Fruit is both healthy and delicious, so it makes an ideal dessert. Try some of these fruit-dessert ideas to create a fresh finale for your meal.
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A refreshing smoothie made with bananas and oranges that will cool you down on a hot summer day. |
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A classic baked dessert with apples and cinnamon topped with a pastry crust. A good excuse to get some apples at the farmers market. |
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The classic light and fluffy topping for your favorite fruit-filled pie or baked Alaska. |
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A sweet cake flavored with pineapple, bananas, and nuts topped with icing. |
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Fresh peaches and peach schnapps flavor vanilla ice cream. The mixture is frozen in a mold, unmolded, then garnished with raspberries and mint or more ... |
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This cranberry and apple recipe is topped with a mixture of rolled oats, sugar, butter and nuts before baking. Cranberry delight is a tasty ice ... |
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Strawberries and strawberry-flavored gelatin team with frozen whipped dessert topping to make this colorful, frozen no bake dessert in a crumb crust. |
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This quick-to-assemble fruit dessert looks very impressive when served in individual dessert bowls. It contains pear halves and ice cream, drizzled with warmed choco... |
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This crust uses flour, butter and powdered sugar and is pressed into a pizza pan, baked and then topped with desired fresh or canned fruit. |
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Sliced fresh pears are combined with sour cream and three extracts--vanilla, lemon and almond--then topped with a crumbly brown sugar and butter mixture before bakin... |
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This version of key lime pie has a twist: it uses sweetened condensed milk, not evaporated milk. |
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Blueberries and blackberries add just right sweetness in this baked pastry. When served warm with vanilla ice cream, the complements will keep coming. |
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These mini strawberry tarts, with a drizzle of chocolate, will disappear quickly. Try using some of strawberries at the farmers market for real freshness. |
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Sliced fresh peaches, flavored with lemon peel and nutmeg, are baked in this 2-crust fruit dessert. The juices thicken with cornstarch as the pie bakes. |
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Three pounds of cooking apples are used in this deep-dish pie recipe. This apple pie is sweetened with sugar, flavored with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, ... |
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Blueberries layered with a cream cheese layer and a graham cracker crust makes a wonderful no-bake blueberry cheesecake. |
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A traditional dessert with apples in syrup with a crunchy cinnamony topping that is served warm with ice cream; or in this case, frozen yogurt. |
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This batter of butter, sugar, eggs, flour and evaporated milk has raspberries folded into it. It's spooned into muffin cups and a chocolate Kiss is ... |
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A fruit combo of canned mandarin oranges, pineapple, and sliced bananas is layered in dessert glasses with a mixture of orange juice concentrate and whipped ... |
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Here's an easy cake to prepare. Just layer pie fillin, sugar, cake mix, butter and nuts and you've got a warm dessert everyone will love. |
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A wonderful tart with apricots and apple butter that is baked on a crust with almonds and crushed tea biscuits. |
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Blueberries with sugar, cornstarch and lemon are topped with a dumpling batter made with sour cream and sprinkled with sugar. |
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In this luscious dessert sponge cake is spread with jam and drizzled with sherry, then layered with custard and cream. |
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries Whole strawberries, with green tops, are dipped in a mixture of melted milk chocolate chips and Crisco, then cooled until chocolate is set. |
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Citrus Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Is it coffee cake? Is it a cheesecake? This delectable dessert recipe, with spicy orange marmalade and walnut crumble over the top is worthy of ... |

To avoid last-minute scurrying to get this delicious dessert ready, start it up to two days ahead and make it in stages. The Creme Fraiche ...
Caramelized OrangesTea and caramelized sugar join together to make a great-tasting sauce for this low-fat dessert.
Short-and-Sweet Berry ShortcakeShow off those berries: Pile them high in a Short-and-Sweet Berry Shortcake--a dessert attraction that's not to be missed.