cool appetizer or dessert ideas for BBQ.

pantherRN

I had sharp provolone stuffed olives the other day. So good.

jsleik

Now I want rumaki!  Or goat-cheese stuff dates wrapped in bacon.  All good food groups are included - sweet, salty, cheesy and bacony.

Beachy730

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[QUOTE]my latest fav is bacon wrapped green olives.  alix made them for us on new year's eve.  so good.  so we served them at my birthday party cause we had some olives to use up.  they went fast, let me tell you.
Posted by mandysmear[/QUOTE]

<div>I've always said bacon wrapped anything is amazing.  Now you just made me eat my words.  Barf.</div>

mica178

Bacon wrapped olives sound so salty (and good).  I want a beer just thinking about it.

WildRumpus

I am IN LOVE with olives lately. We have a carton of Kalamata olives in the fridge. Mmmm

musicalsunlight

I always enjoy a good fruit w/ whipped cream combo for outdoor BBQ dessert. Ohhh yumm.

AbbeyS2011

For the bacon lovers, try this:

Fresh jalapenos, sliced lengthwise and seeded, stuff with cream cheese (regular, not the whipped), wrap bacon around pepper, covering cream cheese

Skewer the peppers - we run two of them through the peppers to make them more stable

Cook on the grill on tin foil - cream cheese side down, then flip over to pepper side and cook on the grill without the foil until done, when the bacon is cooked. 

OMG they are sooooo good!

You can also bake them in the oven, sprinkled with shredded cheddar cheese. 

Ghoti

Appetizers-

Cold Vegitable Crudite w/ Ranch dip

Fress homemade tortella chips with tomato bruchetta w/ cilantro

Cold italian antipasto platter

fruit and cheese board w. flatbreads and summer hummas

Dessert bar-4 flavors of cupcakes - chocolate with peanut butter frosting, chocolate with oreo frosting, vanilla with hazelnut frosting, smores( graham cracker cake with chocolate and marshmallow swirled frosting), key lime pies, blondies, brownies and lemon bars

missy68

I've got a recipe for a custard-y dessert topped with a chocolate topping and the bottom is graham crackers. Let me find it.

It's assembly and refrigeration to set up, but no baking needed.

Also, cream cheese stuffed dates are good.

missy68

Ok, here's 3 recipes I really like:
Chocolate Eclair Dessert
graham crackers
1 large or 2 small boxes of instant French Vanilla pudding
3 cups milk
9 ounce container Cool Whip
Frosting:
1/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 cup cocoa
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla

Butter a 13x9 pan, line with whole graham crackers. Mix pudding with milk (3 c), then add Cool Whip. Pour half of mixture over crackers. Add another layer of grahams. Add rest of pudding then final layer of grahams. Chill.
Mix frosting ingredients in a saucepan - bring to a boil - cook one minute. Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla. Cool, and heat heat until spreadable. Spread over grahams gently. Chill until frosting is set. Serve in squares.

Crazy Berry Pie
1/4 cup water
1 envelope Knox unflavored gelatin
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 cup sour cream
1 can fruit pie filling (blueberry, cherry - I've tried both)
1 premade graham cracker crust

Heat water in a saucepan. Sprinkle gelatin on surface, dissolve. Mix milk and lemon juice together, add to gelatin mixture in a bowl. Stir in sour cream and 1 1/4 cup pie filling.

Pour into  graham cracker crust, place in fridge to chill several hours. Before serving, top with remaining pie filling. Keep refrigerated.

I have to admit, I've made this without the pie crust. For individual servings, you could use those disposable shot glasses, and put a serving in each one, with a dollop of the pie filling on each.

Third recipe in another post.

missy68

Hershey Cake
1/2 lb butter
2 cup sugar
2 1/2 cup sifted cake flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
8 small or 4 regular plain Hershey bars
4 eggs
2 (5.5 ounce) cans Hershey syrup
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup chopped nuts lightly coated with flour
2 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350.
Cream butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Sift flour , soda, salt together.
Melt chocolate bars over low heat (or in microwave)
Add eggs one by one to butter/sugar mixture, beating well after each.
Add melted chocolate, beating slowly. Add syrup.
Add sifted flour mix alternately with buttermilk, beating well.
Add vanilla, fold in nuts.
Bake at 350 in a greased 10" angel food/bundt cake pan with removable bottom 1 1/4 hours or at 325 for 1 1/2 hours.
Cool 1 hour before removing from pan.

Maggie214624

If you are into seafood, shrimp ceviche is a good option.  Deviled eggs always fly off the table at most parties I have been to. 

For the dessert I recommend these dulce de leche cake balls.  They are awesome.

SparrowSong

Fruit pizza. Cookie dough crust, some kind of white icing "sauce" and sliced fruit arranged all pretty. Cut into slices like pizza.

mandysmear

ideas are awesome guys!  thanks so much.

alixzafiris

Pssssssssst! Bacon wrapped olives is where it's at. Jussayin'

mandysmear

so good.  but, i want to bring something cold to this party.  i don't want to have to deal with cooking or heating anything once i get there.