Tasty American Dessert Recipes

Everyone has heard of good ole' American apple pie, pecan pie, and key lime pie, but those desserts are just the scraping of the surface when it comes to the terrific desserts that the American culture has to offer. The desserts in this article are also traditional American favorites, but they rarely get the attention they deserve. So, if you are looking for easy recipes that will satisfy your sweet tooth and leave your tummy purring, I definitely recommend the following. Enjoy!

Mississippi Mud Pie

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/4 lb butter (melted)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 tbsp grated coconut
1 (8 oz.) pkg cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1 (9 oz) container whipped cream
1 (6 oz) pkg chocolate pudding

Directions:
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, butter, brown sugar, walnuts, and coconut. When it is well mixed, press it into a 9-inch baking pan. Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees F. Remove the crust from the oven and set aside. Next, mix together the cream cheese and sugar. It's best if you can use a hand mixer for this, as you want it to be nice and fluffy. Fold in one cup of the whipped cream. When the crust has cooled, spread the cream cheese mixture over the crust. Prepare the pudding according to the directions specified on the package. Spread the pudding over the cream cheese mixture, then top with the remaining whipped cream. This looks fabulous when decorated with chocolate shavings or maraschino cherries. Allow this to refrigerate overnight before serving.

Red Velvet Cake

Ingredients:
2 oz red food coloring
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp Nes-Quik chocolate powder
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp vinegar

Directions:
Mix together the food coloring and the Nes-Quik chocolage powder, then let it stand for a bit. In a separate bowl, mix together the shortening, eggs, sugar, and food coloring mixture. Beat the buttermilk and add in some sugar; when this is well blended, mix it into the shortening mixture. Add in the vanilla, flour, and salt and beat well. Mix in the baking soda and vinegar. When the mixture is thoroughly combined, pour it into two well grease 8-inch baking dishes. Bake at 375 degrees F for about half an hour. Allow them to cool before frosting with your favorite brand or recipe for cream cheese frosting.

Peach Cobbler

Ingredients:
1 stick of butter (melted)
1 cup + 3 tbsp sugar (divided)
1 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 ripe peaches (peeled, pitted, and sliced)
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:
Pour the melted butter into an 8-inch baking dish. In a mixing bowl, mix together one cup of sugar, baking powder, flour, and salt. Mix this together well. Add in the milk and vanilla and give it a good stir. Pour the batter over the butter in the baking dish, then toss the peaches in a bowl with three tablespoons of sugar and the cinnamon. Arrange the peach slices so they sit evenly on top of the batter, then bake at 375 degrees F for about half an hour. Serve hot with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

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Some Typical South American Desserts

Perhaps you are a fan of Mexican food or you have a passion for traditional Mexican desserts like flan, dulce de leche cake, Mexican wedding cookies and more, but what about South American desserts and how do they compare?

If you have visited South America you might have sampled alfajor cookies, or alfajores. These are sandwich cookies which have a filling of dulce de leche. Dulce de leche is a sticky sweet caramel which is as beloved in traditional Mexican desserts as in the cakes and cookies of South American countries. If you want to make your own alfajores, you could sandwich them together with jelly, peanut butter, jam, cream or even ice cream.

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Fruity Mousse Recipes

Another beloved South American treat is passion fruit mousse. The most coarse mousse flavor might be chocolate but passion fruit adds a delicious tang to mousse and fruit mousses are more coarse than chocolate mousse in most South American countries. This mousse can be eaten as it is or used to fill cakes or sandwich cookies together.

Actually there are a lot of tropical mousse flavors which are well loved throughout South America. These light, refreshing desserts are ideal when the weather is hot and when you want to cool down.

Savory Ingredients in Sweet Recipes

Picarones are donuts made with sweet potato and pumpkin. These would make a fantastic Halloween formula and these delectable morsels are deep fried so they come out crispy and hot. Sweet potato and pumpkin are often used in savory dishes like soups or stews and picarones are not that sweet. They are, however, served with a spiced molasses syrup which is highly sweet and sticky.

Brigadeiros are Brazilian fudge truffle balls which are commonly served in paper cups. Brazilian coconut flan and alfajor cookies are also traditionally served in these small paper cups, as is the Peruvian candy called mana.

Mana is a bit like marzipan and you can color it and mold it into fruit shapes. Mana is made with sugar, milk and eggs and it was invented when the conquistadors came to South America. There were no almonds to make marzipan so they experimented with available ingredients and came up with mana instead. It is like fondant and can be rolled out and used to frost cakes.

