Jan 7, 2010
Share your favorite dessert recipe.
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A guest post by Josh Sowin
Here’s mine:
- Combine:
- 3 cups peanut butter
- 1½ sticks softened butter
- 2 lbs powdered sugar
- Form into balls
- Dip in chocolate
- Refrigerate
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Turkey Hill Philadelphia Style Ice Cream.
Dish into bowl.
Turkey Hill Ice Cream? My mouth is salivating just thinking about it. Unfortunately, they don’t export it this far abroad from the motherland.
Go to grocery store
Buy ice cream
Open carton
Shovel ice cream in mouth
Thanks to Mark for giving me the idea.
Sounds like we could be friends, Kevin.
Ice cream is the Great Uniter. The history books won’t tell you this but ice cream ended the Civil War and set our country on a path of healing. True story.
So yes, we could be friends. I’d like that.
That’s what I like, eating ice cream in the parking lot. If I make it that far…
Deep fried mars bar in batter. Mmmmm. (That’s the Scottish equivalent of salad.)
yummy. i lived in glasgow for a year – LOVED the deep fried mars bar. and LOVED scotland…
I have one for Choc Chip cookies.
But it’s a family secret.
Sorry I can’t divulge it.
BTW, Josh’s sounds really good.
“Choose Your Fruit Cobbler”
1 stick butter
1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk (I use skim)
1 1/2 cups fruit (2 if frozen)
Favorite fruits: Strawberry (sounds gross but is soo good), peach, blackberry, and blueberry.
Preheat oven to 350F. Melt stick of butter in baking dish. Pour mixed batter into dish. Then pour fruit in. Gently spread fruit to proportion. Bake for 40 mins.
So easy yet so delicious!
what size baking dish do you use for this?
This is supposedly a “salad” (as in Watergate salad or the like). I’m not buying it. Totally a dessert. And totally amazing.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1843,159175-243197,00.html
Although I guess it is an advantage that, unlike chocolate cake, you can make this as a side dish and get away with it.
They’re called buckeyes (at least here in Ohio:)), and they’re absolutely delicious.
Texans call ‘em buckeyes too! Sooooooo yummy!
Yep, another Texan buckeye-lover checking in! Now I have this awful craving… must mean it’s time to get busy in the kitchen. :-)
My husband is from Ohio and makes buckeyes sometimes. So good!
Even Pittsburghers call them Buckeyes. :P
Sadly, I can’t share my absolute fave. I’m kind of shocked that I even have the recipe for my mom’s apple pie, she’s so guarded with it. I thought I’d get it from a lawyer years from now along with a copy of her last will and testament.
But here’s a new favorite:
Truffle Cake
- 2 graham cracker crust pie shells
- 2 tbsp, plus 3/4 c sugar (divided)
- 1/4 c butter, melted
- 16 oz semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 c heavy whipping cream
- 1/3 c flour
Cook chocolate and cream over low heat until chocolate is melted. Let cool.
Beat eggs, flour, and remaining sugar on high for about 5 mins or until thick. Gradually beat in chocolate mixture.
Pour into crusts, bake at 325 for 40-45 mins or until set.
The recipe says refrigerate for 4 hours, we didn’t do that and it was still delicious.
Dry Ingredients:
1/2 package Oreos
Wet Ingredients:
2 c. Milk (preferably whole)
Pour Dry ingredients in large bowl. Crush to desired texture. Stir in wet ingredients. Serve.
Amen.
seriously? sounds yucky.
what is the consistency? how do u serve it?
One modification if you want to do it right — just leave the Oreos whole and increase the milk-cookie ration, then break up the cookies with your spoon as you go. I call it “Oreo Soup” (and cutting out the middleman). My mom called it disgusting.
Shawn – So does your wife. ;P But I love you anyway.
Better yet…
1.5 c cold milk
1 package Oreos
Pour milk into glass, dip cookies into milk until soft (not crumbling), eat. Repeat for as many cookies as desired.
It also helps to have a pregnant belly to use as a table for your stack of cookies!!
mmmmm!!
http://kimsstateoffood.blogspot.com/2009/01/oreo-truffles.html
Oreos, cream cheese, and chocolate – does life get much better?
This is the same one I was going to post! Delicious and super-easy.
I made this for Christmas. Soooooo good!
maybe you already know this, but that is the recipe for Buckeyes.
Us Ohioans freakin devour them, especially during Ohio State football.
1 cup of frozen berries (diner’s choice)
1/2 cup heavy cream
Place berries in bowl.
Pour cream over frozen berries.
Yum.
