25 Best Ring-Shaped Dessert Recipes For the Olympics & New Year's Day - Parade

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25 Best Ring-Shaped Dessert Recipes For the Olympics & New Year's Day - Parade

25 Best Ring-Shaped Dessert Recipes For the Olympics & New Year's Day - Parade

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST

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Ring-shaped desserts are considered good luck in some parts of the world, as they're often enjoyed to *ring* in a new year and to set the tone for good days ahead. And they're always appropriate when the Olympics come around, because what's more fitting than eating ring-shaped foods while watching the world's best athletes compete for gold?

While most people enjoy ring-shaped desserts simply because they're delicious, admittedly any excuse will do to indulge in circular doughnuts, cakes, cookies and pastries. The flavor combinations are endless, and fortunately cake pans, doughnut pans and ring-shaped candy and Jell-O molds all come in a large variety of sizes.

Related: 13 Scratch-Made Desserts Anyone Can Master

Helpful Tips for Scaling Ring Desserts to the Size You Need

When using your imagination along with a touch of math, you can typically scale most recipes up or down depending on the amount of servings that you need. When doing so, keep in mind that, baking is science. It's sometimes best to make the full recipe in smaller pans or double the recipe mixing each batch separately for the best end result.

  • Cakes freeze very well. It's often best to bake and cool completely before wrapping in freezer wrap. In this instance, it's best to reserve the glaze until the cake has thawed and, glaze just before serving.
  • Filled pastries are often quite easy to cut in half, in particular when the recipe calls for using puff pastry or crescent roll dough.
  • The dough for cookies, such as the Mexican Cookie Rings in this collection, will freeze well before or after, baking.
  • Retro Jell-O rings are always a welcome addition to the dessert table and can be embellished with seasonal fruits and berries and whipped cream.

Launch the gallery and scroll through the variety of ring-shaped desserts to share with your family and friends.

Up next, 23 mini dessert recipes for when you want bite-sized sweets.

25 Ring Shaped Desserts

About The Author:

Melissa Sperka is the creator, Publisher, recipe developer and photographer of the blog Melissa's Southern Style Kitchen. After winning the National Flour Power! baking contest, she also gained national attention with her blue ribbon Nested Potato Skins, featured in Southern Living Magazine. She is also a published author; her new book, Melissa's Southern Cookbook: Tried-and-True Family Recipes, is available now. To Melissa, "Southern style" isn't just about regional food, but about serving homemade dishes with grace, charm, and a healthy dose of Southern hospitality. In Melissa's kitchen, homemade family-style meals are always on the menu.

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Recipe of the Day: Freezer Thin Mint Pie - The Daily Meal

Posted: 12 Mar 2021 01:55 PM PST

When you think about it, March kind of has a lot going on. Spring begins, causing us to dream of cold desserts and fresh flavors. St. Patrick's Day takes over our minds, too, so we search for minty freshness and all green everything. Pi Day reminds us of all things circular, especially the wonder of a classic pie. Oh, and it's Girl Scout Cookie season, so favorite cookies like Samoas, Tagalongs and Thin Mints replace the Chips Ahoy in our cupboards.

Chocolate Chip Dessert Recipes Beyond the Cookie

If only there was a dessert that's perfect for increasing temperatures, a lucky holiday, pies and fan-favorite seasonal snacks. Oh, wait, there is! A no-bake freezer Thin Mint pie.

It's hard to imagine that there could even be such a thing like leftover Girl Scout cookies. But if you found yourself getting a little over-excited when that order form arrived in your hands and got, like, 10 boxes of Thin Mints, we don't blame you. Sure, you can toss Thin Mints in the freezer and enjoy them for years to come — or you can amp up this minty chocolate cookie's flavors by turning a box into a pie.

Seriously, Thin Mints make an amazing pie crust. The crisp cookies lend themselves well to being crumbled, and there's a subtle yet satisfying mint flavor. This base could work well for a silky chocolate pie or sugar cream pie. But, to really play up the fun Thin Mints, we decided to go for a classic kind of pie: the cream cheese/Cool Whip combo. Oh, you know, the nostalgic treat from your childhood.

This triple layer pie uses two tubs of Cool Whip three different ways. You mix one quarter with cream cheese, half with melted chocolate chips and the final quarter with green food coloring for some festive St. Paddy's Day fun. The end result is a pie that's as Instagrammable as it is genuinely delicious. This pie is minty, creamy, vanilla-y and chocolatey. But if Thin Mints and chocolate chips aren't enough cocoa for you, consider these recipes for chocoholics.

Ingredients:

  • 1 box Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies (reserve 4-5 cookies to crumble for the top)
  • 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 16 ounces Cool Whip, divided
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup chocolate chips, melted
  • 6-7 drops green food coloring

Directions: 

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350F. Set aside a few cookies from 1 box of Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies then crush in a food processor or by placing them in a freezer bag and pounding with a mallet or rolling pin. Mix crushed cookies with 7 tablespoons melted unsalted butter. Pour mixture into a pie pan and press with your fingers to form a crust. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove and set aside.

Step 2: Using a hand mixer, blend 8 ounces softened cream cheese with 4 ounces Cool Whip. When fully incorporated, fold in 1/2 cup powdered sugar. Pour into pie crust and spread evenly.

Step 3: Melt 1 cup chocolate chips and fold into 8 ounces Cool Whip. Pour on top of cream cheese layer and spread evenly.

Step 4: Add 6-7 drops green food coloring to remaining 4 ounces Cool Whip and mix until desired color is created. Add more food coloring for a darker green color. Pour on top of chocolate layer and spread evenly.

Step 5: Crumble 4-5 Thin Mint cookies and sprinkle on top of pie. Freeze pie for 4-6 hours. Enjoy!


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