Posts Tagged ‘easy dessert’

PB Cocoa Crispy Bars
PB and chocolate go together like eyeliner and the Kardashians! This recipe is the perf pairing for your sweet tooth. Now you can get your PB-choco fix faster than ever with this cray simple Peanut Butter Cocoa Crispy Bars recipe that starts with a layer of Cocoa Puffs, and ends with a rich peanut butter and chocolate ganache topping. Gorgeous, baby. Simply gorgeous. And here's how you're gonna make 'em: Cocoa Puffs! That's how you're... Read More
3-Ingredient Pumpkin Pie
Three ingredient pumpkin pies. You, yes you, can do this. I can't tell you how many times people complain to me that they can't cook or bake. But I'm a firm believer that if you can follow directions, you can cook. You might not have the creative flair to be the world's best chef, but you can definitely get some decent –even pretty -- food on the table by just following directions. This 3-Ingredient Pumpkin Pie recipe is made from spice... Read More
Coffee Cup Yogurt Cookies
These tiny yogurt dessert cups will be the hit of the party! For all of you tea and coffee lovers out there (or chai, hot chocolate, steamers, lattes, or whatever your drink of choice may be!), I have a super cute dessert idea for you! Introducing … Coffee Cup Yogurt Cookies! Don’t be deceived.  These little cups are a breeze to whip up!  While you might not want to lift them by their “handles,” these cute little phyllo shell-and... Read More
Muddy Buddies Ice Cream
Your favorite Muddy Buddies (or Puppy Chow) snack is now your favorite ice cream! Who loves Muddy Buddies? (Or if you’re from my neck of the woods…who loves “Puppy Chow”?!?) Whatever you call it, I have been obsessed with the stuff lately. Maybe it’s because my family always used to make a batch each summer at the lake. Or maybe it’s because I can never resist a good chocolatey-peanut-butter dessert. Or maybe it’s just because I... Read More
Chocolate Chip-Berry Shortcakes
Stop, drop and eat shortcake! These chocolate chip shortcakes with fresh berries may just be as good as life gets! When it comes to summertime desserts, you're likely sick to pieces of strawberry shortcake. But, darlin', that's because you haven't yet added chocolate chips to your shortcakes, then served them up with fresh mixed berries and an incredible chocolate sauce. There, there. Breathe. Take in a deep one. This revelation isn't one we'... Read More
Mini Microwave Berry Crisps
Berries and Cinnamon Chex cereal hook up in a most unexpected place: the microwave! It read like a produce-section personals ad: Beautiful berries seek sweet, rich companion. If you've got the right crunch, meet by the micro. Oh, they met alright. By my microwave oven! It went something like this: Diced strawberries, whole blackberries and raspberries meet each other. Luuuuuuve at first sight. They mixed it up a bit in a bowl with s... Read More
Spring Rainbow Yogurt Tartlets
These rainbow colored, multi-flavored mini tartlets have everything you want in a Spring dessert -- minus the heaviness! I have a couple of friends who say they're afraid to have me over to their house for dinner because they’re intimidated by my cooking abilities. All I can say is, dang, do I have them fooled or what? I’m not saying that I’m not a good cook, but I’m all about easy dishes that look like they are a lot more work than t... Read More
Retro Recipe Redo: Slow Cooker Apple Cake
You've had old-fashioned apple cakes -- yum. These days, you can mix it and ignore it, and let your slow cooker do the rest of the work! No really. I know it sounds a little bizarre. But it’s worth every hands-off minute. It took me a really long time to wrap my head around the idea of baking a cake inside my trusty slow cooker. I associate my slow cooker with a sort of braising style of cooking where food is cooked low and slow with liquid... Read More
Retro Recipe Redo: Banana Dessert
Retro Recipe Redo is a new Quick Dish series that gives old recipe faves a mini makeover so they're easier and quicker for today's busy cooks. Creamy, dreamy and straight up bananaramic, Banana Fana Fo Fana is banana cream pie ala modern. It's a cinch almost to a sinful degree. See? (Click to view video.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VbZKhW-CyU With this outrageously easy version, why make banana cream pie the old-fashioned way... Read More
Chocolate Lava Cake
Calling all brownie fans ... This Chocolate Lava Mountain Dessert is a chocolate lover’s idea of a great time. Based on the idea of a chocolate lava cake, this super rich dessert features fudgy chocolate chunk brownies instead of chocolate cake as the base. It drips with molten chocolate ganache like a lava cake, but adds a gooey caramel center to sweeten the deal. Even my camera drooled when it took a peek at this chunk of chocolate he... Read More