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Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert

Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert is an easy dessert that you can make from a few items in the pantry and freezer at any time of the year. It works well for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother's Day, bridal or baby showers, etc. It is sweet and rich, yet somehow also seems light and refreshing. It is a rather nostalgic dessert as it reminds me a little of an orange push-up ice cream treat from my childhood. Plus, it is a molded gelatin dessert, which always reminds me of the past. As with other gelatin and fruit dishes, someone might call this a "Jello salad" in the United States. However, this recipe uses an entire quart of orange sherbert in addition to gelatin, so I can not bring myself … Continue Reading about Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert

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Easy Maple Peanut Butter Fudge Topping

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The plan was to make the chocolate peanut butter sauce that I found in my Taste of Toronto (Ohio that is) Cookbook to take to an ice cream sundae giveaway.  I made the sugar syrup and let it cool, placed the peanut butter in the bowl, and went to the refrigerator to get the chocolate syrup only to discover there was none in the refrigerator.  No problem. . . I went to the pantry to get the spare. . . there was no chocolate syrup to be found.  I still needed another ice cream topping and there was already peanut butter in the bowl, so I began improvising.

There was no measuring or keeping track of steps.  There was just a see what I have and stick it in the bowl.  I did try to keep the Amish Peanut Butter Spread recipe in mind as I mixed in what I decided to grab.  I must say that the end result was not half bad.

peanut butter sauce

With no recipe to share for the first batch of topping, I had to develop a recipe.  I think the final recipe improved on the original by having fewer ingredients and a stronger maple flavor.

If you only want a hint of maple flavor, reduce the maple syrup amount to the desired level and add a heavy simple sugar syrup, golden syrup, or corn syrup instead.