What are good choices for a dessert buffet?!
What are good choices for a dessert buffet?
I am thinking of cakes, pies, cookies. Give me some good ideas.
Answers:
I'm assuming that since you asked you must want to do something memorable. It also appears like you don't care if it's finger foods or ones that require a utensil. So that in mind, here are some ideas that have brought major kudos for me.
Ther are always the diet concious people in the group, Angel cake made in a swirl design bundt pan topped with low fat or no fat whipped cream and drizzled with mixed berries makes dessert number one the anyone can eat, even the diabetics.
Another recipie is just plain white sheet cake cooked regularly. After it's cooled completely, cut it in 2 inch squares and frost all four sides with a vanilla buttercream frost, then roll in chopped peanuts. It's fantastic. You can also do it with choc. cake covered in choc frost and rolled in nuts for those chocoholics.
Brownie surpise is another great recipie. You'll need a choc. brownie mix and blonde brownie mix. Prepare each seperately and what I like to do is embelish my mixes by adding butterscotch chips to the blonde mix and I use applesauce in stead of the oil because I think it's moister. Then in a seperate pan place the uncut sheet of blonde brownies and cover the top of it with carmel bits or heath bar bits. Give it a good helping. Then place the choc brownie sheet over the blonde and bake at low heat to give the bits a chance to melt and blend. Once cooled cut in squares and drizzle caramel or choc sauce over the top and serve. It'r really good with a scoop of icecream.
I hope this helps you. Good luck.
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Nutrition degree, with a minor in culinary.
any dessert that is single serve size is best. Cheese cake sqaures, brownie bites, fruit tarts, just aboiut anything that is easy for people to serve to themselves. Do you have a Costco or Sam's Club close? Thats a really inexpensive way to get your deserts and plus they can even make desert trays. At Costco I know you can buy very large cheesecakes for 12.99 and large pies for the same.
well, are you watching your weight because if you are go with mabey a small scoop of icecream and some fruit but if you are not go for cookie in icecream with key lime pie
chocolate fondue....with an arrangement of fruits, especially strawberrries and pretzels
ice cream station
homebaked chocolate chip with macadamia nuts cookies the size of a teacup saucer. white choc mousse with hazelnut centre and crumbly almond on top. alcoholic jelly shots or something. choc fondue fountain with free flow of marshmallows bread sticks and fresh cut fruits. fruit tarts. erm... that's about it that i can think of. hope it helped. =)
yogurt
A chocolate fountain.
do chocolate fountain with fresh fruit mini pastry's chocolate dipped strawberry's also nice chocolates on fancy china also an ice cream bar where guest make their own sundaes have various toppings nuts whipped cream sprinkles ect as well as sauces
filled cupcakes
southern banana pudding (nilla wafers, vanilla pudding and whipped cream)
chocolate mousse
cookie sandwiches with frosting filling
Symphony bar brownies
tiramisu
variety of quick breads - banana, blueberry, cinnamon, pumpkin
poundcake with lemon glaze
peach cobbler
apple crisp
pecan pie
lemon or chocolate meringue pie
trifle
peanut butter fudge
meringue cookies
cheesecake
coffee cake
angel food cake w/strawberries and real whipped cream
white layer cake w/cut up strawberries between the layers and cream cheese frosting
gataux/profiteroes. with choc sauce,oand if you own a chocholate fountain, use strabberries /and marshmallow, very popula at the moment. and also some small cakes .