Tag: dessert
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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
This is the time of year I start getting out my pumpkin recipes, like so many of you. But one thing I hadn’t tried making yet was pumpkin cupcakes. Since I’m a big cupcake fan, I thought it was about time to try this out! So I did some experimenting and was very happy with…
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Lizzie’s Sour Cream Pound Cake from At My Grandmother’s Knee
At My Grandmother’s Knee is a cookbook I had the pleasure of reviewing, and it celebrates food, family, and warm memories. It’s filled with 166 treasured recipes shared by Southern women who inherited them from their grandmothers, along with special memories about the grandmothers who made these delicious comfort foods. Author Faye Porter describes the…
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The Best (Texas) Chocolate Sheet Cake
A few posts ago, I told you about a recipe for Cheesy Hash Brown Potatoes, made by Jane Ann for her department lunch. Well, Jane, who is also in that same department, madethis fabulous Texas sheet cake for the dessert. It was super-good…nice and moist, very chocolatey, and topped with a smooth layer of chocolate…
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Egg Nog Bread
One of the things I enjoy about Christmas is the chance to have some eggnog. I don’t drink a lot of eggnog, but I do enjoy some now and then at the holidays. I thought it would be fun to try using eggnog in a recipe, so I made this Egg Nog Bread! I added…
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Peppermint Pound Cake
I’ve been on a peppermint roll lately! Recipes with peppermint have been sounding really good to me this holiday season. I started out making Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes, then Easy Peppermint Bark, and now Peppermint Pound Cake!
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake
There’s something about autumn that makes me want to bake and eat pumpkin-flavored things. Apparently I’m not the only one who feels that way—when I went to buy some canned pumpkin, I had to go to three grocery stores before I finally found some! Looks like everyone is stocking up on it! With the canned…
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Chocolate Chip Loaf
When you’re baking a sweet treat, it’s hard to go wrong with anything that has chocolate chips in it! And if you are craving something chocolatey, this is a good recipe to try. I came up with it after doing some experimenting and tweaking in the kitchen. I was so eager to try a piece,…
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Blueberry Sherbet
This recipe was from the December 2004 issue of Southern Living magazine. I had clipped it out of that issue quite a while ago, but now I wish I had made it much sooner, because this Blueberry Sherbet is so good! The next time you want something cool and refreshing, try this sherbet. I like it…
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Banana Pound Cake with Banana Glaze
I had two bananas that were getting really ripe the other day. Just for a change, I wanted to make something a little different than the typical banana bread. After a little searching, I found a recipe from Taste of Home that only used two bananas, so it was the perfect time to try it…
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