Special Occasion Desserts

30 Comments May 26, 2017 FrugalHausfrau

Sometimes you’re looking for a dessert that’s a little over the top. That would be these – a sampling of my favorite desserts for Holidays, Birthdays & Company. I hope you’ll find something you like here; most are a little more complicated than our everyday sweets, a few are drop-dead simple and all are scrumptious!

special cakes for celebrations or company

extravagant cupcakes

favorite cheesecakes

elegant endings

frozen desserts

individual chocolate sumpins

special pies & tarts

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30 thoughts on “Special Occasion Desserts”

NoPlateLikeHome.com

Looks awesome as usual. Yum!

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June 4, 2017 at 8:38 pm Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Thanks! I have been working on my Dessert Menu for this blog, and It’s making me hungry all the time, lol!
  
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  June 5, 2017 at 11:34 pm Reply
Ann GrubbsnCritters

I think my waistline just expanded by looking at your pics. Bad stuff but oh!so!good! 😆

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May 26, 2017 at 6:11 pm Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  I know – poison wrapped up in a pretty package, lol! But ya gotta have some sweet – and I’d rather have something I bake than something from the store. 🙂
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 8:59 pm Reply
  - Ann GrubbsnCritters
    
    Oh yes! I agree with you on that 101%. Nothing beats home-made stuff vs the store-bought ones. 🙂
    
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    May 31, 2017 at 2:04 am Reply
    - FrugalHausfrau
      
      🙂
      
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      June 1, 2017 at 1:19 am Reply
    - NoPlateLikeHome.com
      
      Definitely! It made strawberry rhubarb crisp today. I walk right past the bakery stuff in the store.
      
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      June 4, 2017 at 8:38 pm Reply
      - FrugalHausfrau
        
        Me, too! I always think it looks good and sometimes I’m tempted but it so often doesn’t live up to my idea of what I think it should taste like. The exception, I think is this little gourmet store I go to every couple years. THey make swans out of chocolate (different kinds) and fill them with mousse. I feel so special when I buy one of those…
        
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        June 5, 2017 at 11:56 pm Reply
nutmegandwhiskey

Holy lord you have so many desserts!!! Girl, I need to get on your level, and I am mostly focused on baking for my blog 😂😂😂

BTW your bouche de noel is just so lovely!!!

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May 26, 2017 at 4:05 pm Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Thanks loads! I see quite a few on your blog I want to make!! But this is just one of my categories…so there will be more, fair warning!! I love that Bouche de Noel – especially since the cake is chocolate!
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 8:58 pm Reply
  - nutmegandwhiskey
    
    I love that you covered it in white! Is that a Swiss meringue frosting? I tried to make a bouche once but I covered it in a chocolate frosting… And it just wasn’t pretty 😅
    
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    May 26, 2017 at 10:09 pm Reply
    - FrugalHausfrau
      
      I like them all, but we have snow all winter so I think it’s fitting. Funny but my links for the mousse, the truffles and the frosting aren’t there!! I’ll fix that up. It’s a seven minute frosting which is kind of like a Swiss Meringue. Here’s a great post that describes it: https://www.craftsy.com/blog/2015/11/types-of-buttercream/
      
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      May 26, 2017 at 11:24 pm Reply
A_Boleyn

Great collection. I’m making cream puffs this weekend. Promised one of the Romanian supply teachers that’s doing a long term at the school I was at Wed, Thurs and Fri that I’ll bring him some on Tues (got an early call) so I can’t back out. 🙂

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May 26, 2017 at 2:37 pm Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Oh, I love a good cream puff – and it’s hard to find good ones, anymore, at least here. I have never made one, but they look like quite the labor of love. You’re talking about the ones in the horn shape?
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 11:49 pm Reply
  - A_Boleyn
    
    No, just regular round cream puffs with choux pastry, not pastry horns with puff pastry. I piped these but usually I just spoon them out with 2 wet teaspoons.
    
    https://aboleyn01.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/cream-puffs-revisited/
    
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    May 27, 2017 at 12:00 am Reply
    - FrugalHausfrau
      
      Now I’ve made those! My dad was like, “Damn, Mollie!” Oh yeah, the link is on this post. 🙂
      
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      May 27, 2017 at 12:03 am Reply
Sarah 'n Spice

I would like one of everything please 🙂 They all look amazing!

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May 26, 2017 at 1:09 pm Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Thanks, Sarah! 🙂
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 11:50 pm Reply
Nancy Janssen

I am dying here! I want to make every one of these, much to the dismay of my scale. Nothing better than an arsenal of special desserts!

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May 26, 2017 at 10:48 am Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Hi Nancy! I’m having to post to create my menu in pictures. It’s kind of fun to see the round up! I see a few I need to remake with better pictures, for one. I’d start with that Toffee Cheesecake or that Frozen Lemon Meringue Dessert if I were you, lol! 🙂 My next dessert menu is going to be Down Home Favorites.
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 12:14 pm Reply
Monika

Desserts don’t get any more special than this! Happy FF:)

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May 26, 2017 at 8:51 am Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Hi Monika, and happy Fiesta to you, too!! 🙂 And thanks!
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 12:21 pm Reply
Mary

I just gained 10 lbs looking at these scrumptious looking desserts!

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May 26, 2017 at 8:24 am Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Notice I have no calories on most of these or WW points, lol!! 🙂 Have a great weekend, Mary.
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 12:23 pm Reply
  - Mary
    
    Oh yes, I’ve noticed. 😉
    
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    May 26, 2017 at 1:46 pm Reply
Angie | Fiesta Friday

Are these all served at Mollie’s Bakery? What’s the address? 😄

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May 26, 2017 at 8:00 am Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Lol, and in my head, my bakery is named “Sweet Mollie’s!” 🙂
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 11:51 pm Reply
Henrietta Watson

Yum yum

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May 26, 2017 at 7:59 am Reply
- FrugalHausfrau
  
  Thanks, Henrietta, these come from a 38 year collection, all my faves! 🙂
  
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  May 26, 2017 at 12:36 pm Reply
  - Henrietta Watson
    
    You are welcome!
    
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    May 26, 2017 at 12:59 pm Reply