Ideas for Desserts?!
Ideas for Desserts?
tomorrow is a big family gathering. the main meal will be bbq ribs, salad, and potato skins qith cheese. what would be a good dessert with that meal?
Answers:
Ice cream. Let everyone add his own toppings. Fun end to a BBQ!
*Also easy. Set out the bowls & the toppings... there ya go.
Fruit Pizza
"A cookie dough crust, cream cheese filling, and fruit topping. Tip: For a quick crust, use one package of ready made sugar cookie dough rolled out to fit a pizza pan. Use an assortment of fresh fruit such as bananas, peaches, blueberries, kiwi, pineapple, and strawberries."
Prep Time:25 Minutes
Cook Time:10 Minutes
Ready In:1 Hour 35 Minutes
Servings:10
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1/2 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until smooth. Mix in egg. combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Press dough into an ungreased pizza pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool.
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese with 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla until light. Spread on cooled crust.
Arrange desired fruit on top of filling, and chill.
I make it every summer. it's super easy and YUMMY
PISTACHIO DREAM CAKE: (4 Layers)
1 1/2 cups flour
1 stick margarine, melted
1/2 cup walnuts, finely chopped
1 (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
1 cup confectioners sugar
1 (8 oz.) Cool Whip, thawed
2 (4-oz.) packages Instant Pistachio Pudding
3 cups milk
In a small bowl; combine flour, margarine and walnuts. Spread evenly into a greased 9x13 baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes and set aside to cool.
In a medium bowl; combine cream cheese, confectioners sugar and 5 Tablespoons of Cool Whip. Pour this mixture over the cooled crust layer and let set for 15 minutes.
In a large bowl, combine pistachio pudding and milk; stirring until thickened. Pour pudding mixture over cream cheese layer and chill for 15 minutes.
Top off the final layer with the remaining container of Cool Whip. Refrigerate. Serve.
Fresh berries with a "custard" of lemon curd blended with cream cheese then sprinkled with brown sugar and carmelized under the broiler for about 3-4 minutes. That's what we are having tomorrow
cheeeeeeeeeesecake!!! everyones favorite!!
The fruit pizza idea was a good one. I also recently made this dessert for a BBQ and it was gone:
Eclair Cake Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Inactive Prep Time: 24 hours
Yield: 20 to 24 servings
Cake:
1 (1-pound) box graham crackers
2 (3 1/4-ounce) boxes instant French vanilla pudding *
3 1/2 cups milk *
1 (8-ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
* in lieu of the boxes of pudding and the milk, I used 8 premade Swiss Miss vanilla cups...it made really short work of this dessert.
Frosting
1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
3 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Butter the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. Line the whole graham crackers. In bowl of an electric mixer, mix pudding with milk; beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Fold in whipped topping. Pour half the pudding mixture over graham crackers. Place another layer of whole graham crackers on top of pudding layer. Pour over remaining half of pudding mixture and cover with another layer of graham crackers.
For frosting, blend together sugar and cocoa. Add butter and milk, mixing well. Add corn syrup and vanilla. Stir until creamy. Cover cake with frosting and refrigerate for 24 hours.
Paula also makes a version of banana pudding that is to die for:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/...
Both recipes are tried and true. My whole family loves them (except one sister who hates sweets and chocolate...I think she must be adopted).
Lipitor or Zocor. Too much cholesterol.
strawberry shortcakes! or brownies with ice cream on top.
key lime pie ,my favorit
homemade ice cream!
2 cans condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
2 tablespoons of vanilla (or mashed fruit-bananas, peaches, strawberries,etc)
milk
pour all ingredients up to the fill line in your ice cream machine. plug it in for about 2 hours and then enjoy!
orange creamcicle cheese cake it's the bomb.
EASY Answer - EASY Dessert. Watermelon. For the adults who are drinking - Watermelon 'Shots' (Cut a hole and pour in favorite boose).
Wow. great ideas. But I like the make your own sundae thing. Buy a couple kinds of ice cream, and the toppings. Or if it is a family thing, call everyone and have them bring one topping, keep track so there are no duplicates. We did this at work, once, everybody liked it.
Fondue
Chocolate and Caramel........if you don't feel like making it from scratch you can by these two items in the produce section of you grocery store. They come in tubs and you can but in the microwave.
I use two warmers one for the chocolate and one for the Carmel.
These are a list of what I use below.
Strawberries, bananas, apples, kiwi, pineapple, any fruit that works well with chocolate.
Biscotti, shortbread cookies, pound cake, angel food cake
Pretzels
Chopped nuts, coconut
An alternative to making your own sundaes.
banana pudding
For family gatherings that include a buffet style meal I always like to make some really excellent cookies or cupcakes. The portability is highly popular. People don't feel like they have to grab a 2nd plate just a napkin will do. They do not get the ooh's and aah's of a dramatic cake or trifle but people will rave and gobble them all up anyway! If you have the time make a selection of cookies such as double chocolate chocolate chip(chocolate dough with chips in it), peanut butter, and snickerdoodles. This covers most peoples likes and dislikes. If you go with cupcakes I would make some chocolate and some that are lemon, vanilla, or strawberry. Don't forget the sprinkles though--cupcakes with sprinkles are always the most popular!
LARGE TRAYS OF FRESH FRUIT
get a store bought angel food cake, some fresh strawberries, large box of strawberry jello, and cool whip. Tear the angel food into bite size pieces, lay in 9x13 cake pan, toss with sliced strawberries, pour prepared jello over cake and berries and refrigerate. Just before serving, spread with cool whip...yummy and refreshing