A Great But Easy Dessert to Bring to BBQ?

[Anonymous]

Hi - I need to bring a dessert to a BBQ this weekend. The hosts are great cooks and I want to bring something impressive, but I am a novice baker/cook! Any ideas on something easy to make that usually turns out great? (can't be brownies as someone else is bringing these)

[Anonymous]

On another thread someone posted that she/he was bringing "s'mores on a stick" to a barbecue - I googled it and they look adorable and tasty - basically a marshmallow dipped in melted chocolate with crumbled graham cracker, on a lollipop stick.

[Anonymous]

Fruit salad

[Anonymous]

Fruit kabobs?

[Anonymous]

My very favorite and super easy berry tart -

Whip 1 cup heavy cream until it makes stiff peaks. Beat together 8oz cream cheese, 1/3 c powdered sugar, 2T lemon juice and 1/2t vanilla then add the whipped cream and beat until smooth.

Smooth that mixture into a graham cracker crust, and make a pretty design on top with assorted berries. Voila!

I usually make my own pecan graham cracker crust, which isn't too hard to do and tastes really really good, but I've also used store bought crusts when feeling lazy and it's still pretty yummy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My very favorite and super easy berry tart -

Whip 1 cup heavy cream until it makes stiff peaks. Beat together 8oz cream cheese, 1/3 c powdered sugar, 2T lemon juice and 1/2t vanilla then add the whipped cream and beat until smooth.

Smooth that mixture into a graham cracker crust, and make a pretty design on top with assorted berries. Voila!

I usually make my own pecan graham cracker crust, which isn't too hard to do and tastes really really good, but I've also used store bought crusts when feeling lazy and it's still pretty yummy.

I'm not trying to be mean, but (1) whipping cream into heavy peaks is not for a beginning cook and (2) neither is making a pretty design with assorted berries; and (3) neither is making your own crust.

[Anonymous]

Peach cobbler

2 cans of sliced peaches with syrup
1 box yellow cake mix
1 stick butter

Pour peaches & syrup into a 9x13 cake pan.

Dump cake mix over the peaches. Spread out but keep is lumpy and uneven.

Slice the butter into thin slices and place evenly over the cake mix.

Cover with foil.

Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 20 minutes.

Remove foil, continue baking until bubbly and golden (about 10 more minutes)

Serve warm with scoops of vanilla ice cream

[Anonymous]

Banana pudding:

Mix 2 packs vanilla pudding with whole milk accd to pkg. Let set & stir in one can sweetened condensed milk & one tub cool whip. Let set, then layer with vanilla wafers & banana slices.

Not fancy, no bake but this is always, always a hit. I can make a scratch double crust organic apple pie with the best of them but even my foodie friends request this totally processed concoction lol. I got this recipe from a
Baptist church picnic & I think this is what they have instead of sex...

[Anonymous]

Ps pudding poster here: it is peak season, if you make a peach cobbler PLEASE use fresh peaches!

[Anonymous]

key lime pie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My very favorite and super easy berry tart -

Whip 1 cup heavy cream until it makes stiff peaks. Beat together 8oz cream cheese, 1/3 c powdered sugar, 2T lemon juice and 1/2t vanilla then add the whipped cream and beat until smooth.

Smooth that mixture into a graham cracker crust, and make a pretty design on top with assorted berries. Voila!

I usually make my own pecan graham cracker crust, which isn't too hard to do and tastes really really good, but I've also used store bought crusts when feeling lazy and it's still pretty yummy.


I'm not trying to be mean, but (1) whipping cream into heavy peaks is not for a beginning cook and (2) neither is making a pretty design with assorted berries; and (3) neither is making your own crust.

Seriously, you dump in the cream and turn on the mixer until it looks like whipped cream. It's not rocket science. Neither is putting a bunch of blueberries in a circle. She want's something that looked impressive. And there was a reason I didn't bother with a recipe for the crust

[Anonymous]

Chocolate covered strawberries are terrific. If there will be a place to leave them inside when you get there, they will stay looking decadent. Buy pretty big berries. Then just melt chocolate chips (I usually use milk but you could use dark or bittersweet) in a glass bowl in the microwave - set it to do 30 seconds at a time and take the bowl out and stir then do another 30 seconds until it is melted (otherwise the chocolate can burn). Just dip the berries and put them on a cookie sheet or baking dish lined with parchment paper and chill. You can also sprinkle powdered sugar on top or dip them further in coconut or chopped nuts or other things. Then in the fridge until it's time to go.

Also, we had someone bring cupcakes over to a bbq we had last weekend. She had cut up gummy bears and speared them on toothpicks and put 2 on every cupcake to look like shish kabobs. They were really cute.

[Anonymous]

How about a fruit crisp? There's so many lovely fruit in season now. I just made one with raspberries, blackberries, peaches and nectarines with an amaretti topping - not much work and you just let the natural deliciousness of the fruit shine.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Peach-and-Amaretti-Crisp-108094

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:key lime pie

+ 1
buy a pie shell (graham cracker). mix eggs, lime juice, and condensed milk, and bake. super easy. serve with whipped cream.

[Anonymous]

dump cake

Google it!