These cranberry orange rolls include soft homemade dough filled with a spiced cranberry orange filling and finished with orange cream cheese icing. It's simultaneously sweet, zesty, and mouthwateringly delicious. This cranberry orange sweet roll recipe brings together the best of my orange rolls and cranberry cinnamon rolls. It's the perfect indulgent breakfast, snack, or dessert to enjoy ... Continue Reading
Chocolate Chess Pie
Chocolate fans, this old-fashioned chocolate chess pie recipe is for you! It's rich, fudgy, and so simple to make! Today I'm sharing one of my grandmother's recipes with you. If you have a copy of my latest book, Sweetness, you can see this recipe on page 147 with a beautiful photograph on page 148. Grandmama was one of those people who always lifted the mood in a room whenever she was ... Continue Reading
Caramel Banana Pie (a.k.a Easy Banoffee Pie)
This caramel banana pie is a Southern take on the classic banoffee pie, but instead, I'm pairing fresh banana with dulce de leche for a deliciously decadent and creamy caramel-flavored pie. This caramel banana pie recipe is my Southern version of a traditional banoffee pie. There is just one ingredient different, but the decadence and texture are very much the same. So, what's the difference ... Continue Reading
Double-Layered Candy Cane Bark
You only need 3 ingredients to make this sweet candy cane bark recipe. Infused with peppermint flavor, break off a big bite and enjoy this festive treat. I made this a while back but wasn't going to post it, thinking it was likely something everyone did and y'all might think I was crazy for actually doing a tutorial on it. Yesterday though, I went to my son's school and sat with his class while ... Continue Reading
Homemade Caramels
Made with sugar, sweetened condensed milk, corn syrup, and butter, these homemade caramels taste so much better than their store-bought alter-egos and will positively melt in your mouth. When I was a little girl we had a little store in our neighborhood which we all called "the store around the corner". I don't even know if it had a name other than that but kids from all over would ride their ... Continue Reading
Fruit Cocktail Cake
This old-fashioned fruit cocktail cake is made from scratch. With a delicious coconut and pecan sauce that soaks into the cake, it's so rich and moist you won't be able to resist bite after bite. I love and adore this old-fashioned fruit cocktail cake with sauce. This is another one of those long-ago recipes that we've been making in my family for as long as I can remember. But it's ... Continue Reading
Christmas Cutout Cookies
What happens when you take sweet sugar cookies, cut the dough using Christmas cookie cutters, and add red and green icing? You get Christmas cutout cookies, a must-make cookie recipe these holidays. Throughout my childhood, this was our one must-have sugar cookie recipe for cookie decorating. Mama would make a huge batch so we all had plenty to decorate. She cut them into shapes of trees, ... Continue Reading
Spaghetti Soup
Similar to Italian chili, this quick and easy spaghetti soup recipe includes beans, tender vegetables, and spaghetti cooked in a flavorful tomato spaghetti sauce. It's hearty and filling comfort food perfect for the spaghetti lover in your life. It seems like whenever I make spaghetti, I always end up with a cup or two of sauce left. As spaghetti is one of my favorite meals, it's only fitting ... Continue Reading
7-Up Pound Cake With Lemon Glaze
This old-fashioned 7-Up pound cake recipe with lemon glaze is a classic Southern dessert that uses 7-Up to make a buttery and moist from-scratch cake that has a hint of lemon flavor. Pound cakes are such an integral part of Southern cooking. Made with simple ingredients like butter, flour, sugar, and eggs, they're known for their crisp crust and velvety soft buttery interior that's both dense ... Continue Reading
Carrot Cake Bars
If you like carrot cake, you're in for a treat! My carrot cake bars taste just like carrot cake but are moister and denser, with pecans, oats, carrots, spices, and cream cheese frosting. Now, I know this looks just like a piece of carrot cake. But it's actually a really dense and rich carrot cake bar cookie, all dressed up to look like cake. It sure is good too and you'll find me making them ... Continue Reading
