Pinned It, Did It: Strawberry Torte

I found this when playing with my All Recipes Dinner Spinner (love this app!) and it just looked so easy and yummy!  One of those great for summer recipes because it doesn't require firing up the oven and it's a chilled dessert.  So when we were going to my brother and sis-in-laws for dinner, I thought this would be a great dessert!




I confess: I searched high and low for lady fingers in my local grocery store with no luck.  So that left me to substituting something else.  Well duh, if I would have thought about it a bit more, I wouldn't have used round cookies instead of long skinny ones, but oh well. It didn't cause any problems. My substitution were butter cookies by Keebler.

The cookies were a bit thick for this, I think, especially as a crust on the bottom. But the filling is very firm and as you can't see, didn't spill out of the sides.  The red is from the strawberry topping and I also put strawberry in the middle. You can kinda see it below.

I'm bad to read reviews and make the changes without trying the recipe without the changes first.  This time, I did add some almond extract to the filling and it was tasty, but I kinda wish I hadn't.  I also added the strawberry puree in the middle, and that was a good thing.  Again, the cookies were so thick in the middle. But it was tasty and I would definitely make it again! You should try it - it is SO EASY.  Even the people who don't like whipped cream liked it! :)