Recipes For Christmas Desserts - Get Some Easy to Make Desserts

Desserts are all the time great to have after a meal. But most people think they are hard to prepare, whilst sweetmeat recipes are quite easy to make.

I've listed below 4 sweetmeat recipes you can try at home today.

Food And Dessert

1. "Brown Bag" French Apple Pie

Ingredients:

For the pie

- 1 1/2 c All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1/2 c Shortening
- 5 tb Ice Water
- 8 c Apples [peeled & sliced]
- 1/4 c Granulated Sugar
- 2 tb All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 ts Nutmeg, Ground
- 2 tb Lemon Juice
- 1 ts Cinnamon, Ground

For the topping

- 1/2 c Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 c All-Purpose Flour
- 1/3 c Butter
- 1 lg Paper Bag
- Vanilla Ice Cream

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

To make the pie:

- combine the first measure of flour, salt and shortening using a pastry blender until the mixture resembles tasteless crumbs, then stir in the water a microscopic at a time, using a fork, and form the dough into a ball.

- Roll out the pastry dough on a lightly floured board. Roll to an 11" or 12" diameter and fit into a 9" pie pan fluting the edges.

- combine the sugar, the second measure of flour, the cinnamon, the nutmeg and the lemon juice in a large bowl then toss the apple slices in the mixture and arrange them in the pie crust.

To make the topping:

- combine the sugar and flour in a bowl and cut in the butter using a pastry cutter then sprinkle the topping over the apple filling.

- Place the pie in the large paper bag and place the paper bag on a baking sheet and loosely fold the open end of the bag under. Bake until the apples are tender (50-60 minutes).

- determined remove the pie from the bag. Caution: Watch Out For The Steam advent Out Of The Bag!

- Serve warm with generous portions of vanilla ice cream.

2. 1,000 Calorie-A-Bite Trifle

Ingredients:

Fruit
- 3 Pears
- 8 oz Raspberries - (tinned or fresh)
- 1 Passion fruit
- Dry sherry (1 bottle)

Sponge Cake
- 1/2 c Butter
- 10 T Sugar, castor
- 1 1/4 c Flour, self-raising
- 2 Eggs (slightly whisked)

Custard
- 2 Eggs
- 1 pn Salt
- 1 pn Nutmeg
- 10 oz duplicate cream (or use whipping cream)

Topping
- 10 oz duplicate cream
- Roast almonds

Directions:

Peel and slice pears, drain raspberries if tinned, and scoop out passion fruit. Place fruit in large trifle bowl and add an ample quantity of sherry. Leave for twenty-four hours to soak in the refrigerator.

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and about 2 T of flour and beat.
- Fold in rest of flour.
- Bake in 7-inch quadrate tin for 25-30 mins until brown.
- Let cool.
- Slice into fingers and arrange on top of fruit. More sherry may be added at this point.
- Pour one large glass of sherry.
- Mix eggs and add all ingredients to small bowl.
- Place bowl in pan of simmering water.
- Stir continuously with wooden spoon, sipping sherry, until custard thickens. This takes about ten minutes.
- Pour custard on top of sponge.
- Chill in fridge.
- Whip cream until stiff and smooth over top of custard.
- arrange almonds decoratively.

3. Mom Ebert's Angel Pie

Ingredients:

- 1 c Crushed pineapple
- 1 c Cold water
- 3/4 c Sugar
- 2 1/2 T Cornstarch

Directions:

- Mix above ingredients and cook until thick; cool, beat 3 egg whites until stiff and fold two together.
- Pour into baked pie shell, top with whipped cream.

One of Grandma's recipes we all enjoyed.

4. Watergate Pie

Ingredients:

- 1 c Flour
- 1 Cube soft margarine
- 1 1/2 c Chopped walnuts
- 8 oz Softened cream cheese
- 1 c Powdered sugar
- 16 oz holder Cool Whip
- 2 sm Pkgs. Instant pistachio
- Pudding or any flavor desired

Directions:

There are 4 layers to this recipe. Use an 8 x 12 inch baking dish.

1st Layer:
- Mix together the following ingredients: 1 cup flour, 1 cube soft

margarine and 1 cup walnuts.
- Press in lowest of dish to make crust.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Cool completely.

2nd Layer:
- Cream cheese, powdered sugar and 1 cup Cool Whip.
Mix together and spread over the crust.

3rd Layer:
Mix pistachio instant pudding mix with 3 cups of milk and spread over 2nd layer.

4th layer:
Spread remaining Cool Whip on top and sprinkle with fine chopped nuts.

12 servings.

Recipes For Christmas Desserts - Get Some Easy to Make Desserts