BUDGET DESSERT RECIPES // DOLLAR TREE DESSERTS FOR THE FAMILY

[Music] hey you guys welcome back to c mini mom and if you are new here welcome to my kitchen today i am sharing with you three dessert ideas and the ingredients came from dollar tree so stay tuned [Music] all right you guys easter is just around the corner spring is on the way and i have wanted to do a dessert video to give you some ideas for maybe some of your family gatherings or the activities that you'll be going to here in the spring and i thought it would be fun to make some dollar tree desserts with dollar tree ingredients now the ingredients for these desserts can be picked up at regular grocery stores i feel like with dollar tree it's more about convenience and i don't know about you guys but i have sometimes been in the position where i have been told at the last minute that we have company coming over or maybe i've just remembered at the last minute that i am supposed to take a treat or a dessert to a gathering somewhere and i've had to get it together really quickly you know so the convenience of being able to just run into a dollar tree and grab a few ingredients that i can turn into a dessert is really appealing to me especially since i try to avoid the grocery store at peak times and after work or in the evenings is a very busy time in supermarkets and i try to stay out of the grocery store during that time dollar trees are typically smaller it's easier for me to get in and out quickly so i just thought that these might be some ideas for somebody who needs the convenience of that so let's dive into the video and i'll show you the ingredients that i'm using and how i am turning those into some treats that are both delicious and that look really nice as well here is a snapshot of the things that i picked up at my dollar tree there were a few things that i was counting on them having that they did not have and i'll talk about that as we jump into the recipes and here are a few things that i'm using from home eggs vegetable oil and butter they did have eggs and vegetable oil at my dollar tree i just opted not to purchase those things because they already had some at home they did not have individual sticks of butter at my dollar tree they only had margarine so i opted just to use butter from home we are going to make a brownie trifle and i think this is a really pretty dish as well as something really delicious so these are the ingredients that we are going to use i have some cool whip i have some candy bars i like butter fingers for this because i feel like they crumble really easily and then we have some pudding i was hoping that my dollar tree would have pudding mix and i could make the pudding from scratch but they did not have pudding mix so we're gonna have to just make do with these and i think that they will be fine and then i have a brownie mix which i'm going to make according to the package directions it just calls for eggs water and vegetable oil so that's actually the first thing i'm going to do i'm just going to mix this up and throw it into the oven and then i will show you how we're going to put the trifle together i am ready to put my brownie candy bar trifle together and i actually have a trifle dish this was given to me by my mother-in-law in fact this recipe is inspired by something that she makes she uses heath bar instead of butterfinger and actual like pudding from pudding mix instead of the snack cups but it's very similar if you do not have a trifle dish i'm sure just a regular glass bowl or even a glass pan you could just make a single layer of everything instead of layering it up like i'm doing but i just think it looks really pretty when you do it this way so i have my brownies here and once these were done cooking i let them cool down and then i used a fork and just twisted it all over the pan so that it would make like brownie crumbles i have two containers of cool whip and i have let these sit on the counter for a little while so that they would thaw out a little bit and not be frozen i have my eight little pudding cups and then i have my butter fingers here which i've already crushed you can put these into a food processor if you want or if you're like me and you don't want to get your food processor out i hate having to get that thing out and clean it i just put these into a plastic bag and then take a rolling pin to them and voila we have candy bar crumbs so i'm just going to start with a layer of the brownies on the bottom then a layer of the pudding and you just kind of have to spread that out across and this would be so much easier if i was using pudding that i just made in a bowl that i'll have to just scrape it out of the little cups here then just a little sprinkling of the candy bar crumbs here and then a layer of cool whip [Music] and you definitely want to use cool whip or a generic form of it regular whipped cream or the kind that comes in the can or even some of the plant-based ones they won't hold up they'll render water or they'll get real runny and then the dish won't hold up without using a cool whip or a cool whip like product and then you just repeat the process does anybody else when you hear the word trifle think of friends an episode of friends where rachel tries to make the trifle and the pages of the recipe get stuck together and then joey's eating it later and he's like what's not to like custard good jam good beef good leave me comment if you know what i'm talking about for this last layer i really want the candy bars to be on top for aesthetic purposes so i'm going to put the candy bars on top instead of underneath the cool lip and there you have it doesn't that look nice i am just going to lightly cover that with a little foil a foil tint and put it in the refrigerator until we are ready to serve it but look at how pretty that looks next i am going to make a cookies and cream ice cream pie and these are the ingredients that i'm going to use i have two small packages of oreo cookies these are the four packs that have two cookies per pack i would have just purchased an oreo like cookie like if there's a dollar tree brand of an oreo cookie but they did not have any this was my only choice so i have two of these little four packs here