Whether you want to use apples, pomegranates, dates…or you simply like having lighter fruit-inspired desserts after heavy Yom Tov meals–you’ll find the perfect ending to your meal right here. While it’s hard to classify desserts as “healthy,” fruit-based desserts tend to be lighter and more refreshing than lots of heavier alternatives. And while except for…
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Caramel Apple Cheesecake Ramekins (Pareve)
A shortbread cookie, cheesecake layer, tart apples, oat crumble, generously topped with caramel–it’s a combination that’s too good to pass up. This isn’t a new recipe. I’ve been making these in the bar version for years. But I never thought to share because, one, this dessert is not my idea. It’s a classic popular dessert…
Pomegranate Ice Cream
Elevate the flavors of ice cream with this perfect-for-Rosh Hashanah easy to prep ice cream dessert. Before the days of Between Carpools, I used to share my original recipes in Mishpacha and Ami magazines and any adapted recipes I shared (with permission) on my food website called cookkosher.com. A few years ago, cookkosher kept crashing….
Watermelon and Feta… Cake
Celebrate a birthday – or any special occasion – with a different kind of cake. Not everyone loves birthday cake. Is that blasphemous? For one of my kids, I try to come up with a different kind of “cake” for her birthday. Something she’ll really enjoy instead of just doing the cliched frosted cake. One…
Strawberry Crunch Ice Cream Cake
The most perfect, refreshing, 4-ingredient strawberry ice cream dessert. My first attempt to duplicate the flavors of the Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars I remembered enjoying as a kid came when writing Kids Cooking Made Easy. In that cookbook, I made a vanilla streusel and a strawberry streusel made using strawberry jel powder, and combined…
The Har Sinai Ice Cream Cake
If there’s one dessert you will make for your children this Shavuos, this ice cream cake is it. It was at our Between Carpools Shavuos planning meeting that this brainstorm came about. We knew we wanted to include a Har Sinai cake. But what? It had to be cute. And easy and fun to prepare….
No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse Pie
Don’t want to use the oven? Make this creamy, light, and refreshing strawberry cheesecake mousse pie. If you don’t have a milchig oven, guess what–there’s still lots of creamy, dairy, delicious desserts you can make. This Coulis with Cheesecake Cream is one of them. These Frozen Lotus Cannolis are another. There’s also lots of great…
Our Best Desserts You Can Possibly Make for Shavuos
It’s really, really, hard to choose which Between Carpools desserts to make first. Ummm….yeah. When you put all the best, most delicious cakes and desserts in one roundup, it kinda gets really hard to choose what to make. Like impossible. What do you do when it’s just your own family eating the desserts and you…
Corn Muffin Tiramisu
Forget the ladyfingers. Forget the coffee even. This tiramisu-inspired dessert swaps ladyfingers for crisp cubes of corn muffin layered with a cheesecake cream. We are corn muffin fans. That’s especially true when it comes to the crispy tops. Some of us are guilty of taking off the top and leaving the bottoms (as if there’s…
Mini Fruit Pops
These Mini Fruit Pops are the best, most refreshing way to end a Yom Tov meal. Yom Tov meals are festive, joyous and at times… heavy. After an appetizer of these amazing pulled beef egg rolls, a soup and a main like this standing rib roast (I prepare it for Pesach the same way but…
