Apple Flautas Warm and delicious…nothing beats a flauta! And they can also be made on a gas BBQ grill–great for an outdoor party dessert. Not bad calorie-wise either (if you can stop at one). I’ve always been intrigued by these ever since a neighbor gave me a bag of some from Schwan’s a few years…
desserts
Banana Split Cheesecake Bars
Banana Split Cheesecake Bars No need for the ice cream parlor–or even ice cream for that matter. Here it is in cheesecake form! What do you do when you end up with TOO many ripe bananas in your freezer? If you’re tired of the banana breads and muffins and would like to use some of…
Mint Chocolate Chip Mousse
Mint Chocolate Chip Mousse If you like mint chocolate chip ice cream, this is the mousse for you! I’ve been obsessed with desserts and dark food photography lately. Fancy desserts just seem to be made for this type of photography. I’m toying with it and really like the look! Now maybe I’ll invest in some…
Dump Cake
Dump Cake What can be easier than a dump cake? Not exactly a “cake” but a great and easy dessert. Pass the cream! I always thought the name for this dessert was weird because it’s not exactly a cake, although it does use cake mix. The “dump” comes from that you just dump the ingredients…
Banoffee Pie Dessert
Banoffee Pie Dessert Do you love bananas? Do you love caramel or dulce de leche? What about whipped cream? Yes to all three? Then this is your dessert. This is a popular dessert in Britain. I used to think the name was hilarious…it’s a contraction of the ingredients–BANanas and tOFFEE, hence “banoffee.” Brits are fond…
Sopapilla Crescents
Sopapilla Rolls A new twist on a timeless and dessert sweet. Easy too. I hadn’t thought of this dessert for ages. Then a friend posted about it on her Facebook page saying how much she enjoyed it and whenever a co-worker made it, how it would vanish into thin air immediately. Another mutual friend…
Black Forest Mousse
Black Forest Mousse An excellent and easy dessert. With just two main ingredients, you can’t get much simpler than this and it’s low calorie too. First I started with a dark chocolate ready-to-eat pudding I got for free on a store promotion–the shelf-stable ones that come in the little tubs. I folded that into…
Coco Lemon Pound Cake
Coco Lemon Pound Cake I’d read on a recipe group not long ago how to take a cake mix and make it more like a “bakery” cake. It was an idea I thought I’d run with, even if NOT entirely, and the result was this lemon pound cake. The instructions they gave for the conversion…
French Apple Pie Cobbler
French Apple Pie Cobbler How do you say pure heaven but purely easy? It’s this fantastic dessert that will have them begging not just for seconds, but thirds. Start with a single-layer cake mix, a can of apple pie filling and you can’t get simpler than that. I buy the Jiffy brand cake mixes…
Recipes On Deck
Coming up this week: It’s been so cold and windy here in upstate New York the past couple of days that all I’ve had on my mind are hearty soups. Well, we have a delicious ham & bean soup coming up. It’s in the crockpot cooking right now. Might even add some smoked sausage to…