of the mini oreo cookies i have one 10 ounce package of marshmallows and they actually had the jet puffed the you know name brand marshmallows there for a buck i have two small packages of frosted flakes these are little three and a half ounce packages and there's two and a half cups in each package so this is going to be about five cups of cereal i would have much preferred to use rice krispies but they did not have any kind of rice krispie or even just a plain cheerio to use in this so we're going to try it with the frosted flakes have half a stick of butter one tub of cool whip some chocolate syrup and then two little pints of vanilla ice cream so the first thing that i'm going to do is make the crust for this ice cream pie i'm going to take one package of oreos take them out of the packages and crush them up and add them to my frosted flakes in a pot i'm going to melt my butter and add my marshmallows until i've made sort of a marshmallow cream like you would make when you're making rice krispies treats and then i will add my crushed up cookies and frosted flakes to those and i will press them into a square baking dish or you could use a pie plate as well and then i'll show you how i'm going to make the rest of this i'm ready to assemble my little ice cream pie now so i have my two little pints of vanilla ice cream they have been softening i've let them sit out for about half an hour so and the same goes for my cool whip and then i have my other package of oreos that i have already crushed up here in this bowl so i'm going to spread the ice cream over the top of the crust here that i made from the corn flakes and the marshmallows and the oreos and then i will top it with some cool lip i will drizzle a little bit of chocolate syrup over the top and then i will sprinkle it with the oreo crumbs here you could probably leave out the chocolate syrup i just thought it would add a little extra touch and we will use it for other things because the kids like to make chocolate milk you could also use a bigger pan for this i used a small square one because i wanted it to be like big thick pieces of ice cream cake but you could spread it out across a bigger pan and make them be like smaller shorter pieces if you wanted [Music] now i'm just going gonna cover this and pop it in the freezer until we are ready to serve it and when i am ready to serve it i will take it out and let it sit on the counter for probably 20 to 30 minutes depending on how long it's been in the freezer because it will have to thaw just a little bit in order to be able to slice into it and serve it but doesn't that look yummy next i am making a 7up cake and these are the ingredients that i'm going to start with and then we'll talk about a glaze and i also plan to make a berry compote to go along with this so i have three quarters of a cup of vegetable oil four eggs a yellow cake mix and this is the standard 15.25 ounce size of yellow cake mix and then i will also be using three quarters of a cup of sprite or seven up so i won't need this whole can i'll have to measure it out after i pour the oil into the mix so i will mix all of these ingredients together i will pour them into a well greased bunk pan and i'm going to bake that at 3 25 until it's done i will probably check it at around 40 minutes and then keep checking it every five minutes until it's done now a lot of the recipes that i'm seeing for this kind of cake on pinterest call for a box of pudding mix as well and like i said my dollar tree did not have pudding mixes so if you have a pudding mix i think that would make this cake even better especially like a lemon pudding mix or maybe a vanilla one but a lemon would go really well with the soda but we're going to try it without it since i couldn't find it at dollar tree to go along with this 7up bundt cake that i'm making i'm going to make like a berry spread jam compote whatever you want to call it so i got some frozen strawberries at the dollar tree and i'm just going to put these in a little pot on the stove i'm going to put a splash of my sprite that i have left just a little bit and probably about a quarter cup of sugar i'm gonna bring that to a simmer and then just let it simmer for a little bit i might also add just a little bit of cornstarch to kind of thicken it up and then i'll just um let that cool down so that i can serve it alongside that but it's just kind of a fly by the seat of my pants type of thing that i'm trying so we'll see how it turns out my cake is out of the oven you can see it cooling on the counter behind me and now i'm going to make a little glaze for that cake just from powdered sugar and the sprite that i have left i just i'm gonna add a little bit at a time until the glaze is the consistency that i want and this glaze will be very sweet because it's basically just sugar so a little bit will go a long way on the cake i don't need a lot just enough to kind of drizzle over the top of the cake scariest part right here working with a bundt cake [Music] beautiful [Music] now i personally think this would be really pretty with just some fresh berries in the center like maybe some fresh chopped strawberries or blueberries or raspberries in the center and maybe placed along the top so i was just plating some of the cake up for a thumbnail picture because i really feel like it's prettier whenever i slice it and i actually put it all together with some of the berry jam stuff and a little bit of cool whip and this turned out really good i'm actually very pleased with it the cake is really moist and the little icing glaze is just enough sweetness added to it and i kind of like the tart of the berries and i'll add i think this would be better if you chill it go ahead and let the cake cool and then chill everything for a little bit and then add you know the toppings to it i think that would make it even better all right you guys that's what i have for you today thank you so much for watching i hope that that gives you some ideas and some inspiration and i will be sure to check in again with another video very soon bye [Music]

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Id: S0G0_AJx9-I

Length: 12min 26sec (746 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021