A delicious dessert prepared in a flash that comes complete with ice cream and strawberries, whipped cream, shaved chocolate, walnuts and cream wafers. Now this is simply divine.

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Ingredients

• 250 Grams (about 8½ Ounces) of Fresh Strawberries
• 4 Café-Style Apple Muffins
• 4 Coffee Wafer Creams
• 4 Tablespoons of Crushed Shaved Chocolate
• 4 Teaspoons of Crushed Walnuts
• Ice Cream
• Whipped Cream
• 2 Tablespoons of Confectioners’ Sugar (1 for dusting)

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Method

1. Wash, drain, trim, hull and slice strawberries.
2. Add strawberries to a small mixing bowl and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of confectioners’ sugar over the strawberries.
3. Put strawberries aside and let stand until juices form (roughly 10 minutes)
4. Split 4 café-style apple muffins in half
5. Scoop a small amount of dough from the center of the base half of each café-style apple muffin thereby creating a shallow indentation.
6. Pipe a fairly thin layer of whipped cream into indentation. Use the back of a spoon, spatula or knife to spread the whipped cream over the entire indentation surface of the halved café-style apple muffins. The idea here is that the layer of whipped cream will act as a bed for the cut strawberry slices.
7. Having let the strawberries stand for a bit select and reserve 8 strawberry slices for later use as a topping and decoration. Some dishes benefit more than others when it comes to presentation and this is one of them. Remember that for us humans color rules supreme.
8. Having reserved 8 strawberry slices for later use divide remaining sliced strawberries into 4 roughly equal portions.
9. At a ratio of ¼ of the sliced strawberries per café-style apple muffin base layer the remaining strawberry slices onto the whipped cream covered muffin bases (indentation side). With strawberries distributed evenly between the muffins take a spoon and gently press the strawberries into the whipped cream.
10. Top the strawberry layer with a scoop of ice cream.
11. Place café-style apple muffin tops back onto their partner bases and then quickly dust with double-sifted confectioners’ sugar.
12. Pipe some whipped cream onto the top of the just dusted café-style apple muffins
13. Sprinkle a tablespoon of crushed chocolate shavings and one teaspoon of crushed walnuts over the top of each of the 4 Cheat’s Strawberry Desserts being prepared.
14. Cut coffee wafer creams in half using a diagonal cut.
15. Continue dressing each strawberry dessert further by inserting coffee wafer cream halves into them.
16. Follow this up with another heavier double-sifted confectioners’ sugar dusting of the strawberry desserts.

Serving:

• Serve your Cheat’s Strawberry Desserts in dessert bowl complete with dessert spoon.
• Have a selection of dessert sauces to hand just in case you decide to further customize this recipe.
• These Cheat’s Strawberry Desserts are best consumed immediately they are ready.
• WARNING: Full meltdown of the ice cream is rather messy.

Yield: 4 Serves

Cheat’s Strawberry Dessert Preparation Time: 5 Minutes

Chief’s Privilege – Eat the dough scrapped out of each muffin over a cup of coffee or even with ice cream.

Do Enjoy!