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Easy Christmas Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Bread Pudding With Hard Sauce
2 cups milk
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1/4 cup margarine
4 cups coarse bread crumbs (tear slices)
1/2 cup sugar
2 slightly beaten eggs
dash salt
dash vanilla
Heat the milk, chocolate and margarine in large saucepan until melted. Put bread in a large mixing bowl. Pour chocolate mixture over bread, add sugar, eggs, salt and vanilla, mix well. Pour into greased casserole dish. Place casserole into a pan with 1-inch hot water on rack in 350F oven. Bake 1 hour. Serve warm, topped with hard sauce.
Santa Claus Cake Dessert
5/8 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup sugar
3 cups flour
3 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup chopped nuts
1 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 cup maraschino cherries, quartered
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup maraschino cherry juice, PLUS"PLUS" means this ingredient in addition to the one on the next line, often with divided uses
2/3 cup milk
5 egg whites beaten
Stir shortening in bowl to soften. Sift all dry ingredients together 3 times and combine to shortening. Add extract and beat for 2 minutes Mix in cherries and nuts and fold in beaten whites last.
Grease and flour a Santa Claus cake mold or pan. Pour in batter and bake 370 F for one hour or tested done. Cool in pan 15 minutes and remove to platter.
When cool, decorate as desired. Note: this can also be baked in any other suitable pan to hold the batter.
Holiday Rice Pudding
Christmas Dessert
3 cups cooked rice
3 cups milk
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/2 cup dried cranberries
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combine rice, milk, sugar and butter in 2 to 3-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, for 20 minutes.
Add cranberries and lemon rind; cook 10 minutes.
Remove from heat; add vanilla.
Spoon into serving dishes.
White Fruit Cake
Dessert Recipe
2 pounds White Raisins, chopped
2 cups orange Juice
4 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1/4 teaspoon Baking powder
1/4 tablespoon Salt
1 pound Diced candied cherries
1 pound Diced candied pineapple
1/2 pound Diced candied citron
OR
1 pound mixed diced fruit
1/4 pound Diced candied lemon peel* (for citron, lemon, & orange)
1/4 pound Diced candied orange peel*
1 pound Pecans
2 cups Butter or Margarine
2 1/4 cups Sugar
9 medium eggs
1 Fresh coconut, grated
OR
10 ounces package coconut
Wash Raisins, chop and combine with 1 cup orange juice refrigerate overnight. Mix candied fruit and nuts with 1 1/2 cup flour. Sift remaining 3 cups of flour with baking powder and salt. Cream butter, add sugar beat well. Add one egg at a time, beating well after adding each egg. Gradually add dry ingredients beaten after addition. Add coconut, floured fruit and nuts, raisins and remaining orange juice. beating well.
Divide batter evenly in 2 well greased 9" or 10" tube pans. Bake at 250 degrees about 2 1/2 hours, or until done. Cool for 30 min. and remove from pans. Cool completely soak with a cup or two of whisky and wrap in aluminum foil. Store in airtight container in a cool place or in the freezer.
Fruit Cruffin Dessert
1 unbaked pie shell
1 package of blueberry muffin mix
1 can of cherry pie filling
2 tbsp powdered sugar
Spray a large metal cake pan or tart pan with non-stick cooking spray. Line the pan with the pie shell; prick pastry. Mix the muffin mix according to package directions; spoon muffin mix over the crust. Spoon the fruit filling over the muffin mix. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the top. Bake at 375 about 30 minutes or until muffin mix is done.
This dessert is easy to make - it uses packaged muffin mix, prepared and spread in a pastry-lined pan, and topped with cherry pie filling before baking.
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