Dessert Recipe Needed for a Crowd

I think this response is too late for this time, but you might want to keep it in mind for your next time. This dessert has never failed to be a hit and the talk of every event I have taken it to.

Dirt Cake

20 oz. package Oreos (crushed [I use the food processor[)
1/2 stick butter
8 oz. package cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
3-1/2 cups milk
2 small packages instant French vanilla pudding
12 oz. Cool Whip

Cream together (with mixer) the butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar.

Mix together (with wisk) the milk, pudding and cool whip.

Add pudding mixture to the cream cheese mixture and mix well.

To put it all together, I buy a 8" diameter clay or plastic flower pot and go to the florist and buy a clear plastic liner to fit the pot. If you are using a plastic pot that does not have a hole in the bottom you will not need the liner; just be sure to wash the pot well first.

Layer the cookies with the pudding mixture starting with the cookies and ending with the cookies. The top will look like dirt. (Refrigerate)

Decorating is whatever suits your fancy. Sometimes I decorate the top with gummy worms and a plastic sand shovel. Sometimes I put in some plastic flowers. When I serve this at home, I take it out of the refrigerator and put it in the center of my table. Guests usually just think it's a centerpiece and are blown away when I start scooping it out for dessert!

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Hi K.,

I think I have the perfect recipe for you :o)

Chocolate Pecan Critters:
1 (11 1/2-ounce) package milk chocolate chips
1 (6-ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4 Cup butter or margarine
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 Cups coarsely chopped pecans
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Pecan halves

Microwave: In 2 quart glass bowl melt chocolate chips, butter, sweetened condensed milk, and salt. Takes about 3 minutes on high heat, stirring after 1 1/2 minutes. Stir to melt chips; stir in chopped nuts and vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper lined cookie sheets. Top with pecan halves. Chill. Keep tightly covered.

Makes about 5 dozen.

I have made these and they are so quick and easy. But they will disappear quickly! =o)

Best of luck.

Blessings,
J.

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K.,
This is an awesome recipe and very sinful. I call it the Sinful dessert. it really doesn't have a name. Hope you try this and enjoy it.
1. Angel food cake - tear up in pieces and place in 13 x 9 pan
2. Mix 2 packages of cream cheese (large), 1 can evaporated milk (small) & 1 cup sugar. Pour over angel food cake.
3. 2 cans of cherry pie filling and pour over cream cheese filling.
4. Chill at least 1 hour. The longer you chill it the beter it is.
You can double this recipe. I use a throw away turkey pan when I double it. Hope you try this and enjoy it.

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This is really good. My aunt gave it to me and it has always been a hit! Even if you decide not to do it for your party, please make it for at home or for friends....really good!
Cheese Danish
2 8oz packages cream cheese, soft
2 8oz packages cresent rolls
3/4 Cup sugar
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla
yolk of one egg

Topping:
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg white
1 tsp cinnamon

Greast a 9x13 baking dish. pat one package of cresent rolls in bottom. mix together cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, lemon juice and egg yolk. spread over bottom layer of rolls and cover with the second package of rolls. Mix ingredients for topping with fork and spread venly over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
I bake all the time and this is so great! Hope you enjoy!

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All righty...this is so easy and so good, serve with ice cream.
Dump Cake
1 large can sliced peaches
1 big can (tuna sized) diced or crushed pineapple
(don't drain either peaches or pineapples)
1 box yellow cake mix
1 stick of butter

9x13 pyrex
Mix cans of fruit in bottom of pyrex. Shake mix on top and drizzle butter on top. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. Makes your house smell like HEAVEN! It's like a simple easy cobbler.

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My 8 year old son and I have been making this dessert together for about 4 years now. Whenever we're having a special dinner we buy some oreos and coffee flavored ice cream(it's Daddy's favorite). The morning of our dinner party we scoop out several balls of ice cream and line them in a dish with parchment paper and put them back in the freezer. We then put several oreos in a large freezer bag and I give my son a small pan for him to smash all the oreos up. Once he's done with that we seperate a small amount of the crushed oreos into a bowl and then we take our ice cream balls and put them in the bag of oreos. Let him shake them around and each ball gets a yummy cookie coating. We then take martini glasses or some sort of nice stemmed glassware and put some crushed oreos in the bottom. At serving time you put your cookie coated ice cream ball in the glass, sprinkle a touch more cookie crumbles on and pour the tiniest amount of milk over it. If you like whipped cream that would be a nice finish as well. Another great alternative to the coffee flavor with oreo is a vanilla bean with granola or toffee bits. It looks amazing and taste even better. It's quite an impressive dessert that the little ones can help with and you can obviously adjust the flavors according to what your guest would enjoy. I hope this helps!

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Hi K.!