Chocolate-dipped strawberries! So simple and so delish. Especially when you live just a few miles from the town that grows The Best Strawberries In The Universe–Poteet, Texas!
Buckeyes! Yum-O. One of the many delicious reasons why I love Ohio.
Super-easy no-bake cheesecake
Graham cracker crust: buy it in the store or make it yourself:
Crush 24 square graham crackers in a plastic bag (or use your food processor). Mix with 6-8 T melted butter. If desired, add nutmeg, cinnamon, or allspice. Press into pie pan. Bake for 10 minutes at 350.
Filling:
1.5 blocks softened (room temp) cream cheese
1 egg yolk
1 c sweetened condensed milk
1 T lemon juice
Mix all ingredients with a hand mixer. Pour into pie crust. Set overnight. DELICIOUS!
Trader Joe’s Triple Ginger Cookies (or any ginger snaps), spread with Brie cheese and peach (or apricot or orange) preserves.
also, “The One Brownie” (Mark Bittman):
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 stick butter
1c sugar
2 eggs
1/2c all-purpose flour
1/2t vanilla extract
melt the chocolate and butter together in a small saucepan over very low heat, stir until smooth. remove from heat, stir in sugar, beat in eggs one at a time, add flour and vanilla, mix thoroughly. pour into pan, and bake 20 to 30 minutes at 350F (until barely firm in the middle).
if you add cinnamon to the batter and sub in some brown sugar for white it’s even better.
Your recipe calls for 2 pounds (lbs) of powdered sugar. Is it supposed to be 2 tablespoons (tbls)? Otherwise that’s a lot of sugar.
no its 2lbs… that dessert just has alot of sugar.
Yeah, it is a lot of sugar. Of course, that’s what makes it one of my favorite desserts… :)
I looked it up and it’s about 4 cups which is a lot but not as much as I was thinking. How many buckeyes does that make?
Boil water on stove.
Get a bowl and fill it with oatmeal.
Pour boiling hot water on oatmeal in bowl.
Add raisins.
Server with an apple and a glass of water.
Yum! The perfect meal to eat before exercising. Can you say POWERED UP?
I know this doesn’t sound like dessert to most people, but it’s the sweetest thing I generally eat, so it’s de facto dessert FOR ME.
1 can evaporated milk
4 Tablespoons butter
4 cups sugar
boil to soft ball.
2 cups peanut butter
1 jar marshmallow creme
There, that’s peanut butter fudge. I got the recipe in 22 words, lol. I’ve got it bad. But it’s so fun!
Line 9X11 with graham crackers. Pour brownie batter on top. When brownies are about done, cover with marshmallows and remove when crisp top.
Fudge Scotch Squares
1/2 bag chocolate chips
1/2 bag butterscotch chips
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 can sweetened condensed milk
-Mix all ingredients together & press into 8″ x 8″ pan. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.
Super easy & delish.
I thought only we Ohioans knew about the magnificence of buckeyes!
i’m glad you appreciate them as well.
They are certainly one of my all time favorites.
Pretzel Turtles:
http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/12/tis-season-for-goodies-and-it-seems.html
Easy, fast, and the perfect salty/sweet/crunchy/chocolatey combination.
Take 1 mars bar.
Two slices of bread.
1 Toasted Sandwich Maker.
Crush Mars Bar onto bread. Make Sandwich. Apply heat.
add some sliced up apple if you want to make it healthy.
This post was a great idea, Abraham!! So mouthwatering :) Will definitely save it as one of my favorite/useful posts :) :)
…oh…it wasn’t by Abraham. Thanks guest blogger Josh S.
I make the Betty Crocker brownie mix really often and take it to potlucks, etc. People rave about it. It’s the plain old brownie mix, not one of the “supreme” mixes. I highly recommend it. But you have to be sure you use the lowest time on the package (or less) or they dry out.
This Caramel Apple Dip recipe is awesome, too:
2 cream cheese bricks
1 c. packed brown sugar
1 tub Marzetti caramel apple dip
1/4 c. mini chocolate chips
1/4 c. toffee bits or 2 Heath or Skor bars broken into small pieces
4-6 sliced apples
Combine cream cheese and brown sugar in mixing bowl. Cream with electric mixer. Spread into pie plate. Spread caramel apple dip on top of cream cheese. Sprinkle chocolate chips and toffee bits on top. Serve with sliced apples.
A carton of Blue Bell and a spoon.
Bavarian Apple Torte:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/apple-bavarian-torte/Detail.aspx
I like it for breakfast too…
vanilla ice cream
shaved almonds sauteed in butter
drizzle some Bailey’s
Chocolate Self-Saucing Pudding (I love you!)