Peruvian formula for Gingerbread

This gingerbread is easy to make and has a fantastic flavor. It is a beloved snack in Peru and some other parts of South America. Serve it with whipped cream or by itself.

What you will need:
1/2 cup white sugar 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 egg 1/3 cup shortening 1 cup hot water 1 cup molasses 1 teaspoon ground ginger 2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon salt How to make it:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a nine by nine inch cake pan and sprinkle flour over it. Incorporate the baking soda, flour and spices. Mix the hot water and molasses together. Mix the sugar and shortening, then add the egg and mix again.

Add the molasses mixture and the dry ingredients to the shortening mixture and pour the gingerbread into the prepared cake pan. Bake the gingerbread for forty five minutes, and then let it cool in the pan for five minutes.

Some Typical South American Desserts

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Popular American Foods and Recipes

Some of the best foods found in America are due to the influence of various cultures. There are many cuisines to choose from and some of the finest Italian restaurants and best pizza chains are found in America.
The standard of food in American is good and each city has its own particular kind of cuisine. Cities like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco have the most fabulous restaurants. Boston and New Orleans are known for seafood and Miami for Spanish flavors. New York steaks are a favorite among the visitors and almost any type of food is available due to the mixture of a variety of cultures.
Boston people consume a large quantity of sea foods like lobster and crab and since most of the restaurants in Boston are owned by the families there, the standard of food is guaranteed to be of high quality. There are a very large range of food varieties at very affordable prices, not only in big cites of America but also down south in Louisiana and South Carolina.
American food boasts for value for money because it caters to the needs of all kinds of people who want a square meal as well as a smaller budget meal, without compromising on the taste. Even for people who are on diet, special foods are served. The burgers are offered with fries and high calorie foods like fried French onions, bacon and cheese.
The American desserts are legendary like the Pecan pie and Mississippi -mud pie. Tourists in the Deep South can enjoy the gumbo soup and jambalay. New England’s specialty foods are simple and of high quality, too. Similarly, New Haven is known for creating hamburgers as back as a century ago and is a necessity in an American food.
Maine is reputed for its lobster and exports them too. San Francisco celebrates a crab season since it has some of the world's best crabs. California offers a range of foods including artichoke, avocadoes, goat’s cheese and other green produce. An additional bonus is the Napa valley wine which is the best wine that the state has to offer. So, America has the variety of cuisine that is diverse and differs from state to state that is unique to them.
But American food is notorious for processed foods and junk foods are quite common in America. It is an understatement that junk funds have very bad effects on the health of a person. It is a bad habit that has to be controlled. America is mainly responsible for spreading the fast food culture and the result is that a majority of the American people are obese today. But the consoling news is that there is an increasing awareness among the people about the harmful effects of fast food.

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Some Typical South American Desserts

Perhaps you are a fan of Mexican food or you have a passion for traditional Mexican desserts like flan, dulce de leche cake, Mexican wedding cookies and more, but what about South American desserts and how do they compare?

If you have visited South America you might have sampled alfajor cookies, or alfajores. These are sandwich cookies which have a filling of dulce de leche. Dulce de leche is a sticky sweet caramel which is as popular in traditional Mexican desserts as in the cakes and cookies of South American countries. If you want to make your own alfajores, you could sandwich them together with jelly, peanut butter, jam, cream or even ice cream.

Fruity Mousse Recipes

Another popular South American treat is passion fruit mousse. The most common mousse flavor might be chocolate but passion fruit adds a delicious tang to mousse and fruit mousses are more common than chocolate mousse in most South American countries. This mousse can be eaten as it is or used to fill cakes or sandwich cookies together.

Actually there are a lot of tropical mousse flavors which are well loved throughout South America. These light, refreshing desserts are ideal when the weather is hot and when you want to cool down.

Savory Ingredients in Sweet Recipes

Picarones are donuts made with sweet potato and pumpkin. These would make a wonderful Halloween recipe and these delectable morsels are deep fried so they come out crispy and hot. Sweet potato and pumpkin are often used in savory dishes like soups or stews and picarones are not that sweet. They are, however, served with a spiced molasses syrup which is extremely sweet and sticky.

