Warning: This post contains several images of potentially mouth-watering & craving-inducing desserts. Read at your own risk.
If there is one thing I love, it is delicious desserts. Even just looking at delicious-looking desserts gives my heart so much joy. The only thing that makes me sad is that I don’t ever seem to get the opportunity to make them myself. They are usually too many servings to make for just myself. Not that, you know, I wouldn’t probably manage to eat them all, but that is just yet another reason not to make them. They would all make amazing desserts to take to a potluck dinner. Here are just a few of the recipes I have found lately that I want to try sometime.
The Pioneer Woman’s Cinnamon Rolls (Recipe)
Photo by fiveforfun.
These sound amazing. I love cinnamon rolls, well actually anything cinnamon-flavored (hi favorite toothpaste!), and these sound so good and not too difficult to make (even though the amount of cinnamon rolls one recipe makes is a little intimidating). They do however sound like they could cause a heart attack if consumed in large quantity. Needless to say, I will save this one for a potluck dinner or a party.
Rolo Turtles (Recipe)
These sound like such yummy snacks. Pretzels, rolo and pecans? Yes, please! These are extremely easy to make (and it would be easy to make small servings) so I am considering making these sometime very soon. Like this week. I am very curious about pairing salted pretzels and sweet rolos, but I do like kettlecorn so I think chances are good I will like these. Not to mention, I love rolos, and they are actually widely available here (unlike Oreos – see last recipe).
Key Lime Pie (Recipe – in German)
I have never had key lime pie, but lemon meringue pie is one of my favorites so I am pretty sure I will like this one. I just love love love a meringue topping on a pie. I’m planning to make this one on Sunday for my mom’s birthday. And I must admit, I am not just making it for her but I figure it is an excellent opportunity to make a pie without having to worry about who is going to eat it. I found this Germany-friendly recipe via Tammy’s blog. A lot of times baking and cooking using American recipes can be tricky, because some ingredients are not available here or very expensive so whenever I find a recipe that I can buy all the ingredients for here, I am really excited.
Oreo Trufles (Recipe)
Photo by haleyhughes.
Oreos, cream cheese, chocolate coating – what’s not to love? I love Oreos, and these just sound so amazing (and again, super-easy to make). Will have to save this one for when I have a food processor to blend the Oreos. I hope by the time I have a food processor, they will also sell Oreos in larger packages here. Right now, they are only available in snack packs of 4×4 cookies each, which would make this recipe quite expensive. But I think even if they don’t, that’s not going to stop me. Recipe found here and here.
Last but not least, one dessert I am definitely making within the next couple of months is a pumpkin pie (which I have made three times before). I know, it’s February, but I still have one can of pumpkin that is going to expire in April, and I have decided that my very last can is going to go to a pumpkin pie. (Canned pumpkin? Another one of those ingredients hard to find in Germany, usually it is imported from the US and pretty expensive.)
So tell me, what is your favorite dessert? I’d love for you to share (or link me to) the recipe! And if you try any of these recipes, let me know how they turned out!
Oh Karen!! Ok, you need to help me! =)
I have been dying to make the pioneer woman rolls for a while but all of those style of pans I can find are really shallow or mammoth. Is that what you used? I’m so mad that a container is the only thing between me and a sugar hang over!! lol
If you have any tips, please let me know. These need to be in my life.
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I haven’t yet made the cinnamon rolls (or any of the other desserts mentioned) but I think the pioneer woman used aluminum (disposable) pie pans (at least that’s what they looked like to me in the photos). That is what I would try using anyway (if we can even have them here, I am not sure), and I would probably only make half the recipe because seven of those would not fit into one oven. Or, if you want to use a non-disposable dish, try this one I have from IKEA: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/00101650 It is relatively small and not shallow at all. I bought mine for baking pies. And because it’s so cheap, it’s not a problem to buy two or three of them.
Not sure if you haven’t already tried these. I hope you can find a pan that works for the cinnamon rolls, and if you bake them, let me know how they taste. Sorry I am not more help.
Goodness, you shouldn’t have posted this. :P Key Lime Pie and Cinnamon Rolls are my two favorite American desserts. Let me know how the Key Lime Pie turned out and I might try it too (and eat it up myself!).
I’ll definitely let you know. :)
mmmmm those all look delicious! thanks for the new recipes!!
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Those Oreo truffles look amazing! I am also a sucker for desserts. I try to make cookies every week (because they last for awhile). This sort of counts as a dessert right?
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Yeah, definitely. I love cookies. The only problem is while they would hypothetically not spoil that quickly, they would almost certainly not last for a while in my house. Haha.
I am set on trying the Oreo truffles sometime soon, just as soon as I figure out how to get the Oreos to that dusty consistency without a food processor.
Those all look AMAZING, especially the cinnamon rolls and the pie :) I haven’t made dessert in ages, I’ll have to try one of these out!
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Thanks for the comment, Em. I am making the rolo turtles just as soon as I find rolos (wanted to buy them tonight but my local grocery store doesn’t have them/was out), and the pie on Sunday. The cinnamon rolls sound so good though, I hope I will find an occasion to make them sometime.
Let me know how yours turn out if you decide to make them.
The pioneer woman’s cinnamon rolls have been haunting me for ever. I need too make them.
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Drool, drool, drool. That protein shake I had for breakfast is SO not cutting it right now.
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Among these recipes, the cinnamon rolls are definitely on the top of my list. In Brazil, I tried for the first time cinnamon rolls from a brand that sells different rolls called cinnabon. They really have the best cinnamon rolls ever!!! Unfortunately, you cannot find it in Germany. I was quite happy to have bumped into one in London. As we don´t have cinnabon in Germany, me and Lukas used to bake cinnamon rolls quite often. There are sill some frozen in our freezer. I think I´ll put them in the oven now, they look so yummy in your picture that I´ll have to eat some ;)
Have you made these yet??
I’ve made the rolo turtles and the key lime pie. Both were great. Will hopefully be making the oreo truffles for my birthday (with the oreos I got from you). I haven’t tried the cinnamon rolls yet.