Instructions: Purchased angel-food cake (any shape, standard size)

Marionberries, red raspberries and red currants for garnish (other blackberries may always be substituted for marionberries)

To make red-raspberry ice cream: Puree red raspberries in a food processor, and strain through a fine sieve or grind berries in a food mill to make puree.

Reserve 1 cup puree and put in squirt bottle. Mix remaining puree with softened ice cream in a food processor.

Optional: Use a few drops of red food coloring when mixing to increase the coloration of the ice cream.

Pour ice cream-puree mix in a jellyroll-type pan (disposable aluminum baking sheets work well) as deep as the cookie cutter.

Freeze for 6 hours or overnight.

To make marionberry ice cream: Proceed as in above recipe substituting 5 cups of marionberries, fresh or frozen. It is not necessary to reserve any of this puree, and food coloring will not be needed.

Cutting star shapes: Cover 2 cookie sheets with wax paper; wrap ends underneath. Precool in freezer for 20 to 30 minutes. Place star-shaped cookie cutters in warm water. Remove ice cream-filled jellyroll pans from freezer one at a time, only as using.

Remove cutter from warm water, shake off excess water, and working quickly depress cutter into ice cream, carefully sliding up to unmold. Use spatula to place ice-cream cutouts on pre-chilled cookie sheets, cover with a sheet of wax paper and return to freezer for 20 minutes or up to 24 hours. Repeat, to cut out all star shapes.

When ready to serve: Slice angel-food cake in slices as deep as the cookie cutter you are using. Cut star shapes out of angel-food cake. Spoon a pool of heavy cream on each serving plate. Using red-raspberry puree in squirt bottle, draw wavy red lines across plate, and through cream.

Take ice-cream stars from freezer and stack one marionberry star, one angel-food cake star and one red-raspberry star on prepared plate, being careful not to disturb red lines.

Garnish with berries and currants. Serve immediately.

If you would like to email yourself the recipe for later use, or share the recipe with your friends or family, enter the email addresses below and this recipe will be emailed to you and others as well.