Is French Silk Pie really French? No!! It’s as American as can be. French silk pie is not filled with a pudding, but instead a chocolate mousse consisting of eggs, chocolate, sugar, and butter. (The four basic food groups for dessert!) The name is perfect because this pie really does have the texture of silk, and what decadent, chocolatey…
Desserts
Four Ingredient Desperation Cookie Recipe
It was dark and stormy on Saturday night. And it was really, really cold. We’d had ho-hum leftovers for supper and suddenly we were overcome by craving something sweet. No way did we want to leave the house. The clock ticked. The hankering intensified. We rummaged through the cupboards, nothing. The freezer, nothing. Then I…
Naughty But Nice. Cookie Dough Energy Bites.
Cookie Dough Energy Bites Recipe It’s here, ready or not! “The Holidays” are upon us and you know what that means! Temptation at every turn! What if you had a secret weapon that would satisfy your sweet tooth, keep your energy high and your motor humming in high gear during the busy weeks ahead? Ta-da!…
Best Ever Fresh Apple Cake Recipe
Fresh apple cake is synonymous with fall, isn’t it? Many years ago, my husband’s Grandma Frieda Haeker passed along her special recipe. I chased her down after a family get-together to get it. I look back with so much fondness to the days when families gathered more often. Depending on the time of year, the…
Delightfully Sweet and Tangy Rhubarb Crumble
Rhubarb! You irresistible scamp! How I love your saucey tartness! Rhubarb has been used for centuries as a sort of health tonic. The benefits touted include everything from aiding digestion to preventing Altzheimers! (I’ll take two please!) We have a couple of venerable old plants that yield an abundance of the crisp, tart stalks. The…
Everyone’s Nutty About Slab Pie!
Is there such a thing Foodie FOMO? I think I have it!! As much as I think about and read about and experiment with food and recipes, I totally missed the boat on slab pie!! What?? How did that happen when there’s a BOAT load of great ideas for slab pie everywhere?? 🙃 It’s such…
GB’s Candy Bar Poke Cake Recipe
I decided to see just how easily I could bang out a great tasting poke cake that’s quick! And, I wanted it to taste like the popular candy bar with the name that actually rhymes with quicker. 😉 So chocolate, caramel and peanuts, right? I mean, does it get any better? I also happen to be…
Here’s Apple Pie You Can Eat With Your Hands!
Apple Pie Recipe. Eat it With Your Hands and Lick Your Fingers! Ah… Glorious Fall is in the air!! Don’t you love it? As I drive around the countryside I see apple trees everywhere groaning under the weight of a bountiful crop! And when I look at apples I see dessert!! Years ago my sister-in-law…
Vanilla Poke Cake with Salted Caramel and Buttercream
Vanilla Poke Cake with Salted Caramel and Buttercream A while back we enjoyed dinner with my husband’s sweet Aunt Marvel at a very fancy country club. We had a fabulous dessert, an equally fancy multi-layered vanilla bean cake with salted caramel and buttercream icing. It was incredible but clearly a lot of work! Here’s the…