Bonbons with Fruit
This is an easy and elegant dessert!
Serve a bowl of fresh fruit -- strawberries, apricots, oranges, peaches -- with bonbons on top. Very sweet and very sensual!

Banana Splits
Make an event out of dessert for you and your family, friends or your partner!
Buy all of the fixin's for banana splits and set them out on the counter. Don't forget the whipped cream and the cherries!
Make it more exciting by making splits for each other.

Nutmeg Hearts
These look great when on a plate of sliced strawberries.
Ingredients
1 frozen puff pastry sheet (1/2 17 1/4-ounce package), thawed.
2 tablespoons sugar.
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Roll pastry out on lightly floured surface to 11x14-inch rectangle. Using a 3- to 4-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out hearts and transfer them to the cookie sheet. Combine sugar and nutmeg in bowl and sprinkle over the hearts. Bake until the cookies are puffed and golden brown, about 15 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool.
(Can be made 1 day ahead, but store in a wrapped container.)
Makes about 16.

Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
Makes 12-16 strawberries
Ingredients
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 Tbsp. vegetable shortening
1 container strawberries (about 12-16)
Directions
Melt the chocolate and shortening in a double boiler (metal mixing bowl over a small pot of simmering water). Do not let the water touch the mixing bowl. Turn off heat and dip the strawberries in the chocolate and place on a tray covered with wax paper. Place the tray in the refrigerator and let it sit until dry.

Red Velvet Cake and Frosting
Serves 12
Ingredients
Cake:
1/2 c shortening
2 eggs
1 ts vanilla
1 ts salt
2 1/2 c flour, all purpose; sifted 2 to 3 times
1 ts baking soda
1 1/2 c sugar
1/4 c food coloring, red
2 tb cocoa
1 c buttermilk
1 tb vinegar

Frosting:
1 c milk
5 ts flour, all purpose
1 c butter
1 c sugar, powdered; sifted
1 ts vanilla

Instructions
Cake: Cream shortening and sugar till fluffy. Add eggs and beat 1 minute. Add salt, beat. Add vanilla and coloring to buttermilk. Alternate adding flour and milk mixtures to batter. Combine soda and vinegar in cup and add to cake batter. Bake in (2) 9" cake pans at 350ƒF for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool on cake racks.
Frosting: Cook milk and flour until thick; cool in fridge. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla with mixer. Add flour and milk mixture a little at a time (make ahead of cake so that it has plenty of time to cool). Beat well.