This peanut butter brownies recipe is guaranteed to knock the socks off all peanut butter fans. The moist peanut butter brownies are topped with the most decadent peanut butter fudge icing. My Starbucks friends have been waiting on this fudgy peanut butter brownies recipe. After a weekend of doing pretty much nothing but baking brownies, I left a message on Facebook for some folks to ... Continue Reading
Must Make Recipes for New Year’s Day
With New Year's Day coming up fast, I thought I'd share some of my family's classic must have recipes for the big New Year's Day meal! First up is black eyed pea. These are a must for New Year's Day on Southern tables. I make mine in the crock pot with a smoked turkey leg. This is a fuss free way to have perfectly cooked black eyed peas. Click here for this Slow Cooker ... Continue Reading
Aunt Sue’s Easy Pound Cake Recipe
Made famous by my Aunt Sue, here's an easy pound cake recipe that's guaranteed to deliver a deliciously moist and sweet vanilla pound cake. I've lost count of how many folks have asked for this easy pound cake recipe after I posted a photo of it with Mama's custard sauce last week. Made famous by my dear Aunt Sue, this one appeared in my first cookbook and is truly the best pound cake recipe ... Continue Reading
Butter Bars From Scratch: Gooey Goodness Awaits!
If you like your dessert rich, creamy, and ooey-gooey, you're going to love this butter bars recipe! This ooey gooey butter bars recipe is the stuff of legends. While the shortcut recipe (using boxed yellow cake mix) has been making rounds for years, it's nothing compared to this homemade from-scratch butter bars. I promise it takes just a few extra steps (and a couple of minutes more) and you ... Continue Reading
Mud Hens
Everyone needs an over-the-top cookie bar in your life, like this Mud Hens recipe. With a shortbread base, chocolate chips and marshmallow center, and a brown sugar meringue on top, they're the definition of indulgent (and irresistible). This recipe for Mud Hens is one I have been making for over 20 years now. I included it in one of my cookbooks and published it here some years ago but the ... Continue Reading
Crock Pot Dressing With Cornbread
It isn't the holidays without a serving of my Grandmama's moist and delicious crock pot dressing with cornbread. There is nothing like Southern cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving! Moist and delicious, this slow cooker stuffing recipe is best served warm with sides of cranberry sauce and ample amounts of chicken or turkey inside. Often reserved as an exclusive Thanksgiving recipe, my ... Continue Reading
Mini Red Velvet Cakes
Soft, moist, and flavorful, these fun mini red velvet cakes are made from my homemade and from scratch red velvet cake recipe. With delicious cream cheese icing, they make the perfect dessert or gifts for friends and family. My childhood was filled with wonderful food each and every day, but even with all of that, Christmas baking made the days extra special. I remember vividly the treats we ... Continue Reading
Dishpan Cookies
Dishpan cookies are the perfect cookie in my book! Soft and chewy with slightly crispy edges, they live up to their name, as you never know what kind of delicious texture and flavor surprise is hiding inside. I suppose I've always had a soft spot when it comes to homemade cookies. As a girl, my mother made fresh homemade cookies like these dishpan cookies twice a week, every week! Living ... Continue Reading
Cheesecake Toppings & An Easy Cheesecake Recipe
This post features lots of different (and delicious) ideas for cheesecake toppings, plus the easiest cheesecake recipe ever! Today I thought I'd combine an easy cheesecake recipe with a little extra bonus: ideas for cheesecake toppings. From canned pie filling to whipped cream and a super easy pecan praline sauce, the topping options are endless! If you're a cheesecake lover, I bet one of ... Continue Reading
Ole Fashioned Southern Sugar Plum Cake
Filled with spices, walnuts, and dried plums, this sugar plum cake recipe (also known as prune cake) is a delicious Southern version of fruit cake to bake this Christmas. This sugar plum cake is one of my mother's cherished recipes that her mother used to make her as a child, especially at Christmas time. I’ve heard her talk about it for years and it’s been decades since she had one so I ... Continue Reading
