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The Dessert Center
"Make memorable desserts - pies, cakes, ice cream, and more."
At The Dessert Center, you will find mixes, tools, ingredients, recipes, articles and techniques to make great desserts.
How to make Desserts
 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Monkey Bread. Think of monkey bread as a technique, a type of dessert, with supporting recipes. Monkey bread is easy to make and doesn’t require a lot of precision. You have to wait for the bread to rise but there is not a great time commitment.
All about Cobblers and Crisps and How to Build Them Cobblers and crisps are very forgiving. They’re perfect fodder for freelancing. You can mix and match fruits for the filling. You can add the topping of your choice. You can make them as sweet as you like.
All About Strawberry Shortcakes Strawberry shortcake may be a 200 year-old American invention. With the advent of chemical leavenings in the early 1800’s, biscuits became popular. Since strawberries have always been readily available, it is likely that biscuits and strawberries have been together for quite some time.
How to Bake the Perfect Cheesecake. Cheesecakes have stood the test of time. And well they should—they are wonderfully decadent desserts. In this article, we’ll tell you how to make delicious cheesecakes that are picture perfect.
The Perfect Crust There are tricks to making perfect pie crusts. The first is maintaining the correct balance of ingredients and the second is temperature.
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Dessert Mixes
 Cinnamon Monkey Bread.With this easy-to-make cinnamon monkey bread mix, you will bake old-fashioned pull-apart cinnamon rolls that you can serve as a snack, dessert, or party food.- Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes are wonderful little cakes filled with warm, oozing chocolate sauce and dusted with powdered sugar or topped with whipped cream.
- The Original Mississippi Mud Pie Picture a rich chocolaty filling in a crumbly, chocolate crust—perfect for family, guests, or that special occasion.
- Caramel Swirl Crumb Cake The caramel streusel that you place on top of the batter swirls and buckles through the cake as it bakes for a very unusual and attractive dessert, snack, or coffeecake. When you slice it, you find ribbons of crumbly caramel laced through a snow-white cake.
- Maple Nut Rolls We took our very popular cinnamon rolls, our "better than scratch" cinnamon rolls, and made maple nut rolls. We loaded up the filling with brown sugar, gourmet maple chips, and premium walnuts. Then we created a thick, maple frosting to top them with.
- Cinnamon Buns with White Fondant Frosting Picture hot cinnamon buns fresh from your oven that are light and fluffy and loaded with cinnamon with just a touch of nutmeg. Then top them with a wonderful, white fondant frosting.
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Chocolate
Great chocolate makes great desserts and so many of our great desserts call for chocolate. Always use the very best chocolate.
There is a great variety of chocolate available to the baker. Choosing the right chocolate is essential. Knowing how to use it is equally essential. To help you choose the right chocolate and craft that into the very best desserts, we've created a free chocolate guide for the baker.
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Favorite Recipes
 Cream Cheese Tarts Recipe. These easy little cheesecake tarts are made in a muffin tin as you would cupcakes. Though adults will be pleased with these tarts, they are worth considering as a substitute for cupcakes at your child’s next birthday party.- Strawberry Shortcakes are made from every recipe from biscuits to white cake and even angel food cakes but the original recipes always called for biscuits. Usually these biscuits are made richer with dairy products and sugar. This is an original biscuit-like shortcake. It is rich and tender and flaky and very, very good.
- Brownie Pudding Cake Sundae. This scrumptious dessert makes a party of any occasion. Think “hot fudge sundae” plus a little peanut butter in the cake. Serve this pudding cake topped with vanilla ice cream, chopped nuts, and a cherry and you have a gala dessert that kids of all ages will love.
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