Desserts: Ice cream for sure, brownies, cookies, chocolate cake, cheese cake.

Other american things, vegetable tray with dip and deviled eggs, shrimp cocktail, party mix, we really eat alot of salsa in this country.

Marilyn

LEMON BARS DELUXE
2 1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar, plus additional for sprinkling
2 sticks butter
4 beaten eggs
2 cups granulated sugar
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 350°. Whisk together 2 cups of the flour & the confectioners' sugar. Cut in the butter until the mixture clings together. Press the dough into a 13x9x2" baking dish. Bake 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.
Meanwhile, beat together the eggs, granulated sugar & lemon juice. Mix the remaining 1/4 cup flour with the baking powder; stir into the egg mixture & pour over the hot baked crust. Bake for 25 minutes longer. Remove from the oven & sprinkle w/confectioners' sugar. Cool. Cut into squares.~~ Mountain Measures

What more typical American picnic dessert than home made icecream....and let the guests turn the dasher.
Appetisers? How about little smokies in that grape jelly mustard chili sauce mix....and things like sliced tomatoes....cucumbers with vinegar and salt pepper and sugar....and plain old cheese and crackers.
Linda C

FYI, according to Greg Patent, author of Baking in America, "layer cakes are a quintessentially American creation".

There you go! What about a good old chocolate cake?

THANKS for all your ideas! Chocolate cake...great, and what could be easier!?! And, with homemade ice cream!