My name is Kamie and like yourself love to cook but am not much of a baker either. I have a simple crowd pleasing recipe that adults enjoy as well as kids. The dessert is called Chocolate Eclair
Pudding filling:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 small pkgs french vanilla instant pudding
12 oz cool whip
3 cups milk
1 box graham crackers
1 can Betty Crocker milk chocolate frosting
Mix dry powdered sugar and instand pudding. Beat 3 cups milk in dry powdered sugar and pudding. Stir in cool whip. Layer graham crackers, half pudding mixture,another layer of graham cracker and last half of pudding mixture and top with another layer of graham crackers. Spread icing over last layer of graham cracker (i've found it spreads easier if you microwave the frosting a little to soften) Use a 9x13 pan for this and refrigerate. I literally catch my husband eating this in the middle of the night....LOL .... and always get lots of compliments on the dessert. Good Luck! I hope you enjoy this as much as our friends and family have!

A little about me: Married 10 yrs to a wonderful husband and mother of a 6yr old boy and 4 yr old girl, i adore being a mom!

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we love this one and it can be made way ahead and then just baked for about 10-15 minutes when needed...

Molten Chocolate Cakes
makes 5 or 6 depending on ramekin sizes

6 oz butter
6 oz bittersweet chocolate (I use 70%)
3 whole eggs
3 egg yolks
1/2 c sugar
1/3 c flour (white or wheat - see note)
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Melt butter and chocolate in double boiler. Meanwhile, whip eggs, yolks, and sugar to ribbon stage. Add melted chocolate to eggs slowly while stirring (to prevent cooking eggs). Fold in flour and cinnamon. Put batter into buttered and sugared individual molds. Bake at 400-425 degrees for 10 minutes or until top is set. Invert immediately onto plates.

Notes:
* Ramekins with sloped sides work best for turning them out later.
* Sometimes I prep the ramekins with butter and unsweetened cocoa instead of sugar.
* Plating ideas:
- after inverting, dust the whole plate with cinnamon or powdered sugar
- top with whipped cream and a garnish
- put a pool of raspberry sauce around the cake
- you can stab the cake with a cookie (gingersnap?) and get it to start oozing
* These will keep uncooked, refrigerated, and covered for about 1 week.
* I usually use 100% whole wheat *pastry* flour, but I have used 100% regular whole wheat (the batter was not as smooth, but the cakes turned out fine).

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OK, I don't cook, at all. LOL This is my favorite dessert recipe.

Ingredients:
1 Extra Large Hershey Chocolate bar
1 Large tub of Cool-Whip
1 graham cracker pie crust (or oreo)

Melt chocolate bar in pyrex glass in microwave. Use hand-mixer to mix the melted chocolate with cool-whip. Put in pie crust and chill.

This pie is AWESOME. Some variations include drizzling hot fudge on top before serving, using chocolate pie crust, etc.

Hope it helps,
H.

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I have the worlds best bananna pudding recipe AND a great ICE CREAM CAKE RECIPE!

you need

banannas
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
1 med containor of coolwhip this
1 box of nallia wafers
2 lg boxes of vanilla pudding
2 and 2/3 cup of milk
I prefer to use a my mixer on low rather than hand beating
1 large foil pan with lid
This recipe can be doubled

combine
pudding and milk in a large bowl and mix
add in condensed milk and mix on low
once blended, FOLD in the cool whip
once completely FOLDED in, its ready

Now, take a little of the mixture and spread it on the bottom of your pan with a spatula then add a layer of nilla wafers on top of mixture.
Now add a layer of cup bananas on top of the wafers.
Now, add a thick layer of pudding mixture on top of bananas, then a layer of wafers then a layer of bananas and so on until all mix is used.

its important that the very top layer is the pudding mixture so you can either add a final layer of wafers on top or crumble up a bunch of wafers and spread on top Now cover and put in fridge until you are ready to serve.
this is the richest, most heavenly pudding you will ever taste. trust me and dont make the slices to big a little goes a long way.

ICE CREAM CAKE

Bake a round cake from a box then let cool out of pan on rack. let a 1/2 gallon of ice cream melt in the fridge for most of the day.
Slice the cake sideways into 3 equal slices.
Back in the round cake pan, place one layer or cake on the bottom of the pan, now place a layer of melted ice cream on top of the cake,
now you can add flavored whip cream if you desire (you can spice this recipe up any way you want this is just the basic one)
then place another one of the cake slices then another layer of ice cream then a final layer of cake on top.

NOW , you can top this 2 different ways. you can put a thick layer of ice cream on top and freeze entire thing over night then pop put of pan decorate before serving OR

you can let it freeze over night with the cake layer on top and then before serving you can pop the frozen cake from the pan and spread cake frosting on top and sides then slice and serve immediately.
You can subsitute gelato or sorbe for the ice cream if desired.

