A simple and delicious dessert. Quick desserts for tea: the best recipes

28.12.2021

Sometimes, after breakfast or lunch, you want something tasty, sweet, to pamper yourself or your family. Purchased cookies and sweets do not cause any interest, they become boring over time, and there is no desire to bake pies for half a day. The problem is solved simply: you can cook delicate homemade desserts, spending very little time on it. Treats at home will turn out to be very tasty, sweet, airy, and little food is spent on them.

There are many recipes for how to make quick desserts at home. Housewives use fresh or frozen berries, cottage cheese, cream, chocolate, juices. You can bake a casserole, cake, make a cocktail, fruit salad very quickly. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment in the kitchen in order to surprise your family with a delicious treat.

Recipes for fruit and berry desserts

Delicious desserts are made from fresh berries, chopped fruits. They are not only sweet, tender, but also very useful. It is especially easy to make them in the summer when the crop is ripe. It takes only 10-15 minutes to prepare such treats. Usually, cream, ice cream, sour cream are added to berries or pieces of oranges, apples, kiwi.

Fruit desserts are easy to make in the form of a salad by cutting apples, kiwi, pear, banana into pieces and mixing with yogurt or sour cream. It is better to transfer such a salad into a vase on a leg, a glass, cool it on a refrigerator shelf before serving. If you want something original, interesting, you should show imagination.

For example, here are a couple of delicious treats with cream and ice cream:

You will need:

a glass of freshly washed strawberries;
cream can;
a handful of chopped nuts for sprinkling.

Cooking:

On dessert saucers or slices of a loaf, squeeze a little cream with a spiral, put the berries on top.
Repeat the procedure again, put a large strawberry on top.
Sprinkle the treat with ground nuts, you can take peanuts, walnuts.

Hints:

Instead of strawberries, you can use raspberries, blackberries, banana slices, kiwi.
In winter, fresh berries are easy to replace with canned or jam.
Pieces of a loaf can first be fried in a toaster and cooled, so it will be even tastier.

You will need:

a glass of red or black currant, you can pour mixed berries;
a glass of raspberries or blackberries, strawberries are also suitable;
a glass of soft cottage cheese;
a glass of heavy cream;
4 tablespoons of sugar;
a spoonful of honey

Cooking:

Grind most of the berries with a blender, mix with sugar.
Beat cream with a mixer or blender until foamy, add cottage cheese, mix again.
Lubricate any mold or dish with liquid honey, lay out curd cream and berry puree in layers, mix with a spoon to get a beautiful pattern.
Sprinkle the remaining whole berries on top, put in the freezer.

Hints:

You can replace fresh berries by taking thick jam. In this case, we do not add sand, ice cream will turn out sweet anyway.
If desired, you can sprinkle ice cream with chopped nuts, add vanillin to the cream.

Dessert recipes for tea

You can prepare desserts according to simple recipes using cookies or ready-made biscuits. In these cases, it is enough to prepare a cream from butter, cream or berries. Some housewives even manage to bake cupcakes in the microwave, impressing the household with the speed of their preparation and delicate taste. It takes a little time for such baking products, too.

You will need:

4 tablespoons of flour, sugar, milk;
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder, vegetable oil;
egg;
cream and strawberries, cherries for decoration;
soda and vanillin on the tip of a teaspoon.

Cooking:

Mix all ingredients with a fork.
Lubricate the silicone mold with oil so that the dough does not stick, pour the mixture into it.
We put in the microwave at maximum temperature, cook for 3 minutes.
We take out, take out, cut in half lengthwise.
Squeeze cream in the middle and on top, put a strawberry or cherry.

Hints:

If there are no molds, you can bake this cake in any cup, wide mug, bowl.
For decoration, you can use sour cream, grated chocolate, vanilla sugar or powder instead of cream.

You will need:

packaging of ready-made biscuit cakes, plain or chocolate;
a pack of butter and a jar of condensed milk for cream, a bar of chocolate;
candied fruits or nuts to decorate the cake.

Cooking:

First we make cream. Beat softened butter and condensed milk with a mixer in a dense mass, cool.
Then you need to melt the chocolate.
We take out the cakes from the package, there are usually 3 of them. Lubricate each cream, then chocolate, put on top of each other.
Put the remaining cream on top, coat the sides with liquid chocolate.
We decorate the cake with candied fruits or chopped nut crumbs.

Hints:

You can decorate the cake with pieces of fruit, berries, instead of chocolate, take thick orange or strawberry jam.
To make the cake look prettier, the cream must be squeezed out through a pastry syringe, bag.

