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Aug 13

Super Simple Boston Cream Pie

Traditional Boston Cream Pie: Homemade Yellow Cake with Homemade Custard in between the layers, with Homemade Chocolate Glaze on top. Harried Homemaker's Cheater Version:  Yellow Cake Mix in a 9X13 pan, Cook 'N Serve Vanilla Pudding on top, dri (read full article)

Cakes, desserts

Jun 15

Peach Cake

This is a plain, old-fashioned cake.  It is best served with ice cream or whipped cream.  The recipe makes a 9X13 cake, but I made up 2 8X8s and froze one for future use.   I have been doing that  a lot lately; I hate to heat up t (read full article)

Cakes, desserts, Recipes

May 28

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

I lived with my parents in a St. Louis suburb for my last years of elementary school.  We had a wonderful time eating Midwestern foods, but by far our favorite treat was Gooey Butter Cake.  It was sold at almost all of the local bakeries an (read full article)

Cakes, desserts, Recipes, yeast breads

May 25

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Pound cake, so named because it has a  pound of each ingredient in it, can only get better if you add a little extra something, right?  And why shouldn't that something be cream cheese?  This recipe comes to you straight out of &n (read full article)

Cakes, desserts, Recipes

Jan 18

Homemade Hostess Cupcakes: Make Your Own Monday #3

In December, when I decided to do this series, I made a list of 52 items that I wanted to make.  I had already found recipes for some of them, I have actually made some of the others and frankly, I have no idea how I am going to make some of th (read full article)

Cakes, desserts, Make Your Own Monday

Jan 08

Ice Cream Roll with Hot Fudge Sauce

This is one of those really flexible desserts.  You pick the flavor of ice cream.  You choose  what kind of sauce if any.  If you don't want chcolate, increase the flour to 1 cup and delete the cocoa.  You can add nuts (read full article)

Cakes, desserts, Recipes

Dec 29

Starlight Mint Chocolate Cake

I wanted to make a wonderful WOW type dessert for our big Christmas Eve dinner.  I don't know that I succeeded, but this is what I made.  It was the 1951 Pillsbury Bake Off Grand Prize winner.  My biggest mistake was in using the high (read full article)

Cakes, Recipes

Dec 10

Gingerbread with Lemon Sauce

Gingerbread is generally thought of as little boys who run away yelling "you can't catch me" or constructed houses decorated with icing and candy, but here is the cakey warm Old World version.  I found this recipe in a 1936 Pennsylvania Dutch c (read full article)

Cakes, desserts, Recipes

Nov 18

Triple Chocolate Crockpot Cake

Here is a simmmmmmmple dessert for you.  Basically, you mix the ingredients, throw it in the crockpot and leave it all day.  How is that for easy? Triple Chocolate Crockpot Cake: 1 chocolate cake mix 1 cup water 4 eggs 3/4 cup oil or (read full article)

Cakes, crockpot, desserts

Oct 11

Apple Skillet Cake

This has got to be one of the most fatteningly delicious recipes I have made in a long, long time.  I got it off the Pioneer Woman's website.  I actually had to lower the amount of butter for which it called because my arteries couldn't s (read full article)

Cakes, Recipes

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