It's A Piece of Cake!

Really and truly...

It is a  piece of cake. 

When you see how easy it is to create that cake I showed earlier in the week, you'll stop being impressed that I remade it a third time just to blog out some pictures.

'Cause you were impressed, right?

In full disclosure, I technically remade it because I  decided to invite a new woman from church and another friend over for a spontaneous lunch on Tuesday.  I took the photos because words like glob and smoosh make a little more sense when accompanied by a picture.

So here you go.
 I've named this cake Piece of Cake Cake, 

but you can call it 

Berry Grahamilicious Cake

if you have a mind to.  

You will need:  

1 package (as in package, not box) of graham crackers*
1 jar berry preserves (I used strawberry, but I think raspberry would be even better)
Cream cheese mixture:
      8 oz. cream cheese
      8 oz cool whip
      1 tsp.vanilla
      2/3 cup sugar or splenda
Extra whipped cream for frosting

Spread about 2 tablespoons of  preserves on the pierced side

 of 6 graham crackers

Then, glob some cream cheese mixture over the preserves

Stack the crackers carefully and top them

 with another cracker,  pierced side down

Gently pat it down to smoosh it together. 

Don't smoosh too hard,

 just enough to get the strawberries and cream cheese to the edges.

 It will ooze out so clean up the sides with a butter knife.

Wrap the stack firmly and refrigerate overnight.

(I put mine on a little piece of wax paper and then wrapped it with saran wrap.)

Unwrap in the morning
 and clean it up with the butter knife again.

Frost with a little whipped topping.

It's a cute little cake. You can get 5 large pieces or 6 smaller ones from one cake. 

However...

That cream cheese mixture above makes enough for

  at least two and probably three little cakes.

I would know for sure but I ate my leftover cream cheese mixture on
National No Diet Day

Slice and serve

Trust me, folks. This is really yummy. The graham crackers puff up to have the texture and taste of a layer cake. Both groups of cake eaters thought it was a layer cake until I told them how I made it. 

Best of all, even though graham crackers are notoriously sugary,

 you can still reduce the sugar by using sugar free preserves, splenda. and cool whip. 

And that's all there is to it.

It's a Berry Grahamilicious Piece of Cake  

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Psssst...*
One more thing...

Do not use Honey Maid graham crackers on this one, folks. They have scrunched their crackers down in size in that sneaky little way that food companies like to do. Your cake will be much smaller with Honey Maid than with a store brand like Great Value.  Plus, the Honey Maid cracks and crumbles easier. You don't save money when you waste half the crackers in the assembly. 

I can't believe I'm shouting out Great Value, but in this case I am.