In the summer, in the heat, cool cocktails will be an excellent cooling drink at home. Such desserts will appeal to children and many adults. The base is usually ice cream, cream, yogurt or milk. Various flavors are achieved through fruits and berries.

Here are some quick easy homemade cocktail recipes:

Banana coctail

a glass of cold milk;
banana;
a spoonful of sugar;
2 tablespoons soft cottage cheese.

We mix everything with a blender, pre-cut the banana into pieces. Pour into a tall glass, drink through a straw.

Strawberry cocktail

a glass of creamy ice cream;
a glass of milk;
a glass of strawberries.

We mix everything with a blender, pour into glasses, decorate with berries and an ice cube on top.

Yogurt and fruit cocktail

a glass of milk;
a glass of fruit yogurt;
4 spoons of ice cream;
a handful of any berries: strawberries, raspberries;
banana;
kiwi.

Banana and kiwi cut into pieces, then mix all the products with a blender. Pour into a glass, decorate the edge with a circle of kiwi, a berry.

Hints:

You can buy ice cream of any taste, even chocolate.
It is recommended to decorate cocktails with fruit slices, berries, sprinkle with grated chocolate, coconut flakes.

Dessert Ideas for Kids

Children's desserts should have a sweet taste, beautiful design. You should use various types of ice cream, cream, ripe berries, chocolate for their preparation.

Here are a couple of easy desserts for kids:

You will need:

milk chocolate bar;
ripe large strawberries.

Cooking:

First you need to break the chocolate into pieces, melt in the microwave.
Then you should dip each berry halfway into chocolate, hold it so that the excess drains.
Now you can put it on a plate, wait for it to harden.

Hints:

For convenience, you can plant each berry on a toothpick so as not to get your fingers dirty.
Instead of milk chocolate, you can melt white chocolate, then roll the berries in coconut flakes.

You will need:

200 grams of ice cream, any will do;
half a glass of different berries;
a plate of fruit;
jam.

Cooking:

We put ice cream from a large box into vases in portions.
Pour over any jam, jam.
Decorate with pieces of fruit, fresh berries.

Hints:

Instead of fresh, you can take fruits from compotes.
It is better to spread ice cream with a hot spoon, so it can be shaped into a ball, an oval.

All these dessert recipes are very simple, easy to prepare, take little time. Neither children nor adults will refuse such a treat. You can make them very quickly when there is nothing for dessert or unexpected guests should arrive. Each treat is prepared no more than 15 minutes, and the taste is sweet, tender, delicious.

Dessert is not the main part of the meal, but it is necessary. It is the sweet dish served at the end of the meal that completes the lunch or dinner, gives the feeling of a small holiday. Therefore, do not deprive yourself and your loved ones of a sweet surprise, especially since it is always awaited with great impatience. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to prepare labor-intensive and high-calorie cakes. Light fruit desserts and all kinds of creams are a great alternative for every day.

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Not all delicious dishes are prepared for a long time. This is especially true for desserts. After all, we often prepare them for unexpectedly arriving guests. In this article we will tell you how to cook desserts tasty and fast.

Dessert is a sweet dish for tea or coffee. In our country, the most popular cold dessert is the Bird's Milk cake. But, for its preparation at home, you will have to spend a lot of time. But everyone can make simple desserts. It doesn't take much time for this.

SIMPLE TIRAMISU

It only takes 10 minutes to prepare this dessert.

If your guests did not warn you about their visit, and you found out about it when they were already on your doorstep, then try making tiramisu for them. The main thing is that you have all the necessary ingredients.

Brew strong coffee (1/2 cup) and put Mascarpone cheese (250 g) in a deep bowl
Sift powdered sugar (4 tablespoons) through a sieve and add it to a bowl of cheese
Separately, with a mixer or a whisk, whip the cream (150 ml) to soft peaks
Add whipped cream to bowl with Mascarpone and powdered sugar
Add wine (you can coffee liqueur) (4 tablespoons) and vanilla extract (1 teaspoon) to a bowl with cream and cheese
Gently mix the mass with a spatula from top to bottom
Break cookies into large pieces and dip in coffee
Make sure that the pieces of the biscuit are not completely soaked.
Arrange cookies in martini glasses or other dessert glasses
Spread buttercream on top
Top with grated chocolate (40 g) and serve

ADVICE. Ladyfingers are the best for this recipe. Alternatively, you can use leftover biscuits. When dipping cookies in coffee, you need to ensure that the drink soaks only the outer part of the cookie, and the inner part should remain dry at this moment and only then be soaked.

