Wild Harvest® Organic

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup Wild Harvest® Animal Crackers
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
• 1 cup water
• 2 quarts Wild Harvest® Frozen Strawberries
• 1 lemon
• 2 cups vanilla yogurt
• 2 cups créme fraiche
• 3 egg whites
• Pinch salt

DIRECTIONS:

1. Defrost strawberries. Place ½ cup of the sugar, corn syrup, and water in a pot and bring to a boil, making sure all the sugar is dissolved. Allow to cool completely. Pour over strawberries and mix together with a hand blender or in a standing blender. Strain through a chinois or through cheesecloth. Squeeze in lemon juice and salt. Pour into a shallow pan and place in the freezer. Allow to freeze for 24 hours. Use a fork to scrape through the ice to make flakes. When finished scraping, place it back into the freezer until you are ready to assemble the parfait.
2. Whip crème fraiche until light and fluffy. Add yogurt and mix. Set aside. Place whites in the bowl of an electric mixer mix until soft peaks form. Place ½ cup of sugar in a pot with water and cook to 239 degrees. Turn whites to high speed and drizzle cooked sugar down the side of bowl. Mix until cool. Fold whites/sugar mixture into the yogurt-crème fraiche mixture.
3. Take a bowl, place a strainer over top, place cheesecloth into the strainer. Pour yogurt cream into container. Allow to drain for a few hours.
4. Place two spoonfuls of granita into the bottom of each of four glasses. Place two spoonfuls of yogurt cream on top of granita, sprinkle with a few nuts or crushed animal crackers and fresh cut strawberries. Follow with two more spoonfuls of granita, yogurt cream, animal crackers and strawberries, and top off with a spoonful of granita.