http://www.chocolatechump.com/dessert/dessert-products.html Dessert products are easy to find pre-made in any grocery store, but there are also many dessert products that make it easy for you to make tasty desserts on your own with little or no effort. en-us Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:56:52 EST Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:56:52 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 Does the idea of making a dessert intimidate you or enliven you? For some, it gets their creative juices flowing. Dessert Products Make Your Life Easier If you're new to cooking, you might think you can't do some things that you in fact can do. Sometimes creating beautiful desserts is easier than you think, especially with the amount of dessert products on the market today. You can take the really easy way out and just buy something from the bakery in your local grocery store, or you can buy a frozen dessert from the freezer section. No effort involved! But you don't get to take any of the credit, either. If you've ever wanted someone to ask you for your recipe for a particular dessert because it's so good, your time has come. There are so many dessert products out there that can help you. For instance, you might have seen a French Silk pie or a chocolate cream pie with those neat chocolate curls on top, but you never thought you could recreate that look yourself. But you can. Simply buy a thick bar of semi-sweet chocolate (this can be found in your grocery store's bakery aisle) and use a vegetable peeler to create chocolate curls on your own. Easy! And speaking of easy chocolate cream pies, what could be easier than buying a premade crust baking it, making pudding from a box, filling the pie shell, chilling it, and adding whipped topping and chocolate curls to the top? You can make a great looking and great tasting pie made mostly from the dessert products that came right from your grocery store. Making brownies and cookies is easier than ever now too. As if making brownies from a mix isn't easy enough, you can now buy the bars of brownies that you just break off and bake. Top individual brownies with frosting from a can, or ice cream and chocolate syrup and you have a nice little treat. And cookie dough--now there's where you have options! You can buy it in a roll, flatten it out on a pizza pan, bake it, and top it with anything you like. In fact, fruit pizzas have a sugar cookie crust, then they are topped with a mixture of cream cheese and sugar, then fruit pieces are added. You can even buy a tub of strawberry or hone almond flavored cream cheese instead of mixing cream cheese and sugar yourself. And sometimes you can buy fruit precut (or use frozen fruit that's been thawed and drained) and arrange it on the fruit pizza to make pretty designs. All so simple, and with minimal effort due to all the dessert products on the market to make your life easier. Then there are the dessert products that are in the form of mixes. The whole baking aisle is full of them! There are cheesecake mixes, muffin mixes, cookie mixes, cake mixes, brownie mixes, canned frosting...it goes on and on! With so much help, there's really no reason to fear baking anymore. Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:56:52 EST http://www.chocolatechump.com/dessert/chocolate-dessert-products.html Chocolate Dessert Products have been a staple in man's diet dating back to early times. The sentimental, spiritual and healing properties of chocolate have made it an ideal gift item. Let chocolate dessert products fill your stockings this holiday season. en-us Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:08:48 EST Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:08:48 EST Weblog Editor 2.0