Apple Bread Pudding

This dessert is quick and tasty. It is the season for apples in India, so they have been used in this dessert. Other seasonal fruits can also be used like strawberries, pears, bananas, pineapple or a combination of fruits. Also, this dessert is made with ingredients available at home.

This recipe serve four to five people.

Ingredients	Quantity
White Bread Slices	10
Butter	2 tbsps
Condensed Milk	3 tbsps
Milk	2 tbsps
Apples	4 medium
White Sugar (Optional)	1 tsp
Brown Sugar	2 tbsps
Bread Crumbs	2 tbsps
Water	½ cup
Cinnamon Powder	½ tsp
Lime Juice	1 tbsp
Chopped Mixed Nuts	1 tbsp
Cherries	a few
Whipped Cream (Oprional)	3 tbsps

Method for the Filling

1. Chop the washed apples into small pieces.Skin can be retained if desired.


2. Place these apple pieces in a pan and add water and heat it.


3. Cook the apple pieces till soft and add the brown sugar and cook.


4. Add the bread crumbs and cinnamon powder and cook till the extra water has evaporated.Add the nuts and lime juice.

Method for the Pudding

1. Take a baking tin or an oven proof baking dish and grease it with little butter on all the sides.This will be the serving dish too!


2. Remove the crusts of the bread and cut each slice lengthwise.


3. Butter one side of the bread slice and line the tin with butter side down on the dish. Only the required number of slices can be used.


4. After the bread slices ar set in the baking dish, bake it for two or three minutes till slightly brown.


5. Then add the apple bread crumb filling and place the remaining bread slices butter side up on the filling.


6. Mix condensed milk,milk and sugar well.


7. Pour this on top of the bread slices and bake it for nearly one hour at 200°C or till the top of the bread turns nice golden brown.


8. Remove it from the oven when done and cool it before serving.It can be served hot too.


9. Serve it decorated with sliced cherry pieces and chopped nuts and whipped cream.

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La Mango Dessert

This mango dessert is very interesting because it contains layers of icecream,breakfast cereal and mango fruit pieces. Other fruits or mixture of fruits can be used also. It is easy to prepare also. It is crunchy because breakfast cereal has been used. Here fruit loops have been used. Other varieties of cereal can also be used.Makes one serving.

Ingredients	Quantity
Condensed Milk	3 tbsps
Vanilla Ice Cream	1 medium cup
Breakfast Cereal	1 cup
Mango Puree	¼ cup
Ripe Mango Pieces	from 2 mangoes

Method

1. Take condensed milk,vanilla icecream and mango puree in a bowl and whisk it with a blender well. Keep it aside.


2. To serve,take a tall glass or a goblet and place two tablespoons of the icecream mixture at the bottom,then place a layer of mango pieces and then a layer of cereal{loops}. Repeat this layering till the cereal is the top layer.


3. Sprinkle some fresh mango pieces on top and chill this glass in the fridge and serve it cold.


4. Note:Instead of icecream and condensed milk, whipped cream and sugar can be used.

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Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich

This is a quick and easy dessert for kids especially.If you have Marie biscuits,icecream and fruits this dessert can be prepared in jiffy.

This recipe makes two sandwiches.

Ingredients	Quantity
Marie Biscuits/Any Other Cookie	4
Vanilla Ice Cream/Or Any Flavour	1 scoop
Ripe Banana Slices	4
Mixed Chopped Dry Fruits	2 tsps

Method

1. Take two biscuits and place them upside down on a flat surface.


2. Take a tablespoon of icecream and put it on one biscuit.


3. Then plac a banana slice on it and cover it with the other biscuit and press it gently.


4. Repeat with the other two cookies.


5. Quickly place these sandwiches in a plate and keep them in the freezer for some time till the icecream freezes.


6. They can be served as a snack or as a dessert.


7. Instead of vanilla icecream,chocolate or strawberry ice cream with nuts or strawberry can be used.

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Banana Icecream Dessert

To coax children to eat fruits like banana is sometimes difficult. But you can serve it in a different way with icecream of their choice and ultimately eat the fruit.The kids would love to eat this yummy dessert.You can make two servings.

Ingredients	Quantity
Vanilla Ice Cream	2 scoops
Ripe Banana	1
Butter	½ tsp
Brown Sugar/Honey	1 tsp
Almond Slivers	a few

Method

1. Peel the banana and slice it in the center to get two long slices.


2. Take butter in a pan and heat it.


3. Place these banana slices in the hot butter and sprinkle brown sugar or honey and fry till golden brown.Cool them.


4. Take a serving bowl and place a scoop of icecream and beside it the banana slice and decorate it with almond slivers and tuti fruiti.

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Fruit Custard Canapes

This recipe can be served as a dessert and is easy to prepare. The filling can have any fruit of your choice and availability. Here custard has been used but one can use any sweet filling of your choice.Children will love it!

Ingredients	Quantity
Canapes	6
Custard Powder	2 tbsps
Milk	1¾ cups
Sugar	2 tbsps
Chopped Apples	2 tbsps
Chopped Nuts	1 tbsp
Cherries	for decoration
Oil	for shallow frying

Method

1. Shallow fry the canapes and store them in an airtight jar till required.


2. To make the custard filling,take a pan and add about one and quarter cups of milk and boil.


3. Mix in half a cup of cold milk the custard powder and sugar well.


4. When the milk boils,lower the heat and add this custsrd milk mixture into it and
   stir till it becomes thick. Take it out from the heat and cool it.


5. Add the chopped apples or any other fruits and keep it in the refrigerator to cool.


6. Just before serving,fill the canapes with a tablespoon or more of the custard fruit mixture and decorate it with chopped nuts and cherries.This is a good dessert for summer.

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Quick Fruit Dessert

This dessert can be made with whatever fruits available in the house. It can also be made with only one kind of fruit like mango, pineapple or strawberry etc to enjoy a single flavour.

Ingredients	Quantity
Apple	1
Grapes	½ cup
Pineapple pieces	a few
Orange	1
Banana	1
Musk Melon Pieces	½ cup
Strawberries	4
Tuti Fruiti (or Vanilla) Ice Cream	6 scoops
Fresh Cream	½ cup
Jelly (Jell O)	1 pkt

Method

1. Make the jello with the jelly crstals as per instructions on the packet and keep it in the fridge to set.


2. Chop the the fruits with a steel knife into small pieces into a bowl.


3. Take icecream and fresh cream in a bowl and whip them together with an electric hand beater well and add the fruits.Mix them lightly.


4. Keep the contents in a serving bowl and keep it in the fridge to chill.


5. To serve,take two scoops of the icream fruit mixture in a dessert bowl and put the set jelly on it and sprinkle some candied sugar.

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