Dessert Ideas for Large Groups

Imagine you are having a party at your place on a weekend and you need dessert ideas for a party of about 70 people. Or you have volunteered to help out at your kid's school and need to prepare dessert recipes for a large group of children! May be you need dessert ideas for large group of people coming home from your spouse's office.

You feel pretty hopeless in such a situation and do not want to let down your loved ones. This article will cover some appealing and easy dessert recipes for a crowd and will prove to be not only a crowd pulling dessert but an also crowd pleasing recipe.

Ingredients

• Fresh blueberries, 3 lb.
• Flour, 3 cups
• Sweetened condensed milk, 2⅔ cups
• Softened butter, 1 cup
• Grated lemon peel, 1 tbsp.
• Baking powder, 4 tsp.
• Salt, 1 tsp.

Method of Preparation

• Pre-heat oven to 350ºF.
• In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Using a fork or your fingers to crumble butter into the bowl.
• Add sweetened condensed milk and stir to mix well.
• Add the lemon peel.
• Now, stir in the blueberries.

• Pour the blueberry mixture into a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
• Sprinkle Streusel Topping (recipe below) over the blueberry batter.
• Bake for 1 hour and 40 minutes, until golden brown.

• If you want to prevent the topping from turning too dark, cover the pie with foil for the final 15 minutes of baking.
• Insert a toothpick near the center of the cobbler and check if its ready.
• If the toothpick comes out clean, the blueberry cobbler is ready to be served.

Ingredients

• Flour, 1 cup
• Brown sugar, ½ cup
• Chopped Pecans, ½ cup
• Softened butter, ⅓ cup

Method of Preparation

• Mix flour and sugar in a mixing bowl and add butter.
• Mix well until crumbly.
• Stir in the Pecans into the mixture.
• The Streusel topping is ready to be poured on the blueberry batter.

Preparation time: 20 - 25 minutes
Number of Serves: 15 - 18 depending on portion size

Ingredients

• Raspberries (frozen in syrup), 20 oz.
• Peaches (sliced, canned, in syrup), 1 can
• Peach syrup, 1 pint
• Dairy sour cream, 1 quart
• Brown sugar, 1½ cups

• Sugar, 1 cup
• Butter (melted), ½ cup
• Vanilla extract, 2 tsp.
• Ground cinnamon, ½ tsp.
• Ground cloves, ¼ tsp.

Method of Preparation

• Mix the dairy sour cream, sugar, vanilla extract, and ground cinnamon.
• Chill the mixture to prepare vanilla sour cream topping for the peach raspberry compote dessert recipe for a crowd.
• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.

• Thaw the frozen raspberries.
• Save the liquid after draining the peaches.
• Add peaches in a shallow, full-size steam table pan and sprinkle raspberries over it.
• Mix brown sugar and the remaining ingredients.

• Pour this mixture over the fruits. Bake on 350°F. in the oven for 30 minutes.
• Serve the dessert warm with chilled vanilla sour cream topping.

Preparation time: 40 minutes
Number of Serves: 24 servings of ½ cup each.

Ingredients for the Cake

• Eggs, 2
• All-purpose flour, 2 cups
• Sugar, 2 cups
• Butter or margarine, 1 cup
• Water, 1 cup
• Buttermilk, ½ cup
• Baking cocoa, ¼ cup
• Baking soda, 1 tsp.
• Vanilla extract, 1 tsp.
• Salt, ½ tsp.

Ingredients for the Topping

• Coconut, 14 oz.
• Evaporated milk (divided), 12 oz.
• Marshmallows, 20 lg.
• Slivered almonds (toasted and divided), 2 cups
• Sugar (divided), 1¼ cups
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips, 1 cup
• Butter or margarine, ½ cup

Method of Preparation

• Add flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl.
• Combine butter, water, and cocoa in a saucepan.
• Cook and stir the butter and cocoa until butter is melted.

• Add it to the dry ingredients.
• Mix eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla and add it to chocolate mixture and mix well.
• Pour the batter into a greased 15x10x1" baking pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 20 - 25 minutes.
• Check for doneness, using a toothpick inserted in the center and this toothpick is supposed to come out clean.

• While the cake is being baked in the oven, in a saucepan, add 1 cup evaporated milk, ¾ cup sugar and marshmallows and cook until the marshmallows melt.
• Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the coconut. Immediately sprinkle 1 cup almonds over cake and spread coconut mixture over the top.

• Sprinkle the cake with the remaining almonds.
• Keep in mind the pan will be full by now.
• Now combine butter with remaining milk and sugar in a saucepan.
• Cook and stir till the butter melts.

• Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the chocolate chips till they melt.
• Drizzle over almonds. Allow it to cool.

Preparation time: 40 minutes
Number of Serves: 20

Ingredients

• Pound cake, 4 loaves
• Orange juice (divided), 1 gallon
• Confectioners' sugar, 1 lb.
• Pineapple (crushed and drained), 2 ½ quarts
• Whipping cream, 2 quarts

• Cold water, 1 quart
• Granulated sugar, 1 pint
• Lemon juice, 1 cup
• Gelatin, 8 tbsp.
• Pineapple extract, 2 tsp.

Method of Preparation

• Mix 1 quart of the orange juice, sugar, and lemon juice in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Sprinkle gelatin over cold water, letting it stand until gelatin is moistened.

• Remove orange juice mixture from heat and stir in softened gelatin.
• Mix well to dissolve gelatin.
• Stir in the remaining orange juice.
• Add pineapple extract to the mixture and chill until partially set, for about 1 hour.

• Whip cream with confectioners' sugar till it is stiff.
• Slowly add gelatin mixture and continue beating at low speed, until fully blended.
• In a single layer, place pound cake slices in two 20 x 12 x 3-inch steam table pans.

• Spoon pineapple mixture over cake slices.
• Divide the gelatin mixture between the two pans, and spread evenly.
• Chill until firm.
• Cut the cake into 2½ x 4-inch pieces.
• You can top each serving with a rosette of whipped cream and a red maraschino cherry, for added flavor.

Preparation time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Number of Serves: 42

You can try these recipes, the next time you need easy dessert recipes for a crowd. These easy to prepare recipes help you bake a great dessert that will surely win over the hearts of everyone in a crowd.

Enjoy preparing easy dessert recipes for large groups and take delight in sharing it with people attending the party.