Strawberry Biscuit Sheet Cake

There isn’t any dessert extra quintessentially summer season than strawberry shortcake, however making particular person shortcakes for a bunch simply is not sensible. For this crowd-pleasing model, we bake biscuits facet by facet in 1 / 4 sheet pan. Because the biscuits bake, they rise and increase, forming a cake-like layer of fluffy biscuit. Topped with piles of whipped cream and calmly macerated berries, you’ll be able to anticipate layers of juicy, creamy, and crunchy in each chew. 

Ideas:

• Transporting a biscuit sheet cake: In case you are touring with this cake, make the biscuits and hold them of their pan. Convey a container of macerating berries and chilly cream with you. Whip the cream and prime the cake on the final minute to keep up the integrity of the textures. 
• Pack the cream in a jar: Even higher, pack the cream in a quart jar and use the jar to shake the cream till it’s whipped (or get somebody to do that for you).

Texas Sheet Cake

In case you and your pals fall into the “fruit desserts aren’t dessert—give me chocolate!” camp, this tackle the Texas sheet cake is for you. The wealthy, fudgy cooked frosting will fulfill household and associates who assume no dessert is simply too wealthy. 

Ideas:

• For a extra elegant presentation: Use the parchment paper sling that traces the cake pan to raise the cooled cake onto a platter earlier than pouring over the glaze. Then substitute the chopped pecans with entire toasted pecans organized on prime in your required sample. 
• If serving from the pan, use a cake pan, not a sheet pan: Observe the recipe and make this cake in a 9-by-13-inch cake pan (versus a sheet pan) because the recipe requires. The cake pan has larger sides and permits extra room for pouring a beneficiant serving of glaze over prime with out it spilling over the pan in the event you’re serving it instantly from the pan.

Peach Pie Crumble Bars

This fruit pie crumble bar is tremendous adaptable. It is like a pie in that it has a tangy candy fruit filling that may be modified with the seasons, nevertheless it’s baked in a cake pan and reduce into squares for hand-held consuming. We combine up a easy double-duty crust. A few of it’s pressed right into a cake pan to create the underside crust and topped with a easy fruit combination. End it off by crumbling the remaining crust combination on prime, then bake till bubbly. Make sure you let it cool utterly earlier than reducing and serving. One of many causes I like to recommend these bars for summer season entertaining—apart from that they style so good—is that they’re simple to move.

Ideas:

• For the very best textured prime that appears and tastes good: Take the time to squeeze a few of the topping into clumps earlier than dropping over the filling.
• Make sure you totally bake the bars to make sure a dry, never-soggy crust: How will you inform the crust is totally baked? The filling ought to be aggressively effervescent within the middle.
• They are not only for summer season: These bar cookies are seasonally adaptable. Change the fruit to go well with the seasons and your style, from peaches or plums in the summertime to apples or pears within the fall. Attempt utilizing frozen berries or cherries within the winter. If the fruit is a bit tangy, add a bit extra sugar. If it’s extremely juicy (as berries could be) add a bit extra flour to the filling. 

Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

It isn’t that this cookie truly serves extra individuals, it is the ridiculous ease with which it comes collectively that justifies its inclusion on this roundup. No chilling or scooping of the dough required, only a single bowl and a picket spoon are all it takes to combine up the dough. Contemplate this a template for creativity. Our recipe has chocolate chips, however be happy so as to add 1/2 cup or so of chopped toasted pecans or walnuts, a handful of toffee chips, and even 1/2 cup of oats or dried fruit. 

Ideas:

• To serve heat: Place the cookie within the oven once you sit right down to eat (it takes about 20 minutes to bake and 5 minutes to chill) then serve heat with vanilla ice cream. In case you are grilling, you’ll be able to bake this in your grill over oblique warmth. 
• To serve: Convey the cookie within the skillet proper to the desk and serve slices straight from the pan. 

No-Bake Blueberry Cheesecake for a Crowd

As a baker, I’m not huge on no-bake desserts, however I do love an excellent cheesecake. This distinctive cake makes use of a mix of cream cheese and ricotta, blended till silky easy, with tangy contemporary lemon juice and a great deal of whipped cream folded in for an ethereally mild outcome. Unfold over a graham cracker crust in layers with contemporary blueberries, and chill till set. The entire thing is topped with a blueberry sauce and much more contemporary blueberries for serving. A bathe of contemporary mint leaves wouldn’t be misplaced. One chew and you can be hooked—and so will your company. 

Ideas:

• I’d suggest making this magnificence once you’re internet hosting quite than transporting to a different location.
• Swap blueberries for strawberries or peaches, each are simply pretty much as good as the unique.

Orange Cardamom Bundt Cake

Bundt truffles are the final word easy-to-transport dessert. They maintain up nicely to a automotive journey, get higher with age (no must make them day of), and are equally acceptable served at breakfast, brunch, tea, or for dessert (with an enormous spoon of calmly sweetened whipped cream, after all). 

I like to provide this Bundt a double soak with a buttery orange-scented glaze. For the primary, I poke deep holes into the still-warm cake and brush it with glaze, permitting the glaze to seep deep into the cake. Then I brush the skin with that very same glaze for a crackly shiny crust. This crust additionally works as a sealant of types, extending the lifetime of the cake so you’ll be able to take pleasure in it for a lot of days. 

This citrus glaze methodology works nicely with two of my different favorites, Triple Citrus Bundt and Key Lime Bundt.

Ideas:

• To make sure the cake slips proper out of the ornate bundt pan: Liberally brush each crevice of the Bundt pan with softened butter, then mud with flour. Wash nicely after use ensuring no bits of cake are caught to the pan, then dry nicely earlier than utilizing once more. 
• Don’t use a classic bundt pan: A superb heavy nonstick pan will work wonders at releasing the cake. Outdated, skinny, or scratched pans are a recipe (pun meant) for failure. 
• Let it cool for 10 minutes: Do not attempt to flip the cake out of the pan too quickly, give it an excellent 10 minutes (however not for much longer). This may permit for it to arrange, however not give it a lot time that it sticks to the pan.