Scrumptious Dessert Recipes

Regardless of if you're a cooking enthusiast, or simply a pro at ordering pizza, you probably find time to whip up your favorite dessert recipes once in a while!

If you've got a sweet tooth, you're in luck: from birthdays and anniversaries, to holidays and dinner parties, there's always a great reason to get out your favorite mixing bowl and explore fun new dessert recipes.

One of the best things about dessert recipes is that they're usually pretty difficult to ruin. A flattened soufflé might not be as pretty as the recipe photo, but you can always hide a little imperfection under a scoop of fresh whipped cream, ice cream or gelato.

Trying to impress someone special? Don't give waxy store-bought chocolates to your sweetheart on an anniversary or Valentine's Day! Instead, surprise them with homemade brownies, decadent red velvet cake or sugar cookies decorated with sweet chocolate kisses nestled in the center.

If chocolaty cakes aren't your sweet-tooth style, you might enjoy creating fruit-filled desserts. From standard apple pies to adventurous fruit tarts layered with colorful kiwi, star fruit or berries, the flavor combinations are endless. Custards, bread puddings and cheesecakes also make great alternatives to brownies and chocolaty dessert recipes.

Dinner guests might not be able to agree on whether escargot is a culinary delight or a slimy garden critter, but everyone is sure to rejoice at the sight of homemade desserts hitting the table at the end of the meal. Whether your friends are food snobs or plate cleaners, something as simple as a warm plate of cookies filled with chocolate chips, nuts or dried berries will keep everyone smiling.

For a more sophisticated twist on cookies after dinner, try serving thin, crispy cookies or biscotti with small glasses of a sweet dessert wine for dipping.

Dessert recipes also make a great way to introduce kids to the fun of cooking. Stirring up recipes in the mixing bowl (and licking the spoon) is always fun for little ones, and they are sure to love decorating sugar cookies or mini-cupcakes with colorful frosting and sprinkles for holidays or birthdays-or as a way to pass time on a rainy day.

Of course, not all dessert recipes have to be so decadent.

Lighter dessert recipes are particularly nice in the summer time. For an easy treat, a tasty selection of fresh fruits can be sliced and arranged to create colorful fruit trays, or blended with ice for refreshing smoothies. For another kid-friendly project, try helping them create popsicles made from pureed fruits, fruit juices or yogurt-based smoothies.

Homemade ice creams and sorbets are easier to make than you might think, and making them at home allows you to ensure that the ingredients are fresh and natural, high in flavor and low in unwanted extras like excess sugar, corn syrups and preservatives.

Fruits, chocolates, cakes, cookies, sorbets-what do all of these dessert recipes have in common? Fun! Creating and cooking recipes is fun, but sharing them is even better. What are you waiting for? Get that mixing bowl ready!

Mec3 Gelato Dessert Video 4

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Incredibly Delicious Italian Dessert Recipes For Dessert Lovers

In the history of desserts, famous Italian dessert recipes definitely stand out. Italian desserts range in flavor from bitter to sweet and they go nicely with a glass of wine. In Italy, the locals are just as likely to eat a piece of fruit for dessert as an indulgent, creamy confection.

If you have visited an Italian bakery, you will have seen many different varieties of cookies and biscotti. The Italians like to dunk their biscotti in red wine. A lot of Italian cookies are sweet but not excessively so and light glazes often provide most of the flavoring. Nuts or candied fruit are often added too. Biscotti might be very popular in the United States but in Italy hard, slightly sweet twice baked cookies are more popular. They are baked twice to remove as much moisture as possible, which makes the cookies dry, crumbly, and hard.

Which is the Most Famous Italian Dessert?

Tiramisu is thought to have originated in Siena. Duke Cosimo de Medici enjoyed it so much that it spread around the world with Italian immigrants. Tiramisu is a delicious combination of lady finger cookies, liquor, espresso, cocoa, mascarpone cheese, and eggs.

The best known Italian cake has to be panettone, which is from Milan. Boxes of this cake can be found in cafes and Italian bakeries during the holiday season all over the world. The fluffy panettone dough is flavored with raisins and candied fruit pieces and the cake is shaped like a dome. Italians enjoy panettone with zabaglione custard or mascarpone cheese and a glass of liqueur or dessert wine.

