| quick desserts from another board
I copied these from a great post at another board. I have more if y'all are interested:
The mother of my HS boyfriend used to treat us to orange shakes. She put about 1/3 can frozen orange juice concentrate into blender w/vanilla ice cream. YUM!
Store-bought angel food cake frosted w/whipped topping blended with malted milk powder.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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