Watergate Salad

Classic Southern Desserts: All-Time Favorite Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Puddings, Cobblers, Ice Cream & MoreWatergate Salad

I can remember the first time I had this salad, My Grandmother made it when we went to visit her. This is a simple but very good dessert.This recipe makes 8( 1/2) cups serverings

You will need the following for your dessert.

1 package (get the 4 servering size) Pistachio flavor instant pudding and pie filling
1 can (20 oz) crushed pineapple in the juice, do not drain
1 cup of miniature marshmellows
1/2 cups of chopped nuts
1 1/2 cups cool whip thawed

Mix pudding mix, pineapple, marshmellows,and your chopped nuts in a large mixing bowl,mix well. Then slowly and gently stir in your cool whip. Cover and refrigerate
Refrigerate for an hour. Best when served cold

Hope you enjoy

Strawberry Shortcake

The All-American Dessert Book Strawberry Shortcake


This is a great homemade shortcake, and really hits the spot after a great Fourth of July cookout, just sitting around talking.

You will need the following for your homemade shortcake, this recipe will feed about 6

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
3/4 cup skim milk

For the filling you will need
2 pints fresh strawberries (you will need to slice these)
1 tablespoon orange juice
1 tablespoon sugar

you can use vanilla yogurt and mint leaves to put on your plate for a garnish

Step 1 Preheat your oven to 450. Spray a baking sheet with a vegetable cooking spray. (I use Pam) Then set your baking pan aside
Step 2 Take a large mixing bowl, and sift the flour, sugar,and your baking powder. Then add your grated orange peel
I take a fork and mixing the butter to the flour misture until I have coarse crumbs. Then stir in the milk and mix until the mixture is a soft dough

Step 3 Lightly flour a cutting board and begin rolling out your mixture to about 1/2 inch thickness, then take a biscuit cutter ( I just use an glass )to cut out your biscuits. Place your cut out biscuits on your baking sheet. Bake for 12 or 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Step 4 Preparing your filling. Take a large bowl add strawberrie, sugar and your orange juice and mix

Step 5 Split your warm biscuit in half, put the bottoms of your biscuits on serving plate and add your filling and top with your top half of the biscuit. you can then use the remaining filling if you have any left to garnish your dessert along with the mint leaves and yougart

Hope you will enjoy

Oreo Mud Pie

Oreo Mud Pie


This dessert goes over great with the younger children.

You will need the following to make your Orep Mud Pie.

28 Oreo cookies
2 Tablespoons butter
1/2 gal of Chocolate Ice Cream
1/2 Cup of Chocolate Fudge
1/2 Cup of Whipped Cream
1/4 Cup walnuts or peanuts

Take your 14 of your cookies and finely crush them. (I find putting them into a baggie and rolling with a rolling pin works for me.) Mix cookies and melted butter into a bowl. Then press them firmly into a 9 inch pie pan.Take the remaining cookies and stand them up along the edge of your pie pan. Put this into the freezer for 10 minutes. Remove from the freezer and spread the 1/2 gal of chocolate ice cream into the pan, freeze for 4 hours.
after 4 hours you top with the fudge, nuts, and whipped cream.

This is so good on a hot Fourth of July, and the kids will love it.

Hawaiian Wedding Cake

Hi I hope everyone had a great Easter. I am sorry I have not posted anything new, I had a fall and have been a little under the weather. I will post my daughters favorite dessert that she has to have to make the Fourth Of July complete.

Hawaiian Wedding Cake

This dessert you must referigate before servering.This is a very simple and tastes great.
You will need the following
1 White Jiffy Cake mix
2 large French Vanilla instant pudding
1 8oz Philidelphia Crean Cheese
3 Cups of Milk
1 Large can of crushed Pineapple
1 Large Cool Whip
Cocount is optional If you want to add cocount you will just need a small bag to sprinkle some on the top of your finished cake

First take your cake mix and follow the directions on the box. Set your oven at the degrees stated on the box for a pan size of 13x9. Let your cake cool down.

Your next step while the cake is in the oven would be let your cream cheese soften at room tempture, get your mixing bowl and put in the softened cream cheese and take your mixer and mix the cream cheese,then add to that your 2 large French Vanilla pudding(sometimes its hard to find the french vanilla pudding if so just use vanilla make sure its the instant)mix slowly when you have it mixed up add your 3 cups of milk. Again you will want to mix slowly because it will fly all over.

When you have your cake cooled, take your vanilla mixture and pour over cake, then spread with a knife.

Now you will take your large crushed pineapple, drain it and spread over your vanilla mixture

Now you take your cool whip and spread over the top. There you have your new dessert
If your adding cocount spread over the top to your taste.

I hope you and your family will enjoy this as much as my family does