Dessert Recipes

It’s a smart idea to have a few dessert recipes in your back pocket that you can bust out on a moment’s notice and wow some crowds or your mother-in-law. All of these dessert recipes are delicious and some are even slightly healthy! WTH!?

Homemade Twinkie Recipe

Homemade Twinkie Recipe

Instead of crying, try trying this homemade Twinkie recipe! I’m sure you’ve all heard the news by now, and hopefully have had time to mourn, deny, cry, scream, tantrum, and finally shower. Hostess is closing its doors forever. That means no more Twinkies, no more Wonder Bread, no more DingDongs and maybe even the end [...]

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Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

I am so so happy to finally be able to provide for my gluten-free viewers with the help of my friend Kate at hipgirlshome.com! Kate is a specialist in the home arts – things like pickling, preserving, and coming up with neat-o tricks that make life easier around the house. She is the author of [...]

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Oatmeal Apple Cookie Recipe

Oatmeal Apple Toffee Cookies

This is a variation of one of the cookie recipes in my new Kindle book, Holiday Cookies. I couldn’t decide which I liked better so I just put one in the book and the other on here. Win-win! These oatmeal cookies are soft, chewy, and cake-like and they stay soft and moist for days in [...]

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Halloween Cake Pops

How to Make Cake Pops – Halloween Cake Pops

Video tutorial on how to make cake pops, and then decorate them for Halloween! I’ve had numerous requests over the years for cake balls and cake pops but I’m not really a baker/decorator kind of cook — a fact that probably comes as no surprise to anyone who’s been around here for a while. I [...]

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Homemade Brownies

Brownies

I first shared this brownies recipe with the (very tiny) world of the HilahCooking newsletter, gosh, probably two years ago. That’s hard to believe. Then I put it into the Learn to Cook book since it’s easy as hell and perfect for beginners. Once, right after we released the book last year, I was so [...]

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Homemade Lemon Bars

Lemon Bars

I’ve mentioned my Cousin Patty before, that old Texas gal, bless-her-heart. This is her recipe for lemon bars. It’s different than any other recipe I’ve found in that the crust is put together more like a cookie than a pie crust, and the filling has baking powder in it. S’weird, I know.

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Key Lime Pie Recipe

Key Lime Pie

Alright, I’mma be honest with you: I never did like key lime pie much. Back when I was a kiddo, I mean. It was too tart, too bitter, to lime-y. But (fortunately?) these past many years of drinking whiskey, chewing up entire raw ghost peppers, and siphoning gasoline (I kid. Mostly.) have left my tastebuds [...]

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Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe

Banana Pudding

It’s time for a creamy treat, kids! This was one of my favorite desserts when I was wee, perhaps tied with pistachio pudding out of a box which I just loved, and coming in a close second to bubblegum ice cream from Baskin Robbins which sounds absolutely appalling to me now.

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