Tag: heirloom recipe

As soon as you hear the words “angel food cake,” your mind instantly brings forth images of a snowy white interior, a golden exterior, and a delicate, tender crumb. It’s so light and airy it seems to float rather than rest on the serving platter. This recipe provides everything...

From their glossy, crackly exterior to their chunky, fudgy interior, these Chocolate Bliss Cookies are exactly that — pure bliss for any chocolate fan. They come together incredibly fast, require only a single bowl, and deliver the kind of chocolate payoff that feels almost unfair for how little effort...

Chocolate Crunch Brownies are a classic layered brownie treat – the kind you’d spot at a potluck or on a church-basement dessert table. They borrow from several dessert favorites – brownies, Rice Krispie treats, Scotcheroos – and regional ingredients like Marshmallow Fluff – and smash them together into something...

Back in mid-January, when I kicked off this pumpkin-baking adventure with my Pumpkin Brioche, I mentioned that my earliest experience with pumpkin bread was the quick bread my mother made. Since I had just enough pumpkin purée for one more pumpkin recipe, it felt very apropos to wrap up...

I decided to wrap up my (official) tribute to mom with this recipe for Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake – an indulgent treat that graced my mother’s holiday dessert table for many years and one that has always been a particular favorite of dad’s. I know I disrupted the flow a...

What comes to mind when you think of snowballs and sweet treats? Is it one of the many varieties of wedding cookies? Or perhaps it is the classic Hostess snack cake? Or maybe Traditional Newfoundland Snowballs? Until relatively recently (can I say that when referring to something in the...

Most cookies with “melt away” in the name are very similar to the Butter Balls recipe I posted mid last week – a tender, buttery, nutty, shortbread-esque cookie coated in powdered sugar. This recipe for sugarcoated melt-aways (a.k.a. sugar crusted melt-aways) is in the same vein – it does...

When I shared mom’s recipe for Italian Sprinkle Cookies, I mentioned that some sources claim Italian Sprinkle Cookies as an alternate name for Italian wedding cookies – and I contested that claim based on my recollection of the butterball recipe that my mother had made every Christmas for as...

If you are looking for an indulgent, over-the-top, rich and gooey dessert, this is definitely the recipe for you. The composition of this recipe is very similar to a classic caramel and chocolate tart, featuring a chewy, gooey caramel and nut filling and a chocolate ganache topping. But replacing...

I cannot remember a Thanksgiving (or Christmas) dessert table that was not graced with pumpkin pie in one form or another. When I was very young, I remember mom making her classic pumpkin pie and, of course, my maternal grandmother had her own version she served for holiday meals...