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Easy Ice Box Cake with Berries & White Chocolate Drizzle

This easy no bake dessert recipe is PERFECT year round, but you will especially love this easy ice box cake as a great summer no bake treat! This easy ice box dessert has layers of tasty pudding, berries and graham crackers and is a quick and easy dessert that anyone can make! This recipe is simple enough, even your kids can make it.

Texas is currently experiencing record breaking temperatures. It’s HOT, it’s humid and honestly if you aren’t in a pool, you have no business being outside. People have posted pictures of tar in parking lots actually MELTING and bubbling.

Yuck.

I have been using my Instant Pot and Slow Cooker a LOT to avoid heating up the house with the oven. This easy ice box cake requires NO heat whatsoever and comes together really quickly. Plus, it’s a nice cold treat. Make this for your family or bring this to your next summer poolside potluck!

FYI, I used strawberries and blueberries for this easy ice box cake this time. However, my family prefers this with strawberries, raspberries & blackberries. I just knew I was going to photograph it this time, and thought the strawberry/blueberry combo would be prettier 😉 . All that to say, what fruit you use is up to you!

Easy Ice Box Cake with Berries & (Optional) White Chocolate Drizzle

Inspired By Cakes Cottage

Ingredients:

1 pack of Vanilla Pudding (3.4 oz)
6 oz of whipped cream or Cool Whip
1 1/4 cup cold milk
4 oz cream cheese (softened)
Graham Crackers (I use about one sleeve)
1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries
3/4 cup blueberries
(optional) Melt White Chocolate Chips to drizzle on the top

Directions:

In your mixing bowl or stand mixer (I have a KitchenAid…I love it and could not live without it!) whip up your softened cream cheese and dry pudding mix
Next beat in your milk about a 1/4 cup at a time.
Fold in 4 oz of your whipped cream (you’ll save a small amount of it to layer the bottom of your loaf pan) until well combined
Grab a glass loaf pan (I like to use the glass loaf pan so you can see the layers!) and spread the rest of your whipped cream on the bottom.
Put a single layer of graham crackers on top of the whipped cream, breaking crackers where necessary to get the most coverage.
Next spread 1/3 of the pudding mixture on top of the graham crackers.
Top with 1/3 of the berries
Repeat the graham cracker/pudding/fruit layers two more times (for a total of 3 layers).
Cover and refrigerate at least 6 hours (the graham crackers will soften).
Drizzle your white chocolate on top and then serve!

Easy Ice Box Cake with Berries & White Chocolate Drizzle

Ingredients

1 pack of Vanilla Pudding (3.4 oz)
6 oz of whipped cream or Cool Whip
1 1/4 cup cold milk
4 oz cream cheese (softened)
Graham Crackers (I use about one sleeve)
1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries
3/4 cup blueberries
(optional) Melt White Chocolate Chips to drizzle on the top

Instructions

In your mixing bowl or stand mixer (I have a KitchenAid…I love it and could not live without it!) whip up your softened cream cheese and dry pudding mix
Next beat in your milk about a 1/4 cup at a time.
Fold in 4 oz of your whipped cream (you’ll save a small amount of it to layer the bottom of your loaf pan) until well combined
Grab a glass loaf pan (I like to use the glass loaf pan so you can see the layers!) and spread the rest of your whipped cream on the bottom.
Put a single layer of graham crackers on top of the whipped cream, breaking crackers where necessary to get the most coverage.
Next spread 1/3 of the pudding mixture on top of the graham crackers.
Top with 1/3 of the berries
Repeat the graham cracker/pudding/fruit layers two more times (for a total of 3 layers).
Cover and refrigerate at least 6 hours (the graham crackers will soften).
Drizzle your white chocolate on top and then serve!

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Two Ingredient Popsicles: Healthier at Home Popsicles that are Easy!

It’s summer and our kids all want a sweet treat.

Most store bought Popsicle are chock full of unpronounceable junk and chemicals though.

Check out these TWO ingredient popsicles from Motherhood on a Dime though.

Can you guess what the two ingredients are?

Homemade Rainbow Fruit Cups for a Party!

These healthy homemade Rainbow Fruit Cups will be the hit of the party! Watch as the kids grab these brightly covered cups filled with colorful fruit. Make these fruit cups as a healthy snack, as a fun appetizer or dessert or serve them at your next party!

So far this week, I have posted my recipe for Buffalo Chicken Cheesy Nachos and Mini Stuffed Baked Potato bites. I am of the firm belief there should always be SOMETHING healthy available at any get together though, so today’s recipe is going to help you get some of your fruit servings in.

Related: Easy Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash!

This “recipe” isn’t really a recipe though.

Mainly it’s just a colorful cup full of yummy fresh fruit!

I was inspired by some cute rainbow fruit skewers I found on Pinterest.

It wasn’t working out well on the skewers and I had some clear glass plastic cups left over from this strawberry shortcake recipe, so I decided to layer the fruit instead.

I cut all the fruit bite sized (except the grapes…I did not cut the grapes) and layered it into the glass in this order:

purple grapes
blueberries
green grapes
melon
pineapple
strawberries (on top!)

I actually made these for my daughter’s birthday party and believe it or not,they were the first thing gone!

Related: Greek Chicken Salad Recipe

They were so colorful and fun. They’d give a great pop of color and a bit of healthy to an otherwise not so healthy appetizer spread!

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Homemade Applesauce (With A Twist!)

Guest Post by Cheryl Siens

What do you consider Fall weather? After the scorching summer we have had in Texas, I was getting the Fall decorations out when the temperatures dropped into the low 90’s! Today, the high was in the 70’s and we are wearing sweaters. 😉 This kind of weather makes me want to pull out all of my “cold weather” recipes. Since I found apples on sale last week, I had to start with applesauce. This is a very kid friendly recipe. My daughter was making it, with apples that I peeled and cored, when she was 8 years old. It’s a Fall tradition at our house. Let me know what you think.

Homemade APPLESAUCE (with a twist!)

Ingredients

8 – 10 medium apples (you can use more or less – it really doesn’t affect the recipe too much)
1 bag Red Hot candies (or several boxes if you can’t find a bag)
1 cup water

Directions:

Peel and core apples, then chop them into fairly small pieces. Put in crock pot, top with Red Hot’s and a cup of water. Cook on low for about 8 hours. We like them in large chunks, but you can mash them with a potato masher or spoon them out of the liquid and put them in the blender to make a saucier consistency. If you like wassail or spiced cider, try dipping some of the juice into a mug.

It is delicious!

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