Dessert Recipes
Carrot Cake Recipe
Carrot cake is one of those wholesome desserts that reminds me of farmers’ wives and sweaty milkmaids and healthy brown-skinned farmboys. The sight of a big round carrot cake takes my mind’s eye to the bright kitchen of a big white house in the middle of a sorghum field with a blue sky out the…
Read MoreCaramel Corn
Someone every Christmas would send my grandma one of those big tubs of popcorn, the variety pack with plain, cheezy, and caramel corn. The caramel was my favorite (duh, isn’t it everyone’s?) with the cheezy corn coming in second. Poor plain popcorn would get fed to the birds more often than not. I mean, especially…
Read MoreCoconut Cream Pie
If you’re ever in the enviable position of being able to throw a pie in someone’s face, please don’t let it be this one. Coconut cream pie is WAY too good to be thrown in anyone’s face, unless that person has a giganto-mouth and excellent mouth-pie coordination and there’s only one person who ever lived…
Read MoreBlueberry Tart
Fruit tarts and pie are one of my favorite desserts and blueberries are some of my favorite fruits so this blueberry tart pretty much gets an A+ from me. We had the pleasure of visiting Santa Monica, California last week and while we were there, finally got to shoot a video collaboration with charming Chef…
Read MoreHomemade 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…
Read MoreGluten 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…
Read MoreOatmeal 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…
Read MoreHow to Make Cake Pops – Halloween Cake Pops
Halloween Cake Pops Video tutorial – scroll down for recipe 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 don’t do much in…
Read MoreCocoa Brownies
Cocoa Brownies Recipe Video (scroll down for printable recipe) 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…
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