Cut crenshaw melon with strawberry filling.
Few things in life are more beautiful than a bowl full of red strawberry hearts. There are dozens of ways to create strawberry desserts. A simple bowl dusted with sugar and swimming in cream is enough to satisfy a sweet tooth, but there’s no need for the crafty cook to stop there. Strawberry shortcake might be the first strawberry dessert that comes to mind, but there are also strawberry crepes, tarts, cakes, and even cheesecakes and puddings to consider.
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Fresh fresh from the garden or farmer’s market, pristine strawberries don’t require much of this and that to make a truly elegant dessert. Instead of pouring cream over a ruby bowl, whipped cream that’s been gently dosed with a drop of vanilla or almond extract offers another option. Pass a slice of pound cake or a sweet roll under the berries and the gates of heaven will simply appear.
Strawberry coulis around a dessert.
Cooks with a little more time might consider creating a strawberry parfait. This dessert is almost as easy, requiring only chopped fruit, ice cream or pudding, and whipped cream. These three things can be placed in a parfait glass to create a feast for the eyes and the tongue.
Crepes are easy to make and always impress. Once the batter is cooked into thin pancakes and then rolled with sliced sugared strawberries, the dessert needs nothing more than a little icing sugar. Strawberries welcome other fruits that are rolled inside crepes, especially bananas, blueberries, or sliced peaches.
Topping vanilla pudding with strawberries is delicious and pretty for dessert.
Other incredibly easy yet utterly elegant strawberry desserts include those that have been dipped in a chocolate fondue. Melted dark, milk, or white chocolate adheres to the shell of the strawberries, giving a smooth, sweet exterior sheen. Serving just two or three plump chocolate covered berries with a few walnuts or pistachios makes for a satisfying dessert.
Fresh strawberries can be used in a variety of desserts or eaten on their own.
Cooks who love to bake can create a new strawberry dessert a week and not run out of ideas for many, many months. Strawberries perched on top of angel food cake are a low-fat treat, and layering sliced fruit with pudding or whipped cream between layers of a stacked cake is decidedly tasty. The cheesecake is transformed with a handful of strawberries into a perfect pink dessert.
The cakes can be filled with strawberry cream.
If the long, clear days of summer have turned into the calm of winter, there is no need to despair. The wise cook remembers to wash, quarter and freeze strawberries when they are plentiful. A handful or two tossed into the blender with a scoop of ice cream produces another winner among the perfect strawberry desserts.