This category include classic baked goods like pies, cakes, cookies, bread, and muffins.
Peddler’s Cheesecake Recipe (Dense, Creamy & Perfect for Gifting) I recently took on a baking challenge that I wasn’t entirely sure I would survive. A local business reached out with a corporate order for Christmas gifts: 48 homemade cheesecakes. Now, I love baking, but baking forty-eight cakes in two days? That is a marathon. My…
Whipped Honey Cinnamon Butter Recipe (Texas Roadhouse Copycat) There is something undeniably special about the start of the holiday baking season. For me, it doesn’t officially feel like Christmas until the kitchen smells like cinnamon, vanilla, and warm bread. This week, I started working on my Christmas gifts. Now, I love a store-bought present as…
🍬 Easy Peanut Butter Meltaway Candy If you grew up during a time when neighbors shared Christmas tins filled with homemade candy, or church ladies brought trays of fudge and no-bake treats to every gathering, you probably remember meltaways. There’s just something special about that smooth, silky bite that melts on your tongue before you’ve…
🎂 White German Chocolate Cake with Cheesecake Center There are cakes… and then there are cakes that stop the room.This one — a soft, tender white German chocolate cake layered with a creamy cheesecake center and smothered in warm coconut-pecan frosting — is the latter. It’s the kind of dessert that makes people lean in…
🥧 Old-Fashioned Apple & Blackberry Fried Pies (Southern Style) There are certain recipes that take you straight back to childhood the moment you smell them frying. For me, old-fashioned fried pies are one of those recipes — the kind of treat you’d see cooling on your grandma’s counter, still warm from the skillet, dusted with…
🍎 Old-Fashioned Apple Stack Cake (Appalachian Traditional Recipe) There are certain desserts that feel like they carry the whole history of a region inside them — and an Old-Fashioned Apple Stack Cake is one of them. If you grew up anywhere near the Appalachian mountains, someone in your family probably made this tall, spiced, deeply…
🍑 Apricot Shortbread Bars (Buttery, Gooey & Bakery-Style) There are some desserts that feel like sunshine on a plate — warm, golden, nostalgic, and undeniably comforting. That’s exactly how I feel about these Apricot Shortbread Bars. They’re the kind of recipe that makes the whole kitchen smell sweet and cozy, like something your grandmother might…
🍯 Honey Bun Brownies (Gooey Cinnamon Swirl Bars) There are some desserts that stop you in your tracks the moment you slice into them — and these Honey Bun Brownies are one of those recipes. Gooey, warm, sticky, sweet, and full of cinnamon-sugar goodness, they taste just like the classic honey buns we all grew…
Citrus Hamantaschen Recipe – Soft, Thin, and Flavorful Every year when Purim begins creeping up on the calendar, I pull out the same stained, wrinkled, and well-loved recipe card — the one covered in speckles of dough, handwriting that has softened with age, and smudges of citrus zest from years past. My family calls these…
Italian Chickpea Fritters Recipe (Fritti di Ceci) There are some Christmas recipes that live deep in your heart, the kind that pull you right back into your mother’s kitchen the moment the smell hits the air. For me, that recipe will forever be Fritti di Ceci—sweet, crisp, tender little pillows filled with chickpeas, chocolate, honey,…
