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Portuguese Beans with Linguica
Pineapple Cream Angel Food Cake
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Dessert Bar
Make it Easy! Self Serve Dessert Bar. If you need a pecan fix here are some great recipes.
Candied Pecan Topped Candied Yams
Bacon Pecan Maple Buttermilk Waffles
Easy Fill-in Cookies
Extra family’s coming and you need an additional dessert … Just in case. Here are three simple, guaranteed delicious, rich cookie recipes with few ingredients. Similar ingredients, in fact. You can put together in minutes.
Apple Pie Pastry
One dessert all the family LOVES is apple pie. Sometimes the crowd is too large for one pie, and you may wish to have a dessert spread with choices. This is perfect, and even works as a finger food. This repost can be seen here. Enjoy! And Happy Holidays!
Chardonnay Cake
Two Ways
A cake with presence! This is our holiday cake this year. It’s liked by all the family. Yes, we have family not into chocolate nor cheesecake, pumpkin spice or nuts. This deliciously fits the bill. And it loosens up my time in the kitchen. For the recipe check out my original recipe post, Chardonnay Cake with Buttercream.
An alternative is a box mix version. Yes, I’ve made this too! Allrecipes’ Wine Cake, here.
Quick, easy, and Holiday presentable!
Max’s Sweet and Saucy Birthday Party
We love a party! And when you add Sweet and Saucy Shop to the mix … It’s just amazing. Max’s 3rd Birthday and what a time we had.
Mickey pancakes smothered in berries with bacon and eggs on the side. Mmm. Then the delicious cake from Sweet and Saucy. Check out this shop here. It’s amazing!
We picked up a few extra treats to have later too.
Happy Birthday Max!
More Please Pound Cake
Any time of year is a great time for Pound Cake. Serve with fruit in season or go it alone with a bit of powdered sugar. A little dollop or a big dollop of whipped cream is great too. Rich, moist and the perfect texture … One cake you’ll make over and over for family and friends.
Wrap it up and give it as a gift!
This was last year’s Thanksgiving bread and it was perfect! After years of homemade bread and rolls at Thanksgiving our baker was invited to another celebration, and forgot to at least provide us with some great baked goods. Haha.
Enjoy this recipe together with pictures. Give it a try. And you’ll see what we missed this year.
Gingerbread Cookies
Fun and Spicy Delicious! This recipe goes way back. During our family’s lean years we decorated our tree with Gingerbread Men, popcorn garland and candy canes. The children loved adding character to these guys but would grow weary after the first two or three … This recipe makes two dozen 4-inch cookies. Dad would get into the decorating too but had to be watched just like the children or we’d come up short. You might imagine the house smelled wonderful!
We haven’t always used icing alone to decorate Gingerbread Men & Women. On occasion we’d use raisins, red hots, and little decorative candies. Helpful Hint: Choose your decorating icing carefully. Make your own thick butter cream if you have the time and decorating tools. It’s just easier to handle. Many pre-made decorating gels and icings have corn syrup and this makes them sticky and stringy. You may need to test different brands to find the one that works for you.
This recipe makes a great sandwich cookie with buttercream filling too. Enjoy!
You might also like to try these Decorated Cookie Cakes
Simple Desserts To Make
Family Favorite Baking
Time intensive? There are only two recipes here that can’t be whipped up in minutes. Nothing like a fresh dessert in minutes. You might be able to tell just by looking which two require a bit more time … soo worth it.
I’m reintroducing family favorite recipes to have on hand during this busy season. So Delicious! Bottom Left: Best Coffee Cake, one of my popular recipes, can’t be beat for ease of preparation, satisfying texture and delicious flavor. Bottom Center: Don’t let the apple shape throw you. Use a baking dish if you’d like instead of this apple mold for this Apple Dessert or Apple Coffee Cake. Bottom Right: One bowl mix for this rich and moist Banana Spice Cake. Center Left: Caramel glaze makes this Banana Nut Cake amazing. Center Right: Pecan Pie Tartlets with a butterscotch surprise. Top Left: Provide a little more time for this Kolacky, a delicious pastry recipe. Top Center: Simple with ingredients and preparation, Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies. Top Right: A very popular cookie recipe, chewy and moist Coconut Cookies.
All are very delicious! Give them a try!