This are my favorite cookies and they are a cookie I make often. I put everything in them ~ hence the name...they have oatmeal, skor candy bars, dried cherries, chocolate and walnuts. What more could you want? hummmm more cookies heee heee these poor things are not the prettiest but they are the … [Read more...]
Old Fashioned English Toffee
I have always loved toffee...a client of mine would send me toffee from Engstrom's Almond Toffee years and years ago, oh I was in love. For years I would send this as our gift to others. I loved it...well it is rather expensive. But, well worth it I will add. I love a buttery light crispy crunchy … [Read more...]
Angie’s Three Layer Brownies
These are a little more difficult than some of the other things you might make...but, they are great and worth the extra time. They keep well and are best after three days in the refrigerator. This makes this a great party dessert. Try them I assure you will enjoy them and make them again and again … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter Cookies
Okay... I am just a little funny about my peanut butter cookies. I do not like them with peanuts in them why? I don't know but, I don't. I am such a nut person too, I love nuts in everything. So, I am not sure why but I do not like them in the peanut butter cookies? I do not like chunky peanut … [Read more...]
Sand Tart Cookies
Sand Tarts I am not sure just why they are called Sand Tarts?? My Granny made these little cookies and this is her recipe. Many cultures have something similar to these cookies. Kinda like a wedding cookie. They are great, why ~ easy, they last, everyone likes them. 1 cup butter 1/4 cup … [Read more...]
Chocolate Chewies Cookies
Don't these cookies look amazing well they are.....and they have No FLour ~ No Fat ! They do have nuts but, no added fat to the recipe. We all love these cookies. There was a bakery in the little town I grew up in Mississippi called M & M Bakery. They had a cookie just like these. Oh, how I … [Read more...]
Ginger Pumpkin Puddin Cakes
I am posting these in honor of dad it is his birthday. Happy Birthday Dad!! These are one cake my dad loves...each Thanksgiving he will ask "are you going to make those little pumpkin cakes" ~ Sure dad! This is a wonderful fall cake. It is incredibly moist rich cake. Sorry for the picture some times … [Read more...]
Homemade Smore
This is such an impressive dessert. You do have to make it in steps and is a great make ahead dessert. Make the marshmallows 1st, they need to be made and sit over night. Do not let the steps keep you from making this...it is not hard really!! You will love them, I have made them for dinner parties … [Read more...]
Homemade Doughnuts….chocolate glazed, plain glazed and powdered sugar
These donuts are amazing...and relatively east to make. I have made them many times and in a bread machine easy peasy! Try them and you will love them. Then with the left overs you make bread puddin ~ Oh My Goodness ~ Amazing !! … [Read more...]
Homemade Marshmallows
Step # 14 packages of unflavored gelation ~ Knox 3/4 cup water In a standing mixer pour 3/4 cup water and sprinkle gelation over water and let stand for 5 minutes while doing next steps. Have your whisk attachment on your mixer. Prepare a 13 x 9 baking pan with cover. Butter well and then put a … [Read more...]
Baklava
Baklava 3 cups chopped nuts ~ pecans, we do live in Georgia 1/4 cup of sugar 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 3/4 teaspoon ground all ~ spice 1 package phyllo dough 2 sticks unsalted butter … [Read more...]
My Favorite Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake 1 3/4 cups all~purpose flour ~ King Arthur 2 cpus sugar 3/4 cup cocoa 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 cup whole buttermilk 1/2 cup veggy oil 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup fresh hot strong coffee … [Read more...]
Caroline’s Caramel Cake
This is a cake I have not seen or eaten any where but the deep south. This is a love or hate type of relationship. Many of my friends from other parts of the country did not know what it was. From looking on the internet neither do they? This is usually a white cake with a burn sugar icing. The … [Read more...]
Banana Cake with the “BEST” Cream Cheese Icing
This is such an ole timey cake. I have looked for one close to this and have combined many different elements and think I have it pretty close to what I remember. It has lots of banana flavor and this is the BEST really is the best cream cheese icing! … [Read more...]
Coconut Cake ~ Aunt Dot’s
This is an amazing cake ~ There is a local restaurant, I would go and buy a coconut cake for Thanksgiving and then yet another one at Christmas. Well, the owner sold the restaurant so the cake was no longer the same. We always compared every coconut cake to this cake. I have even had the $160.00 … [Read more...]
Sweet MaMa’s Pound Cake
This is a recipe I have been after for YEARS!!! There is this little place in St Simon's called Sweet Mama's. Okay I have tried and tried to get this recipe with no avail....I have begged for the recipe begged! When wal la I find the recipe on the internet after looking for it many, many times … [Read more...]
Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Caramel step 1 1 1/4 cup sugar3/4 cup heavy cream2 teaspoons Maldon Salt1 tablespoon vanilla ~ I used vanilla paste ice cream base Heat Sugar in a dry heavy bottom pan over a medium heat, stirring with a wooden spoon or fork to heat evenly, until it starts to melt then stop stiring and swirl pan … [Read more...]
Red Neck Dessert
We call this the Red Neck Dessert ~ some call it chocolate delight and millionaires pie there is so many names for this stuff OMGoodness!! I got the recipe from my mom who came by it from a church pot luck dinner. I remember those being the best!! It is still really good dessert when it is hot … [Read more...]
Picking Blueberries ~ Blueberry Delight
Blueberries usually come in for us around July 4th or later. They will be huge if we have had a lot of rain in the spring. I pick them from my parents home in Mississippi. They have about 12 bushes and each one has a different taste. Some are sweet, some tart, some really big, some wrinkled....we … [Read more...]