Bleh! I've been nursing a cold for the passed week. You know, the slow torturous one that starts two weeks in advance, with muscle pain and headaches, then "BAM!" just like that, it hits, and you're completely thrown off balance.
Left with no energy & no appetite, I lost the desire to cook. I KNOW! It's soooo wrong!!! Everything tastes mediocre or yucky, so I haven't cooked or baked ANYTHING at all... except for birthday cakes. Ya, this is the third one in 7 days. LOL!!!! It was a friend's birthday dinner yesterday, and so I made what I was told to be his preference, Strawberry Mousse.
I didn't want to turn on the oven, so instead of making a cake base, I made it with crushed chocolate chip cookies & cream cheese. The rest is simply strawberries, cream, a bit of sugar and gelatin.
The base:
- 16 chocolate chip cookies (I used the Compliments ones, but Chips Ahoy or anything similar is fine)
- 1/2 block of cream cheese (4 oz)
Crush the cookies in a big bowl. Soften cream cheese in the microwave for 1 minute on medium power. Mix cookies & cream cheese together, using your hands to mash them together well. Press in bottom of baking pan. Refrigerate.
The mousse:
(adapted from Joy of Baking Strawberry Charlotte)
- 1 bag 600g frozen strawberries, no sugar added, thawed
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 pouches of Knox gelatin
- 250 ml whipping cream
Puree the strawberries in a blender, add the sugar according to your taste. Reseve 1 cup in the fridge.
Sprinkle the gelatin over 1/2 cup of strawberry puree, let sit for a few minutes. Stir and microwave for 15 seconds or until the gelatin has dissolved. Add it to the rest of the puree and mix well.
Beat the cream with a mixer until soft peek form, then fold the puree into it and continue beating until stiff peak. Spread over the cookie base and refrigerate a few hours.
The glaze:
- 1 cup of strawberry puree
- 1.5 Tbsp of Knox gelatin
Decorate to your desire & enjoy! I am off rolling myself in the blankie & fry like an imperial roll... (Oh yeah... I'm s.l.o.w.l.y getting my appetite back)
1 comment:
What a great cake, I love the cookies bottom. Great idea.
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