TANDARINE CHEESECAKE

This dessert takes 15 minutes to prepare. In addition, he needs a little more time to cool down. Cheesecakes were very popular in Europe at the end of the last century, but even today you cannot imagine more than one cafe without them.

Drain the syrup from canned tangerines (500 g) and put them on a napkin

You can also use fresh tangerines for this recipe. The main thing is to remove the white films from them, which contain the delicious pulp of these citrus fruits.

Making a crust:

Grease a detachable form (20 cm) with butter
Grind biscuit cookies with a blender (175 g)
Melt the butter (75 g) in a saucepan and remove it from the stove
Pour crushed biscuits into hot oil and mix until smooth.
Pour the mixture into the mold and press
Putting the cake in the fridge

Preparing the stuffing:

Mix vanilla sugar (1 sachet) with cream cheese (400 g)
Thoroughly wash the orange and remove the zest with a grater
Add zest to cream cheese
Whip cream (300 g) with a mixer until soft peaks
Sift the powdered sugar (100 g) and add it to the bowl with the cheese mass
Mix cream cheese with powdered sugar first until smooth.
We combine the cheese mass with cream and mix so that the cream does not sit down

Preparing the cheesecake:

We take out the form with the cake from the refrigerator and put the creamy mass into it
Evenly level and ram
Spread tangerines on top and place the cheesecake in the refrigerator
This dessert is served at the table cut into portions.

ADVICE. Vanilla gives this dessert a spicy flavor. If you don’t have vanilla sugar, you can add vanillin to regular sugar and mix. You can also use vanilla essence for this purpose.

COFFEE PARFAIT

This cold dessert came to us from French cuisine.

It is prepared quickly, but in order for the parfait to reach, it takes time. Therefore, cook it in the evening and in the morning it will reach the condition.

Separate the yolks (8 pcs.) From the proteins (eggs must be taken immediately from the refrigerator so that the yolks are chilled)
Pour chilled white wine (200 ml) into egg yolks and add sugar (175 g)
We heat water in a large saucepan and put our bowl in it.
While the mass is heated, it must be constantly stirred (about 4-5 minutes)
When the mixture increases by 25% -30% and thickens, it needs to be cooled.
We put the bowl in the refrigerator and add red ground pepper (a pinch) and the juice of half a lemon
Separately, whip cream (200 ml) to soft peaks
Add the chilled yolk mixture to them and mix gently.
Add strong coffee (65 ml) to the creamy substance and mix until smooth
Pour the parfait into molds and leave to cool in the refrigerator
From above, this dessert can be decorated with ground cookies, dry cocoa, caramel or even condensed milk.

ADVICE. Instead of making a coffee dessert, you can make a honey or berry parfait. To do this, at the stage of adding coffee, you can change the recipe. In addition to these ingredients, popular “fillings” for parfait are liquid chocolate, jam, orange or lemon zest.

Quick preparation of delicious hot homemade desserts

Initially, hot desserts were served after the main course. But, today, many of them have themselves become main dishes. Below we will talk about the simplest hot desserts. One that you can cook very quickly.

FRIED BANANA

You can cook fried bananas in a few minutes. Nothing to put on the table in front of friends who suddenly appeared? Try this original dessert.

Peel bananas (3 pcs.) From the peel and cut them lengthwise into 2 halves
Then cut each half into two more pieces.
Melt the butter (1.5 tablespoons) in a pan and spread the bananas
Fry them in boiling oil for about 2 minutes, then turn over and fry on the second side
Put bananas on plates and decorate with fresh berries, grated chocolate or ice cream

ADVICE. For this dessert, it is best to take hard or even slightly green bananas. They need to be fried in hot oil. Due to this, the sugar on the surface of the bananas caramelizes, but the bananas themselves do not get very hot.

CARAMEL APPLES

We continue the theme of fried fruits, started in the previous recipe.

This time we will fry apples. This dessert is delicious not only hot, but also cold. And it only takes 15 minutes to prepare.

We wash apples (3 pcs.) Under running water and dry them thoroughly with a towel
Cut the core of apples with a knife
This should be done carefully, if possible without cutting through the apples.
Mix sugar (1 tablespoon) and cinnamon
Mix and fall asleep in each apple equally
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees and put a baking sheet with apples in it
Pour a little water into a baking sheet and bake the apples for 5-7 minutes
Melt the butter (2 tablespoons) and add sugar to it (2 tablespoons)
Cook the caramel over medium heat, stirring constantly.
When the sugar begins to brown, remove the pan from the heat and pour over the apples with caramel.
Leave the apples to cool and sprinkle them on top with crushed nuts, Easter powder or grated chocolate

ADVICE. You can also use the microwave to prepare this recipe. To do this, turn on the "grill" mode and bake apples for 5 minutes.

