WELCOME to Southern Plate! I’m so thrilled to have you here, my only regret is that I can’t give you a hug through the computer! Sit back, get comfy, and sit a spell because you’re a grand addition to the family. If you like, you can subscribe via email just to make sure you never [...]
Welcome to the newly designed SouthernPlate.com! There are a lot of improvements in store to make the site more user friendly, including buttons at the bottom of each post that allow you to print only the recipe! For now only the most recent posts have the print button but I’m working to add it to [...]
I hope you’re all gearing up for a Happy Father’s Day. Today I thought I’d bring you a few recipes to help show your appreciation for all of the hard working dads in your life beginning with a few of my husband’s favorite dishes and treats! Homemade CinnaBuns Is the dad in your life a [...]
I put a little video of me chatting with y’all at the bottom of this post. If you’re new here, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY! I’d love to have you subscribe by email and please feel free to chat with the rest of the family in the comments section! I’ve had strawberries on the brain lately. [...]
There is something about Christmas that makes a body pull all they hold dear close to their heart. Though it may seem to focus on material things on the onset, most of us quickly see right through the commercial aspects to the underlying motive of just wanting to show someone you love how much they [...]
Back in the old days (a whopping whole year ago) I tried not to let on when I was bringing you a recipe that I developed myself. I was afraid if y’all knew I had made it up, you wouldn’t want to try it! Now that we’ve settled in and become a big old family [...]
We have a VERY SPECIAL guest blogger today – my seven year old nephew, Lane! Let me tell ya, no one has ever been prouder to be on Southern Plate than him. I had no idea that he wanted to post until my sister said a few weeks ago “Lane thinks if he makes his [...]
I’ll be bringing you a new apple recipe each day this week! I originally published this one Jan 11, 2009 and am republishing it for you today. I do hope you get a chance to try it, it’s one of my all time favorites! Gratefully, Christy 
I first had this cake when I was [...]
I try to teach optimism to my kids. I’ve always felt that teaching children the benefits of a positive attitude is a vital lesson which will benefit them the rest of their lives. I tell them, “Each day when you wake up, you have a choice. You can have a good day or you can [...]
If you enjoy Southern Plate, please help support the site by telling your friends! Thank you so much! In the south, our menu selection changes entirely with the season, and each new season is something to be excited about. Right now, we’re all celebrating sunshine and heat, gardens and the outdoors. When the temperature reaches [...]
Today is the last day of school for us. While we’ve been living here a few weeks, there is still so much to be done. Clothes and dishes and such are put away but the walls still lay bare and unemptied boxes litter the sunroom which is supposed to be my Southern Plate office some [...]
If you enjoy Southern Plate, please tell a friend! This is the second tutorial photographed at my new home. I just love photographing things in the sun room. Yesterday I opened a few windows out there and had the most wonderfully scented early summer breeze flowing through as I prepared this cake and later worked [...]
I mentioned this cake a few posts back and promised I’d bring it to you because its one of my favorites. One of these days y’all are going to get tired of me saying that everything is my favorite but if you haven’t figured out that I really like food by now then somethin’ is [...]
We have an odd sense of humor in my family. Perhaps it’s not odd, really, so much as it is constant. We are forever looking to laugh in any given situation. I blame it entirely on my mother, who made sure each day growing up was filled with as much laughter as possible. My brother [...]
For information on how to print off my recipes and other Frequently Asked Questions, please click here. Sometimes I post things and it actually worries me that you might live your life without trying a particular recipe. Like my Chicken Stew, Apple Dapple Cake, or Banana Pudding. Well today I’m adding Vanilla Wafer Cake to [...]
Pineapple Upside Down Cake is a regular aound most southern dinner tables and when I was a girl, it was even a regular in the school cafeteria! The flavor of a buttery cake, topped with brown sugar and that glazed slice of pineapple on top with a cherry in the center – whats not to [...]
This is my Dad’s favorite cake at Christmas time and Easter and its just divine beyond compare. Another great refrigerator cake, it can be made three days ahead of time and then left to sit in the fridge as it just grows moister with every passing minute. Coconut around the Holidays is a tradition in [...]
My mother has always called this Better Than Robert Redford cake. No disrespect to Mr. Redford, but in 2008, I feel its time for a new name. I have often heard it referred to as Better Than S__ Cake, but I am not really keen on actually saying that. I mean, I need a name [...]
You may recognize this as a “trifle” but here in the south, we call them “punch bowl cakes”. Any southern lady worth her weight in salt has at least one pretty glass punch bowl, usually reserved for this purpose. This dessert is my husband’s absolute favorite. He wants this every year on his birthday, which [...]
This is an Apple Skillet Cake from my husband’s grandmother, Granny Jordan. I have written a little about Granny Jordan before when I posted her Frozen Cranberry Banana Salads, but I won’t miss out on an opportunity to praise her further! Granny Jordan was the quintessential southern lady in absolutely every fashion. She collected recipes [...]
We have a tradition each year which has held since I was old enough to remember. My entire family piles in the car and we drive to Toney, Alabama to pay a visit to Scott’s Orchard. As a child, I remember riding home in the back of the truck, munching on all varieties of fresh [...]
Apple Dapple Cake 3 cup all purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup pecans, chopped 1 cup vegetable oil 2 cup sugar 3 eggs 2 teaspoon vanilla 3 cups raw apples, peeled and chopped fine Mix oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Sift together flour, salt, soda. Add to first mixture. Fold in [...]
Coca Cola Cake 1 package plain white cake mix 4 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 8 Tablespoons (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted 1 cup coca cola ½ cup buttermilk (Or substitute 1/2 C whole milk with a T of lemon juice stirred in) 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1 ½ cups of [...]
Mandarin Orange Cake 1 (11 oz) can Mandarin oranges diced, undrained 4 eggs ½ cup oil Mix all ingredients together well. Pour into 3 greased and floured round cake pans. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Frosting 1 sm. Box instant vanilla pudding mix 1 (13 oz) cool whip 1 sm. Can crushed pineapple, undrained [...]
Butterfinger Cake 1 box devil’s food cake mix 1 bottle caramel topping 1 can Condensed milk 1 large tub cool whip 1 Butterfinger bar Prepare cake according to package directions. Immediately after removing cake from oven, poke several holes all over the top with a fork. Mix sweetened condensed milk and caramel together, pour [...]
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Fruit Cocktail Cake 2 Cups self rising flour 1 can fruit cocktail 2 unbeaten eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 ½ Cup sugar Mix all ingredients at low speed. Pour into greased and floured 9×13 in pan. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Sauce 1 [...]
Yellow Cake Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Icing Duncan Hines yellow cake mix, made according to package directions and cooled 1- 1/2 Cups sugar 7 Tablespoons milk 2 Tablespoons Shortening 2 Tablespoons margarine 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 Cup creamy Peanut Butter Combine sugar, milk, shortening, margarine, and salt. Bring to a rolling boil [...]
