Dessert Recipes
Frozen Raspberry Dessert
Serve this sweetheart of a dessert, with a speedy crushed-cookie crust and orange liqueur and frozen raspberry cream filling.
Prep: 15 min | Total: 3 hr 10 min | Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 cup crushed vanilla wafers (28 wafers)
- 1/2 cup finely chopped blanched almonds or macadamia nuts
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
Filling
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons orange-flavored liqueur or orange juice
- 1 (10 ounce) package frozen raspberries with syrup, thawed
- 1 cup whipping cream, whipped
- 2 drops red food color
- Sweetened whipped cream, if desired
- Chocolate hearts, if desired
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
Crust
- In a small bowl, mix ingredients. Press firmly in bottom of an ungreased 8 inch springform pan.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Filling
- In a large bowl, beat sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and liqueur with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.
- Add raspberries; beat on low speed until well blended.
- Fold in whipped cream and red food color.
- Pour over crust.
- Freeze for at least 2 hours or until firm.
- Just before serving, let stand at room temperature about 15 minutes.
- Garnish with sweetened whipped cream and chocolate hearts.
- Store dessert in the freezer.
Chocolate Hearts
- Draw a 1 inch heart on paper; cover with a piece of waxed paper.
- In small bowl, combine 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon shortening. Microwave on Medium for 30 seconds to 1 minute to melt; stir.
- Place melted chocolate in small plastic bag; snip one corner to make very small opening.
- Pipe chocolate in heart shape, tracing pattern.
- Refrigerate until set.
- Remove from waxed paper.
- Hearts can be covered and frozen until ready to use.
Notes
Make this heavenly dessert up to 1 week before your party. After it is frozen, cover it tightly with foil.
Nutrition
Per serving: Calories 300 (Calories from Fat 160), Total Fat 18g (Saturated Fat 9g, Trans Fat 1/2g), Cholesterol 45mg; Total Carbohydrate 32g (Dietary Fiber 2g, Sugars 27g), Protein 4g
Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 8.00%; Vitamin C 10.00%; Calcium 10.00%; Iron 4.00%
Exchanges: 1 Starch; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 3 1/2 Fat; Carbohydrate Choices: 2
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Betty Crocker