Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there! I hope you have a good one.
This week’s Sweet Melissa Sundays selection is a Lemon Icebox Cake with Fresh Strawberry Sauce. I’ve never made an icebox cake, which seems to me (correct me if I’m wrong) to be frozen custard with a meringue topping and a vanilla wafer crust. You separate the eggs, cook the yolks with sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Pour it into the crust. Whip the egg whites and place them on top of the custard base and bake in the oven for a few minutes. Once cooled to room temperature you place in the freezer. When ready to serve you take it out of the freezer and top it with the strawberry sauce, or in my case, blackberry sauce.
Jennifer of Keep Passing the Open Windows chose this delicious recipe. Give it a try and visit her blog for the reicpe.
Pink Stripes 
What a lovely idea using blackberries! I wasn’t too keen on the strawberry sauce with the lemon, but I bet blackberry worked really well. Yum!
Katie xox
Mmmm… blackberries! Looks yummy!
You’re right, it’s not a cake at all – but it sure was delicious!
I’ve never tried icebox cake. Yours looks wonderful!
Can’t go wrong with fresh blackberry sauce. That looks fantastic!
I’ll have to try the sauce with blackberries, seeing as I’m pretty much obsessed with them. The strawberry sauce tasted a bit watery. This was a good dessert, wasn’t it?
Nancy
Ahh what a nice idea to use blackberrys. Your pie looks wonderful, cool and refreshing!
Love your photos!
I love blackberries and lemon together! We are down to our last gallon-sized ziplock of frozen blackberries from last summer! So sad!
Oh, blackberry sounds like a great substitution. Yours looks so delicious, really wishing I made this.
WOW! That’s just gorgeous!
That look delicious! I’ve never made an icebox cake either.
Yum…and what lovely photos!
Prettiest I’ve seen! Boy if I had the patience and energy, I’d love to participate in another baking group… I’m just too lazy, which I hadyour stamina!
Marvelous, as always, Pink! (Love calling you Pink, but is it even a nickname of yours… I don’t think so, huh? …okay, well I made it my nickname for you! LOL)
That looks so good! And I love that kidney shaped plate.
You’re a little off on the definition of an icebox cake; It’s really a cake consisting of wafers (generally chocolate) and whipped cream that is allowed to sit overnight in the fridge (or ‘icebox’) so the cookies absorb the moisture from the whipped cream and become soft.
Your dessert is very pretty, though.
Your rendition of this cake looks amazing. I especially love the plump blackberries you topped it with.
Yours looks so pretty! I love the idea of the blackberry sauce with it too!
Ooooh, what a pretty cake! I love the picture with the blackberry sauce dripping down the side. I had to skip this week but I can’t wait to make the cake later this summer.
Your dessert is beautiful. Lovely touch adding the fresh berries.
Blackberries sound so good! Nice job.
It is grotesque of me perhaps, but all I can say is – droolworthy!
Love love love the pictures of that yummy lemon icebox cake! Great green background color and that awesome-shaped plate!
That blackberry sauce looks to die-for!
You’re always killing me, woman. 😉
Looks lovely and the blackberries were a great idea!
Wow! This looks like a piece of heaven!!
Thanks for the happy mother’s day wishes!
I’m not certain what an icebox cake is but it looks good. Did you like it? You didn’t mention.
~ingrid
Ooooh, this looks awesome! I just got this cookbook and I may need to bake this one next! 🙂