firm. Cut each pan into 1/2-inch cubes.
• Layer blue gelatin cubes, 2-cups of the whipped topping and red gelatin cubes in eight dessert dishes. Dollop each with whipped topping.
• Flatten mashmallows; cut into star shapes. Moisten slightly and sprinkle with colored sugar. Place on top of parfaits. Refrigerate until ready to serve.