Desserts and a Thanksgiving party, too

I'm hosting Save Room for Dessert at Our Krazy Kitchen today. Stop by and link your dessert recipes.

We also have a Thanksgiving party right through Thanksgiving, so stop by to give and receive ideas, recipes, pictures, anecdotes, etc. Let's all have fun together.

Have you saved room for dessert?

Each Wednesday I host Save Room for Dessert at The Krazy Kitchen, a blog hosted by seven blog friends, and we have a different carnival or meme for each day of the week.

It's easy to participate in Save Room for Dessert Wednesday (or any of the other daily memes,) -- just regular blog etiquette to be polite and fair to all -- no difficult rules.

Just post a dessert recipe on your blog, link to Save Room for Dessert, link your participating dessert recipe post to MckLinky found on the weekly Save Room for Dessert posts at The Krazy Kitchen, and visit each other for great dessert ideas, recipes and blog friendships.

Each week, I also feature some participants and their recipes from previous weeks. It could be YOU!

It's fun, it's easy, and it's always DELICIOUS reading!
Join us! :-)

Back-to-school caramel apple dip recipe: Save room for dessert

With back-to-school days come every mother's concern of packing nutritious and delicious school lunches. Before we started homeschooling our son, we had to deal with school lunch rules which were invented and enforced with the same kind of gusto displayed by Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi." On the banished list were all types of desserts. Not a single cookie was allowed. Not a single Hershey's Kiss - even on Valentine's Day!

We were, however, allowed to pack a fruit, and this caramel apple dip was always able to pass under the radar thanks to that wholesome apple which accompanied it. Our son and his friends loved the yummy goodness; the mothers loved that they were eating those apples while still getting a little treat in disguise.


Each Wednesday, I'm hosting Save Room for Dessert at The Krazy Kitchen, so please do join me there tomorrow to submit your own great dessert recipe posts.

Bon appetit,


Caramel Apple Dip Recipe
8 oz. cream cheese (1 package)
1 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped nuts (omit for schools allergic to nuts!)

Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Stir in nuts. Serve with apple slices. Can also go well with pears. Great for parties too!

Julia Child's Mousse au Chocolat or Chocolate Mousse

With so many people rediscovering Julia Child, or discovering her for the first time, with the help of the movie Julie & Julia, and Julie Powell's book by the same name, I thought it would be fun to save room for a Julia Child dessert.

Today, I'm sharing her Mousse au Chocolat or Chocolate Mousse. It's all over the Internet, including on well-respected sites, likely a recipe used by the publisher for press releases and other promotions, so I'm saving you the Google search. ;-)

Even David Lebovitz who lives that sweet life in Paris says "her recipe is a classic...."

Don't forget that I'm hosting Save Room for Dessert each Wednesday at The Krazy Kitchen, so please do join me there tomorrow to submit your own great dessert recipe posts.

Bon appetit,


Julia Child's Classic Chocolate Mousse
8 oz sweet or semi sweet baking chocolate, melted with
1/4 cup strong coffee
3 oz unsalted butter (6 Tb)
3 egg yolks
1 cup heavy cream (make sure it's the heavy variety)
3 egg whites
1/4 cup instant (finely ground) sugar
whipped cream (not so optional)

Beat the soft butter into the smoothly melted chocolate. One by one, beat in the egg yolks.
Beat the cream over ice until it leaves light traces on the surface.
Beat the egg whites until they form soft peaks. While beating, sprinkle in the sugar by spoonfuls and continue beating until stiff shining peaks are formed.
Scrape the chocolate mixture down the side of the egg-white bowl, and delicately fold in the whipped cream.
Turn the mousse into attractive serving bowls. Cover and chill several hours. You may wish to decorate the mousse with swirls of whipped cream, or to pass whipped cream separately.

From: The Way to Cook by Julia Child
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
ISBN: 0-394-53264-3

Do you Save Room for Dessert?

It's time for me to host Save Room for Dessert at The Krazy Kitchen. Don't miss out on the Brown Sugar Cookies recipe I posted there, and join us with your own delicious dessert recipes.

Do you save room for dessert?

It's time to head over to the Krazy Kitchen where I host Save Room for Dessert Wednesday!

• Today I have a delicious black walnut cookie recipe waiting for you at the Krazy Kitchen, and I hope you'll join me and the other bloggers by participating with your own dessert recipes each Wednesday.
• Don't forget those tried-and-true family recipes for Vintage Recipe Thursday, right here at Joy of Desserts. They can be sweet or savory, and can come from an old cookbook or magazine, too.
• Don't miss out on my latest giveaway. I have 5 copies of the brand-new, movie tie-in, paperback edition of Julie & Julia by Julie Powell. It's about blogging; it's about French food; it's about life; it's about women; it's all about Julie Powell and Julia Child. You will love it!

Save room for dessert: no-bake cherry cheesecake

Photo: Flicker Commons/is2vampires

The lazy days of summer have a reputation for a reason. It's hot, some of us are on vacation, others wish they were, and often the last thing we want to do is turn up the heat in our kitchens by baking. I have just the answer for this week's Save Room for Dessert -- a delicious, no-bake cherry cheesecake recipe.

Head over to The Krazy Kitchen for the complete recipe where I am hosting the Save Room for Dessert carnival.

Lots of recipes, a giveaway, lots to enjoy!

I'm hosting Save Room for Dessert over at The Krazy Kitchen, today. I posted a sweet and easy banana ice cream recipe, just in time for Friday's second annual ice cream roundup (here at Joy of Desserts). Don't miss out on either!

Last week, we had some great dessert recipes at Save Room for Dessert, such as: Irresistible Brownies, Carrot Cheesecake, Pineapple Cream Cheese Icing, Blueberry Coffeecake, Peach Ice and Regal Raspberry Sauce.

Most of us had fresh, summer fruits on our minds, but we still had a chocolate recipe to please all the chocoholics.

You are all invited to join in with Save Room for Desserts each Wednesday, with Vintage Recipe Thursday each week, with the second annual ice cream roundup this Friday, and with the Julie & Julia book giveaway through August 21!

There's lots to enjoy!

Save Room For Dessert And Follow Me To The Krazy Kitchen!

I'm hosting at The Krazy Kitchen today, and posting two delicious recipes: Peach Ice and Regal Raspberry Sauce, for a cool summer update on the classic Peach Melma.

I share my opinion based on medical and scientific research about why we should all enjoy eating desserts too.

So come on, save room for dessert and follow me over to The Krazy Kitchen to participate in this new weekly carnival!

JOY

Save Room For Dessert, Giveaway, Roundup, And MORE!

Lots of exciting things are coming soon.

Here are just a few announcements I want to let all of you know about right now:

• Tamy of 3 Sides of Crazy has started a new blog:

ThE KrAzY KiTcHeN!

And I'm part of it!

This new blog has lots of interesting content with a different food-related carnival for each day of the week. I'm hosting Save Room For Dessert each Wednesday at The Krazy Kitchen. So join me on Wednesdays with dessert recipes. The more we are, the merrier it will be, and the more people will discover your own blogs. And join Tamy, and the rest of us all week too.

• Be on the lookout for a great new giveaway, right here at Joy Of Desserts!

Julie & Julia
More details soon! ;-)

• Don't forget the 2nd Annual Ice Cream Roundup in just a couple of weeks, on Friday, July 31, 2009! The more recipes we collect the tastier our summers will be and the more people will discover your blogs too, so we all win in every way!

• And last, but far from least, just a hint to look for MORE in the very near future!