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I made this for my office potluck. It's delicious.
"Not Yo' Mama's Banana Pudding by Paula Dean"

2 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies
6 to 8 bananas, sliced
2 cups milk
1 (5-ounce) box instant French vanilla pudding
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (12-ounce) container frozen whipped topping thawed, or equal amount sweetened whipped cream

Line the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas on top.
In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer. Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and condensed milk together and mix until smooth. Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended. Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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I just made this on Saturday for a dinner party and it was a huge success (plus it's my favorite...) The name is "Chocolate Delight" or "4 Layer Delight" :

Chocolate Delight
(or “4 Layer Dessert”)

1 C. Flour
1. C. Pecans – chopped
1 stick melted butter

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1 Large Cool Whip

8 oz. Cream cheese – softened
1 C. Powered Sugar

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1 large box instant CHOCOLATE pudding mix
1 large box instant VANILLA pudding mix
4 C. Milk (2% or higher, otherwise the pudding won’t set)

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FIRST LAYER: Mix flour, pecans, and melted margarine in bottom of a 13 X 9 baking dish. Pat flat and cook at 350°F for 15 minutes. Cool completely.

SECOND LAYER: With a hand mixer, mix the cream cheese, powdered sugar and 1 Cup Cool Whip. Spread on cooked mixture.

THIRD LAYER: Mix vanilla and chocolate pudding mixes with milk until thick. Spread on second layer.

FOURTH LAYER: Spread on Cool Whip. (sprinkle some more chopped pecans on top to make it “pretty”)

Refrigerate until you’re ready to serve.

Hope you decide on a scrumptios one!! Good luck!!!

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Hello,
This recipe is my husbands great grandmothers recipe and is always a big hit. It is best warm, but taste delicious any way you eat it. The topping will look runny or look like it will seperate, but trust me, it is really good, especially if you like strawberry.

Strawberry Jello Cake: Preheat oven 320 degrees

1 pkg. white or yellow cake
1 pkg. small strawberry jello
3 TBSP. flour
2/3 C. water
2/3 C. oil
4 eggs
1 10 oz. box of strawberries(reserve 1/2 box for icing)
1 box powdered sugar
3 TBSP. softened butter

Combine cake mix, jello, & flour. Add water, oil,& eggs; mix well. Stir in 1/2 strawberries. Bake 1 hour in 10x13 pan. No need to grease or flour.
ICING: Cream powdered sugar and butter, add juice from strawberries, mix well. stir in remainder strawberries.
Poke holes all over cake with ice pick, fork, or whatever you choose. Spoon icing onto slightly warm cake.
This recipe doubles well. Hope this helps!

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I am a Pampered Chef consultant and have some amazing quick, simple, impressive recipes. Here is one that is tried and true and so simple yet YUMMY...it would be great for adults and kids....You can do one batch with semi-sweet chocolate and one batch with White chocolate and serve with a frozen cut up Sara Lee pound cake, or a store bought angel food cake and fresh strawberries on a tray with the dips in the middle...If you need more ideas visit my website at www.pamperedchef.biz/cheristigler you may want to have a show sometime and get more ideas.Cool & Creamy Chocolate Fondue

¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 container (8 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed
½ tsp Cinnamon
½ tsp vanilla extract

Place chocolate morsels and half of the whipped topping in small Micro-Cooker, microwave, uncovered, on HIGH 1 minute, stirring after each 20 second interval, until melted and smooth. Add remaining whipped topping, cinnamon and vanilla, whisk until smooth

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I make a mean chocolate cake and it is so easy to throw together and it is SOOOOO good!
1 box of chocolate cake mix and follow directions
1 small tub or pkg of sour cream
chocolate chips (I use dark chocolate, but use as much as you want, it depends on how much you like chocolate) but the recipe calls for 3/4 C.

I put it in a bundt pan, cook it at 375 for about an hour (cooking times vary) or until stick comes out clean. My friends never know that its almost a cake mix!

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I make a chocolate mouse that is very easy and it is really good. Melt 3 squares of semi sweet chocolate in a double boiler or microwave. While that is melting whip up about 2 cups of heavy cream. Fold about a fourth of a cup of the whipping cream into chocolate and then add the chocoalte mixture to the rest of the whipping cream. You can add a couple of tablespoons of Grand Marnier or Kaluha if you like, and then put it in martini glasses or a nice bowl.

You can also melt a couple of squares of white chocolate and divide the whipping cream in half, and put the melted semi sweet chocolate in one half, and the white chocolate in the other half of the whipping cream and layer it in the glass.

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I know you needed this for YESTERDAY!! But you will have lots of recipes to choose from next time.

Frozen Lemonade Pie:

3 ingredients only:

1 container of Cool Whip (12 oz)
1 can of sweetened condensed milk (14oz),chilled
1 can of Frozen Lemonade concentrate (6oz), keep frozen

Mix all ingredients together put in ready made graham cracker crust pie shell. Put in freezer over night. This will not be a frozen pie. Its consistency is that of Cool Whip! Very delicious and simple to make. Enjoy for next time!

