A good fresh strawberry dessert recipe is one of my favorites this time of year. While the strawberries aren’t ripe to pick YET in Ohio, I do know that they are in other parts of the country. I’m seeing the prices drop at our area grocery stores, so I wanted to make a fun dessert for Mother’s Day that was very easy but used fresh strawberries!
To be honest, this original recipe given to me when we were married, called for frozen strawberries. Right now the prices for frozen strawberries are double what they are for fresh. I decided to mix up the recipe and freeze the fresh strawberries so that I could use what was fresh and also save money!
Fresh Strawberry Dessert Recipe
To make this fresh strawberry dessert recipe you will need:
3 oz package of strawberry Jell-O
1 lb of fresh strawberries, frozen
Cool Whip
Angel Food Cake
It was easy to freeze the fresh strawberries. I simply washed them and cut off the green tops. I placed them on a cookie sheet in our deep freezer for about 3 hours and they were frozen! You can cut them as small as you would like them. I liked the big chunks of strawberry in my dessert. If you want smaller strawberries within the dessert, I would cut them before freezing!
Boil 1 1/4 cups of water on the stove. Dissolve the Jell-O into the boiling water. Once dissolved, add the frozen strawberries and stir. I then transferred the strawberry mixture to a mixing bowl.
Fold in the cool whip into the strawberry mixture. Yum!
Break the angel food cake into 1 – 2 inch pieces. Add to the bowl and fold in gently.
Add to an angel food pan or to a 9×13 pan. It was very pretty in the angel food pan once I removed it but it was also very fragile. In the future, I will probably go with the rectangular pan. It would be much easier! Place the cake into the refrigerator for at least 3 hours to chill.
Enjoy! This Fresh Strawberry Dessert recipe took minutes to make! It’s an easy and fresh dessert to enjoy those fresh strawberries on a hot day! No oven required. 🙂
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Fresh Strawberry Angel Food Dessert
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 0 min
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 12 1x
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Delicious angel food dessert made with fresh strawberries.
Ingredients
- 3 oz package of strawberry Jell-O
- 1 lb fresh strawberries, frozen
- 1 package of Cool Whip
- 1 small Angel Food cake
Instructions
- Dissolve Jell-O in 1 1/4 cups of boiling water.
- Add frozen strawberries and stir.
- Place strawberry mixture into large bowl and fold in the Cool Whip.
- Break cake into 1 – 2 inch pieces. Add to Jell-O mixture. Fold in gently.
- Pour into angel cake pan or 9×13 pan. Chill until set.
- Category: Dessert
Have some extra strawberries? You might want to try making this Easy Strawberry Jam Recipe!
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I also made it with sugar free jello… and good! Wanted a treat that wouldn’t kill me with carbs- DONE!
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So glad it worked out with sugar free jello! Thank you for sharing!
Can I double this recipe?
You can, if you’re making two angel food cakes. Or one very large one? Honestly, I’ve never tried to double it. Let me know if you do and how it turns out!
I have made this WW friendly using sugar free jello.
2nd time making it and its sooooooo delicious!!!! YUM
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Line the pan with saran wrap first, easier to unmold. Then frost with cool whip & top with strawberries – so good!
Do you have any Nutritional information on this? I’m diabetic, but this seems like it could be be a low- calorie recipe if you used sugar free jello.
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if do not like cool whip that purchase in store, what can I use with the strawberry angel food cake ?
Malinda, you can make your own whipped cream homemade. I don’t see why that would be any different. You’ll just need to be careful that you use the same amount as cool whip.
What size cool whip container do you use?
I’m wondering if I could just put this in my trifle bowl and chill and serve it in that? It’s SO pretty I’d had for no one to be able to see it if it was just in a casserole dish! Can’t wait to try it, it looks delish!
I don’t see why not. Let me know how it goes!
Found your recipe through Facebook. The picture looks scrumptious! You mentioned the desert was fragile when you removed it from the angel food pan: have you considered using a 2nd box of jello or packet of Knox gelatine to firm it up?
When we make it, we will be using the Knox gelatin and twice the strawberries as we have red dye allergies. That’s ok tho, who turns away from double strawberries? Lol
That sounds really good with the double strawberries. I have not tried it with twice the jello. Let me know how it turns out!