Just Desserts for a Hungry Man?

[GingerSynapse]

I am looking for easy, inexpensive, man-pleasing dessert recipes.

My guy likes cakes, pies, puddings, but does not care for cookies or brownies. Most of the things I see in cookbooks are too complicated, and he is tired of most of the stuff that comes out of boxes and from the store.

Can anyone share some good recipes for homemade sweet treats? Thanks in advance.

 

[FoBoT]

oh, i have a good one, a lady i used to work with gave it to my wife, really yummy, here it is

well, its sorta some notes, i guess you have to be a cook to understand this, it isn't really written like a formal recipe

1 - yellow cake mix
1 - cool whip, large
2 - large vanilla pudding packages
2 - frozen strawberries
1 - can of pineapple tidbits (drained)

Bake cake per the directions on the box
let it cool
crumble the cake up
make the pudding per the directions

get a BIG bowl, make layers of the ingredients as follows

cake
pudding
fruit
cool whip

then repeat those layers until you run out or fill up the bowl (if you fill up the bowl use a bigger bowl next time )

make sense? its YUMMY!!!

 

[GingerSynapse]

Thank you, FoBot! That does sound good! I presume it has to be kept chilled in the fridge.

Any further dessert suggestions would be welcomed by this clueless cook.

 

[gopunk]

i think real cream is infinitely better than that cool whip stuff. yuck!

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: GingerSynapse
I presume it has to be kept chilled in the fridge.

yeah, after you make it, shove it in the fridge and let it all kinda settle/sink together

and you can substitute real whip cream for the cool whip, i guess, but if it seperated that could be yucky, i think for this application, Cool Whip is better ( i like cool whip better anyway)

 

[linuxboy]

FoBoT, I make that and it is pretty good but I use a regular sponge cake recipe instead of the mix. Another suggestion is to suspend the fruit in a whipped cream/gelatin mixture and make a layered cake. Equally tasty. Use brandy or rum for extra flavor.

GingerSynapse, what do you mean when you say "too complicated"?

Can you make puff pastry or cream puffs? Lots of variation there in terms of what you can do and how to serve it. Tortes? Regular cakes? Chilled desserts? Of course there's always cheesecake in baked and non-baked varieties. You can make crepes, roll some cottage cheese and nut/cranberry filling into them and then bake them for 10 minutes so the filling gets all warm and gooey. How about waffles or a baked meringue? Can you give me a better idea of what you've done in the past?

Oh here's one:

package of cream cheese
2 cups of heavy whipping cream
2 egg whites beaten until the whisk leaves little peaks and with stabilizer
tablespoon lemon juice
fold that in

now get strawberries and puree them in a blender and add those in. Use as much as you like

Add what fruits you like. I add pinapple, star fruit and canned cherry pie filling. Fresh and in season works better.

Or just make a regular fruit salad.




So hard to pick something since I don't know what you'd like and what you can actually do. Hope this helps.

Cheers !