Cranberry Angel Parfaits
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups plain yogurt
- 3 cups fresh cranberries or 3 cups frozen cranberries
- 3⁄4 cup sugar (sugar substitute ) or 3/4 cup Splenda granular (sugar substitute )
- 1⁄2 cup cold water, plus
- 2 tablespoons cold water, divided
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 3 tablespoons half-and-half or 3 tablespoons light cream
- 2 cups cubed angel food cake
- 1⁄2 cup whipped topping
directions
- Line a strainer with four layers of cheesecloth and put atop a clean bowl. Add yogurt and cover with corners of cheesecloth. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
- Combine cranberries, sugar and the 1/2 cup water in a large saucepan; cook over med heat 15 minutes until berries pop. Set aside 1/3 cup berries to use as garnish later on and refrigerate. Mash and strain remaining cranberry mixture, discarding pulp. Stir in spices and set aside.
- Remove yogurt from cheesecloth and throw away the liquid which has collected in the bowl. Sprinkle the gelatin over the 2 tbsp water in a small saucepan. and let stand for 1 minute. Cook over low heat, (if mixture boils, gelatin will not set properly) stirring until gelatin is completely dissolved. Stir in the cream, cranberry pureé and yogurt.
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Assembling the parfaits:
- Put 2 tbsp gelatin mixture in each of the parfait glasses and top each with 1/4 cup cake cubes. Repeat these two layers and top with remaining gelatin mixture. You should have gelatin-cake-gelatin-cake-gelatin. Cover. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, Garnish with whipped topping and reserved berries just before serving.
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