Delicious Strawberry Dessert: A Quick Recipe

Strawberries are the summer berry in our country. There are thousands of recipes using this berry. But, you can cook from strawberries not only in summer, but also in winter. It is enough just to freeze this berry and use it as needed, even when the price for it in stores “bites”.

In this delicious dessert, all the ingredients need to be taken by eye. Mix them to taste and prepare your own strawberry dessert that will delight not only your children, but also guests who come in for a cup of coffee.

Crumble the cookies with your hands to medium crumbs.
Add condensed milk to it and stir.
Beat sour cream and cream into a fluffy homogeneous mass
Cut strawberries into several pieces
We put the dessert in layers in wide glasses.
First a mixture of cookies and condensed milk, then sour cream and cream, and then strawberries
You need to repeat laying out the layers in this dessert twice.

ADVICE. This dessert is best eaten chilled. To do this, after cooking, put it in the refrigerator. It is best to decorate this strawberry dessert with mint leaves and a little syrup.

Simple cottage cheese dessert: recipe

Curd desserts are not only tasty, but also healthy delicacies.

Cottage cheese is especially important in the diet of a child. If your child does not like this product, then often prepare desserts with cottage cheese for him. He definitely won't give up on them.

Cottage cheese is also good because it goes very well with berries, fruits and other healthy foods. In this recipe, we will use boiled (1 tablespoon) and regular condensed milk (1 tablespoon), as well as chocolate. Which will make your child love it even more.

CHEESE WITH condensed milk IN CHOCOLATE

Mix cottage cheese (250 g), powdered sugar (2 tablespoons), vanilla (a pinch) and melted butter (35 g) in a bowl

You can mix with your hands, but in order to achieve greater uniformity and lightness of the curd mass, it is best to use a blender

Melt dark chocolate (100 g) in a water bath
We put a small amount of cottage cheese on a silicone mat and form a cake out of it.
We make a partition of cottage cheese in it
We spread on one side the usual condensed milk, and on the second - boiled
We turn the edges of the curd cake so that the filler remains inside
We form curds in this way from all cottage cheese
Drizzle with melted chocolate and place on baking paper
Place cheesecakes in the freezer for one hour

Easy no-bake cookie dessert recipes

Cookies are an ingredient in most desserts. Crushed cookies and pressed into a cake are the basis of a cheesecake or other dishes from curd-creamy mass. But, in this article we will not talk about cheesecakes that can be ordered in every cafe, but about those desserts that can be prepared at home in a matter of minutes.

COTTAGE CHEESE AND SOUR CREAM DESSERT WITH NUTS

We mix soft cottage cheese (200 g), sugar (2 tablespoons) and sour cream (150 g) in a blender until smooth
Grind walnuts (50 g) into small pieces
Add chopped nuts (25 g) to the curd mass and mix
Sprinkle the rest of the nuts on top of the dessert.
Grind cookies (50 g) and sprinkle on top

ADVICE. Anniversary cookies are best suited for this dessert. But, if it is not there, then you can use another similar cookie.

TRIFLE WITH RASPBERRY

Is it possible to prepare a dessert in 5-7 minutes?

It is possible if it is the famous dessert trifle with raspberries that came to our sweet tables from British cuisine.

We wash the raisins (30 g) and fill it with warm water
After 2-3 minutes, drain the water and spread the raisins on a paper towel.
Grind cookies (100 g) with a blender into small crumbs
Slicing a banana into random pieces
In an elongated transparent glass, lay out layers of raisins, banana and cookies
Pour sour cream (150 g) on top and pour raspberries (2 teaspoons)

ADVICE. In principle, this dessert can be made from everything that is in the refrigerator. No raspberries, take any fruit jam or jam. Bananas can be replaced with soft cottage cheese or sour cream.

TEA SAUSAGE

Another dessert that is hardly suitable for suddenly arriving guests. But, why not cook such a sweet sausage for your children.

Grind cookies (600 g) into small pieces
Mix cocoa (2 tablespoons) with sugar (1 cup)
Cut the butter (200 g) into small cubes and melt it in a saucepan
Add milk (1/2 cup) and sugar with cocoa to the melted butter
While heating the mass, stir it with a spoon
We are waiting for the sugar to melt. Can't bring to a boil
Mix the mass with crushed cookies and wrap the sausages in cling film
We cool the dessert in the refrigerator and cut it like a regular sausage before serving.

