Dessert recipes with fresh fruit for a dinner party - please share?

Answer 1

Fruit Pizza
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 cup cold butter
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups halved fresh strawberries
1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained
1 cup fresh blueberries

GLAZE:
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
1 teaspoon lemon juice

DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, combine flour and confectioners' sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Press onto an ungreased 12-in. pizza pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 12-15 minutes or until very lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
In a small mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread over crust. Arrange the strawberries, oranges and blueberries on top.
For glaze, in a small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch. Stir in pineapple juice and lemon juice until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Cool slightly. Drizzle over fruit. Refrigerate until chilled.

Answer 2

The only problem with this is that you'll have to wait for summer when you can get fresh ripe cherries in season, but if you file this away until then, you will knock their socks off!

Roasted Cherries with Red Wine

--1 cup dry red wine (a Chianti is good)
--3/4 cup sugar
--1 3-inch cinnamon stick
--2 whole cloves
--1 3-inch strip lemon zest--make sure you get the yellow part only--plus some of the juice of the lemon, to taste
--2 pounds sweet cherries, stemmed and pitted (note: if you don't have a special cherry pitter, you can push a sturdy plastic drinking straw through each cherry and the pit will pop out the other side)

Preheat the oven to 350.

Combine the wine, sugar, cinnamon stick, cloves and lemon zest in a saucepan. Bring just to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat.

When you've pitted the cherries, put them in a shallow baking dish. Pour the syrup through a mesh strainer over the fruit. Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven.

Cool the cherries in their syrup. When they've cooled enough that you won't burn your mouth, taste and decide if some of the fresh lemon juice would improve it. I always add some--but then, I do like my fruit desserts on the tart side. Your call.

You can serve the cherries warm, room temperature, or chilled, over (or alongside) vanilla ice cream.

I hope you try this--I couldn't quite believe how good they were for minimal effort!

Answer 3

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Title: Cherry Custard Tart
Categories: Desserts
Yield: 6 Servings

1 Egg white beaten
1/2 c Fresh breadcrumbs
3 c Tart red cherries
1 c Sour or whipping cream
2 Eggs
1 Egg yolk
1/2 c Granulated sugar

Preheat oven to 425 F. Brush pie shell with egg white and sprinkle with
breadcrumbs. Scatter cherries on top.
Beat together cream,eggs, egg yolk and sugar. Pour over cherries. Bake for
25 minutes or until the filling is browned and slightly puffy.

Serves 6

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Answer 4

This is soooo good
Peel and cut up fruit as usual
Make a sauce of:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sour cream....

If too thin, add more sugar

This is so simple but everyone I know loves it

Can dip fruit in or pour over fruit (fruit salad)

Answer 5

Creamy Fruit Tartlets

INGREDIENTS:
20 oz. pkg. refrigerated sugar cookie dough or your own slice and bake cookies
6 oz. carton orange yogurt
3 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
Fresh fruit (strawberries, peaches, grapes, kiwi, pineapple, blueberries)

PREPARATION:
Slice and bake cookies as directed on package or in recipe. Cool cookies completely on a wire rack. In a small bowl, mix yogurt and cream cheese and beat until smooth. Chill for 1-2 hours to firm and blend flavors.
When ready to eat, spoon some of the cream cheese mixture on cooled cookies and top with fresh fruit. Serve immediately. 24 tartlets

Answer 6

Strawberry and Apple Crumble Recipe courtesy Chef Kevin Dundon, Nine Fine Irishmen, Las Vegas

1/2 pound strawberries, hulled and sliced, plus sliced strawberries for garnish
1/2 pound cooking apples, like Granny Smith and Jonathan, peeled, cored, and sliced
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup crushed walnut halves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 pre-baked (4-inch) tart shells, recipe follows
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
5 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup oatmeal
9 tablespoons packed brown sugar
Confectioners' sugar, for garnish
Serving suggestion: Vanilla ice cream


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine the strawberries, apples, granulated sugar, walnuts, and cinnamon in a saucepan over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft.

Divide the strawberry-apples mixture among the tart shells.

Sift the flour into a bowl, rub the butter in until it looks like fine bread crumbs and add the oatmeal. Gently mix in the brown sugar. Sprinkle a thick layer of the crumble mixture on top of the fruit. Arrange the crumbles on a baking sheet and bake until lightly browned and hot and bubbly, about 20 minutes.

Divide the crumbles among plates, place a scoop of ice cream on the top of each, sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Garnish with strawberry slices.


Tart Shells:
9 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
2 beaten egg yolks
1 dash cream
2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted

In a mixer, cream the butter and sugar; then add the eggs slowly, mixing well. Add the cream. Add the flour all at once and mix to a smooth dough. Divide the dough in half and wrap in plastic wrap. Let rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out half of the dough into a large square, about 1/8 inch thick. (Freeze the other half of the dough for another use.) Cut the dough into 4 parts and line 4 (4-inch) tart pans. Line each tart with parchment paper and fill with dried beans. Bake for 15 minutes, remove the parchment and beans, and bake for 15 minutes more.

Let cool on a rack.

Yield: 4 to 8 (4-inch) tart shells

Answer 7

fruit salad with ice cream
jelly with banana
chocolate cake

Answer 8

how about fruit salad