topic Re: IDEAS FOR EASTER DESERT NEEDED in Kitchen

IDEAS FOR EASTER DESERT NEEDED

Flatbush — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 03:46:14 GMT

I am planning on making Easter Dinner, a simple one: ham slices, carrots, broccoli and mac n cheese.

But, I don't have a desert in mind. What are you all making for a simple desert. A lemon desert would be good or?

TIA

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Scooby Doo — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:07:54 GMT

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

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Nonametoday — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:13:39 GMT

I am making a yellow cake (from cake mix but I add in extra egg, mayo instead of oil and milk instead of water as box cake calls for. I will make three 8-inch layers, make lemon pudding mix in the meantime. Once cakes are cooled, I will fill the layers with lemon pudding and then cover with a fluffy white frosting mix from Betty Crocker prepared according to box directions and sprinkle with coconut. I will place some pastel jelly beans atop it to give it an Easter egg look.

You could substitute Cool Whip instead of the fluffy white frosting if you choose and sprinkle coconut atop it just before you serve it. Or you could use whipping cream and you would need to add some gelatin mix to the whipping cream to make it last a little longer.

When in a hurry, I have purchased the Athens dessert shells and placed lemon curd into them and squirted cool whip atop them. I have made several different kinds if I had a large crowd. I have placed prepared coconut pudding mix in some, banana cream pudding mix in some and chocolate pudding mix in others. These are quick and easy ones.

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beach-mom — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:50:00 GMT

I'm not making dessert this year, but if I were it would be coconut cake!

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BeccaLou — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 05:08:08 GMT

Glorified Rice. It's white rice with cool whip, crushed pineapple drained , marisino cherries cut in half, and a couple of pinches of salt. Mix all together, taste, and chill for at least an hour or two.

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Harpa — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:41:46 GMT

Lemon Pudding Cake

1 stick butter + 2 tbsps.

1 cup flour + 2 tbsps.

½ cup chopped nuts (pecans or black walnuts)

1 tsp. almond extract

1 tsp. vanilla

Lemon zest

Mix with dough cutter and press on bottom of buttered baking dish.

(11 ¾ x 7 ½ x 1 ¾)

Bake @ 375 degrees for 15 minutes. Cool.

2 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese

1 – 1 ½ cups Cool Whip (from 12 oz. container)

1 cup 10x powdered sugar

Cream together and add to crust mixture.

Lemon instant pudding/pie filling
– 3 ½ cups milk

Beat together until thick, and put this mixture over the cream cheese mixture.

Spread remaining Cool Whip on top.

Chocolate option: Instead of the lemon flavor, substitute instant chocolate pudding/pie filling . For the crust, omit lemon zest and add in instant coffee or instant espresso, pinch of sea salt.

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QVCkitty1 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:59:55 GMT

Lemon cake with lemon cream cheese frosting

1 yellow cake mix

1/2 cup room temp. butter

6 eggs

1/2 cup whipping cream

1/2 cup water

1 Tbs. grated Lemon peel

bake at 350 in 2 buttered 9 inch pans for about 28 min.

Frosting

(3) 8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese

(1) 11 oz. jar of lemon curd

1 cup 10x sugar

2 Tbs. fresh lemon juice

1Tbs. grated lemon peel

beat till well blended

It’s lemony and delicious.🍋🍋🍋

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house_cat — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:08:15 GMT

I'm making a three layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and a cheesecake with chocolate ganache.

You might want to check the April Recipe Game thread for a bunny cake that was posted yesterday.

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Effie54 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:47:08 GMT

Anything chocolate! Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting.

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mimomof4 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:09:24 GMT

I'm making the following, this recipe was at my Weight Watchers mtg a couple weeks ago.

1 Sm box SF Lime Jello (substitute your flavor of choice)

1/4 c boiling water

2 Light Key lime yogurts (or substitute to jello flavor)

8 oz Fat Free cool whip thawed

1 graham cracker crust

In lg bowl dissolve jello in boiling water. With wire whisk add yogurt. Fold in Cool Whip. transfer to pie crust and refrigerate overnight.

A week after Easter is my daughter's birthday. I'll be making a strawberry cake, substituting Apple Sauce for the oil.

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AuntG — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:14:30 GMT

My menu is simple too and I decided lemon meringue pie would be our dessert. Other good Easter choices would be carrot cake or coconut cream pie. For the chocolate lover, there are so many options! However since our centerpiece is an Easter basket, the chocoholics can get their fill there.

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sophiesofers — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:00:53 GMT

@house_cat Your deserts sound absolutely delicious! Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and cheesecake are 2 of my favorite deserts, along with cannolis. What time is your dinner? I will be there! LOL Happy Easter

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Pooky1 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:55:02 GMT

yum.

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CJC — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:39:12 GMT

I don't have the baking skill, and dislike any kind of cooking as a rule, but my MIL used to make the cutest lamb cake for Easter dessert -- from a metal mold. Covered in coconut and red cherries for eyes; jellybean nose. I think I'll serve rainbow sherbet.

I only have a kitchen 'cause it came with the house.

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jannabelle1 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:39:56 GMT

Mandarin orange cake....easy to make and tastes great. Fancy? Not really, but both adults and kids like it.

Cake:

1 yellow cake mix

3 eggs

1 stick butter, softened

1 - 11 oz can Mandarin oranges with juice

Mix with electric mixer until blended, pour into 11x13 pan and bake per box instructions

Topping:

Regular size Cool Whip

1 small package Vanilla instant pudding

1 - 20 oz. can crushed pineapple with juice

Fold vanilla pudding granules, crushed pineapple with juice into Cool Whip, and spread on cooled cake. If making ahead of time, refrigerate.

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aroc3435 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:03:19 GMT

@jannabelle1 Wow, this sounds so good and it is easy. Very similar to a cake that the then "older generation" passed along to me in the mid-seventies when I was a bride and then a few years later a first-time mother.

Recipe was the same idea, but without the mandarin oranges. It was all crushed canned pineapple instead and was called Egg Salad cake because of its appearance. It was one of my Easter desserts for many years--both my daughter and son loved it.

I am going to make your recipe. I'm sure I'll enjoy the flavor profile those little orange segments will add.

Thank you for sharing this.

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Mary Bailey — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:18:09 GMT

Angel food cake stuffed with strawberries and whipped cream.

cut off the top of an angel food cake (save it) and hollow the cake out.

fresh strawberries cut up, mix with whipped cream (homemade or store bought)

put into cake shell replace the cut off top of cake.

frost with more whipped cream & add more sliced strawberries.

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jannabelle1 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 01:16:57 GMT

@aroc3435, thank you! The first time I made this cake I beat the mandarin oranges into the batter....the next time, I added the juice first and then added the oranges at the end and just "hit" the power on my beater for a second or two so that I still had chunks of them. You're right - it's an old recipe. I've had it for years but people still comment on how good it is. I hope you like it too!

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Financialgrl — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:23:09 GMT

@BeccaLou wrote:
Glorified Rice. It's white rice with cool whip, crushed pineapple drained , marisino cherries cut in half, and a couple of pinches of salt. Mix all together, taste, and chill for at least an hour or two.

Very good - my mother had this in her recipe box (newspaper clipping) and used to make this. They called it Heavens Delight. We still have it every once in awhile and that old piece of paper now almost crumbles in your hands (I got my mother's recipe box when she died in early 1970s).

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Pooky1 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:05:40 GMT

well were italian so we usually have ricotta pie of rice pie and usually chocolate creme pie and sometimes some kind of cheese cake.