Layered Jello Peach Melba Dessert

The flavor of peaches is a favorite of many people. Peach Jello has got to be one of their best flavors; they manage to get a nice peachy quality to the gelatin. There are so many recipes to use this flavor with, but if you like peach Jello, you really should try this peach melba dessert. Peaches are available year round in cans if you decide to add them to the dessert. Frozen raspberries work great for the bottom layer; if you have fresh berries available, by all means use them! The fruit adds a nice flavor and texture to the dessert after the creamy layer full of ice cream. Try this dessert and see what your family thinks.

Get out your fancy dessert glasses for this one. It is stunning to look at and delicious to eat. You are treated to three delicious layers with this tasty dessert. The bottom is rich with raspberries. You could substitute diced peaches for the raspberries if you prefer to have the dessert completely peachy. Next, you have peach Jello mixed with ice cream. This is a delectable layer for your diners to enjoy, so do not skimp on it. Give them a nice, thick layer. Finally, the dessert is topped with a glass-like layer of clear peach Jello. It almost looks like a layer of liquid sitting there on top of the creamy ice cream.

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This is a retro Jello recipe, so you may remember it from your childhood. How wonderful to be able to share a part of your childhood with your own family and bring back a tradition. Kids love these Jello desserts because they get to use fancy dessert glasses and the desserts are so colorful and interesting. It could be a great way to introduce your kids to cooking. Let them help make the desserts. You may be starting an interest that will grow into a lifelong fascination with food and the magic you can create in the kitchen. Jello is an easy way to get acquainted with working in the kitchen. With all the fun recipes you can create with Jello, your children will develop a love of cooking and creating that will see them well into adulthood when they have children of their own.

Recipe for Peach Melba

This is a creamy dessert that looks stunning on the table.

What You Need

1 package (3 ounces) Jello Peach Gelatin 1 cup boiling water 1/3 cup cold water 1 cup vanilla ice cream 1 package (10 ounces) frozen red raspberries, thawed

How to Make It

Dissolve the Jello in boiling water. Add the cold water. Measure out 3/4 cup of the Jello mixture; blend in the ice cream and let it chill until slightly thickened.

Chill the remaining Jello until slightly thickened.

Spoon the raspberries into the bottom of your dessert glasses. Top the berries with the Jello and ice cream mixture, then add a layer of the clear Jello.

Makes 5 servings.

Layered Jello Peach Melba Dessert

Jello is an inexpensive way to enjoy dessert. Recipes are easy to make and run from simple finger Jello to a delicious simple cheesecake recipe that everyone can enjoy. No baking needed! See what else you can do with this marvelous ingredient.

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Christmas Desserts - Make Them With Splenda!

Before we begin "dishing" out some Christmas dessert recipes, let us talk about Splenda.

What is Splenda?
Splenda is a sugar substitute. It gained popularity in 1998 when the United States Food and Drug Administration approved it for use in commercially prepared baking products. Sixty other countries have followed the initiative of the American FDA.

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Rose Reisman, who wrote Secrets for Permanent Weight Loss (Whitecap Books, 2005) describes Splenda as a better choice sweetener. It contains sucralose which is the only sweetener made from sugar and the only sweetener that is not associated with health problems. It is not digested as a carbohydrate, so diabetics need not worry about experiencing a surge of insulin levels.
People who have used Splenda say that one advantage it has over other sweeteners is that it retains its sweet taste even when heated.

Christmas Desserts Using Splenda

You may come across recipes that don't say Splenda; instead they will say "sucralose." They're one and the same. Splenda is available in most stores and come in tiny, yellow packets.

Recipe # 1: On a cold Christmas Eve morning, what better way to wake up sleepy heads with the aromatic smell of Pear Muffins coming straight from the oven?

Pear Muffins

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes
Servings: yields 12 muffins
Ingredients:
Canola oil
2 cups self-rising flour
2 tsp baking powder
¾ cup sucralose
2/3 cup skim or low fat milk
2 eggs
2 ripe pears
Procedure:
Peel and mash the pears and set aside.

Prepare your muffin pan by greasing them with canola oil. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine self-rising flour and baking powder in a large mixing bowl. Gradually add the sucralose. In a separate bowl, blend together milk, oil and eggs. Combine this mixture with the flour mixture. Add the mashed pears. Blend all ingredients well. Spoon the batter into 12 individual muffin holes.

