Posted in Quilting, Cooking, Pies, Wall Hangings, Entrees, Desserts, Sewing, Small Items, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Quick Bread, Baking, Fruit, Cream, Pork, Dessert with Fruit, Chilled Desserts, Muffins, tagged quilt, wall hanging, Quick Bread, dessert, casserole, heart, apple, sweet potato, patchwork, tablecloth, hankie, crumble, Robert Redford, qulting, Farmner's Wife, pork entree, pork, peach pie, ham tetrazzini, vintage hanky, pineapple cheesecake, gingerbread muffin on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been another fun year of blogging and on this last day of 2010, I revisited the 10 most popular of the past year’s posts.
The Next Best Thing to Robert Redford Dessert
Irish Lemon Blackberry Sponge Pudding
Pork-Apple-Sweet Potato Casserole
Happy New Year to All!
Posted in Cooking, Prizewinners, Desserts, Fairs & Horses, Fairs, Chilled Desserts, Carthage--Hamilton County (Ohio), tagged Recipes, county fair, recipe, Cooking, dessert, Cincinnati, summer, Hamilton County Fair, chilled, lunch, tuna melt, cook, Robert Redford on August 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In 1984, I participated in a recipe exchange by mail and this is one of the recipes I received. There are a lot of versions of this dessert with a lot of names, but since Robert Redford still looks good to me, I’m keeping it. This is an easy dessert to assemble, should be made ahead of time and chilled, and is very rich and delicious.
THE NEXT BEST THING TO ROBERT REDFORD
Crust:
Filling:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
To Make the Crust:
Mix the flour, butter and pecans well. Press mixture in a 9×9 baking pan. Bake @ 350 degrees F for 15 minutes until lightly brown. Cool
To Make Filling and Assemble:
Layer 1: Beat cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Fold in 4 ounces (half of an 8-oz. carton) of whipped topping. Spread over cooled crust.
Layer 2: Mix vanilla pudding and 3/4 cup of milk until thickened. Spread over Layer 1.
Layer 3: Mix chocolate pudding and 3/4 cup of milk until thickened. Spread over Layer 2.
Layer 4: Spread remaining 4 oz. of whipped topping over Layer 3.
Grate the block of milk chocolate over the top of the dessert and garnish with whole toasted pecans.
Refrigerate for at least one hour before serving.
This dessert won a ribbon at the Hamilton County Fair (Cincinnati) in 1984 and has been a favorite dessert in our family ever since.
I’m so glad I took part in that chain mail recipe exchange.
“Redford”, as we call it, was our dessert today when my daughters and grandchildren returned from swimming at Boomerang Bay (Kings Island, Mason OH). We had another old favorite for lunch - Mom’s Tuna Melts.
