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Bri
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Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
I am trying to think of something different, fun, yet easy to make to bring to my BIL's 40th birthday party on Saturday, but something people will actually be interested in eating.
There is going to be about 30 adults there- and quite a few that are somewhat hard to please when it comes to desserts.
I was thinking maybe chocolate covered pretzel rods, but not sure how that will go over for this type of crowd.
Also, if there is a dessert that you have had that stands out to you as "to die for" I would be willing to do some research to try and make it happen
TIA for any help anyone can give-
(Cheating and setting up a big tray of the giant gourmet chocolate chunk and peanut butter cup cookies from BJs is sounding like a very good possibility right now . . . )
Message edited 11/10/2008 9:00:40 PM.
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mikeandjess
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Re: Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
for DH's birthday last year I made him a chocolate cake (regular duncan hines cake mix) and made a peanut butter icing and he said it's the best cake he ever had. Maybe you can do it as cupcakes and pipe on the frosting so it's big and fancy? Let me know if you want the recipe, it was really easy.
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Bri
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Re: Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
Posted by mikeandjess
for DH's birthday last year I made him a chocolate cake (regular duncan hines cake mix) and made a peanut butter icing and he said it's the best cake he ever had. Maybe you can do it as cupcakes and pipe on the frosting so it's big and fancy? Let me know if you want the recipe, it was really easy.
I would love to have the recipe! TY!
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CookiePuss
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Re: Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
I make a trife...
Make a box of chocolate brownies. If this is for adults, when the brownies come out of the oven, prick with a fork and drizzle Kaluha over the hot brownies.
Once they cool off, crumble them into pieces.
In the meantime, make 2 box of instant chocolate pudding.
Once the brownies are cool, layer 1/3 of the crumbled brownies on the bottom, layer with a 1/3 of the chocolate pudding, 1/3 crumbled toffee candy, 1/3 Cool Whip...Repeat 3x
Top with shaved chocolate. It's a good dessert to make ahead of time too. Looks great in the trifle bowl and is so yummy!
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wp
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Re: Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
Let me know if you want any of the recipes:
Ice cream cake (I mix a pint of coffee and a pint of vanilla ice cream) in an oreo pie shell with chocolate sauce and whip cream sprinkled with chocolate shavings
A platter of chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate covered pretzels and chocolate dipped oreo cookies
Dirt cake
Reeses peanut butter suprise cookies
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| Posted 11/10/08 9:40 PM |
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cj7305
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Re: Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
OK, so it's not homemade, but my go to dessert every time I go somewhere is a pizza crumb from Dairy Barn of all places!! It's cheap, easy, delicious and different. Everyone always LOVES it. So yummy
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SnickNNick
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Re: Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
Posted by shamrock124
I make a trife...
Make a box of chocolate brownies. If this is for adults, when the brownies come out of the oven, prick with a fork and drizzle Kaluha over the hot brownies.
Once they cool off, crumble them into pieces.
In the meantime, make 2 box of instant chocolate pudding.
Once the brownies are cool, layer 1/3 of the crumbled brownies on the bottom, layer with a 1/3 of the chocolate pudding, 1/3 crumbled toffee candy, 1/3 Cool Whip...Repeat 3x
Top with shaved chocolate. It's a good dessert to make ahead of time too. Looks great in the trifle bowl and is so yummy!
Exactly what I was going to suggest!! Looks cool and tastes amazing!! You can also change it up by mixing up the flavors of what you put in (do blondies instead of brownies, white chocolate pudding, etc...)
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| Posted 11/10/08 11:02 PM |
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jmf423
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Re: Easy dessert Ideas for a 40th B-day party . . .?
I make a chocolate trifle that everyone always asks me to bring places.
-Make devils food cake (in 2 round pans) as directed on box
-Make 2 boxes of chocolate pudding (i always make regular pudding, it def tastes different with the instant IMO)
-Whip 1 small container of heavy cream to make homemade whipped cream. Add sugar to desired sweetness.
Then I just layer evertyhing....1st the chocolate cake (sometimes I will sprinkle with a little kahlua) then the chocolate pudding, then toffee pieces (I buy the Heath bar ones that are pieces of choclate covered toffee) then the whipped cream.
Repeat with the same pattern ending with whipped cream. Sprinkle the top with some more toffee. Yummy!
you can mix it up too...
Yellow cake, vanilla pudding, strawberries and whipped cream.
Yellow cake, cheesecake pudding, graham craker crumbs, cherries(pie filling-but use sparingly)
Lemon cake or yellow cake, lemon pudding, whipped cream and stawberries etc.
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