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12-17-2009, 04:34 PM | #1 |
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Best desert gift? (oops - deSSert!)
For some extended family members I found some second-hand christmas tins and want to fill it with some dessert-type food. I want it to be fairly simple but better than just choclate chip cookies.
I was thinking fudge or cake balls. So which would you prefer to get? And if I do cake balls - what flavor/recipe?
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12-17-2009, 04:43 PM | #2 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
I've never actually had cakeballs but I would think I would prefer those. How fun!
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12-17-2009, 05:58 PM | #3 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
Fudge is nice, but cakeballs can look really pretty. Although, it's more labor intensive.
You could do chocolate fudge with smashed up candy canes on top, or with a whole nut, or oreo fudge with chopped oreos on top. |
12-17-2009, 05:59 PM | #4 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
I'd do cake balls. You could probably choose your combo based on what you have in your kitchen. That is what I did. I used mint extract & chocolate syrup (the drinking kind).
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12-17-2009, 06:09 PM | #5 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
I'd do buckeyes (sorry, I know that wasn't an option )
cakeballs get my vote then. |
12-17-2009, 06:11 PM | #6 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
whichever is the least labor intensive, I hate baking.
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12-17-2009, 06:43 PM | #7 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
what on earth are buckeyes?
And cakeballs didn't seem so bad. My mom did german chocolate ones and she simply baked a chocolate cake, crumbbled it up, and added the coconout stuff
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12-17-2009, 06:49 PM | #8 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
that's still about two or three steps too many for me
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12-17-2009, 06:50 PM | #9 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
The cake part is pretty fast, I find the dipping in chocolate after part a bit long.
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12-17-2009, 06:57 PM | #10 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
eh I was going to dunk and not do but one color
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12-17-2009, 07:01 PM | #11 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
The key is not to dip all at once. I have a bunch frozen in my freezer & have just pulled them out and dipped when I've needed them. It is a lot more manageable then.
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12-17-2009, 07:01 PM | #12 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
oh, and I generally get about 55 balls from one cake mix. In my house, it's way easier to get a whole batch of fudge out the door than it is to not eat cake balls
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12-17-2009, 07:05 PM | #13 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
I think cake balls would be fun but I've never personally had them.
I'm doing peppermint patties, Martha Washingtons (pretty much like home made Mounds), and Buckeyes (pretty much like Reese's cups but better) for my candy gifts this year.
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12-17-2009, 07:21 PM | #14 |
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Re: Best desert gift?
buckeyes are super easy. peanut butter, butter & powdered sugar rolled into balls, then you dip the balls in chocolate. Tastes SO much better than a Reeses.
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Re: Best desert gift?
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ETA: I just realized I worte DESERT recipe. Anyone for cactus juice.
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