[khaledamotheroftwo]

hey everybody
what is your fave homemade desseret? share any comments, recipes ....would like to try yours too......!!!

[Jocelynbell]

The easiset one is make a rice krispie base with sugar and butter/marg and bake to meld it together. Then add lemon pie filling on top. Add whipped topping. Yum.

[swt1899]

My grandmother's chocolate meringue pie. It was so good! Wish I could find a way to make it. Can't find the recipe anywhere!
That and my other grandmother's magic cookie bars which now come in a box! She's been making them for years!

[sfharper]

I love rice crispy bars and chocolate meringue pie. My favorite is banana cream pie--you cook vanilla pudding from a package. When it sets and cools part way, you slice a banana and cover the bottom of a graham cracker crust, then pour about a third of the pudding, slice more bananas, pour a third of the pudding slice more banana and cover it with the remaining pudding. Then you let it sit up and serve it with whipped cream--1/2 c sugar whipped in a pint of whipping cream with a teaspoon of vanilla added after it peaks.
Sheri

[LeanyBean]

Rich chocolate cake with peanut butter icing all from scratch. Great if you don't watch every little calorie you intake.
I use the perfectly chocolate cake recipe from Hershey's~found on most Hershey's cocoa containers. (This recipe can easily be found via internet search.) And trust me I've tried variants with it, don't. Use Hershey's Cocoa and use boiling water and use the oil, it will not turn out the same without them. (I may be biased on the Hershey's thing because I'm a native Pennsylvania girl. ) This recipe ends up making approximately the equivalent to 1 1/2 to 2 box mix cakes. Keep this in mind when select the baking vessel. Also this cake really puffs up during the baking process and then falls a bit when finished. Always use the toothpick method for doneness with this cake, especially if you oven isn't so great at temperature regulation, like mine.
The icing is made from creamy peanut butter, salt, vanilla (without any alcohol ~it will throw off the taste considerably), milk and powdered sugar. Start with a big spoonful of peanut butter, a pinch of salt, a splash of vanilla, a few splashes of milk and about a cup or so of powdered sugar. mix it together with a medium to medium high speed on a hand mixer. Then test it. (Yes I advocate taste testing the icing several times in the course of making it. And I don't even clean out the bowl from the mixing up the cake. I just add the ingredients to the chocolately bowl right after I put the cake in the oven.) To thicken the mixture add more sugar. To reduce sweetness use more p.b. and salt. When too dry or too thick add milk or vanilla alternately. This icing is a little tricky to make the first few tries but eventually you'll find your own way to perfect it for your personal taste.

Happy Eating!

[lynclarke]

I just made a cake for Thanksgiving which I read on one of these boards. I tried it because I couldn't believe it.

Take any cake mix, put in a 15 oz can of pumpkin, and 1/2 C of water. Mix it up and bake it according to the box directions.

You will not taste the pumpkin. The first one I did was orange cake- the second one was chocolate (I had one of those huge cans of pumpkin to use up). The cake was moist and everyone raved! Too funny.

[Shepherdgirl]

I like apple or blackberry crisp with homemade vanilla ice cream. (with Watkins vanilla of course )

[swt1899]

Grandma's chocolate ice box pie. I remember it so well growing up. Oh if I could just have it again... yum!
Also her chocolate meringue pie was do yummy. I've tried to make it but can't ever come close.

[deedee1231]

I love home made strawberry shortcakes with fresh strawberries and fresh whipped cream. It is my very favorite, but I do not know how to make the shortcakes, my mom and my grandma both know how to make them. Every time we have the at a family gathering I say that I have to get the recipe and my mom or grandma will say, sure honey, I will give it to you-- but so far they are holdng out on me!


My sister also makes delicious lemon bars, but I don't know how she makes them either,lol!


My kids and I always bake cookies. I have lots of cookies that turn out really good but they are just the same ones everyone makes, chocolate chip, sugar, oatmeal raisin, and peanut butter.

[BonusMom]

I love this one, I found it on a diabetic site.

Take tart apples like Johnathan or Granny Smith and take out the core but leave the bottom, like a cup.

then in a sauce pan boil 2 cups of apple cider (or juice), a half a cup of equal sugar or sugar substitute (remember its from a diabetic website), some nutmeg and cinnimon, Some corn starch and a package (6-8oz) of dried fruit. I use apples, apricots, plums ect.

After it boils bring it down to a simmer and leave it there untill the juice/liquid part of it has simmered down to half that amount, like one cup. the corn starch will make it thick while its cooking. It only takes like 10 minutes.

then pour it into the apples and let some of it run down the edges. Throw it in the oven at 350 for like 30 minutes or untill the apple is soft (because its not like any part of it is raw so you can take it out early if you like the apples crisper).

Its soooo good. Hot Fruit Filled Apples Baked. MMMMnnnnnn And its not unhealthy. I wouldnt say its the healthiest desert, but its not unhealthy. I let my 6 year old eat it.