When the berry season starts there comes my time! Berries are great to eat directly and perfect to include in desserts.
This No Bake Berry Ice Box Cake is one of the easiest and tastiest summer desserts that you can prepare with them.
Why is this recipe good
Icebox Cakes are the perfect easy desserts that literally everyone can prepare, even your kids.
This particular Icebox Cake is a very easy elegant dessert. A bit healthier that the common kinds as it contains greek yogurt and maple syrup instead of sugar. Both ingredients contribute also for the really nice and a bit unusual taste of the dessert.
The berries bring a wonderful freshness and contribute to the excellent taste. One of the best no bake desserts using yogurt.
What ingredients you need
You need only nine ingredients to make this delicious dessert from scratch:
- Graham crackers, shortbread cookies or petit beurre cookies
- Milk: dairy or plant based
- Cream Cheese
- Greek Yogurt
- Whipping Cream
- Maple syrup: can be substituted by honey, agave syrup or powdered sugar
- Blueberries and Strawberries: or you can use other berries that are in season
- Vanilla extract
Preparation steps (summary)
You can prepare it in less than thirty minutes. It will need also several hours in the fridge in order to become moist and all the nice flavours to get combined.
- Prepare the filling.
- Arrange in your pan one layer of crackers or cookies soaked in milk.
- Cover with ⅓ of the filling
- Arrange a layer of blueberries on top
- Cover with another layer of soaked cookies and more filling
- Arrange some strawberries on top
- Cover with a last layer of soaked cookies and the rest of the filling
- Let sit in the fridge for 6-8 hours
- Decorate and serve
Variations
The great thing about this Ice Box Cake is that you can make different variations. You can try with raspberries instead of strawberries and blueberries. Or you can opt for a different kinds of cookies (why not use homemade healthy ones!). You can also choose a low-carb sweetener instead of sugar, like stevia or erythritol.
This is surely one of the best summer cakes that you can prepare quickly and with little efforts.
Let me know in the comments what you think about this recipe! As usual, I would love to receive your feedback!
And if you need some more berry inspirations, check out also the following recipes:
Strawberry Almond Millefeuille
Peanut Butter Yogurt Parfait with Mini Pretzels
Chocolate Yogurt with Strawberry Compote
Apricot Tiramisu with Blueberries
Raspberry Cheesecake Cake
📝 Recipe
No Bake Berry Ice Box Cake
Ingredients
- 10,5 oz/ 300 g graham crackers , or petit beurre cookies
- ⅔ cup/ 150 ml milk
- ¾ cup/ 175 g cup cream cheese
- ⅞ cup/ 200 ml heavy cream, cold
- 1 ½ cups/ 350 g greek yogurt
- ⅓ cup/ 120 ml maple syrup
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 10,5 oz/ 300 g strawberries
- 10,5 oz/ 300 g blueberries
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine heavy cream, greek yogurt and cream cheese (all refrigerated for at least 6 hours), vanilla and maple syrup. Using an electric mixer beat at high speed for 4-5 minutes or until the mixture thickens and becomes creamy.
- Pour the milk in a soup plate. Dip quickly some of the graham crackers (or cookiein the milk and arrange them on the bottom of a rectangular pan. Cover with about ⅓ of the prepared filling.
- Arrange about ⅔ of the blueberries on top.
- Continue with another layer of soaked crackers and a layer of filling.
- Slice lengthwise about ⅔ of the strawberries. Arrange them on top of the filling.
- Finish with a third layer of cookies and the rest of the filing.
- Cover the cake with cling film and let it stay in the fridge for 6-8 hours or overnight.
- Before serving decorate with the rest of the strawberries and blueberries.
Notes
- Store the cake in the fridge for 3-4 days, covered with plastic wrap.
- You can use any kind of berries for this Icebox Cake
- Instead of maple syrup use powdered sugar, agave syrup, stevia powder or any other sweetener you might like. Beware that the resulting taste might be different.
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