Perhaps you have tried Italian gelato. This is ice cream made with milk, sugar and flavoring. Sometimes it contains eggs and cream. Gelato is churned less than regular ice cream, making it less airy and more dense. Italian desserts are best eaten in moderation because a lot of them are very rich. If you find a lot of Italian desserts heavenly but a bit too rich, why not make your own and change the ingredients to tone them down a bit?

Using Jello in Italian Dessert Recipes

Gelato is a great candidate for experimentation with jello. Italian ice cream is nearly free of air, which makes it dense and super heavy. By combining gelato, boiling water, and jello powder, you can create a deliciously light dessert with a nice texture and any jello flavor you like. You can use sugar free jello to halve the calories because half the dessert is jello and the sugar free kind is also calorie free.

If you happen to own an ice cream machine, you can make gelato with kool aid and jello, which tastes great and makes a refreshing dessert on balmy summer evenings. Jello goes with a lot of ingredients, with fruit trifle being a great example.

Jello also goes nicely with fruit pieces, with custard or zabaglione or with chocolate. In fact, it is one of the most versatile dessert ingredients you can get and it is great for making Italian dessert recipes lighter. Dessert making is a creative process and you might feel like making a rich, luxurious tiramisu one day and healthier layer jello recipes the next.

Fruitcakes and Stollen For the Holidays - Or How to Take the Work Out of Christmas Dessert

Snowflakes are falling, there's a nip in the air, and as you walk down the street, your friends and even strangers are wishing you, "Happy Holidays". Store windows are filled with charming wintry displays. In town, the holiday decorations are up and Christmas trees are brightly lit for all to see. It's that time of year again and the world is ready to celebrate - not only with decorations, but with delicious food.

"The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other." -Johnny Carson

The Case for Fruitcake and Other New Ideas

Holiday deserts are the stuff of a traditional Christmas but for many, the thought of holiday baking is a daunting task. So, even though you've heard all the jokes about fruitcakes, and you may be using Aunt Janet's last year's fruitcake as a doorstop, this is the time to reconsider and put fruitcake back at the top of your preferred desserts list.

It's not that we're trying to revive your interest in fruitcake. It's just that the good news is - you don't have to bake it yourself anymore (unless you really want to). The idea is to take the work out of it and you can do it by ordering the best and the most scrumptious fruitcakes on line.

And yes - let's revive the fruitcake tradition! There are good reasons fruitcake has remained a favorite through the centuries. It's not only still welcomed as the star dessert after Christmas dinner, but it's nibbled right through to January, February and beyond. Fruitcake is also healthy! It's full of fruit and fiber and loaded with anti-oxidants. It's a confection that started way back in Roman times, was popularized in England (where it was called a Christmas cake), and is now literally an American family tradition.

The Festive German Stollen

On-line specialty desserts are hot this year when folks are looking for the best of the best and know they can find quality gifts and gourmet foods at competitive prices on the internet. If you're looking for a specialty cake as an edible gift, or something a little different to top off Christmas dinner, try a German Stollen, a loaf shaped fruitcake with a rich but subtle taste. A German Christmas is not considered complete without the traditional stollen. The Dutch have a similar version called Kertstol.

Stollens have great ingredients such as sultana raisins, wheat flour, butter, almonds, rum, sherry, and brandy, giving them a distinctively rich taste all their own. The Christmas Stollen was baked in the 15th century in Dresden and remains as an extremely popular confection throughout the world. Don't try to bake it yourself of course (unless you really want to). You can order one on the internet.

Starting New Family Food Traditions - The Holiday Dessert Table

What about offering something completely new - a Holiday Dessert Table - to start your own Christmas tradition? A special table set aside and filled with all the delicious things you can find (both on-line and off), decorated with some confections wrapped as gifts for your guests, can start a brand new trend. Invite friends to bring their contributions too and start an annual neighborhood tradition. Adding new desserts will make the party unusual, interesting and exciting.

Ideas for your Holiday Dessert Table include traditional fruit cakes and stollen of course, plus cranberry-lemon cake (featuring fresh cranberries baked under a tangy lemon batter). Virginia dark peppermint bark (a rich, dark chocolate candy enhanced by the zip of peppermint), and rum cakes with vanilla, chocolate, coconut and cinnamon enhancing sauces are also fine internet treasures. Coconut macaroons coated with dark chocolate or chocolate covered peanut brittle are examples of other options for the Holiday Dessert Table. The list of delectable delights available on line is long and luscious.

