10 Quick-and-Easy Dessert Recipes
Ginger Fruit with Pineapple Sherbet [1]
This remarkable topping will impress guests with its zesty goodness. But easy ingredients--canned pineapple and mandarin orange sections tossed with orange marmalade, crystallized ginger and vanilla--make it a snap to create and pair with good-for-you sherbet.
Mocha Chocolate Mousse [5]
This delicious mousse is a snap to mix together. You can layer it over fresh fruit and top with your choice of miniature chocolate pieces, chocolate sprinkles or chocolate-covered espresso beans.
Blender Blueberry Sauce [9]
This no-fuss blueberry sauce recipe comes from Paul Otten of Natura Farms in Forest Lake, Minnesota. Serve the sweet, fresh sauce over anything that could use a good dessert sauce, from hot-off-the-griddle pancakes to scoops of ice cream. In our picture, the sauce tops fruit and pound cake.
Bananas a la Mexican [13]
Purchased pound cake and canned whipped cream help this dessert go together fast. Bake the dessert topping in the oven instead of on the rangetop so you don't have to tend it as it cooks.
Bananas a la Mexican [14]
Mocha Floats [17]
The coffee-chocolate blend in this drink is refreshingly cool, especially when topped with scoops of vanilla and chocolate ice cream. The amounts we give will make about 10 individual floats.
Mocha Floats [18]
Brownie Parfaits [21]
This fast-fix dessert looks particularly appealing when served in clear sundae glasses. We layered store-bought brownies with a sweetened cream-cheese sauce and peppermint patties.
Brownie Parfaits [22]
Warm Apple Spice Crumble [25]
You can put this warm, fresh-baked treat on the table in less than half an hour. Canned sliced apples and purchased granola cereal make the crumble easy to assemble.
Ice Cream Waffle Sundaes [29]
This treat, which starts with giant waffle ice cream cones, is easy to make but impressive served. It's a sweet ending for any special dinner.
Chocolate Panini [33]
Put together this quick and easy dessert while your main dish cooks. Just before serving, toast the sweet sandwich until the chocolate filling is warm and gooey.
Chocolate Panini [34]
Grilled Banana Split Sundae [37]
If you've never had dessert off the grill, this recipe from Chicago grilling expert Elizabeth Karmel is a great place to start. Grilling softens the sweet bananas, which become absolutely irresistible when topped with hot fudge sauce. Cook the bananas on the grill over low coals left after making the main dish.
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