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This is my FAVORITE dessert, a real crowd pleaser. It has a bunch of steps, but it is really easy because you are just layering ingredients. I have never met anyone who didnt love this dessert!

Temptation Cake

1 box Golden Butter Cake Mix
2 cups Sugar
1 can Crushed Pineapple
8 oz. Cream Cheese
1 sm. Pkg. Vanilla instant pudding mix
2 cups Milk
2 Bananas, sliced
8 oz. Cool Whip
Chopped Pecans *opt.
Maraschino Cherries *opt.

Bake cake according to directions, except use milk instead of water. Bake in 13” x 9” pan or casserole dish. After cake is baked, punch holes all over the top. Bring the sugar and the pineapple to a boil and pour over cake while hot. Let cake cool to room temperature. Blend together the cream cheese, pudding mix and milk. Pour over cooled cake and put in refrigerator until the mixture thickens. Cover with sliced bananas and spread with cool whip. Sprinkle with pecans and cherries. Refrigerate.

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Hey K.,
I have a super easy and wonderful Chocolate Chip Cheesecake recipe.

The ingredients are:
2 rolls of chocolate chip cookie dough
2 8oz. packages of Philadelphia cream cheese
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
Get a 9 x 13 inch baking dish - spray lightly with Pam. Flatten one roll of cookie dough on bottom. Mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and egg. Put mixture over cookie dough. Flatten other roll of cookie dough (little by little in your hand) and put on top. Bake at 375 for 30-35 minutes. Put a piece of tin foil lightly on top for the last 10 minutes or so.

We eat this alone or with ice cream!

Good luck!
D.

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This recipe is so easy and always a crowd pleaser.

Eclair Cake

2 small boxes of french Vanilla instant pudding (can use sugar free/fat free
1 8 ounce Cool Whip (can use sugarfree/fat free}
1 box graham crackers (can use reduced fat)
1 container of Chocolate Frosting
3 cups lowfat/fat free milk
Layer the bottom and sides of a 13"x9" dish w/graham crackers. Beat together 2 boxes pudding mix with milk until fluffy and throughly mixed about 2 minutes. Pour pudding over top of graham crackers, spread evenly. Top with layer of graham crakers. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Spread frosting over top of Graham crackers. Ready to eat. Keep refrigated. You can change the way you make this in many ways by changing pudding flavors and icing flavors.

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I have the easiest and greatest dessert for a crowd... if you don't mind a few calories.

You need:
1 box of yellow cake mix
1 can crushed pineapples
1 can sweet cherries - (Cherry Pie Filling)
1 stick of butter

How to make:
Preheat oven to 350, and coat a retangular cake pan -
Pour can of cherry pie mix into pan
Pour can of crushed pinappples drained on top of cherries
Pour yellow cake mix on top of that
Melt butter and drizzle all over the mix

Bake at 350 for 20 - 30 minutes until cake mix is golden brown. Serve at room temperature.

Your guests will be begging for the recipe. It's original name but not so flattering is "Dump Cake" since you dump everything in and bake. We now call it "Cherry Surprise Cake".
Enjoy!!

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This is a great cake recipe...
take a regular box cake mix-chocolate and bake according to the directions. Once it's out of the oven but before its completely cooled poke holes into the cake and pour one jar of caramel ice cream topping over the top and then do the same with a jar of chocolate sauce as well. Let it cool and then cover it with cool whip and sprinkle broken candy bar(Heath, Snickers or Skor)pieces on top. It's fantastic and easy. HTH

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My granddaughter makes this and it's a huge hit; she's only 13. I had her to make it for my Pokeno group and everyone asked for the recipe.
It's a very easy recipe----good luck!

Sopapilla Cheesecake Recipe

2 cans of crescent rolls
3-8oz packages of cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup margarine or butter, melted
1/2 cup of cinnamon sugar mix {1cup sugar & 2 Tbls cinnamon}

Unroll crescent rolls to cover the bottom of a 9x13 baking pan and flatten.
Mix the cream chese, sugar and extract together until well blended.
Spread over the crescent evenly. Unroll and lay the other can of crescents over the top of cream cheese. Pour melted butter over the top and sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Jenny

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This so easy and everyone loves it!
1 box mini icecream sandwiches
1 large tub of Cool Whip
1 bottle chocolate topping-the kind that hardens on icecream-the kind with toffee is great

In 9x13 glass dish, layer half of the icecream sandwiches, spread half the whip topping over these, then another layer of sandwiches, then the rest of the whipped topping. Lastly, pour the chocolate topping all over the top-use as much as you like. Cover and put in freezer. Set out about 15 minutes before you plan to serve it-to make it easy to cut. That's it and it's delicious.

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