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In honor of National Cherry Pie Day, I decided to share one of my favorite quick and easy desserts, cherry turnovers. (A turnover is a folded pie, isn’t it?…Okay, I am stretching the occasion to fit what I have already made). What makes them super easy is that I use frozen puff pastry dough and […]
Surprisingly simple to make and sinfully delicious, cream horns are a very special treat. One of the reasons cream horns are such as special treat to me is that they remind me of my father. He had such a “sweet tooth.” He would bring home a half a dozen cream horns from a bakery or […]
Until recently, the only poached pears I was familiar with were poached in wine. The one time I had them did not turn me into a fan. I guess I do not like wine enough to enjoy my dessert fruit poached in it. However, I recently read about pears poached in just a simple syrup […]
I must be insane. It is mid-January and I am making hot fudge sauce. I should be concentrating on healthy foods, budget-friendly meals and warm soups, but I want peppermint hot fudge sauce. What makes me question my sanity most is that I am not the biggest chocolate fan. I like it every once and […]
I am very far behind on my Christmas shopping, candy making, and baking this year. In fact, I just made my very first batch of candy (okay, I technically tried to make two others but learned the hard way that both of my candy thermometers were no longer even close to accurate). Thus, I decided […]
After making three apple cakes for our church dinner about a month ago, I still had a lot of leftover Granny Smith apples. My plan was to make up a few apple pies and freeze them. I still would have apples left (I got carried away at the orchard), so I decided to make a […]
My daughter usually wants me to bake her a cake for her birthday. I always want to buy her one as cake baking and decorating is not my forte. She usually wants strawberry cake, but this year she wanted one with raspberries (I usually put strawberries between the layers of the strawberry cake). After some […]
My dad talked about his grandmother’s homemade doughnut’s with great affection. Therefore, I was really happy when I found the recipe in my grandmother’s handwriting while going through some old recipes. As with the rest of my paternal grandmother’s written recipes, the recipe was had incomplete directions. It did tell ingredients and mixing instructions, yet […]
In the Amish Country in Ohio there used to be a little bakery is a small town that sold the best doughnuts, cakes, and bars. It was one of the places we always stopped when I took my parents to the area. I even knew of people who drove more than two hours just to […]
Every Easter my mom would make rice pudding. If my mom did not make it to have for dessert, she made it for Easter breakfast….it was a great breakfast 🙂 It was not the rice pudding with raisins, cinnamon, etc. It was a lemony delight that was covered in meringue and baked until the meringue […]
