mmmm.........strawberry shortcake! if i'm lucky, i may just get enough strawberries out of my strawberry patch to be able to make both strawberry freezer jam and some strawberry shortcake next year.
you know, i've never tried pineapple upside down cake. i do like pineapple, very much. hmmmm -- i'll have to see if i can find a good recipe for it!
oh, i love pumpkin! i usually make a pumpkin pie-type dessert instead of pumpkin pie. it has the pumpkin pie filling in a 9 x 13 baking dish, the dry yellow cake mix is sprinkled over the top, followed by melted butter drizzled over the dry cake mix, and then nuts are sprinkled over that. i think it's the butter over it and the pumpkin filling under it that makes the dry cake mix bake into a crunchy topping layer. you bake it, and what you get is a pumpkin pie with a very crunchy topping layer to it. it's really very good.
- Cheesecake
- Pumpkin Pie
- Coconut cream pie
- Éclair
- Cream Puffs
- Danish (Cinnamon, Chocolate, Cream)
Cheesecake is easier to make than a lot of people think it is. Especially if you are a baker already. I used to make a white chocolate cheesecake that my husband (and many, many other people) adored. it was DH's #1 favorite and his usual request for his birthday cake. It was simple to make. I used to mix it up by changing the cookies that I used as the crust. My usual go to was cinnamon grahams but I've also used shortbread cookies, Oreos and Nilla Wafers all with good results. I don't like cheesecake so I haven't made it in a while.
That sounds like a dump cake. I have made it with various fruit and cake mix combos, I have never tried it with pumpkin pie filling though. My favorites with fruit is pineapple with yellow cake mix and cherries with devils food cake mix.
@blueyedgirl5946
do you have any tried & true gluten free dessert recipes that don't contain chocolate? My DD's BF can't eat gluten, dairy or chocolate. I can probably adjust it to use vegan butter so that's the easy part. I have the vegan butter and I bought rice flour. He's not vegan so I can use eggs. Thanks
Kat0121
http://www.thecatsite.com/t/263996/gluten-free-recipes
Thank you. I bet it would be good with mangoes, strawberries or both
My in laws have rhubarb and I cut up a bunch and froze it. They have blackberries, apples, pears and cherries too. So many yummy things we can make from their yard.
oh my! how i'd love to have my yard full of fruit trees/bushes! i'm very interested in a blueberry bush variety called Tophat -- these are miniature bushes that produce a full sized bush amount of berries each year. and i think i've mentioned here on TCS before about the grafted apple and pear trees, where there are 3 or even 5 varieties in one tree. those trees are even self pollinating, because the bees carry pollen from one part of the tree (with one variety of apple/pear) to other parts of the same tree (with other varieties). they're really cool trees, and i so much want to plant and care for at least one of the pear and one of the apple grafted trees.
oh, i love bread puddings! i never tasted bread pudding until i was an adult in my late 40's, when i made one for the first time. i still haven't tasted a savory bread pudding.
ooooo...lemon pie!
i've never heard it referred to as a dump cake, but now you mention it it does sound like one!
i agree!
oh, i like that idea! and you really could make a wonderful meal out of several types of appetizers.
I'm not a big dessert person. Not a cake fan, not a pie fan with the exception of a good key lime pie as long as it's frozen and there is no meringue on it. I hate that stuff. I do like cookies but with few exceptions (Oreos and Nutter Butter), I only like soft cookies and NO chocolate chip ones. So most of the time if I have dessert, it's good quality ice cream. I do like chocolate (good quality dark only) and I do like peanut butter but under NO circumstances should the 2 ever enter the same room, much less touch each other. I like brownies but they have to be fudgey brownies, not cakey ones.
Special occasion dessert? It depends on who I was eating with. I guess I'd make whatever they wanted but if it was just up to me, I'd probably skip it altogether and have a small snifter of Grand Marnier instead. Dessert doesn't excite me. I'm more of an appetizer girl. In a perfect world, the whole meal would be a buffet of really good appetizers and cocktails and the big main meal and dessert wouldn't even happen.
When I used the Oreos for the base I used to melt down semi sweet chocolate and white chocolate and drizzle them over the top. It looks so pretty and goes with the cookies and creme of the cheesecake. That was a big hit at potlucks
i like jello with fruit a lot. it's cool and refreshing.
