dessert

[thywar]

These are two of my favorite pies.. (well I make a mean cheese cake, but that's right out of Betty Crocker except I put strawberry pie filling on mine, except for St. Patrick's Day and then I put jalapeno mint jelly on it for my topping.)


Key Lime Pie
1/4 cup boiling water
1 3oz box lime jello
2 containers 6 oz. key lime yogurt
1 tub 8 oz. cool whip
1 graham cracker pie crust

You can substitute lite or fat free in any of this

Mix boiling water and jello, stir until dissolved. Add yogurt, mix thoroughly, then fold in cool whip. Pour into graham cracker pie crust. Refrigerate for a couple of hours. Garnish with more cool whip if desire (and oh please, desire).

You can use any jello or yogurt you like to make this. It's cool and refreshing, lite for a great summer time dessert.

Blueberry Banana Dessert

Warning: This pie is addictive and I'm not responsible for the number of house guests who come back to your home wanting more of this.

1 graham cracker pie crust

Mix 8 oz. cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar and 2 eggs. Pour over crust and bake 20 mins at 350 degrees.

Take from oven, place on rack to cool. When cooled, slice and place banana on pie (you can sprinkle with lemon juice but I love the taste of the bananas without doing this part). Top with one can of blueberry pie filling, then top with whip cream. (You can do strawberry pie filling or any other you think you'd like..)
Chill the pie.. it's so much better the next day

[woodyz]

banana pudding, i just love a good banana pudding.

anyone got a favorite banana pudding recipe?

[woodyz]

Caramel Apple Goldrush at longhorn steakhouse (big enough for two, but you won't want to share)
If only Mom’s apple pie was this good. Fresh baked pie crust packed with sweet, juicy Fuji apples, vanilla bean ice cream, drizzled with made-in-house Maker’s Mark®bourbon-caramel sauce and raspberry sauce.

[thywar]

I don't have one but I can eat banana pudding all day long if it was my Mothers. I know you have to use whole milk. None of that less fat stuff.

[angelhelp]

Airborne just 10 minutes ago finished reading an article from the May issue of Guideposts to me (it's one of our dinnertime & post-dinnertime pastimes when something is of mutual interest to read it aloud). The article contained "the" formula for banana pudding. I shall quote:

2 cups sugar
4 tablespoons sugar (to be used separately from the initial 2 cups)
1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk
1 1/2 cups regular milk
8 large eggs, separated
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
4 bananas, sliced
1 box vanilla wafers
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

Preheat the oven to 350F.
Mix 2 cups sugar and the flour in a 2 1/2 quart saucepan using no heat yet.
Add evaporated milk slowly, stirring to make sure all lumps are gone.
Rinse can out with about 1/2 can water and add that water to the mixture.
Add regular milk and stir well.
Beat egg yolks well with a fork. Add them to the milk mixture.

Place the saucepan on stove at medium high heat and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture starts to thicken and comes to a light boil (about 10 minutes).
Remove from heat.
Stir in the vanilla extract.

Layer the vanilla wafers flat on the bottom of an oven-safe Pyrex dish, standing some up around the sides, if desired, for looks. Smaller Pyrex dishes can be used if you wish to create individual servings.
Spread banana slices evenly and pour pudding mixture on top.

Beat egg whites with cream of tartar and the 4 tablespoons sugar until meringue is stiff.
Spread on top, making sure edges of pudding are sealed with meringue.
Bake until peaks are golden brown, around 10 minutes.

Serves 8 - 10

[thywar]

Down here real banana pudding doesn't have meringue on it. That's for banana coconut cream pie Down here anyway. Layer nabisco vanilla wafers, (and yes you line the sides) layer bananas, pour the filling and then gently cover the top with more vanilla wafers. Refrigerate. Otherwise that sounds about right

[USCGME2]

You had me at key lime pie dude

[Redneckidokie]

I never saw that over there...the nearest one is thirty miles.
Time to pack up a box of insulin and road trip.....

Apr 29, 2014 16:32:23 GMT -7 woodyz said:

Caramel Apple Goldrush at longhorn steakhouse (big enough for two, but you won't want to share)
If only Mom’s apple pie was this good. Fresh baked pie crust packed with sweet, juicy Fuji apples, vanilla bean ice cream, drizzled with made-in-house Maker’s Mark®bourbon-caramel sauce and raspberry sauce.

[ColcordMama]

Our banana pudding is just cooked vanilla pudding made with whole milk, following the directions on the box, with broken up graham crackers or Nilla vanilla wafers plus sliced bananas, layered however you like it best in a big bowl. It's never as good the next day because the bananas turn mushy and brown, so you have to eat it all in one sitting. As if I had to tell you that...

[thywar]

That's how you make it CCM. BUT THAT NEXT DAY PART. You use not quite ripe bananas and by the next day THEN. You eat the whole bowl. Discipline is a preparatory learning skill ya know

And no meringue

[ColcordMama]

To heck with discipline. When I want banana pudding I want it NOW. Nom nom nom nom nom

p.s. putting bananas into the hot cooked pudding is probably what makes them go brown & mooshy (but, mind you, STILL EDIBLE) after a day, but I'm just speculating.

So, whilst I'm still on the topic of totally out-of-control desserts, anybody else addicted to homemade lemon meringue pie? I'm talking real honest-to-goodness thin flaky pastry crust with a tangy lemon filling that could stand on its own, quivering with anticipation, and a towering meringue cloud with golden brown swirly peaks and those little golden teardrops of deliciousness that appear by magic scattered over the meringue? No crumby crumb crust. No puddinglike bland sort-of lemony filling without that inimitable tang that only comes from real lemon zest and fresh juice. No "whipped almost-cream" topping. The real deal, like your grandma used to make. Who knows what I'm talking about? Who remembers?

[thywar]

I know and I remember.. My grandmother used to make it as did my Mother.. It's not my favorite but their meringue was so good and that pie was just like you describe.. flakiest crust ever.. Banana or coconut cream was my favorites.. same type of meringue and crust. I used to watch them roll out that pie crust, place it in the glass pie plate and then pinch the crust just right.

[angelhelp]

If I read your (CCM's) post aloud, Airborne'd be drooling... and his favorite is cherry. Rather than watch him drool as he goes through the mail, I'll keep my pie hole closed.

BUT...

Next year, if we make it to the Grand Canyon, God willing, we're gonna stop and see you... and I WILL have told him that you grok lemon meringue pie. He'll be hoping you've made some. I will have brought something you might like too.

[ColcordMama]

Grok!! LOLOLOL Now THERE's a term I haven't heard in a long while, and I really grok it! So wanna make his day? Wanna make any dessert lover's day? Here you go. Couldn't be any simpler. Chocolate Cherry Cake: Get 1 box chocolate fudge cake mix and a can of regular cherry pie filling. Mix them together along with 2 eggs and a tsp of almond extract and nothing else. Bake this in a (greased and floured) 9" x 13" cake pan for as long as the directions on the box of cake mix says. Cool, then frost with any good chocolate fudge frosting. You absolutely positively will not believe how fabulous this is. Try it and see.

[angelhelp]

I'm with you except for the almond extract. How 'bout vanilla?