*YOU GUYS* No churn ice cream. I’ve heard about it quite a bit but never took the time to really give it a try. Well fast forward to this past week which included Father’s Day and my father’s 65th birthday. Because he sometimes draws the short end of the stick…
Category: Desserts
Raisin Crisscross Cookies
So I happened upon this recipe in my grandma’s recipe box. It looked something like this… To the top left is the word “Good” which is always a good sign and the 400* baking temp written in the top right intrigued me because that is definitely not a typical cookie baking temp. …
Pumpkin Spice Cookies
This recipe comes to you straight from the kitchen of Martha Stewart. It’s one of my mother’s favorite recipes and a family stalwart. Mom first found this recipe in Martha’s cookbook “Cookies” which we both adore and still use to this very day. In the last 2 weeks we’ve been asked submit baked…
Ho Ho Cake
This recipe comes from one of my distant cousins. Her grandpa and my grandpa were brothers which makes us…ah heck, second cousins twice removed? Third cousins once removed? Better yet, who cares? 😉 Our grandfathers were two of THIRTEEN children. Sit back and think about that for a minute: Thirteen-freaking-children. I’m over here all like…
Chocolate Chip Cake
I’m starting to wade into uncharted waters my friends. Uncharted waters for me anyways. I’m starting to test recipes that are on random index cards given to me by various family members, having never seen the finished products. It has been *quite* an interesting weekend full of breads that resemble bricks, two steak recipes (one…
Coconut Chocolate Nests
Happy Easter Monday, friends! I hope you had a beautiful, sacred and lovely holy week. Last week was quite the week for us. My birthday, Grandma’s birthday and then Easter, it was certainly a week of smiles and celebrations. Mom & I went grocery shopping on Saturday morning and she was on the hunt…
Lemon Chiffon Cake
Today is Grandma’s 93rd birthday. 93. She is literally working her way through her 10th decade on this earth. How crazy is that? I’m usually just happy to be working my way through the next 2 hours. Think about all the changes she has seen from the 1920’s until now. When she was born in 1924 their farm didn’t even…
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
If I’m going to be honest here, Grandma and I don’t agree on much. Politically we’re polar opposites. Spiritually she’s Baptist and I’m anything-but-a-Baptist. She’s a fan of getting yourself married so you can pop out lots of babies and I’m a card carrying member of the Club of Perpetual Singles. She…
Deluxe Sugar Cookies
These cookies are the source of great dissention in our family. Perhaps dissention is too strong of a word. Debate, perhaps? Or maybe disagreement? What I’m saying here is, people in our family have very strong opinions about these cookies. You see the only way we make this recipe in this family is by rolling out…
Grandma’s Orange Cake
According to Grandma this is my mother’s favorite cake. I thought the Moist & Easy Cake was her favorite but Gram was insistent. I finally texted mom to find out who was right and – dang it – Grandma wins again. The Orange Cake is indeed mom’s favorite. I should know better by…