Whenever it comes to a day of celebration, when the crowd gathers at your home or in your backyard, you need some recipes that can be quickly made and ready to be served. Memorial day (or say Decoration Day) is one such federal holiday when you remember those who died serving the country. It is the time when you celebrate the day in their honor.

Well, you would definitely need some quick bite dessert ideas if you have invited a few or many of your friends and relatives. Cooking and having chit-chat at the same time with your guest is a bit challenging but, you can do it with following easy and fast dessert ideas:

1. Texas Sheet Cake

If you want to have a dessert that can handle a big crowd, this Texas Sheet Cake can be a perfect choice. As it is a sheep pancake, it can be cut to a couple of dozens of pieces; if you be more accurate, you can cut them into 3-4 dozens of pieces too.

It is a thin cake containing natural cocoa powder and buttermilk. These two ingredients give it the lightness that is instantly counteracted when you whisk the whole thing in a hot fudge. In order to give the prepared cake a crunchy finishing, you can shower some pecans over it.

2. Tangy Strawberry Fools

Originally a British dish, a traditional fool is made by bending stewed fruit into a creamy custard. A kind of a dessert that is too heavy to be consumed in summer. Modern fools have replaced custard with whip cream which is a refreshing change but not as rich as it could be with custard.

However, it tastes super delicious if you mix whip cream with Greek custard and then cooked with slightly mashed strawberries. You can also cook lemon-blueberry and pineapple-mango fools for some variations in flavors.

3. Old Fashioned Blackberry Cobbler

This blackberry cobbler needs three key ingredients: 1. Baking soda – to tame the acidity in the fruit 2. Cinnamon – in order to intensify the flavor of blackberries 3. A tiny amount of raspberries. Raspberries are meant to balance out the sweetness with blackberries as they can taste a bit bitter if they are not finely ripe.

Moreover, the recipe is simple as all you need to do is to mix up the ingredients together for filling that would be topped with a mere drop-biscuits dough. Bake it until the filling is foamy and the biscuits are baked to golden brown.

4. The Best Cherry Pie

Fruit pies are not always easy to be made and sometimes looks like some exercise too. You must remember those times when you tried to make a recipe perfect but, often ended up with a loose filling. Well, there is secret for fruit pies and it involves some science and some numbers.

Combine the fruit with 25% of its weight in sugar and in tapioca starch, 5.5% of it. The formula works well with fresh or frozen fruits that get you thick and juicy pie each time.

5. No-Back Chocolate Nutella ‘Cheesecake’ Verrines

This no-back, conveniently single parfait offers a heavy dose of chocolate. Well, who talks about having too much of chocolate, ever? It has triple layers from an oreo cookie crust and fillings made of whip cream cheese along with Nutella and dark chocolate. Fill each dessert container with a dollop of whipped cream, crushed Oreos, and roasted hazelnut. It’s easy to make and adults or kids, everyone loves it.

6. Double Strawberry Cake

A scrumptious strawberry cake is much different from a blueberry cake. Strawberries are not as acidic as the blueberries and thus, baking soda does not react to it. So, if you put the puree in the batter, you would get a no-taste, poorly risen cake as a result.

Take the freeze-dried berries when you want to make a cake. Freeze-dried strawberries provide a concentrated dose of acidity and it does not the hydration of the dough either. Dried berries are advantageous for cake’s color and flavor.

7. Rhubarb Crisp

It is considered ar a seasonal crisp that you can cook as tart rhubarb in a thick and sweet sauce. Later, bury it under a streusal which is made out of brown sugar, wheat flour, oats, cinnamon, anise seed and some Chinese five-spice powder. Do not forget to put lots of butter. The five spiced powder and seeds of anise would surprise you for the flavor it brings in the rhubarb.

8. Blackberry Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

You read about strawberry cake earlier and now it’s blackberry’s turn. The puree of this fruit is enough to bring out the right flavor and color in the cake. A batter that is properly hydrated would not take any extra moisture of a fruit puree. So, it is the challenge here.

Blackberries are acidic and give a quick reaction to baking soda. This would only help the cake to rise well with all the tenderness and cake base needs. (Pro tip: Using egg white instead of the whole eggs into the batter would give the cake pleasant purple hue accurately.)

9. Pudding Pops

Who would deny a popsicle on a warm summer day? Especially if you are a child from 80’s or 90’, you would have fond memories of chocolate, butterscotch or vanilla popsicles. This recipe takes a few mins to get ready and then the freezing time.

It only requires some vanilla custard which you can thicken with the help of tapioca starch. Put it in your favorite mold and then dip them into a chocolate sauce or coconut oil for a crisp shell. See how yummy it turns out to be.

10. Classic Biscuit-Topped Peach Cobbler

Getting a pie crust is the toughest of the task. A cobbler is the best option as it contains the fruity delicious taste of a pie. The only difference is, it pairs well with drop biscuits which takes less labor work. You can thicken the lemon-tinged filling of peach with some cornstarch.

You can be the least concern about the moisture here in comparison to any pie. Also, you can be worry free about a soggy bottom crust as there is none of it, after all, cobblers are meant to be messy. It looks enticing that way.

These are the easiest and do not need too many ingredients to make them. It saves your making time as well as severs deliciousness to your guests. So never miss your chance of impressing your guests on this special day by these simple and quick recipes.

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