Desserts
Store-bought angel food cake frosted w/whipped topping blended with malted milk powder.
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This is my simple party dessert. Make a pan of brownies from a mix. If you want, you can leave them plain or add peanut butter chips to them before baking. For icing, melt a cup of chocolate chips with a cup of creamy peanut butter in a small pan over medium low heat until the chocolate and peanut butter are combined. Pour over brownies, cover pan with foil and let cool on the counter. The icing is glossy and pretty and it tastes like a reese's peanut butter cup.
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Buy a lemon angel food cake, make holes with a fork in the cake, pour lemon jello (made with the boiling water and cold water) into the holes. Refrigerate for a couple hours.
Optional: put a little Cool Whip on top.
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Quarter some pears in a baking pan with plenty of apple cider, cinnamon, sugar, and butter. cover with foil and roast in the oven until nice and tender. (You can take off the foil at the end if you like.) Eat while hot, topped with cold whipped cream.
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This one sounds really weird, but it is fabulous -- give it a try. Slice some strawberries, put them in a bowl, pour in enough balsamic vinegar (yes, I'm not kidding) to cover them, refrigerate for several hours. We serve this every Easter, and our skeptical guests always end up gushing over it.
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Chocolate cookies (Mother's Brand has a chocolate cookie w/walnuts that works great, but one w/choc. chips is also good. Just not 'creme' cookie) Place a layer of cookies in the bottom of a bowl. Crumble up a couple of cookies f/the 'cracks' between cookies. Spread layer of Cool Whip over cookies. Repeat until cookies are used up...or the Cool whip...or until you have a full bowl (IMO, the more the better!) Cover w/plastic wrap & refrigerate overnight. You CAN freeze this a week or so if you use the proper bowl. Let thaw at room temp. approx. 1/2 hour before serving.
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Bag of frozen raspberries (thaw as much as you'll need)
Breyer's Vanilla Ice Cream. Scoop ice cream into pretty dessert dishes and top with thawed raspberries. So easy, so good, so pretty!
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Form several snowballs out of vanilla ice cream and roll them in coconut. Place on cookie sheet in freezer til ready to serve. Choose a pretty bowl, or I like to use a champagne stemmed glasses. Put one ball in each, and pour Creme de Menthe (which is emerald green) over it. Place a red cherry on top, if desired. I like to serve this after Christmas dinner with cookies. Easy, light and people will be impressed.
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mix together a ONE STEP (we are talking Betty Crocker) angel food cake mix with an 18 oz. can crushed pineapple...juice and all. Dump into lazagna pan (8x13" I think) and bake at 350 for 35 min. Dust with powdered sugar if the spirit moves you.
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This is a quick dessert recipe of my mom's that I got published in Taste of Home's Quick Cooking a while back:
Take a large can of pears, with the juice, and dump it into a casserole dish. Sprinkle a package of blueberry muffin mix over the top, dot it with butter, and bake at about 400 until it's bubbly and the top is browned. SOOOO delicious.
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At a work party one year, a lady brought a delicious cold dip that was just a block of cream cheese and a jar of salsa mixed together.
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Quick Cherry Pie
Simply grease a cake pan. Pour 2 cans of cherry pie filling into it and spread evenly. Then sprinkle a yellow cake mix dry over the top. Dot with margarine. Bake about 20 min. Serve over vanilla ice cream.
This is not eact as I don't have it written down. But this is so easy and tastes delicious.
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Got this recipe here and it's delicious ! My DH devoured a half one before I told him it was fat free LOL!
I do it in a glass 9x13 baking dish. I also spray in a little pam then wipe it out with a paper towel.
Spread a 20 oz. can of crushed pineapple on the bottom of the pan. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Then sprinkle a Betty Crocker angel food cake mix over that ( it must be one step kind)
Mix all together well, it will start to foam. Let set 20 minutes to rise. Bake in a preheated oven 20 to 25 minutes. Place on a wire rack to cool. When cool frost with a container of cool whip. (we like low fat ) Cover tightly and refrigerate until ready to serve.
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fudge (16 oz choc chips, 1 can sweetened condensed milk, vanilla: nuke the chips and milk, stir in vanilla and pour in 8x8 pan- good and fudgy, but not gaggingly sweet)
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buckeyes (few ingredients- peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter, chocolate chips and parrafin- but time consuming)
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cookie drops (thank you, taste of home! - a package of oreos and a regular size block of cream cheese. Crush the oreos, mix well with the cream cheese, chill, roll in balls and roll in whatever coating you want; sprinkles, cocoa, powdered sugar- be advised the powdery coating will be absorbed within a day or two.)
You can use any type of oreo (even those orange filled halloween ones, hint hint) and it doesn't change the color at all, 'course if you used the coffee flavored ones, you'd get mocha drops, hmmmmmmm
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