Ingredients:
2 cups frozen pitted sweet cherries (I recommend cutting them into halves and possibly even quarters)
1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
16 chocolate wafer cookies (or 16 normal vanilla wafers)
2 cups vanilla fat-free frozen yogurt
Instructions:
1. Remove pits from cherries
2. Cut up cherries into halves or quarters (optional)
3. Combine cherries and cornstarch in microwave-safe bowl.
4. Microwave cherry mixture on high for 3 minutes or until hot.
5. Mash cherries with a fork or potato masher until desired consistency.
6. With 4 glasses, crumble 2 wafers into each glass.
7. Spoon 2 tablespoons cherry mixture into each glass.
8. Add 1/2 cup yogurt to each glass.
9. Divide remaining cherry mixture between the 4 glasses.
10. Top off each glass with 2 more crumbled wafer cookies.
11. Enjoy!
Mark's Notes:
The original recipe called for 14 chocolate wafers such as Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers. I changed this to regular Vanilla Wafers. Then I also increased the number of 14 wafers to 16 wafers. With 16 wafers, each glass gets 4 wafer cookies. With 14 wafers, crumble 7 wafer cookies and divide that between 4 glasses - it could be done, it's just easier to use 16 cookies.
Of course using regular vanilla wafer cookies rather than chocolate wafer cookies it isn't much of a Black Forest Parfait and more of a White Birch Forest Parfait.
Of course using regular vanilla wafer cookies rather than chocolate wafer cookies it isn't much of a Black Forest Parfait and more of a White Birch Forest Parfait.
Mark's Story -
I found this recipe in Cooking Light - Cakes, Pies, and Cobblers. It doesn't take much time or effort to make these. I loved it. Trish loved it. Abby and Miriam didn't like it too much - it's a healthy dessert, kids!!!