Ingredients
I cup self-raising flour
½ cup milk
½ cup sugar
2 tbs cocoa
½ tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbs melted butter
Sauce
Option One
¾ cup brown sugar
¼ cup cocoa
1 ¾ cups hot water
Option Two
1 tbs cocoa
½ cup sugar
1 ½ cups hot water
Method
Mix all pudding ingredients together and place into a baking dish. Sprinkle with blended Sauce dry ingredients; then pour over hot water.
Cook in the microwave for 7 minutes or bake in a moderate oven (180 degrees) for 30 – 40 minutes
Buy vanilla icecream. Bake brownies. Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Whip up some meringue. Place as many brownies as people on a baking sheet. Top with scoop of vanilla icecream. Then cover COMPLETELY (veeery important it’s completely covered) with meringue and bake for 2-5 minutes, or until lightly browned. And VIOLA – Baked Alaska a la brownie.
Tembleque
de Puerto Rico,
Coconut Milk Custard
(also discovered in Vietnam
and its surrounding regions)
Ingredients:
Coconut pulp or frozen grated coconut, or frozen coconut (last resort canned coconut milk)
sugar to taste
pinch of salt
grated lime rinds
cinnamon
How to extract coconut milk from coconut pulp:
The best coconut milk is extracted from the coconut pulp. There are still people in the world who crack a coconut and extract a half inch thick mass of pure white coconut pulp, grate it, add boiling water to it, and then squeeze out its milk using cheesecloth.
My grandmother used to do it, without using gloves. She placed the cheesecloth over a large pot or bowl, securing the edges or with the help of someone to hold the cheesecloth edges over the bowl, then she slowly poured the grated coconut in boiling water into the bowl. After she had the whole mass of grated coconut suspended by the cheesecloth, she proceeded to bring the four corners together to create a knot and begin to twist the bag below until the coconut milk, with hot steam poured out.
This is the old-fashioned way.
Some East Indian groceries sell grated fresh coconut pulp in frozen form. Proceed to add the boiling water to extract the milk, as indicated above. Coconut pulp is highly perishable, so it must be kept frozen just before use. Then proceed to soak it in boiling water as indicated above. Feel free to experiment with leaving the grated pulp in the boiling water for a few minutes, though it is not necessary.
East Indian groceries also sell frozen milk of coconut in cream form, , it is highly concentrated and needs to be diluted according to the packet instructions.
In last resort, use coconut milk from a can.
If you only have canned coconut milk available, then the best brands comes from Thailand in concentrated form and without sugar.
The least recommended is CocoLopez which comes in a white sugar syrup. But there is a local restaurant which uses it to make a pretty decent Tembleque (Coconut Custard).
To prepare Tembleque:
Let the coconut milk cool to room temperature before mixing in the dry ingredients (in case you extracted the milk from scratch).
Add the indicated proportion of cornstarch to coconut milk sufficient to create a thick custard consistency.
Add sugar to taste, (white sugar is traditional, since Tembleque is served white).
Add a pinch of salt.
Add grated lime thinly grated rinds.
Preparation:
Before placing the pot on the stove, make sure that the cornstarch has been dissolved into a paste before adding it into the pot, then add the sugar, salt and lime rind to the coconut milk.
You need to stay with the pot and stir it constantly to avoid sticking to the bottom of the pot. Place the pot on high heat, constantly stirring until the cornstarch starts to thicken. As the cornstarch thickens you have to speed up the stirring motion, until the coconut milk comes to full boil.
By the time that the coconut milk comes to full boil, the custard should be quite thick.
Remove from the heat. You may transfer the custard into rectangular Pyrex molds or a decorative gelatin mold. Allow to cool almost to room temperature before placing in the refrigerator.
Refrigerate over night and enjoy the day after. It can be served in slices or in individual small portions depending on the container used.
Sprinkle cinnamon to garnish before serving.
Garnish with mint leaves.
Our Recipe? First we go to the store. We go pick up what we want. Then meet at the register. Serves Two.
See it can be shared in 22 words
Definitely a common dessert down here in O-H-
Irish Potato Candy
1/2 cup mashed potatoes
1 to 1-1/2 pounds-give or take powder sugar
Peanut butter
Mix the powder sugar into the mash potatoes until the consistency of pie dough. Roll out to about 1/4 inch thick onto a lightly powder sugared surface. Spread peanut butter over the top. Roll up like you would if making cinnamon rolls. Slice into 1/2 inch thickness.
YUMMY! :)
:( Aussies work in metrics… How fat is a stick of butter?
This is not a recipe :( but every now and then one of your posts forces me to count the words. This was one of them :)