Quick and easy American desserts recipes with 500 or fewer calories costing less than $2.0 per serving added by professional chefs

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My standard recipe for all of my cakes

My standard recipe for all of my cakes

I am sure that those of you that look over my cake recipes have noticed a certain pattern with all of my cakes.…

Cupcake Vixen
Jul 2012
Professional
1 vote
7297 views
Easy Candied Pecans

Easy Candied Pecans

A snack for the gods! Sprinkle atop your favorite greens, blue cheese topped or chicken salad. For holiday entertaining leave the pecans in halves…

Salad Foodie
Oct 2012
Professional
4 votes
16994 views
Graham Cracker Snowballs (a no-cook confection)

Graham Cracker Snowballs (a no-cook confection)

An easy confection ~ not a cookie, not a candy, but a cross somewhere between. No cooking, no baking. Easy to…

Salad Foodie
Dec 2012
Professional
2 votes
8771 views
Easy Cocoa Cake

Easy Cocoa Cake

It only takes minutes to whip up this cake and get in the oven. Nice for breakfast with no icing, or use canned icing. I use buttermilk glaze,

myra byanka
Sep 2014
Professional
2 votes
6018 views
Best Blueberry Bread Pudding with Lemoncello Sauce

Best Blueberry Bread Pudding with Lemoncello Sauce

This is cooking school 101. Easy - and impressive, which takes it to graduate school! Besides, I also have…

Amos Miller
May 2011
Professional
2 votes
5374 views
Incredible Chocolate Chip Cookies

Incredible Chocolate Chip Cookies

We all know there are many recipes for chocolate chip cookies, with many things added to them. But for a soft,…

J. Gino Genovesi
Aug 2013
Professional
2 votes
9779 views
Triple-Play Chocolate Drop Cookies with Mocha Frosting

Triple-Play Chocolate Drop Cookies with Mocha Frosting

Homemade chocolate cookies are a sweet treat by themselves, but a crown of mocha frosting takes them from…

Salad Foodie
Sep 2013
Professional
2 votes
4896 views
Aunt Birdie’s Easy Sour Cream Coffee Cake (Two Versions)

Aunt Birdie’s Easy Sour Cream Coffee Cake (Two Versions)

This recipe brings fond memories of a favorite aunt who was a terrific cook. (My cousin and I used to say the…

Salad Foodie
Jun 2012
Professional
1 vote
8324 views
German Drop Cookies

German Drop Cookies

Pecan-laden German Drop Cookies are reminiscent of Mexican wedding cookies, but I like these even better for the cinnamon-laced powdery topping. You…

Salad Foodie
Dec 2011
Professional
1 vote
6060 views
Apricot Walnut Squares (A Bar Cookie)

Apricot Walnut Squares (A Bar Cookie)

CRUNCHY, CHEWY and MOIST. That sums up this pleasing amber-color bar cookie. The bottom crust gets extra crunch…

Salad Foodie
Apr 2012
Professional
3 votes
4692 views
Chewy Crunchy Double Chocolate Brownies

Chewy Crunchy Double Chocolate Brownies

These brownies are my all-time favorite. They have two unusual ingredients: brown sugar and coconut, which add…

Salad Foodie
Dec 2015
Professional
1 vote
3709 views
Glazed Apricot, Orange, Lemon Bundt Cake

Glazed Apricot, Orange, Lemon Bundt Cake

Many recipes of glazed cakes are out there to be enjoyed. Try this one. It is quick, easy and delicious. Has…

J. Gino Genovesi
Mar 2014
Professional
2 votes
13244 views
Cookie Butter Blondies

Cookie Butter Blondies

I am so in love with Cookie Butter, I want to incorporate it into everything I make for the rest of my life. Okay, maybe not, but it wouldn’t be the…

Dominick Costa
Oct 2013
Professional
1 vote
4166 views
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Crisscross Cookies

Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Crisscross Cookies

Peanut butter cookie recipes abound, but none of them came close to rekindling memories of the favorite from my…

Salad Foodie
Feb 2017
Professional
1 vote
2770 views
Quick & Easy Fruit Compote with Vanilla Sauce (and a no-added sugar or low-sugar variation)

Quick & Easy Fruit Compote with Vanilla Sauce (and a no-added sugar or low-sugar variation)

A fruit compote on the table in 15 minutes? Here's a dessert kids (and…

Salad Foodie
Jan 2013
Professional
3 votes
4457 views