Can I make this dessert lasagna the day before the party?

Yes — and the overnight refrigerator chill is actually the most strongly recommended for the most completely set and most cleanly sliceable layers. The Oreo cookie base softens most beautifully during overnight refrigeration to the most pleasantly moist and most deeply integrated texture. The cream cheese fluff firms most completely and the berry layers set most beautifully. Add the whipped topping swirls and star sprinkles just before serving for the most beautifully fresh and most properly fluffy topping.

Can I use fresh fruit instead of pie filling?

Yes. Toss fresh diced strawberries and whole blueberries with two tablespoons of cornstarch and two tablespoons of sugar, warm gently in a saucepan until thickened and glossy, cool completely, and use in the same quantities as the pie filling for the most completely fresh and most naturally beautiful alternative layers.

How do I get clean slices without disturbing the layers?

Wipe the knife blade with a warm damp cloth between every single cut. The warmth of the cloth slightly melts and clears the cream cheese and berry layers from the blade before the next cut, preventing the most common layer-smearing and most unsatisfying dragging of colors between cuts. A clean warm blade on every single cut produces the most dramatically defined and most beautifully visible individual layer cross-section in every slice.

4th of July Dessert Lasagna Easy No Bake Red White Blue Recipe

Description

The most dramatic no-bake 4th of July Dessert Lasagna made by pulsing 36 chocolate sandwich cookies to coarse textured crumbs stirring in 6 tbsp melted butter pressing into 9×13-inch glass dish beating 16 oz room temperature cream cheese with 1 cup powdered sugar until smooth folding in 8 oz thawed whipped topping until aerated spreading over crust carefully layering 21 oz strawberry pie filling with edge swirls then 21 oz blueberry pie filling creating asymmetrical pillowy swirls of remaining 8 oz whipped topping scattering star sprinkles and refrigerating at least 4 hours before slicing with warm cloth-wiped knife. A completely extraordinary patriotic no-bake layered dessert recipe.

Ingredients

Scale

36 Chocolate Sandwich Cookies approximately 14 oz 400g

6 tbsp 85g Unsalted Butter melted

16 oz 450g Cream Cheese softened to room temperature

1 cup 120g Powdered Sugar

8 oz 225g Frozen Whipped Topping thawed for filling

21 oz 600g Strawberry Pie Filling

21 oz 600g Blueberry Pie Filling

8 oz 225g Frozen Whipped Topping thawed for topping

2 tbsp Red White and Blue Star-Shaped Sprinkles

Instructions

1. Pulse cookies to coarse textured crumbs. Stir in melted butter until wet sand. Press into 9×13-inch glass dish.

2. Beat room temperature cream cheese and powdered sugar until completely smooth.

3. Fold in 8 oz whipped topping until aerated and light. Spread over crust leaving slight ridges.

4. Spread strawberry pie filling over cream cheese fluff. Swirl into edges slightly.

5. Spread blueberry filling over strawberry layer.

6. Create asymmetrical pillowy swirls with remaining 8 oz whipped topping over blue layer. Do not flatten.

7. Scatter star sprinkles generously.

8. Refrigerate at least 4 hours ideally overnight.

9. Wipe knife with warm damp cloth between every cut when slicing.

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Category: Dessert, No Bake, 4th of July, Patriotic, Showstopper
Method: No Bake
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 slice
Calories: 385
Sugar: 35g
Sodium: 320mg
Fat: 20g
Saturated Fat: 11g
Unsaturated Fat: 8g
Trans Fat: 0g
Carbohydrates: 48g
Fiber: 2g
Protein: 5g
Cholesterol: 45mg

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