July 2, 2014
Spaghetti Ice Cream
Florence
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 10 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- 2 cups vanilla ice cream
- 1/2 cup strawberry topping
- 8 whole strawberries
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April 18, 2014
Heath Bar Pie
Florence
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- 1 package crushed chocolate wafers
- 1 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 1 pint softened chocolate ice cream
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
- 1 pint softened vanilla ice cream
- 3 chopped health bars
- **HOT FUDGE SAUCE**
- 2 cups semi sweet choc. chips
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1/3 cup corn starch
In a medium bowl, mix together cookies, melted butter and extract of your choice.
Use mixed to press in to a buttered pie pan to make a crust.
Preheat oven to 350°F
Bake crust for 7 minutes
Let cool, placing in freezer for approximately 20 minutes.
Remove from freezer and spread chocolate ice cream over bottom of crust.
Sprinkle peanut butter chips evenly on top of the ice cream.
Freeze for 20 minutes or until firm.
Remove from freezer and spread vanilla ice cream over top.
Sprinkle chopped Heath bars on top.
Store in freezer.
Serve with Hot Fudge Sauce.
**HOT FUDGE SAUCE**
Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler
Add whipping cream and corn starch
Mix together
Server on top of pie.
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April 3, 2014
Peppermint Angel Cake
Florence
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- 1 15 oz Pkg Angel Food Cake Mix
- 1/3 Cup chocolate mint cookies crushed
- 3/4 Cup chopped pecans
- 3 pints Peppermint ice cream slightly soft
- Aluminum foil
- Freezer wrap
Mix the cake batter together as directed on the package.
Pour the batter into an un-greased 10 in tube pan.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Bake cake on the lowest oven shelf for 35 minutes.
Top should spring back when touched when cake is done.
Invert pan right away.
Allow cake to cool for about 1 hour.
Remove cake and cut lengthwise into three sections.
Place the ice cream into a large mixing bowl.
Add the cookies and pecans.
Mix together well.
Place the ice cream mixture back in the freezer for about 5 minutes.
Place one section of the cake on a piece of aluminum foil large enough to cover the entire cake when completed.
Remove ice cream and spread 1/3 of the mixture over the top of the cake.
Add another section of cake.
Spread another 1/3 of the ice cream mixture.
Place the last section of cake on top.
Finish with the rest of the ice cream.
Cover tightly with the aluminum foil.
Place in freezer for 2 hours.
Remove from freezer and wrap in the freezer wrap if not serving immediately.
Cake can be stored in the freezer for up to 1 month.
To serve, remove from freezer.
Unwrap and allow to set for about 10 minutes.
Slice and serve.
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March 18, 2014
Devilish Mocha Pie
Florence
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- 2/3 Cup butter flavored syrup
- 2 1/2 Cup toasted rice cereal
- 1 pint chocolate ice cream
- 1 pint mocha or coffee flavored ice cream
- 1/3 Cup chopped pecans
- 1 C whipped topping
- Aluminum foil
Place a small sauce pan over medium heat.
Add the syrup and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to low and simmer 2 minutes being sure to stir often.
Place the cereal in a large bowl.
Pour the syrup over the cereal.
Mix together with a rubber spatula being sure cereal is completely covered.
Very lightly butter a 9 in pie plate.
Press cereal mixture into bottom and up the sides of the pie plate.
Freeze 30 minutes.
Place chocolate ice cream in the refrigerator to soften so it will be easier to spread.
Remove the cereal crust from the freezer.
Spread the chocolate ice cream over the cereal crust.
Return to freezer until ice cream becomes firm again.
Soften the mocha or coffee ice cream.
Add the pecans and stir together well.
Spread over the chocolate ice cream in the pie.
Return to the freezer until firm.
Remove and wrap tightly in freezer wrap until ready to serve.
Before serving, top with the whip topping.
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March 17, 2014
What a great way to cool off on a hot summer day. Colorful and yummy so the kids will love them.
Frozen Easter Eggs
Florence
- 3 pt soft vanilla ice cream
- 1 C mixed candied fruit
- 1/4 C light rum
- 1 C heavy cream
- 2 T sugar
- Pastel food coloring
- Plastic mold such as a melon egg or ice cube tray
- Freezer wrap
Place the ice cream in a large mixing bowl.
Add the candied fruit and rum.
Mix together well - working quickly so the ice cream doesn't melt.
Place the ice cream mixture into the mold.
Place in freezer and freeze until firm, a few hours or even overnight.
Place a serving platter in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
Un-mold ice cream and place on the chilled platter.
Place back in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
Place the heavy cream and sugar into a mixing bowl.
Mix until stiff.
Remove ice cream and frost each egg with part of the cream mixture.
Return ice cream to the freezer.
Divide the remaining cream mixture into as many bowls as you would like colors for the eggs.
Tint each cream mixture with a different color of the food coloring.
Remove ice cream from the freezer.
Use a pastry bag or baggie with one corner cut out to pipe the colored cream mixture onto each egg.
Return to the freezer and freeze until firm.
Once firm remove and wrap each egg in the freezer wrap.
Maybe stored in the freezer for up to 1 month.
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February 24, 2014
Strawberry Surprise Freezer Jam
Florence
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
- 1 pint boxes of fresh strawberries washed, drained and hulls removed
- 2 1/2 Cups of fresh pineapple peeled and finely chopped
- 7 Cups sugar
- 2 packages 1 3/4 oz powdered pectin
- 1 Cups cold water
- 4 pint freezer containers with lids
Place strawberries in a large mixing bowl.
Use a potato masher to crush the strawberries.
Measure out 2 1/2 Cups strawberries and place in a separate bowl and add pineapple to strawberries.
Add in sugar slowly and combined completely.
Place the cold water in a saucepan over medium heat and add pectic and bring to boil for 1 minute.
Remove from heat.
Pour the water mixture into with the fruit.
Stir well to combine.
Continue stirring 4 minutes.
Pour into the pt freezer containers and cover.
Let stand at room temperature for 24 hours.
Freeze after 24 hours.
Jam will stay good in the freezer for up to 6 months.
To use, remove from freezer and allow to come to room temperature, about 1 hour.
Cover and refrigerate for up to 3 weeks.
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January 11, 2010
Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
Florence
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 12 minutes mins
Total Time 22 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- 1 Cup Sugar or 1 1/3 Cups Splenda
- 1 Cup Peanut Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
Preheat oven to 350°F
Mix all ingredients together.
Roll in to balls.
Roll balls in sugar.
Place on cookie sheet and make criss cross pattern on cookie with fork.
Cook for 10 to 12 minutes.
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