 Do you want a 4th of July dessert that's quick and easy to put together and creamy delicious? Well today I'm making a lemon whipped ricotta dessert and in that we have a layer of granola first then we're going to top it with our whipped ricotta and then we're going to finish it off with some graham cracker crumbles and some strawberries and blueberries for that 4th of July festive look. I'm rockin robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after my chef joke. Okay I like to start off here with chef joke number one and we'll have number two a little bit later. All right here we go. What is a math teacher's favorite dessert? Pie! All right we're going to start off here making our lemon whipped ricotta. Okay so I've got my ricotta cheese here and you want to use a full fat like you see right here. It's nice and creamy and smooth and you're going to get the best results so don't use low fat. Now the ricotta cheese is going to cut back on some of the fat and it's also going to add some texture some some thickness to our whip and we're you're going to love that it's going to be nice and creamy. So you can see here that the calories are pretty low in the ricotta and the fat is fairly low too so it helps cut back a little bit. Now to that I'm going to add an equal amount of heavy whipping cream and I'm using organic here and I love the ingredients. When you read them you'll see that it just contains cream and that's really what I want to have in my dessert. Next up we're going to use some vanilla extract so I'm going to put some of that in there. You can get the written recipe below the video in the description area. Click down there and you'll find it. Next we're going to add some honey. Another alternative to the honey would be maple syrup or even you know just regular sugar if you wanted to but I'm trying to keep it healthier and that's why I'm using the honey. You can play around with the amount of honey that you want to use in this recipe but I would start off with at least two tablespoons and work your way up to three and possibly even four. Now the next ingredient we're going to add is the lemon juice. This is fresh lemon juice I keep mine in the freezer. I always have it ready to go so I'm going to put some of this in there and you can play with this ingredient as well as to how much lemon you like. I would use anywhere from two tablespoons up to possibly even four tablespoons depending on your taste and just a tiny little pinch of salt and then we're going to take a hand mixer and put it on low and just beat it up for a few minutes. So whip this up just like you would whipping cream for about you know three or four minutes or until it gets nice and stiff. So once your mixture firms up like this then you're going to add some lemon zest. So you can either zest a lemon right into it or like I do I have mine frozen I keep it that way and I just pull out what I need and I sprinkle it in. Then you're going to want to fold this in with a spatula and not use the electric beaters because it will just stick to them and not get in your dish. I'm going to place our mixture into a smaller dish so it can go in the refrigerator and chill for you know about an hour. You can see how creamy and delicious this looks. And make sure you cover it before you put it in the fridge. All right it must be time for Chef joke number two. What dessert is perfect for eating in bed? A sheet cake. Okay so the next thing you want to prepare well first off let me mention I've got some blueberries here that are already rinsed and some strawberries. These are organic and now for our graham cracker crumbles. I'm using Mary's Gone Cookies. These are graham crackers that are gluten-free that have a cinnamon flavor to them and they're really good. And I also want to mention another brand Simple Mills here that you could also use that's also very good just like Mary's Gone Cookies if you can't find them. So you want to place some graham crackers into a ziploc bag seal it up and then pound it with whatever you have. It could be a rolling pin or a meat tenderizer. Don't smash them super fine but leave them a little bit chunky. You can serve this up in any dish you like. I like using glass because they can see the layers and here I have a glass mug and on the left there I have a glass ramekin. So before we put this thing together I want to just show you the granola that I'm using. This stuff is really good not too sweet and it's got some good ingredients. All right first we're going to start off a little granola in the bottom of our dish then we add the cream and we'll toss in a few berries. Do them however you want you know just place them however you see fit and then with the strawberries like I said we have to cut them up. So I'll take out the stem and I'll just maybe slice them you can do however you want. And then we finish it off with those graham cracker crumbles. All right I think it's time for a taste. Oh man is this delicious you've got that creamy lemony cream going on there with the crunch of the granola and the graham crackers and then you've got the fruit flavor to finish it off it is absolutely delicious. Now if you like strawberries you might want to check out my other 4th of July recipe chocolate covered strawberries which are red white and blue. All right I'll leave a link for you here on the screen click that and it'll take you right to it and you can make those as well. Thanks so much for watching if you enjoyed today's video smash the like button for me and leave me a comment and if you'd like to subscribe to my channel hit the subscribe button and the notification bell that way you'll be notified when my new videos come out every week. 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