Labor Day Bash Dessert Ideas!

[cakerookie]

OK everyone that helped me with that 4th of July bash give me some tips here. The food will be served inside in an air conditioned room this is a Labor party but I really do not know what to include in it. Any help appreciated. Be feeding about 120 people. Would like to limit the dessert selection to just 3 items if possible.

Thanks Rook...

[m brown]

Cream Biscuits with Fresh Whipped Heavy Cream and Marinated Fresh Berries.

Key Lime tarts with toasted meringue and coconut crust.

Key Lime ice cream in coconut Nest

Pineapple Vanilla Bean Coconut cake

Frangipane tarts with fresh cherries

individual tres leches cakelets

chocolate caramel tarts in chocolate brisee crust

malted milk chocolate mousse parfait with fresh toasted marshmallows and graham cracker cookies


Jello! (cause there is always room!)

[cakerookie]

Pineapple Vanilla Bean Coconut cake
malted milk chocolate mousse parfait with fresh toasted marshmallows and graham cracker cookies

M these sound really good do you have a recipe? Or know where I can get one. For the last few years all I have done is cakes for this one I wanted to do something different this year.

Rgds Rook

[m brown]

For the pineapple cake I use a white vanilla bean sponge cake.
add crushed pinapple to my vanilla bean butter cream
wash the cake with simple syrup and coconut milk
ice with butter cream and cover with sweet shredded coconut

the milk chocolate mousse is a simple milk chocolate gananch with carnation malted milk powder. soften and fold equal parts ganach and soft whipped heavy cream. You can make fresh marshmallows and cut into squares or use jet puffs.

[lyneotto]

Anything Jello will make your guest's smile!!!!
And...there are plenty of ideas on the net. Google Jello, or do jello.com...amazing! Bonus: it's a make ahead!
Mango ice cream in coconut shells...
Go for easy...it's summer!
Fruit, berries, in tarts, or shells, with frangipanie (sp) cream
Keep it simple, and make way ahead...
L

[cakerookie]

Thanks thats some good tips.

Rgds Rook

[chrose]

Originally Posted by cakerookie

malted milk chocolate mousse parfait with fresh toasted marshmallows and graham cracker cookies


Rgds Rook

OMG that sounds good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[panini]

Margarita pie:
Take any key lime pie recipe.
change the crust to ground salted pretzels and butter.
add triple sec and taquilla
and there you go!
For best results use the recipe off the Nelly and Joes key lime juice bottle.

[siduri]

about the jello - it's all fake - artificial color, artificial FLAVOR! - do you know it's just as easy to make a real gelatin with real fruitjuice as it is to make jello? If you like that sort of thing (transparent jiggly colorful fruity deserts that practically have no substance) then do it real! You need to add sugar, lemon juice, and fruitjuice, a bit of water to dissolve the gelatin in, and heat. I can get the proportions if you want, but please don't use jello.

Otherwise - desert possibilities are endless.
I would like a bavarian cream, vanilla, chocolate and possibly there are raspberries around at that time? It's creamy but light (uses that gelatin!) and if made well, out of this world.
You could do three different ones, to accommodate different tastes.

What about a chocolate sponge roll with coffee buttercream made with egg whites?

Or that wonderful light desert the pavlova - crispy chewy meringue base, whipped cream with raspberries, strawberries (no, not in season), peaches?