American dessert recipes - 28 recipes
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Black Velvet cakes

By kellyscarlett
Black velvet baby cakes
- 100g softened butter, plus extra for greasing
- 175g light brown soft sugar
- 1 egg
- 100g self-raising flour
- 50g ground almonds
- 5 tbsp cocoa
- 150ml Guinness
- For the cream
- 200ml double cream
- 25g icing sugar
- Splash Champagne (optional!)
Chocolate American Whoopies with cream

By TRANO Fabienne
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C (gas mark 4)
- 125g unsalted butter
- 150g dark cooking chocolate
- 3 eggs
- 225g of sugar
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 250g flour
- 30g cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
- 250g plain Philadelphia spread
- 100 ml of fresh single cream
- 50g icing sugar
Sweet tooth? Try this.

By Mattspence95
This tasty snack will have you jumping off the walls
- 1 doughnut
- 1 bag of green gummy worms
- 4 finger kit kat
- 1 wagon wheel
- Strawberry jam
- 1 egg
- Milk
American Brownies

By Chefcuistot62
Melt the chocolate, broken into pieces with the butter
- 250g cooking chocolate
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 150g butter
- 3 eggs
- 150g sugar
- 60g of flour
- salt
Walnut brownies

By Oummi
Melt the chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat
- 2 eggs
- 100g caster sugar
- 50g flour
- 100g butter
- 100g cooking chocolate
- chopped walnuts
- Half a sachet baking powder
Magical Easy Cheesecake

By Blandine Lemaire
Mix the butter + ladyfingers in a mixer and press into the bottom of your cake tin to make the cheesecake base
- 250g crushed ladyfingers
- 160g melted butter
- 400g fromage blanc or cream cheese
- 100g sugar
- 2 tbsp flour
- 3 eggs
- 300g of ice cream (flavour of your choice)
Walnut brownies

By Amina
Melt the butter and chocolate in a bain-marie
- 200 g dark cooking chocolate
- 200 g butter
- 200 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- 100 g flour
- 100 g walnuts
- icing sugar
Kinder Bueno Cupcake

By Laurapackham
Delicious, smooth velvety cupcakes! The perfect little dessert for birthdays, parties or just for a snack! Kinder B...
- For the cupcakes
- 90g flour
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp white cheese
- 2 tbsp Nutella
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 sachet of baking powder
- 35g of sugar
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 6 cups
- For the topping
- 250g of mascarpone cheese
- 3 tbsp icing sugar
- 6 tbsp milk
- 3 bars of Kinder Bueno (2 for the topping and 1 for the decoration)
- Nutella
Greek Yoghurt Brownies

By Luchia Cooks, Luchia Cooks | Food Blog
Yep, you read it right, these brownies substitute butter for 0% Fat Greek Yoghurt and they are absolutely delicious
- 60g Plain flour
- 65g Light brown sugar
- 115g Caster sugar
- 60g Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 Teaspoon salt
- 1 Flat teaspoon baking powder
- 115g Plain greek yoghurt (I used Fage Total 0% Fat)
- 1 Egg
- 2 Tablespoons of milk (I used semi-skimmed)
- 1 teaspoon of Vanilla extract
- 50g White chocolate chunks - optional but would you really take out chocolate?
Gluten-free No-bake Banoffee Pie

By whatsfortea
A great no-bake Banoffee Pie, delicious and gluten-free!
- 1-1 1/2 Packs of gluten free biscuits (depending on size of pack and size of your serving dish).
- Optional-handful of gluten free fibre flakes
- several knobs of butter
- 3 or 4 ripe bananas
- 1 to 1 1/2 small tins of caramel flavour condensed milk (approx 350g)
- 1 large tub of whipping cream
- Chocolate sprinkles
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Rhubarb and Strawberry Cheesecake
- For the sauce:
- 500g rhubarb
- 10g vanilla sugar
- 40g cane sugar
- For the strawberry coulis:
- 3 tbsp of sugar-free jam
- 6 tbsp water
- For the base:
- 300g speculoos biscuits
- 80g melted butter
- For the filling:
- 100g cane sugar
- 500g fromage frais (0% fat)
- 325g of cream cheese like Philadelphia
- 6 eggs
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Kids Cake Pop Pops
- Chocolate Cake, pre-prepared
- Chocolate Frosting
- 1 box white chocolate, 1 box dark chocolate
- Cake pop sticks
- Sprinkles
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Safe-to-lick-the-bowl Cookie Dough...
- (All in cups I'm afraid!)
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cups packed brown sugar (Light brown muscavado is preferable)
- 1-2 teaspoons vanilla, depending on your taste
- Half a teaspoon of salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons milk (or cream)
- 1 cup of either small chocolate chips or chopped up large ones (whichever type suits you. Dark, Milk, White or all three!)
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Kinder Bueno Cake
- 100g of dark chocolatek
- 1 tbsp of cocoa
- 4 eggs
- 120g sugar
- A vanilla sachet
- A baking bag
- 100g butter
- 5 cups of plain flour
- 1 box of sweetened condensed milk
- 120g of coconut
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Death by Chocolate
- 1 chocolate cake mix (and ingredients to make cake)
- 1 large container cool whip
- 1 large box instant chocolate pudding mix (and milk to make pudding)
- 1 box Reese's pieces
- 1 large package Kit Kat bar
- 1 bag Mini Reese's peanut butter cups
- Chocolate Syrup
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Red Velvet Cupcakes Recipe
- 120g butter
- 300g white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 250ml buttermilk
- 2 tbsp red food colouring
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarb soda
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 250g plain flour
- 5 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp salt
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Kinder Bueno Cheesecake
- 100g chocobons
- 200g of digestive biscuits
- 40g soft butter
- 400g of mascarpone cheese
- 8 Tbsp condensed milk
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Chocolate caramel brownies with...
- 170g chocolate caramel (Type Nestlé)
- 2 eggs
- 120g sugar
- 100g butter
- 100g raising flour
- 15 Dime chocolates (or 2-3 Dime bars broken into pieces)
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Approved byThe Chef Black forest cake
- Cake:
- 60g cake flour
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 tp salt
- 4 eggs
- 135g sugar
- 40g melted butter
- 1tp vanilla extract
- Whipped cream:
- 600ml heavy whipping cream
- 30g sugar
- 1tp vanilla extract
- Cherry fillings:
- 700ml Morello cherries
- 240ml cherry juice
- 50g sugar
- 2tp vanilla extract
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Peasant Pudding
- 1-1 /12 kg Apples
- 200 gr oats
- 130 gr Demerara sugar
- 100 gr butter
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New England Pumpkin Pie
- 1 tin of canned pumpkin (alternatively 2 cups cooked, mashed sweet potato)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1.5 cups evaporated milk
- 3 eggs
- 0.25 cups dark treacle
- 0.5 cups brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1.5 tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 roll of short crust pastry
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Chocolate hearts 3.1/5 (76 Votes)
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