ADVICE. Instead of sugar, when preparing this dessert, you can use condensed milk. Cookies can be replaced with nuts.

Delicious Fruit Desserts: Raspberry Recipe

Raspberries in our country grow in every summer cottage

But, oddly enough, many people prefer to use such a berry in its pure raw form. Yes, this way you can get more nutrients. But, sometimes you want to treat yourself to something special.

SWEET RASPBERRY SOUP

Cut white bread into cubes (3-4 slices) and dry it in the oven
We spread the bread on plates, add raspberries (1 cup) and sprinkle it with sugar
Pour chilled milk (2 cups) into bowls and mix

RASPBERRY PUDDING WITH FRUIT

Cut peaches (3 pcs.) into small pieces and put them in a bowl
Pour berry liqueur to them (2 tablespoons)
Yolks (4 pcs.) We rub with sugar (50 g) and pour liquor into the mass (1 tbsp. Spoon)
We heat the mass in a water bath until it becomes warm
Put chopped and mixed with liqueur peaches in a baking dish and sprinkle them with raspberries
Fill the mold with yolk mass and bake for 2-3 minutes in the oven
This dessert should be served hot.

ADVICE. In this dessert, berry liqueur can be replaced with canned cherry syrup. And peaches are nectarines.

Delicious Fruit Desserts: Apple Recipe

Apples, as well as raspberries, are a frequent guest of various desserts. At the beginning of this article, we already talked about caramelized apples. But, you can combine the taste of apples not only with sugar and caramel, but also with other ingredients. For example, chocolate.

APPLE WITH A SURPRISE

An excellent and bright dessert that your children will appreciate

Try it. You will not regret it.

Melt sugar (200 g) in a deep frying pan
Add water (4 tablespoons) and cook something in between sugar syrup and caramel
Melt the crushed dark chocolate bar in a water bath
We clean the apples from the core and put on a fork and dip in caramel
When the caramel drains, place the apple on a saucer
Drizzle with melted chocolate and sprinkle with crushed almonds and Easter powder
When the dessert has cooled down, it can be given to the child.

APPLE AND PUMPKIN DUO

This dessert will not only appeal to gourmets, which are your children, but will also be very useful for their body.

Cut apples (4 pcs.) into small slices and simmer them in butter for 5 minutes
Add honey and cinnamon to apples
Cut pumpkin pulp (400 g) into cubes and also add to apples
Simmer until pumpkin is soft
Let the mixture cool and put it in a blender.
Add natural yogurt (200 ml) there and beat
Dissolve gelatin (10 g) in water (2 tablespoons) and add to the mass
You can add a little more honey if you like.
Shake the soufflé and pour into creamers

ADVICE. You can decorate this dessert with whipped sour cream, berries and pieces of fruit.

Delicious Fruit Desserts: Banana Recipe

Bananas are a common ingredient in various desserts. The natural softness of these fruits allows them to be used without heat treatment. Although they can be fried. What you could see if you read the corresponding recipe in the first part of this article.

SALAD WITH BANANA AND GOSEBERRIES

Bananas are often used to make fruit salads. But, below we present a completely original combination of such a salad. Have you ever tried gooseberry bananas?

Peel bananas and cut into strips
We wash the gooseberries and clean it from the stalks and other debris
Mix bananas with gooseberries and sprinkle them with sugar
Pour with liqueur and put in the refrigerator for 10 minutes
Before serving, add yogurt to the table and mix
Garnish this salad with fresh mint.

ADVICE. Take all the ingredients to taste. Change their number and achieve the perfect combination.

BANANAS IN CHOCOLATE

Peel bananas (4 pcs.) From the skin and bake for 6-8 minutes on a baking sheet in the oven at a temperature of 220 degrees
Grind walnuts (1 tablespoon) and dry them in the oven
Melt chocolate in a water bath (1 bar)
When the chocolate mass becomes liquid and homogeneous, add milk to it (1/2 cup)
Take the bananas out of the oven, cut them up and pour over the melted chocolate.
Sprinkle nuts and confectionery powder on top of chocolate.
We stick wooden skewers into bananas and serve to the table.

ADVICE. Try to prepare such a dessert for a children's party or other holiday. Your children will be very happy with such fornication.

Easy Chocolate Dessert Recipes

Chocolate is exactly the product that can cheer you up. This property of chocolate can and should be used in the preparation of desserts. After all, desserts are very often used during holidays, meetings with friends and other gatherings that abound with positive emotions. We have already told in this article about several recipes in which chocolate was one of the ingredients. But, we don't stop there.

