I have some really lovely raspberry jam-reduced sugar. Any suggestions for a nice dessert to use it in please?!
Answers: Please don't suggest jam tart or sponge pudding. Give me something a little more creative or unusual to try. Thanks!
SMUCKER'S QUICK TIPS AND EASY RECIPES
USING JAM, JELLY, AND PRESERVES
"The next time you want to give a new flavor twist to a meal or snack, pick up a jar 0f preserves, jam, or jelly. Fruit spreads can d0 a lot more than dress up your breakfast toast."
BREAKFAST
- Top your favorite hot cereal with preserves. It’s a great way to add the taste 0f fruit and a touch of sweetness.
- Warm preserves or jam for a tasty topping on pancakes, French toast, and waffles.
- Sweeten a grapefruit half with a couple teaspoons 0f your favorite flavor jelly. Serve as is, or broil.
- Quick coffeecake:
Spread plain store-bought coffeecake with preserves. Slide under broiler until topping bubbles.
LUNCH
- A lowfat dressing for fruit salads:
Blend together 2 parts lowfat sour cream and 1 part preserves or jelly.
- Top a serving 0f cottage cheese with couple spoonfuls 0f preserves or jam.
DINNER
- Perk up vegetables such as cooked carrots or sweet potatoes by adding 1/4 cup of Apricot, Peach, or Pineapple Preserves before serving.
- Baste ham steaks, slices of Canadian bacon, or glaze a baked ham with Strawberry, Apricot, or Cherry Preserves.
- Prepare a quick fruit relish:
Stir 1 cup Grape Jelly into 1/2 cup each Sweet Orange Marmalade and chopped walnuts. Serve with turkey or chicken.
- Fill butternut or acorn squash with Apricot or Pineapple Preserves before cooking.
- Use your favorite preserves, jams, and jellies as glazes on beef, pork, and poultry:
Pork:
Pineapple, Apricot, Cherry, Peach, or Sweet Orange Marmalade.
Poultry:
Cherry, Red Raspberry, Peach, Apricot, or Pineapple Preserves.
Beef:
Currant or Quince Jelly.
- Piquant sauce for fish:
Mix Quince Jelly with hot prepared mustard.
- Sweet and Sour sauce:
Combine 1/2 cup jelly, 2 Tbsp. soy sauce, 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce, and 1/2 cup wine vinegar. Simmer 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Barbecue sauce:
Mix 1/4 cup Sweet Orange Marmalade, Apricot, Peach, Plum, or Pineapple Preserves with 1/2 cup chili sauce, and 2 Tbsp. steak sauce.
DESSERT
- Heat your favorite preserves or jam and serve as a topping for ice cream, cake, or crepes.
- Use preserves to top plain cheesecake.
- For a quick and easy dessert:
Slice a store-bought poundcake or spongecake into horizontal layers. Spread layers with preserves or jam. Put cake back together again. Slice and serve.
- Frosted grapes are a "showy," yet simple dessert. Dip red or purple grapes into melted Grape Jelly, then into granulated sugar. (Don't serve whole grapes to small children)
- Fill sponge dessert shells or tarts with preserves or jam and top with fresh fruit and a dollop of whipped cream.
- Fat-free dessert:
Too sliced angel food cake with warm preserves or jam.
ANYTIME
- Make your own sandwich cookies. Spread jam, preserves, or jelly on vanilla wafers or ginger snaps, and place together for a "sandwich."
- Lowfat milkshake:
Blend 1 cup lowfat frozen yogurt or ice milk with 1 cup skim milk and 1/4 cup preserves.
- Make your own fruit yogurt by stirring 1/3 cup 0f jam or preserves into a cup of plain yogurt:.
- Sweeten a cup of hot tea with 1-2 tsp. your favorite flavor jelly.
- Use as a sauce on fresh fruits or spoon into peach, pear:, or apricot halves.
- As a special ice cream treat, spread any flavor preserves or jam on two toasted waffles. Sandwich a scoop vanilla ice cream in between.
- For a new flavor twist to brownies, add 1/2 cup of Cherry Preserves to brownie mix ingredients and bake according to package directions.
For something really easy, just heat it up and pour it over some ice cream. Then grate some dark chocolate over the top. Bellissimo!
Good old ice cream! Melt down your jam in the microwave and pour over the ice cream.
You could also make some crepes and use your jam with that.
You could make French toast and stuff them with cream cheese and your jam.
Toast some bread add butter and your jam.
Try molton chocolate mini cakes, just add a spoonful of jam to the chocolate center and serve with whipped cream. You could also make cupcakes and pipe a little jam in the center of the cakes, top with some icing made with the jam as well.
fried cheesecake balls. Make or buy a cheesecake freeze for about an hour, use a spoon and scoop about an inch thick ball off the cheesecake and roll it in crushed nuts. Fry it in a little oil let stand for about 3 or 4 mins on a paper towel and place on a sheet tray in the fridge till ready to serve. You can heat the jam a little bit too but only slightly or it will just melt. serve the jam as a dipping sauce AWESOME
Cheesecake, cheescake, & cheesecake! You could also use it in a jelly roll cake. It's tasty, different, and looks nice slice, and you could drizzle syrup over the slices with a little whipped cream on top!
I would slice a croissant in half, lightly toast and smother with butter and jam or have it with crumpets, scones=]
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semolina with a dollop or jam
You could swirl it through the top of a cheesecake, before you bake it (You can substitute Splenda for the sugar in the cheesecake, and use sugar-free cookies for the crust). I make cheesecake like this all the time.....
Id heat it up and pour it over some delicous cold ice cream with that chocolate sauce that hardens on the top mmmm ;P