Gooseberry Icebox Cake

Participants will arrive the evening of Friday October 3rd for a local feast, followed by a photography lesson. The following day will be spent in styling and shooting lessons, with an excursion to a local farmer’s market in a historic round barn. Sunday will include more hands-on styling and shooting, with a lesson on post-processing images in Lightroom. Monday morning will begin with a farewell breakfast and we’ll bid our goodbyes as everyone departs the barn by 10 am. All meals will be provided by myself and the lovely Miss Nershi. I’d love nothing more than to share this experience with you, so please feel free to email me with any questions! You can follow the link below to register. I also made a little video for the workshop registration, I hope you enjoy it!

 

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• King Bed – Shared bed in a shared room, great option for friends taking the course together. {$750}

• Queen Bed – Bed to yourself, room to yourself. {$1,000}

• Queen Bed – Bed to yourself, shared room. {$950}

• Full Bed – Bed to yourself, shared room. {$900}

• Twin Bed – Bed to yourself, shared room. {$850}

Registration closes September 20th, but there are only 10 spaces available so claim your space soon!

To celebrate the opening of this beautiful event, I’ve made an equally exciting icebox cake. While this sweet may look very complex and fancy, it’s actually very much the opposite of that. Icebox cake is made up of wafer cookies layered with whipped cream and sometimes fresh fruit. You then cover the cake and let it chill in the fridge for a couple hours.

During this process, something magical happens. The wafer cookies become soft and cake-like, and the whipped cream absorbs a bit of flavor from the fruit and cookies. Because the cookies have softened so much, you can then slices the whole thing like a cake. There is literally no baking involved (hence the name icebox cake) unless you wanted to go all-out and make your own wafer cookies.

It’s endlessly alterable, you can flavor the whipped cream with whatever extracts you’d like, can use whatever seasonal fruit is available, and you can even mix up the wafer layer by using chocolate or vanilla ones. If you wanted to get extra-crazy, you could even drizzle a homemade fruit compote or caramel sauce over the whole thing right before serving. I drizzled this one with a bit of raw honey, and it added just the right amount of sweetness to the whole shebang. So if you want to make something for a summer soiree that looks really impressive, but requires minimal effort (and no oven, hurray!), then this icebox cake is soon to become your best friend.