DELICIOUS LIQUID CHOCOLATE

Pour milk (1/2 cup) into a saucepan and add grated chocolate (2 tablespoons), nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and sugar
We put the pan with milk and chocolate in the oven
We bring the chocolate to full melting and pour more milk into the pan (1 1/2 cups)
Leave the pot in the oven for a few more minutes.
Pour hot chocolate into cups and serve

TIP: Instead of the oven, you can melt the chocolate on the stovetop. The main thing is not to forget to stir constantly.

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Chop chocolate (150 g) and put in a bowl
Melt it in a water bath
When the chocolate becomes liquid, add butter (200 g), diced
The oil must be added gradually, stirring the mass continuously.
Beat egg yolks (5 pcs.) And add to the chocolate mass
Stir until smooth and remove from the water bath.
Proteins (5 pcs.) Whip separately into a strong foam and combine them with chocolate mass
Pour the mousse into serving cups and place in the refrigerator.
Chocolate mousse can be topped with whipped cream and nuts before serving.

ALMOND BROWNE FESTIVE

Brownie is a delicious dessert that came to us from American cuisine.

This holiday baking dish is best made with almond flour. Today it can be bought in any major supermarket. But, if you have difficulty purchasing such flour, then you can cook it yourself by mixing ground almonds with regular flour.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and grease the form (20 cm) with oil
Put butter (70 g) in a bowl and pour sugar (1 cup)
Put the butter in the microwave and melt for 30 seconds
Remove butter from microwave, stir and let cool.
Add vanillin (2/3 tsp), cocoa powder (¾ cup) and chicken eggs (3 pcs) to the warm sugar-butter mixture.
Mix everything and add almond flour (1 ½ cups) pre-mixed with baking powder (1 teaspoon) to the mixture
Knead the dough and put it in a baking dish
Put in the oven for 35-40 minutes and bake

ADVICE. You can decorate such a dessert in the traditional style by drawing a "cobweb" with the help of icing.

The best kids desserts

Children's diet should consist of balanced wholesome food. Desserts are difficult to attribute to healthy food, however, children do not need to monitor calories and other dietary characteristics. Of course, you should not abuse sweet desserts. But, sometimes you can please your children with them.

DONATES

Donuts are bright American donuts that your children will love not only for their original appearance, but also for their unique taste.

Mix flour (250 g), sugar (125 g), vanillin (2 teaspoons) and salt (a pinch)
From the flour mass we make a slide and in the center of it - a recess
Pour milk (250 ml) into the recess, add butter and eggs
Knead the dough with a spoon and knead it with a mixer until smooth
Pour the pieces of chocolate (250 ml) into the dough and mix them into the dough with a spoon
You need to make donuts in a special kitchen appliance
Add the required amount of dough to the donut maker with a spoon
Bake until the sides of the donuts are golden (4-5 minutes).
Melt chocolate and mix with milk
Dip the cooled donuts in chocolate icing and place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.

ADVICE. Stir the dough from time to time, as the pieces of chocolate settle. After the donuts have been dipped in the glaze, they can be decorated with colored sprinkles.

SWEET CARROT SOFFLE

Carrots are an extremely healthy root vegetable for children.

And if your child does not like her, prepare this tender soufflé for him.

It will surely please your child.

Preheat the oven and grease a deep dish with butter
Carrots (1 kg) peeled and cut into cubes
We spread the carrot cubes in a saucepan, fill with water, bring to a boil and cook for 30-35 minutes
When the carrots become soft, drain the water and puree the mass
Add flour (1 ½ cups), brown sugar (1 cup), eggs (4 pcs.), soft butter (250 g), baking powder (2 tablespoons), salt (1/4 teaspoon) to the carrot puree and soda (1/4 teaspoon)
Whisk the ingredients (best done in a blender)
We spread the resulting mass into a mold and bake for about an hour

CHOCOLATE PASE WITH WALNUTS

Probably all children love Nutella chocolate spread. It is very expensive to constantly buy such sweets. And when buying such a paste in a store, you don’t always know what its manufacturers put there.

Rub eggs (2 pcs.) With sugar (3 cups)
Add flour (4 tablespoons), cocoa (2 tablespoons), grated walnuts (1 cup), vanillin (a pinch) and butter (1 teaspoon) to them
Knead the mass until smooth, and then pour in the milk.
Put on fire and cook, stirring until thickened.

ADVICE. Walnuts can be substituted for almonds in this recipe. To do this, it must first be crushed in a blender.

Quick delicious sour cream dessert

Sour cream is also a very popular ingredient in delicious desserts. It can be a great alternative to store-bought yogurt. Sour cream dessert can be included in the children's diet or enjoyed on its own.

