Patriotic Ice Cream for Memorial Day or Fourth of July

Ingredients:

2 boxes of vanilla ice cream
2 cans blueberry pie filling
2 cans cherry pie filling
2 tubes white frosting with small decorator tip & straight tip

It is best to use inexpensive ice cream when making this dessert for two reasons: First, because now days only the less expensive brands come as perfect rectangles in a box and second, because home made ice cream simply does not get hard enough for our purposes here. However, feel free to use any kind of ice cream you wish so long as it is white in color. I use store brand, vanilla ice cream.

You will make this on the serving dish, so select wisely. The dish must be freezer safe. . The dish must fit in your freezer. This dessert must lie flat, so you cannot tip the pan at an angle to make it fit. And the pan must be one that will be easy to use for cutting slices of ice cream. You will probably want to cut this ice cream when you serve it because it will help the flag maintain it's shape longer, and because everyone will get a piece of different colors that way. Don't feel you must use some fancy dish. This dessert is itself the show piece. So long as the pan you use isn't an eyesore, you should be okay.

First, I open the box of ice cream on all sides so that I can easily cut the ice cream into slices. Then I cut two standard size boxes of ice cream each into four slices long ways. This means I will have eight slices of ice cream. Using my selected pan, I put the slices of ice cream in the shape of an American flag. NOTE: For a larger crowd you can use more ice cream to make a larger flag, and then, of course, use more of the other ingredients

I then take my knife and lightly scratch out the stripes and the blue field. When I know I have them right, I edge them deeper. Tip: If you start from the beginning using a ruler, and do the blue field first, you will find this much easier. You want a deep edge to help keep the juice from the cherry and blueberry pie filling from running together.