Brigadeiros are Brazilian fudge truffle balls which are usually served in paper cups. Brazilian coconut flan and alfajor cookies are also traditionally served in these little paper cups, as is the Peruvian candy called mana.

Mana is a bit like marzipan and you can color it and mold it into fruit shapes. Mana is made with sugar, milk and eggs and it was invented when the conquistadors came to South America. There were no almonds to make marzipan so they experimented with available ingredients and came up with mana instead. It is like fondant and can be rolled out and used to frost cakes.

Peruvian Recipe for Gingerbread

This gingerbread is easy to make and has a wonderful flavor. It is a popular snack in Peru and some other parts of South America. Serve it with whipped cream or by itself.

What you will need:

1/2 cup white sugar
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 egg
1/3 cup shortening
1 cup hot water
1 cup molasses
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon salt
How to make it:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a nine by nine inch cake pan and sprinkle flour over it. Combine the baking soda, flour and spices. Mix the hot water and molasses together. Mix the sugar and shortening, then add the egg and mix again.

Add the molasses mixture and the dry ingredients to the shortening mixture and pour the gingerbread into the prepared cake pan. Bake the gingerbread for forty five minutes, and then let it cool in the pan for five minutes.

If you are a fan of South American desserts you will also like the sweeter side of Mexican food. There are plenty of traditional Mexican desserts which you can easily recreate at home, incorporating delicious ingredients like vanilla, chocolate, coffee, cinnamon, tropical fruit and much more.

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South American Famous Dessert - Dulce De Leche

Dulce de leche is a favorite in most South American countries. It can be eaten as a dessert, as part of a dessert, filling cakes, topping cakes, as candy, over toasts, over loaves of bread, with crackers, or by the spoonful!

In each country dulce de leche has a different name and its recipe is slightly different, except in Argentina and Uruguay, where the recipe is the same and is called the same.

Actually it is impossible to determine whether it is a Uruguayan dessert, a Argentinean dessert or from another country. Some years ago, in 2003, Argentina claimed before the UN that the dulce de leche be proclaimed an Argentinean product and Uruguay asked it to be proclaimed a Rio de la Plata product, thus making it clear that the origin is really unknown.

So here we will try to make up the history of this famous dulce de leche, which is not an easy thing to do!

-One legend takes us way back, as it is said that the dulce de leche can be found in very old cultures, and it is named in the Ayurveda (thousands of years ago), and was then named Rhabadi Ayurveda, "Science of Life", traditional medicine from India, (5000 years ago) is also one of the most modern methods of alternative medicines in our days.

-Another of the oldest legends is originated in Europe, in the 14th century where a dessert called "confiture de lait" in the Normandy region was already enjoyed by the people there.

-Years later, one of Napoleons' cooks, making sweetened milk for the troops, by accident ended making dulce de leche!

-We have heard also that origins are called to be Mediterranean, having it been started to prepare in Spain, XIX century, where no longer is made now.

-Chileans claim that the dulce de leche came to their country, when the Libertador San Martin crossed the Andes. It was called "Manjar Blanco" and goes back to the XVIII Century, since then Chileans are enjoying it.

-Argentineans say that the dulce de leche was originated in their country, when one of the maids of the Juan Manuel de Rosas household was preparing sweetened milk for her master, and because she had to attend Juan Lavalle who came to sign a peace treaty with Juan Manuel de Rosas, she was distracted and when she went back to continue preparing breakfast, she found this caramel color paste in the pan, and Juan Manuel de Rosas tried it and found it very good and tasteful.

-Uruguayans say that the dulce de leche was born when the slaves that were brought by the end of the XVIII Century had a great need for a more nourishing meal and they invented adding sugar to the milk and letting it boil long enough. The slaves showed it to their masters and they started to enjoy it too. After that it started being produced in large amounts.

Also, in other South American countries dulce de leche is known and enjoyed as well, though it has different names in each country:

--Mexico, called Cajeta, and is made with goats' milk
--Colombia, Venezuela and Panama called Arequipe
--Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Peru, Manjar Blanco (sometimes only Manjar)
--Brasil, it is called doce de leite
--In Cuba it is called dulce de leche "cortado" (cut, as they cook it differently, and it is not as soft a paste as in other countries)

The food of South America is full of interesting flavors and recipes, learn more about them visiting http://www.foodofsouthamerica.com

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Some Typical South American Desserts

Perhaps you are a fan of Mexican food or you have a passion for traditional Mexican desserts like flan, dulce de leche cake, Mexican wedding cookies and more, but what about South American desserts and how do they compare?