BLUEBERRY DESSERT

Blueberries are not only delicious, but also very healthy berries. Anyone can make a blueberry dessert from sour cream.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
Mix butter (160 g), chicken egg and powdered sugar (70 g) using a mixer
Sift flour (220 g) and add baking powder to it (1 teaspoon)
Mix the ingredients and knead the dough
Lubricate the baking dish and lay out the walls with the prepared dough
Bake the dessert base in the oven for 10 minutes
Mix sour cream (260 g) and powdered sugar (150 g) and beat
Add the egg, vanillin (1 teaspoon) and beat the mass again
Add blueberries (450 g) to sour cream and spread the mass on the base
Put the dessert in the oven and bake for 30 minutes
Turn off the oven and let the cake rest

ADVICE. Instead of blueberries, other berries or fruits can be added to this dessert. For example, raspberries, peaches, pears, etc.

Summer Refreshing Desserts: Recipes

Many people associate summer not only with the bright sun, but with ice cream and other cold sweets.

Thanks to the large number of fruits and berries available in the summer, you can significantly expand your diet. And at the expense of a variety of desserts as well.

CREAMY BERRIES

This creamy berry dessert can be made in June. Delicate creamy base and strawberries will make this dessert a real delight for every gourmet.

Wash strawberries (2 cups) under running water and grind into puree with a blender
Whip 33% cream (2.5 cups) until foamy
Spread whipped cream (2 tablespoons) on the bottom of dessert molds
Crumble biscuit cookies (100 g) and sprinkle cream on them
Top with strawberry puree
We clean the red and black currants (1 cup each) from the stalks and pour over the strawberry puree
Top everything again with a layer of cream
Putting the dessert in the fridge
Decorate with whole strawberries before serving.

TARTLETS WITH PLUMS

When the plums are ripe and they become cheap due to the large offer, you can make plum tartlets. This dessert takes just minutes to prepare.

From the finished puff pastry (1/2 kg) we cut out circles and form plates from them (10 pcs.)
Grease the inside of the plate with honey
Cut ripe plums into 4 parts and remove the stone
Arrange plums on tartlets
Lubricate the plums with warmed oil, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar
Bake tartlets in the oven (15 minutes)
Remove the dessert from the oven and cool

Italian desserts: recipe

Italian cuisine has given the world many dessert recipes, many of which are considered famous today. Italian desserts are fireworks of taste and celebrations of pleasure. Airy Tiramisu, creamy-veiny Panna Cota, sweet Biscotti croutons, Panforte almond cake and other desserts that Italy has presented are today the standards of taste.

PANNA COTTA

Panna Cotta means "boiled cream" in Italian.

As you can understand, the basis of this dessert is cream. But, in order for them to keep their shape, gelatin is added to them. All other ingredients add flavor to this famous dessert.

Soak gelatin (3 g) in cool water
Pour milk (30 g) into a saucepan and add 33% cream (175 g)
Bring to a boil while stirring
Add vanilla (1 sachet) and sugar (35 g) and mix
Add the swollen gelatin, mix and remove the saucepan from the stove
When the mass has cooled, pour it into bowls
Only half of the containers need to be filled
Pour gelatin (3 g) with water
Grind currants, blueberries and raspberries (150 g) with sugar (35 g) and bring to a boil in a saucepan
Mix cream (175 g) and milk (30 g), season with gelatin and combine with berry mixture
We put several whole berries in half-filled bowls and pour the prepared mixture
Place in refrigerator until completely solidified

ADVICE. Cream can be replaced with sour cream or yogurt, and instead of vanilla, mint or lemon zest can be used in this recipe.

ORANGE AND CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI WITH CANDIED GINGER

This dessert in appearance resembles croutons and in translation means “baked twice”. Biscotti is often used as an appetizer for sweet wine and even coffee.

Using a grater, remove the zest from an orange
Chop into small pieces candied ginger (70 g) and bitter chocolate (50 g)
Grind butter (150 g) with sugar (200 g), add orange zest and eggs (3 pcs.)
Separately mix flour (400 g), baking powder (12 g) and cocoa powder (25 g)
Combine flour and egg mixture and stir until smooth
Add ginger and chocolate chips to the dough
We form long "sausages" from the dough and put them on a baking sheet.
Bake for 30 minutes at 175 degrees
When the cake is ready, take it out of the oven and let it cool down.
Cut the resulting bars into slices 10 mm thick
We send them to the oven and brown on both sides.

