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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)
I don't know about you, but I am all about easy in the summer. We sleep in, we stay up, we go to the pool, we forget that in a mere two weeks, we will be getting up between 5-5:30am to get ready for school...until next June. (UGH). Cooki (read full article)
Did you know that July 30th is National Cheesecake Day? Well, neither did I until the folks at Driscoll's Berries pointed it out to me. They sent me some fabulous coupons for raspberries and Albertsons kindly cooperated by putting them on (read full article)
It's a funny thing. Ice cream makers usually make their appearances during the hot summer months, but peppermint ice cream only shows up in grocery stores during December. For the other eleven months of the year, we get no peppermint and (read full article)
This month marks a year that I have lived in Arizona (not counting the four that I lived here when I was a teenager). It's really interesting how different my perspective is as an adult versus what I thought of this state when I was fifteen. & (read full article)
This is the halfway mark! Only 26 more to go and I will have fulfilled my new year's resolution (it may be the only one I succeed in completing - I obviously need to make myself more accountable next year!). Anyway, back to the Make Your (read full article)
Enter to win some Tropical Traditions coconut oil like I used in the following recipe here. In all the experimenting I did with the Tropical Traditions coconut oil I received a few weeks ago, this is by far my favorite. It's coconut, ging (read full article)
About ten days ago, I got a graham cracker crust out of the pantry, intending to make some kind of summery no-bake pie. That darned pie crust just sat there and the longer I didn't make a pie, the more it mocked me. I would clear off the (read full article)
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)
This pie is a refreshing, cold one. The filling is a basic custard with peanut butter and peanut butter chips melted into it. My kids thought it tasted like candy. I imagine it would be good with a chocolate crust or even with choco (read full article)
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)
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)
No one who has lived in the Seattle area for any length of time has avoided tasting one of these 730 calorie treats. Now that they have gone national, I imagine there are even more people who know the cinnamon-y amazing-ness (I am butchering t (read full article)
I had most of a can of Eagle Brand milk leftover from making the homemade Samoa Girl Scout cookies this week, so I needed a yummy way to use it up. Enter the Eagle Brand Milk website. These bars whipped together in a flash and were big h (read full article)
A while ago, I found an ebook of a cookbook from 1918 called "Foods that Will Win the War." It quoted a ton of facts and figures in an effort to convince the average housewife to cut down on her kitchen waste, use less meat (beef, mutton and po (read full article)
When I casually mentioned that the April Daring Bakers' challenge was steamed suet pudding, my mom got that nostalgic look on her face and said how much she loved steamed puddings. When her mom (my grandmother) ran the restaurant (out of their (read full article)
This is the easiest pie to make. The filling is basically a homemade glaze over fresh berries. The concept could be carried over to blueberries, too. The crust, though mostly homemade, isn't regular, scary pie crust that keeps some folks (read full article)
Although cinnamon rolls are fun and delicious, I have always wanted to go to the next level and make one of these pretty rings. Basically, they are cinnamon rolls that haven't been cut apart and placed separately in a pan. You roll them u (read full article)
I waited to post these until after the wave of Girl Scout cookie salesladies had left their tables outside the grocery stores. I would not want to put a dent into their sales. Frankly, though, I can't afford those ever shrinking lovely (read full article)
We all know about the usual ice cream toppings, the chocolate, the butterscotch, the fruit, but have you ever entertained the idea of peanut butter? Ooooh, it's so good. It goes great with all vanilla and chocolate combinations (ie (read full article)
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