Ingredients:

• One orange for each guest
• 1 – 2 jars of caramel sauce (depending on how many you are servings)

Directions:

• Using a very sharp knife, cut off the top and bottom of each orange.  Cut off the skin and pith, then cut the oranges vertically into thin slices.  Keep the oranges in the refrigerator until it is time to serve.
• Plate each orange individually.  Warm the sauce and then pour over the fruit!

Enjoy!  The combination is delicious!

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This week I came across a fun new idea for a summer dessert:  a popsicle and soda bar!   This cool treat is easily pulled together by assembling an assortment of “skinny” ice pops in a variety of fruit flavors, along with carbonated sodas and sparkling flavored waters.  Invite guests to mix and match popsicles and drinks, using the popsicles as “stirrers.”  My family tested this sunny day specialty in our kitchen and the kids loved it!

Consider purchasing red, white and blue ice pops and serving this dessert at your Fourth of July celebration!  And for more creative and doable ideas for your next summer picnic, head to “Celebrate the Fourth of July with Patriotic Panache!”

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• 2 loaves French baguette bread, cubed (about 8 cups)
• 1 12 oz. bag Nestle semi sweet chocolate morsels
• 5 eggs
• 4 c. whipping cream or half & half
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 c. sugar

Directions

• Place bread cubes in a large baking pan
• Melt the chocolate chips, cream (or half & half), sugar and vanilla in a sauce pan over low heat
• whip eggs and then add eggs to the chocolate mixture
• Pour over bread cubes
• Allow to sit for 1/2 hour
• Bake in a 325 degree oven for 35 minutes
• Serve with whipped cream and additional chocolate chips

Here’s the recipe for Family Fun’s Pail of Sand Cake!  This is a great cake for a beach or summer party!

Ingredients:

• 2 baked 8″ round yellow cakes
• 8-9 cup capacity new, plastic, washed sand pail
• 3 oz. package vanilla pudding, prepared
• 3/4c. crushed graham crackers or vanilla wafers
• Chocolate shell candies*
• 1 plastic shovel

Directions:

• Cut the cake into 1 inch pieces.  Fill the pail, alternating layers of cake pieces and pudding, ending with the pudding.
• Sprinkle on the crushed cookie sand and top with shell candies.
• Serve with the plastic shovel!

*In my town, there is a little candy shop that will make shell candies if ordered in advance.  If this resource isn’t available to you, consider candy molds from a craft store and make your own!  In a pinch, just skip them!

You may also enjoy:

• Desserts for Kids’ Parties
• Cookie Pizza
• School Birthday Treats
• Host a Fabulous Beach Birthday Party

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Combine the first 4 ingredients and mix well.  Stir in the chips and pour into a greased and floured bundt pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.  After cooling, sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar. 

This is a great recipe to bake in a seasonal Williams-Sonoma cake mold.

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