SABION WITH CHAMPAGNE AND DRUNK BERRIES

Sabayon is a sweet egg cream that forms the basis of several popular Italian desserts. They make delicious creams for cakes from it and are even sometimes added to Tiramisu. But, you can use Sabayon as a full-fledged and independent dessert.

Berry mix (200 g) of raspberries, blueberries and strawberries, pour sugar (1 teaspoon)
Mix sweet champagne (75 ml) with the juice of half a lemon
Pour the berries with this syrup, mix and send them to the refrigerator
We heat the bowl on a steam bath and pour sugar (85 g), yolks (4 pcs.) And the zest of half a lemon into it
Beat the mixture with a whisk and make sure that it does not boil
When the mass begins to lighten, add champagne to it (75 g)
Pour warm Sabayon into bowls and decorate with “drunk” berries
Serve immediately to the table

ADVICE. Warm Sabayon can be poured over candied orange slices. If you mix this egg cream with coffee liqueur, it can improve the taste of chocolate or vanilla ice cream.

Milk dessert with ice cream

Any dairy dessert can pleasantly refresh and tone the body.

Milk and ice cream are excellent sources of calcium, potassium, B vitamins, essential amino acids and animal fats. Such a dessert is able to speed up the metabolism and has a positive effect on the work of the gastrointestinal tract.

FRAPPE WITH RASPBERRY

Frappe is a kind of milk dessert that has a thicker consistency than a regular milkshake.

Mix chilled milk (200 ml), vanilla ice cream (100 g) and raspberry syrup (30 ml) in a blender
Place raspberries (200 g) and crushed ice in tall glasses
Fill them with the prepared mixture.

ADVICE. Such a drink is best drunk through a cocktail straw in small portions, savoring every sip.

Desserts in the microwave

In the microwave, you can cook delicious desserts in minutes. Although many housewives are skeptical about the microwave oven as a full-fledged kitchen appliance for cooking, using it only to heat up already prepared dishes, this does not mean that the microwave oven should be written off. Try to cook desserts in the microwave oven, the recipes of which are written below.

CAKES IN THE MICROWAVE

Do you really want sweet pastries, but you don’t have the time and energy to mess with the dough? Try making a cupcake in a mug in the microwave.

Beat the egg with a fork in a deep bowl
Add sugar (4 teaspoons), milk (4 teaspoons) and cocoa (1 teaspoon)
Mix thoroughly
Pour in vegetable oil (3 teaspoons) and add Nutella (2 teaspoons)
Beat the mass until smooth
Sift flour (4 teaspoons) and mix with baking powder (pinch)
Add cinnamon, vanilla extract or a few drops of berry liqueur for flavor
Lubricate the bowl with butter and sprinkle with flour
We spread the mass in a cup and send it to the microwave for 2 minutes
Take out the finished cake and let it cool down.
Decorate before serving with powdered sugar, icing or whole berries

ADVICE. Vanilla, chocolate, or other ingredients can be used in place of Nutella in this recipe. Experiment.

TIRAMISU IN THE MICROWAVE

You can cook the famous Italian dessert in the microwave in a matter of minutes.

And even though this consistency will not be quite tiramisu, the taste of the dish will resemble a popular dessert.

We fall asleep in a bowl of flour 92 tbsp. spoons), cinnamon (1 g), ground coffee (1 teaspoon), sugar (2 tablespoons), baking powder (1/4 teaspoon) and Savoyardi biscuits crushed into crumbs (2-3 pcs.)
Mix and add egg
Mix again and add Mascarpone (70 g)
We make the mass homogeneous
Bake in the microwave for 3-4 minutes after spreading the mass into mugs

JARMALATE IN THE MICROWAVE

Delicious, melt-in-your-mouth marmalade can be prepared in a conventional microwave oven. For this purpose, grapefruit skins are suitable for us.

We cut a grapefruit (2 pcs.) And remove the skin from it
On a fine grater, remove the glossy part of the zest
Fill the skins with water, put in the microwave and cook at maximum power for 25 minutes
Drain the hot water and rinse the skins
Fill them with water again, add salt (a pinch) and cook again for 25 minutes
Remove excess liquid and exfoliated fibers
Cut the skins into strips
Pour apple juice (1 cup) into a container, add sugar (2 cups) and strips of skins
We boil the future marmalade in the microwave for 45 minutes
Stir every 7-8 minutes
With the second stirring, add cinnamon (a pinch) and citric acid (a pinch)
Boil the skins to the state of honey
Using a slotted spoon, remove the marmalade slices and lay them out on parchment
The syrup can be drained for later use

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