Hi! I am going to a dinner at my friend's house this weekend and I am bringing dessert. She always teases me that I don't know how to boil water so I want to make something really good. Problem is I don't know how to make any desserts besides cake from a box (so, yeah, she is sort of right about the whole boiling water thing). Do any of you have a great dessert recipe? I like desserts that have chocolate, pudding, cinnamon, apples, ice cream, cake. I hate anything with raisins. I actually half-threw up in the mall the other day because I accidentally ate one that was in a pretzel sample. HELP!
I have one for Black Forest Stuffed Cupcakes. Everyone loves cupcakes, right? And they're easy to transport. The prep time is only 10 minutes and total time only 45 min:
Ingredients:
1 package (2-layer size)chocolate cake mix
1 package (8oz) Philadelphia cream cheese. I use the light version.
1 egg
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 can (20oz) cherry pie filling, divided
1-1/2 cubs thawed cool whip or another whipped cream
Preheat oven to 350. Prepare cake batter as directed on package and set aside. Mix cream cheese, egg and sugar until well blended. Remove 3/4 cub of the cherry pie filling for garnish and set aside. Take 2 tablesoons of the cake batter into each 24 paper lined medium muffin cups. The paper lined are better for guests because it looks more sanitary IMO. Top each muffin cup with 1 tablesoon of cream cheese AND 1 tablesoon of the cherry pie filling. Cover evenly with remaining cake batter.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until tootpick instered in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes...then remmove from the muffin and cool completely. Top with whipped cream and remaining cherry filling right before serving.
* When you fill the muffins tins, make sure that you leave about a 1/4 inch or more space between the top of the muffin pan and where you batter ends. You don't want them growing so high as to spill all over the other muffins. Then you'll have a muffin cake.
I had a recipe for a ho-ho cake, but I lost it. That was really good. It's not really made from ho-ho's, but the combination of the chocolate cake and frosting makes it taste like ho-ho's
I can't cook either, but I can make this. My grandma (RIP) taught my mom (can't cook either). My favorite part is that it's all one dish and it costs like $3 to make.
-can of pie filling (I use apple or cherry)
-1 box of Jiffy Yellow Cake mix (has to be jiffy...the little blue box)
-melted butter.
Use a square casserole dish. Put the pie filling in the bottom, then put the dry cake mix/powder on top of it. Smooth it out so that it's as flat as possible. Pour the melted butter over the top of it and kind of move the dish around so that the butter sits on top of all the cake mix.
Bake it at 375-400 for about 45 minutes and serve it with whipped cream or ice cream. It even impressed my mother-in-law (she of the homemade everything!).
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quote: Originally posted by: halleybird "I can't cook either, but I can make this. My grandma (RIP) taught my mom (can't cook either). My favorite part is that it's all one dish and it costs like $3 to make. -can of pie filling (I use apple or cherry) -1 box of Jiffy Yellow Cake mix (has to be jiffy...the little blue box) -melted butter. Use a square casserole dish. Put the pie filling in the bottom, then put the dry cake mix/powder on top of it. Smooth it out so that it's as flat as possible. Pour the melted butter over the top of it and kind of move the dish around so that the butter sits on top of all the cake mix. Bake it at 375-400 for about 45 minutes and serve it with whipped cream or ice cream. It even impressed my mother-in-law (she of the homemade everything!). "
Stupid question- do you have to prepare the mix at all or just lay the powder on top of the filling? How does it come out?
no -- you just put the powder directly on top. As long as you use enough melted butter, it should soak through and you won't have any powder. The top part doesn't turn out like cake -- more of a crunchy cobblerish thing.
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