Dessert Recipes

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Sometimes we tend to think of pumpkin only in the fall or during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.  But we shouldn’t fall into that trap.  Pumpkin is a healthy food choice and should be enjoyed all year round.  While pumpkin pie is probably our most popular pumpkin desserts, it certainly isn’t the only one.  There are many great pumpkin dessert recipes and following are two good ones.  Pumpkin Pie Squares can actually be used in place of pumpkin pie, especially if you want to change things up a bit.  And pumpkin bars are always a tasty treat.  So get to baking and create a delicious dessert for tonight!

This recipe is from an old church cookbook from the Midwestern United States.

1 cup sifted flour

1/2 cup quick rolled oats

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup butter

2 cups pumpkin

1 can (13 1/2 oz) evaporated milk

2 eggs

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp ginger

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Using an electric mixer, blend flour, oats, brown sugar, and butter until crumbly. Press mixture into the bottom of a 9×13-inch pan. Bake 15 minutes. In a large mixing bowl, mix the pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger together until well blended. Pour the mixture over the baked crust. Return to oven and bake for 40 minutes. Make the topping below and sprinkle over the pumpkin mixture for the last twenty minutes of the baking time.

TOPPING: Mix together 1/2 cup chopped pecans, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and 2 teaspoons butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over pumpkin mixture as stated above.

Old Fashion Pumpkin Bars

This recipe is from a 1970s church cookbook.

1 cup oil

2 cups sugar

2 cups pumpkin

4 eggs

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat oil, sugar, pumpkin and eggs together until well blended. Combine flour, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon together in a sifter. Sift mixture into the pumpkin mixture. Blend well. Grease a jelly roll pan and pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Frost with a powdered sugar frosting or a cream cheese frosting, if desired

Enjoy!



Clark

Looking to add a festive touch to your dessert table?  Want to surprise family and friends with something new or just enjoy cranberries?  Here are three delectable recipes for you to choose from or maybe you want to make all three.  The Cranberry Orange Bread is always a tasty treat (and it’s great with coffee).  The Frozen Cranberry Dessert has its preparation divided into the night before and the next day, and the Apple Cranberry Bake just begs to be topped with ice cream and thoroughly enjoyed.

FROZEN CRANBERRY DESSERT

1 pkg cranberries, ground (redder if frozen when ground

2 cups sugar

1 No. 2 can pineapple, crushed, drained

1 lb marshmallows, cut-up

1 pint whipped cream

Mix cranberries and sugar together in one bowl. In another bowl, mix pineapple and marshmallows. Let mixtures sit in the two bowls overnight. Mix both mixtures together with 1 pint of whipped cream in the morning. Chill and eat or freeze and eat. Use two large bowls.

CRANBERRY ORANGE BREAD

This is a 1970s recipe from Kraft Foods.

3 cups flour

3/4 cup sugar

1 tbsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 cup 100% pure orange juice

1/2 cup Squeeze Parkay Margarine

2 eggs

1 1/4 cups cranberries, coarsely chopped

1/2 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Add orange juice, margaarine, and eggs; mix just until moistened. Stir in the cranberries and nuts. Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

APPLE-CRANBERRY BAKE

2 cups cranberries

2 cups peeled, chopped apples

3 tbsp flour

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup instant oats

1 tbsp cinnamon

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup margarine, melted

Combine first three ingredients, tossing to coat. Add sugar, mix well. Place in a baking dish. Blend remaining ingredients and spoon over fruit. Bake, uncovered, for 45 minutes at 350 degrees F.

Enjoy!



By: Grandma Linda

About the Author:

Freeman

Having a controlled and balanced diet for any diabetic is a must have, but this doesn’t mean that you can not eat the foods you enjoy. Being diabetic does not mean that everything has to taste bland and boring, that breakfast, lunch and dinner are times of the day you can’t look forward to. It just means you may have to plan a little more and take more time in preparing the food.

Here are some great tasty and easy to make diabetic foods for anyone who is fed up of eating the same foods over and over again.

Do you love cookies? Why not make yourself some diabetic cookies?

Diabetic Cookies

1 1/4 c. water

1 1/4 c. shortening

2 c. seedless raisins

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

2 tsp. cinnamon

Boil all of the above for 3 minutes. Let cool. Beat in 2 eggs. Dissolve 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, 12 1/4 ground saccarin in 2 tablespoons water. Add to above mix and add 2 cups flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

If that’s not to your fancy then why not try making a diabetic cake for a special occasion or just because you want to!

Diabetic Cake

2 c. water

2 c. raisins

1 c. unsweetened applesauce

2 c. flour

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

2 tbsp. liquid sweetener

3/4 c. cooking oil

1 tsp. baking soda

1 1/4 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

Cook raisins in water until water is gone. Cool. Then add applesauce, eggs, sweetener and oil. Mix well. Blend in baking soda and flour. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. You may add walnuts, or artificially sweetened fruit cocktail may be used instead of raisins, if desired. Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes or more.



By: willyboy

About the Author:

Hayden