3/4 cup Sugar
12 oz. Black Cherries, pitted
1 oz. Orange Juice
1 cup Whipping Cream
1/4 cup Whiskey
15 Oatmeal Cookies
Toasted Almonds for garnish
Chill 5 wine glasses or martini glasses.
Mix 1/4 cup sugar, cherries and orange juice in a blender until smooth.
Pour cherry mixture through a sieve, and reserve the liquid. Dispose of the cherry skins.
Use a hand mixer to whip the heavy cream. Fold 1/2 cup sugar into cream.
When the whipped cream forms soft peaks, whip the whiskey into the cream and set aside.
Pour a small amount of the cherry liquid into the bottom of the glasses.
Crumble 3 cookies into each glass.
Pour about 1/4 cup of the cherries over the cookies.
Scoop about 2 tbsp. of the whiskey cream onto the cherries.
Chill the parfaits in the fridge for about an hour.
Right before serving, sprinkle toasted almonds over each parfait.
This recipe came up as a quick way to use some oatmeal cookies we had around the house. This is a really good recipe to use with stale cookies.