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…
Category: Frosting
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…
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…
Swedish Nut Cake
Grandma is about as Swedish as it gets, right down to the sparkly blue eyes and fair skin. Her parents’ names were Signe & Nels Nelson for goodness sake. A number of her recipes have their roots in northern Europe but the one thing that never caught on in our family was…
*THE* Cake
Grandma has been making this cake since the beginning of time. No really, she’s 92 years old so I’m only exaggerating a little bit on that whole ‘beginning of time’ thing. It’s the kind of cake that you bite into and go “I don’t know what’s in this but d*ng…