Bake for 15-20 minutes.

These muffins can be stored at room temperature and eaten the next day, but they are best eaten the same day!

Recipe # 2: Who doesn't love New York-style Cheesecake? It is such a popular dessert that food stores and supermarkets now sell it frozen, but why spoil the spirit of Christmas by serving frozen food? Make this recipe and turn it into a labor of love. The children, grandchildren, cousins and uncles will love you for this New York-style cheesecake made from scratch!

New York-Style Cheesecake

Preparation time: 15-20 minutes
Cooking time: 20-25 minutes
Servings: 12 individual servings (recipe is not for a whole cheese cake)
Ingredients:
1-3/4 cups Ricotta cheese
3 oz light or low-fat cream cheese
½ cup sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon zest
2/3 cup Splenda
3 tsbp lemon juice (preferably fresh)
3 tbsp all purpose flour

For garnish: your favorite berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries) and icing sugar.

Procedure:
Line your muffin pan with muffin paper cups. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Soften the cream cheese and combine with the ricotta cheese in a food processor. Add the sour cream, egg, vanilla, lemon juice (and zest), flour and Splenda. Make sure mixture is smooth and creamy. Pour into individual muffin holes.

Put the muffin tin in a larger pan containing hot water. The hot water must come up to 1/3 or halfway up the sides of the muffin tray. Put in oven and bake for 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes, take out the muffin tray from the larger tray. Set aside and let cool. Refrigerate for an hour or two. Top with garnish before serving. You can use the berries as they are, or you can mash them so they cover the top and glide on the side.

Recipe # 3: Spent the whole day in the mall for Boxing Day specials and forgot about dessert tonight? Here is a recipe for a chocolate cake. Most of the ingredients are probably already in your cupboard so no need to dash out again.

Simple & Quick Chocolate Cake

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups flour
2/3 cup sucralose
Pinch of salt
1 tsp baking soda
3 tbsp hot chocolate powder mix (any hot chocolate mix will do)
1 tbsp vinegar
8 tbsp canola oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup water (or 1 cup skim milk, if you prefer)

Procedure:

Sift the flour, baking soda, sucralose, salt and hot chocolate powder together. Add the rest of the wet ingredients. Blend well. Pour into an 8 inch round baking pan. Bake at 350 degree F for 30 minutes. Let cool and serve with your favorite topping.

Note: Instead of icing, you can use English devonshire cream. Spoon a few tablespoons into the dessert platter, enough for a slice of cake to sit on. Also, if you have left over slivered almonds or crushed walnuts, you can throw them into the batter.

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Mike Cole is a freelance writer who writes about fitness, health and dieting. Mr. Cole also writes about specific ingredients and products such as sugar-free cooking and Splenda.

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Easy Easter Desserts For Kids

Kids love fun food and the recipes below are easy enough for them to help make and cute enough to make them want to eat them all up. These would be nice to take to the Easter party at school.

Be sure to add pastel colored serving dishes to make it more pleasing to the eye.

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Easy Easter Dessert

1 pound cake cut into slices
1 can cherry pie filling
1 tub frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
Green food coloring
Jelly beans

Line bottom of a 12 x 8-inch baking dish with cake slices. Top with pie filling and whipped topping. Refrigerate one hour or until ready to serve. Tint coconut green with food coloring. Sprinkle over center of whipped topping. Decorate with jelly beans.

Easter Basket Cupcakes

1 box cake mix
Confectioners' sugar icing (tinted green)
Coconut (tinted green)
Jelly beans
Colored pipe stems

Prepare cupcakes as directed on cake mix package. Tint icing green and ice cupcakes. Add green tinted coconut. Then, place jelly bean's on the iced cupcakes. Add colored pipe stems, bending to resemble Easter basket handles.

Easter Nests

1 jar marshmallow cream
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1 can chow mein noodles
1 cup jelly beans
Confectioners' sugar

In a mixing bowl beat marshmallow cream, peanut butter and butter until smooth. Fold in the noodles. Chill until the mixture is easy to handle. Take 1/3 cup of mixture and form into a nest on wax paper. Chill about 30 minutes. Put several jelly beans into each nest for eggs.

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