Recipe Box, 2 Easy Breezy Summer Desserts

the Painted Apron

6 years ago

I tweaked 2 favorite recipes to share today, easy breezy summer desserts

Zucchini cookies are a perfect summer cookie

I tweaked my original recipe, White Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies, by adding butterscotch chips too

They are easy to make, not to mention very tasty, and at least there is a healthy ingredient in there!

See recipe at end of this post

You can see the original recipe and more photos here

I also tweaked the Bushwacker Ice Cream Recipe

Bushwackers are a favorite cocktail, or “adult milkshake” on our part of the Gulf Coast, usually made with rum and several liqueurs, chocolate syrup, and ice cream

For this recipe, I changed some of the liqueurs, using only Baileys and Coconut Rum Liqueur, Cool Whip and sweetened condensed milk

Instead of a spoon of dark chocolate sauce

I used chocolate syrup

I swirled it in with a knife after mixing the other ingredients

I didn’t mix it too much because I wanted the swirls to show…

You can also make it into an ice cream pie and serve it with chocolate sauce on top

Bushwacker Ice Cream Pie

This is definitely adults only ice cream!

Two great recipes for summer!

Zucchini Cookies with Butterscotch and White Chocolate Chips

zucchini is a secret baking ingredient that makes baked good so moist!

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword chocolate butterscotch cookies, summer cookies, white chocolate chip cookies, zucchini cookies

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 15

Servings 2 dozen

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
3/4 cup unsalted butter [1 1/2 sticks] melted
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups grated zucchini about 1 medium
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup butterscotch chips

Instructions

Mix butter with egg, sugar, and vanilla.
Add zucchini.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt and add to zucchini mixture.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by large spoonfuls onto a silpat lined baking sheet [or greased baking sheet].
Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes or until edges just begin to brown and bottoms are set Cool slightly before removing to rack. Makes about 24-30 cookies depending on scoop size

Boozy Bushwacker Ice Cream

This ice cream is like an after dinner drink!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword boozy dessert, easy ice cream, ice cream, no churn ice cream

Prep Time 5

freeze 3

Total Time 3 5

Servings 8

Equipment

8 1/2 pint jars or freezer container*

Ingredients

1 can 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk
1 tub 8 oz. Cool Whip Dessert Topping, thawed
1/4 cup Baileys Irish Creme liqueur**
1/4 cup Kahlua liqueur**
1/4 cup Coconut Rum liqueur**
thick chocolate sauce {I used Stonewall Farms Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel}

Instructions

Place milk in a large mixing bowl or measuring cup and fold in Cool Whip. Mix liqueurs together and add to bowl, gently combine. Transfer mixture to a pourable container or use a funnel and pour into 1/2 pint jars, filling about 2/3 of the way. Add a generous spoon full of chocolate sauce to the center. Cover jars and place in freezer for at least 3 hours before serving. Keep in freezer. Makes about 8, less than 1 oz. of alcohol per serving.

Notes

*If you prefer to use a freezer container, use a thinner chocolate sauce, and swirl some through the ice cream mix a few times before freezing or add chocolate sauce to individual bowls when serving

**Variation: replace the liqueurs with the listed extracts below

1 tsp rum extract

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp coconut extract