Crowd Pleasing Desserts - Chocolate Cake and Sherbet Jello

I love cooking and baking. I get lost in cookbooks and Kraft Foods magazine hunting for fun recipes to try. But I always run into two problems - one, my hubby will not eat ANYTHING with vegetables, and 2, my kids will not eat anything with vegetables.

(Jack always either helps me bake or helps me clean-up....as you can see the clean up may be his favorite part!)

So, I have stack of recipes waiting for the day when I can try them for another group of people outside my family...

However it is NEVER a problem when I want to try a new dessert recipe! On Memorial Day our neighbor invited us over for BBQ and I volunteered to bring desserts! Knowing that hubby and most adults like Chocolate, I made THE BEST chocolate cake! (I HAD to take a picture as I prepared to chop the chocolate to go into the cake batter - this is my GORGEOUS cutting board from Ripperarts on Etsy !)

And the recipe feedback is correct - if you let it sit in the fridge covered over-night, it gets VERY fudgy - yum!

And for the kiddos I tried a new, vey easy jello dessert recipe - I doubled the recipe and used small clear plastic cups. My helper Jack added the whip cream on top! (I wish I had my camera while my neighbor's 18 month old ate his jello...with his hands! It was priceless :)

Both recipes are from Kraft Foods - I am addicted to the magazines they send out and have found numerous other helpful recipes on their site!