People don't usually count calories at Christmas. It's the time to relax and enjoy the spirit of giving and sharing and it may be the only time of year when folks love to indulge. So don't hold back.

Experimenting with new holiday desserts is not only a creative endeavor, but fun, and a way to launch new family traditions without "sweating over a hot stove" to get there. Leftovers? Freeze them for surprise desserts later. Think Valentine's Day.

You don't have to spend grueling hours in the kitchen anymore, preparing elaborate desserts in advance of the big holiday feast. There's a wonderful resource available now - the internet - and we can look to cyberspace to provide us with the best of tried and true traditional desserts with the finest ingredients and sumptuous new delicacies to please the most discriminating palate. All that luxury arrives right on our doorsteps in record time, with minimum effort.

There is something to be said for the internet and cutting edge technology. And when it comes to saving time and labor in the kitchen, it can be said in one word - freedom - freedom to truly enjoy the holiday season, almost as a guest in our own kitchen.

Recipe For a Delicious Apple Dessert - Baked Apples & Cranberries With Crunchy Streusel Topping

Apple Pie may be an American tradition but mixing apples and cranberries has become a fall and a holiday tradition for many of us. The combination of the tart cranberries and the sweetness of the apples is irresistable. Here we offer a recipe for Baked Apples and Cranberries with a Crunchy Streusel Topping. The crunchy topping adds the sweet, spicy, and crunchiness of brown sugar, cinnamon and pecans. Yummy, for sure!

BAKED APPLES & CRANBERRIES WITH CRUNCHY STREUSEL TOPPING
Fruit mixture:
5 medium Granny Smith apples
1 can (16-oz) whole berry cranberry sauce
3/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp all-purpose flour

Topping mixture:
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

For the filling: Peel, core, and slice the apples. Place the slices on the bottom of a 9 x 13-inch baking dish. In a medium bowl, combine the cranberry sauce, sugar, and flour; mix until well blended. Pour the cranberry mixture over the apples. Be sure all apples are covered with the cranberry mixture.

For the topping: In a small bowl, combine the chopped pecans, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and flour. Pour the melted butter over the mixture and stir to blend together well. Using your fingers, sprinkle the topping mixture over the fruit mixture in the pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until the apples are tender and the topping is golden brown.

Note: This is delicious served warm with vanilla ice cream!

Enjoy!

Frozen Peach Dessert Surprise Recipe

This is a great recipe for ice cream lovers; it will be a good recipe for the first batch of fresh peaches. It is also a good recipe for the family get together, or just a lazy hot summer afternoon. I am a peach fan, and when I have a recipe that calls for the fresh juicy peach, you will see it on this website! I hope that you enjoy this wonderful peach recipe.

Frozen Summer Peach Ice Cream Surprise Recipe:

1 ½ Cups of crushed/crumbs vanilla wafers, divided

2 ½ Cups sliced fresh peaches, or frozen peaches if they are out of season. Fresh peaches work the very best!

½ Cup sugar

1 Tablespoons of fresh lemon juice

½ Tablespoon of a really good vanilla bean paste

1 Cup of softened Blue Bell Home-made Vanilla ice-cream if it is available, if not use a very good store brand in your area. If you have your own ice cream make you can make your own vanilla ice cream and use it if you prefer. This is an easy to make recipe, so we are using a store bought ice cream.

First you will spread half of the vanilla wafer crumbs in the bottom of an 8 or 9 inch baking dish. In a food processor or a blender you will add the peaches, sugar, lemon juice and the vanilla bean paste. You will run the blender or food processor for about a minute. You will stop the blender at least once to scrape down the sides to make sure you get all of the peaches and sugar blended until it is a smooth texture. You will then pour the peach and sugar mixture into a large bowl, and gently fold in ice-cream. You will then pour over crust and sprinkle any remaining cookie crumbs on top of the peach dessert. You will then cover with plastic wrap and freeze for about eight hours until good and frozen. When you are ready to serve this peach dessert you will then remove it from the freezer and let it sit at room temperature for at least 15 minutes before serving. You should be able to get about 8 servings from this dessert, and there should be eight happy people after trying this easy to make peach dessert.

Mec3 Gelato Dessert Video 1

Mec3 Gelato Dessert parte prima



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