and easily one of the top 5 things i have ever cooked…

Thanks! I’m going to give it a whirl here soon.

…hands down. Or Kalahari.

I admit, I kinda like mixing things but I’m not very good at measuring what I’m mixing, or cooking it.

Although those brownies I managed to make a couple weeks ago weren’t bad.

The Cast of Characters: Granny Smith apples, Butter, Sugar, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, and a can of Mountain Dew.

Start by peeling and coring 2 Granny Smith apples.
Next, cut the apples into eight slices.
Butter a 9 × 13 inch baking pan.
open the can of crescent rolls and unroll the dough
roll up an apple slice in each of the cresent rolls.
lay each one into the buttered baking pan
melt 2 sticks regular (salted) butter in a saucepan
Dump in 1 1/2 cups sugar… just barely stir together
add in 1 teaspoon vanilla and again, barely stir
Now pour the very low-calorie mixture over the top of the dumplings, making sure to thoroughly coat them.
pour Mountain Dew all around the edge of the pan
Sprinkle the top with cinnamon and bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes, watching to make sure they don’t get too brown. (You’ll definitely want them golden brown and crispy on top, though.)

These are outstanding and very rich. People will think that you spent all day working on them and they can be put together in about ten minutes total.

Basically berries + sugar + cinnamon + lemon juice in a pie crust.

Swiss Pastry Shop’s Black Forest Cake in Fort Worth is a wonderful thing.

Everyone who has tried my one and only doughnut casserole says it is one of the best tasting things they have ever eaten. But yeah, it will knock a few years off your life. Also very easy to make.

Basically you just cut up some cake doughnuts and mix them into brownie batter. Then you bake it for 10 minutes and take it out, at which point you cover it with a cookie dough crust. Finally, cook for another 15 minutes. It is incredibly good.

A little backstory on this: My friend’s sister was in town, and both she and my friend are total health nuts, and the topic of discussion turns to my horrible diet and love of doughnuts. She says I should try making meals out of doughnuts, and we came up with a general idea for doughnut casserole. After about a month of thinking on it and doing a very small bit of research, the doughnut casserole came into being. Watch out world, because one day this will be the new hot dessert in every home.

Seeing this fanpost would make KLaw very happy.

the small, twisted kind, and microwave them for about 30 seconds with dark chocolate and peanut butter. Pretty good.

especially all the special ones at the cheescake factory

bread pudding or tres leche

i’d put a recipe up, but i ain’t gonna pretend to have ever made them myself

in a microwave?

This is the most recent dessert I made:

I stumbled into this eatery in Bucktown some 5-6 years ago.

I looked up at the menu and saw something very intriguing.

Seeing how moist my liver was I figured, “What the Hell”

Deep Fried Twinkies, covered in chocolate sauce then dusted with powdered sugar

Recipe

Deep-fried Twinkies:
4 twinkies
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon malt vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cup water

Chill Twinkies. Completely combine other ingredients. Dip Twinkies in batter and fry in hot oil in deep fryer. Only cook until golden brown about 1 or 1-1/2 minutes.

for those not in the know, and needing to bake a pie stat for thanxgiving or xmas, its a quick and killer deal.

one time i did it where i made cheesecake bottom layer, chilled it, then put the pecan pie fillinf over it with the standard pecan pie recipe. it was golden.

super easy too. im a guy, i dont bake, i grill, smoke and bbq and this is sumthing that was well within my capabilities.

Laphroaig, Highland Park, Bowmore, and Craggenmore are some of my faves. Not to mention Macallen Cask Strength.

I love scotch and don’t really dig sweets, so there you go.

http://www.tootiepieco.com/whois.asp

Sold at central markets — I recommend apple or buttermilk.

Dellucci’s Blonde Brownies
(from the 2005 Rangers Wives Cookbook)

Ingredients:
1 box light brown sugar
3 eggs
1 stick soft margarine
2 cups of flour
1 bag of chocolate chips
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix all ingredients by hand. Spread in a 9X13 pan and bake at 350 for about 25 minutes.

Cake Bites

You can use any kind of cake for this. I’ve made them with yellow cake and german chocolate cake so far. Thinking about trying spice cake next.

Ingredients
1 cake mix
1 can of frosting
melting chocolate or almond bark

Follow directions on the cake mix box. When the cake is cooled (but still a little warm), crumble it up and mix in the frosting. Form mixture into balls and place on sheet. Refrigerate overnight or put in freezer for one hour. Dip in melted chocolate or almond bark and allow to cool on waxed paper.

If u were doing desert and coffee kinda stuff after a date? Just curious if folks have found anything super-special in their travels around town.

b/c opera is being stupid and i cant respond

my friend suggested la duni (and thats where i was going to go with the girl when i was in dallas in may but dinner ended up running late)

there are a handful of em around dallas (2-3- — one in northpark mall)