This category include classic baked goods like pies, cakes, cookies, bread, and muffins.
Classic Christmas Cookies (Sugar, Thumbprint & Cream Cheese) Three Vintage Favorites, One Festive Baking Session Snap on your holiday apron and cue Bing Crosby—today we’re baking the cookies that smell like Christmas morning. Whether you grew up pressing snowflake cutters into sugar‑cookie dough, rolling jam thumbprints with Mom, or sneaking warm cream‑cheese kolacky off Grandma’s…
3 Christmas Cookie Recipes You’ll Love Baking is such a big part of the holiday season for me. Every year, I make a big variety of cookies (at least 10 different kinds!), but there are always a few that I have to bake because they’ve been family favorites for years. Today, I’m sharing three of…
Mom’s Old‑Fashioned Chocolate Peanut Butter No‑Bake Cookies The 10‑Minute Cookie That Defined Our Childhood If your mom handed you a warm, fudgy mound of oatmeal‑peanut butter goodness—aka these classic chocolate peanut butter no bake cookies— of oatmeal‑peanut butter goodness while telling you not to touch the hot foil, congratulations—you had the quintessential 1980s kitchen experience….
Best Carrot Cake Recipe (From My Grandma’s Vault!) I’m thrilled to share my best carrot cake recipe—a classic that I’ve resurrected after 25 years! This best carrot cake recipe brings together moist shredded carrots, sweet pineapple, plump raisins, and a hint of coconut for extra texture. Of course, it’s all topped with that dreamy cream…
Chewy Sugar Cookies I just made this recipe from Melissa DeBin Parish; they are so good!! Anyone care to share their favorite no-nut cookie recipe?? Ingredients: 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) butter, softened 2 cups white sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla…
Pineapple Upside Down Cake: A First Attempt Success My first pineapple upside down cake… pretty pleased! I always bake from scratch, but I decided for my first attempt at this cake, I’d use a tried-and-true Betty Crocker recipe… and used a box. Pineapple Upside Down Cake recipe Ingredients: 12 pineapple slices in juice (from three…
Strawberry Lemonade Upside Down Cake My husband asked for a strawberry lemonade upside down cake for his birthday. I got to work. Recipe I just made it up as I went, so I will do my best to describe it. Ingredients: 1 pound strawberries, topped and cut in half 1/4 cup unsalted butter 1/4…
Moist Carrot Cake with Pineapple and Cream Cheese Frosting CARROT CAKE RECIPE Carrot cake! I haven’t baked this in 25 years! It’s an old recipe. Here is the recipe! Ingredients: In large bowl, combine and set in refrigerator: 1 8-ounce can crushed pineapple (drained) 3 cups shredded, cleaned, and shredded carrots Wet ingredients: beat until…
Traditional Apple Rolls Recipe: Passed Down for Generations An old family “recipe”. Apple rolls! My Mom entered it in a name brand flour contest in the ‘70’s. She got 3rd place. Her main problem was, nothing had ever been measured, just copied from generation to generation. Ingredients: 3 pie crusts (I use butter instead of…
Depression-Era Water Pie with a Twist Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups water 1 9” pie crust (store-bought or homemade) 1 cup sugar (white or brown, I used brown today) 1/4 cup flour 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (or other flavoring, I used 1 tablespoon for extra flavor) 5 tablespoons butter, cut into pats Chopped pecans (optional, my…
