Some time ago, I ordered several pounds of dates from an online provider when the price locally had gone beyond my budget. They were diced with a very light coating of cornstarch to keep the pieces from sticking together, and I have found them to be very good in a wide variety of baked goods–along…
Category: Desserts
Peanutty Pops (guest post)
Enjoy these childhood favorite, rich and peanut-buttery, frozen treats on a hot day.
Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding
Here’s an old, old recipe that happens to be gluten free, from way back before people even knew they might want to make such a thing. In fact, our family has a story almost a hundred years old, in which chocolate pudding played a key role. In the winter of 1918, during the great “Spanish…
Chocolate Apple Cake with Fudge Topping
Hungry for chocolate even in this season of apples and pumpkins and lots of rich sugar cookies? Ready for a different dessert after all those Thanksgiving pies? Here’s a quick and easy cake that will satisfy your chocolate sweet tooth that you could almost pretend to be healthy–something we all need after the turkey day…
Peach Kuchen
Growing up, I was exposed to very little “German” food, with sauerkraut probably the only that fit that description. So when I married into a family that had maintained their German traditions and recipes, I began to learn about things like “tortes” and “kuchens”–and even bratwurst which at that time were not widely known or…