If you have visited South America you might have sampled alfajor cookies, or alfajores. These are sandwich cookies which have a filling of dulce de leche. Dulce de leche is a sticky sweet caramel which is as popular in traditional Mexican desserts as in the cakes and cookies of South American countries. If you want to make your own alfajores, you could sandwich them together with jelly, peanut butter, jam, cream or even ice cream.

Desserts Food

Fruity Mousse Recipes

Another popular South American treat is passion fruit mousse. The most common mousse flavor might be chocolate but passion fruit adds a delicious tang to mousse and fruit mousses are more common than chocolate mousse in most South American countries. This mousse can be eaten as it is or used to fill cakes or sandwich cookies together.

Actually there are a lot of tropical mousse flavors which are well loved throughout South America. These light, refreshing desserts are ideal when the weather is hot and when you want to cool down.

Savory Ingredients in Sweet Recipes

Picarones are donuts made with sweet potato and pumpkin. These would make a wonderful Halloween recipe and these delectable morsels are deep fried so they come out crispy and hot. Sweet potato and pumpkin are often used in savory dishes like soups or stews and picarones are not that sweet. They are, however, served with a spiced molasses syrup which is extremely sweet and sticky.

Brigadeiros are Brazilian fudge truffle balls which are usually served in paper cups. Brazilian coconut flan and alfajor cookies are also traditionally served in these little paper cups, as is the Peruvian candy called mana.

Mana is a bit like marzipan and you can color it and mold it into fruit shapes. Mana is made with sugar, milk and eggs and it was invented when the conquistadors came to South America. There were no almonds to make marzipan so they experimented with available ingredients and came up with mana instead. It is like fondant and can be rolled out and used to frost cakes.

Peruvian Recipe for Gingerbread

This gingerbread is easy to make and has a wonderful flavor. It is a popular snack in Peru and some other parts of South America. Serve it with whipped cream or by itself.

What you will need:
1/2 cup white sugar 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 egg 1/3 cup shortening 1 cup hot water 1 cup molasses 1 teaspoon ground ginger 2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon salt How to make it:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a nine by nine inch cake pan and sprinkle flour over it. Combine the baking soda, flour and spices. Mix the hot water and molasses together. Mix the sugar and shortening, then add the egg and mix again.

Add the molasses mixture and the dry ingredients to the shortening mixture and pour the gingerbread into the prepared cake pan. Bake the gingerbread for forty five minutes, and then let it cool in the pan for five minutes.

Some Typical South American Desserts

If you are a fan of South American desserts you will also like the sweeter side of Mexican food. There are plenty of traditional Mexican desserts which you can easily recreate at home, incorporating delicious ingredients like vanilla, chocolate, coffee, cinnamon, tropical fruit and much more.

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American Dessert Banana Ice Cream

Ice cream is often called The Great American Dessert. Find out the history behind ice cream - sundaes and cones. Ice cream structure is both fascinating and confusing. The way we perceive the texture of ice cream when we consume it (smooth, coarse, etc.) is based on its structure, and thus structure is probably one of its most important attributes.

Fried Banana ice cream has been so hot recently that my thoughts have turned to ice cream. Ice cream is about the simplest recipe I know for a cool desert. Smooth, creamy cherry ice cream with heart-shaped chocolate covered cherry candies and a thick chocolate sundae sauce swirl. I have served baked bananas as dessert many times. Slit bananas sprinkled with brown sugar, lemon juice, and cinnamon, baked till soft, served with or without ice cream. That sugary lemony sauce looks and tastes divine, full of the ripeness of bananas. But banana in ice cream sounded intriguing.

The banana ice cream really should be unsweetened. Find high quality chocolate if possible. The result was an ice cream we all allowed ourselves to like. The taste of bananas in ice cream was new to us all, and the garden lemon added an interesting and fragrantly refreshing note. It was concluded a winner!

The banana Ice creams are very taste, however, was quite good. A cheap and easy ice cream recipe without cream: just evaporated milk, skim milk and sugar. I flavored the basic ice cream recipe with vanilla and banana puree to get rid of the evaporated milk taste but feel free to improvise! The pure banana ice creams in a blender or food processor with the lemon juice and the sugar. Please purchase online [http://www.indomunch.com] in NewYork city.

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