desserts & candies

Fresh Fig Tart

The sweet tart crust is layered with almond cream, fig jam (either homemade or store-bought) and fresh figs.

Italian Ricotta Cheesecake

This cake is very rich, therefore the following recipe will make one 9-inch cheesecake from which you should get 14 slices.

New York Style Cheesecake

This classic New York cheesecake is the ultimate cheesecake. It’s dense, rich and creamy and so incredibly easy to make.

Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce

A delicious bread pudding, studded with raisins, and covered in a decadent, boozy rum sauce.

Granny’s Green Jello Salad (with Cottage Cheese & Pineapple) is a delicious retro dish that my father’s mother made for just about any special occassion including church dinners, Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.

Tomato Soup Spice Cake

Based on a classic retro 1950s recipe created by the Campbell Soup Company. You can’t taste the soup, just a deliciously moist and fluffy spice layer cake.

Evelyn’s Carrot Cake

Evelyn’s famous carrot cake is so moist and delicious your family is sure to ask for second’s.

Killeen’s St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

This recipe is said to have come from the original bakery of gooey butter cakes.

Paula Deen’s Gooey Butter Cake

This recipe for Gooey Butter Cake is by Paula Deen.

Classic Pecan Pie

Pecan pie came to be closely associated with the culture of the Southern United States in the 1940s and 1950s.

Buttermilk Chess Pie

This buttermilk pie has the wonderful tangy flavor from buttermilk, lemon juice, and zest.

Southern Chocolate Chess Pie

This rich and delicious chocolate chess pie is a true Southern classic.

Lemon Chess Pie

The filling on this pie is pure lemon, and sooo creamy and delicious!

Traditional Chess Pie

This recipe first appeared in the Fort Worth Women’s Club 1928 cookbook, and perhaps the earliest printed reference to chess pie.

Sweet Tea Pie

Sweet tea pie was created by Mississippi chef Martha Hall Foose as her entry in the 1987 Crisco State Fair Pie Baking Contest.

Girl Scout S’Mores

This is the original 1927 recipe for “Some More” as it appeared in the Girl Scouts manual.

Dr Pepper Bundt Cake

While this recipe uses boxed cake mix and boxed pudding mixes, we had to include it because it’s so doggone delicious.

Ricotta Ice Cream

This is my youngest son’s favorite ice cream.

Sugar’s Vanilla Ice Cream

This ice cream recipe was my momma’s favorite and the one she most often made.

Salvation Army Lassies’ Doughnuts

This is the original doughnut recipe used by the Salvation Army’s corp of volunteer women referred to as the Lassies.

Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Donuts

These doughnuts are coated with a sugary glaze and taste just like cake doughnuts from your favorite bakery.

Sugar’s Apricot Fried Pies

These homemade fried pies were a special treat my momma made for me as a child.

Ermine Frosting

This Frosting needs to be refrigerated though, just like French and American ButterCremes.

Adams Best Red Velvet Cake

This is the recipe as it appeared on the 1962 Adams Best promotional materials.

Fannie Farmer Brownies

Although written is a style many of today’s cooks are not use to, this recipe, if followed, with produce a good product.

Cream of Wheat Chocolate Chip Pudding

A wonderful Cream of Wheat dessert or afternoon snack.

Cream of Wheat Apple Cranberry Crumble

Serve this unusual but delicious apple crumble warm from the oven topped with frozen vanilla yogurt or ice cream.

Root Beer Float Pie

This Root Beer Float Pie recipe is a great no-bake dessert.

Muscadine “Dump Cake”

The Dump Cake gets its name from dumping ingredients in a pan and baking them.

Grape Hull Pie

The recipe for this heirloom pie is well worth taking off the bottom of the stack and dusting off.

Modernized Butter Drop Do Cookie

Super soft, chewy, and easy to make drop butter cookies perfect for the holiday season or or anytime year round with different sprinkles or frosting colors!

Wakefield’s Original Chocolate Crunch Cookies

Here’s a new cookie that everybody loves because it is so delicious, so different and so easy to make.

NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Chocolate Chip Cookies

Americans prefer chocolate chip cookies 3:1 over any other cookie according to Impulse Research

Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies

Recipe was created by Carolyn Gurtz, 2008 Pillsbury Bake-Off grand prize winner

Peanut Butter Balls

This recipe was taken from the 1933 edition of *Balanced Recipes* by Ellis Ames (Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Triple Peanut Butter Cookies

Big, thick, bakery-style peanut butter cookies are loaded with peanut butter, roasted peanuts and peanut butter chips for an extra peanut buttery cookies.

Quince Tarte Tatin

Tarte Tatin should ideally be eaten warm, or room temperature, the same day it’s made.

Quince Clafoutis

This light, rich, creamy, pudding-like dessert is a French classic.

Poached Quince with Vanilla and Cinnamon

Poached quince is delicious over your afternoon ice cream or a slice of pound cake topped with whipped cream.

Eggnog Pound Cake

A festive twist on traditional pound cake, this deliciously moist Eggnog Pound Cake takes your favorite Christmas drink and turns it into a heavenly dessert!

Creamy Chocolate Fudge

This super easy Creamy Chocolate Fudge takes just minutes to make and is a seriously delicious, lusciously creamy, no-fail fudge!

Chocolate Fudge Recipe

For those folks who feel scratch-made is best, here is a wonderful chocolate fudge recipe for you.

Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Fudge

Sometimes the simplest recipes yield the richest results.

Chef Monte’s Old-South Fruitcake

In this recipe eliminates the candied fruits in favor of dried fruits.

Sugar Cookies

These sugar cookies are the perfect starting place for a holiday cookie decorating party.

Spritz Cookies

Spritz cookies come from the German word Spritzen which means to squirt referring to the way these cookies are pushed through a cookie press to create beautiful shapes.