Dessert

  • Mandarin Orange Pineapple Cake

    Mandarin Orange Pineapple Cake

    Ingredients: Cake Batter Icing Instructions: Serve Cold For those days when you just need to pull up a chair to the refrigerator and find something sweet. Jordan, age 3

  • Mama’s Chocolate Cake

    Mama’s Chocolate Cake

    Ingredients: Instructions: Family Note Caption this. You can almost hear Deb about to say, “Look!”

  • Dump Cake

    Dump Cake

    Ingredients: Instructions: Grandkid Note Many of Grandma’s recipe cards come “from the kitchen of” one of her many friends or family members. Through the collective cards that grew within her recipe box, you can feel the fruitfulness of a cornucopia of cherished relationships. Jessica

  • Crunchy Cherry Cake Dessert

    Crunchy Cherry Cake Dessert

    Ingredients: Instructions: Grandkid Note When I read “serve warm” I recall how hugs from Grandma could cure the soul. But, on occasion, you could get a glimpse of her on the receiving end of one-such-hug. Jessica

  • Carrot Cake

    Carrot Cake

    Ingredients: Frosting Instructions: Frosting Instructions:

  • Best Ever Chocolate Cake

    Best Ever Chocolate Cake

    Ingredients: Frosting Instructions: Frosting Instructions: Grandkid Note Not saying my chocolate cakes are the best ever, since I’ve never tried this recipe, but I am saying the [bomb-dot-com] recipe I’ve been using for my kids’ birthdays looks a lot like the one above. Jessica

  • Apple Cake

    Apple Cake

    Ingredients: Instructions: Grandkid Note Swaddling a cake in aluminum foil was never about creating Pintrest-worthy presentations. Grandma’s recipes were about a warm smile, and the fruitful reward of time well spent. Jessica

  • Butterscotch Chewy Bars

    Butterscotch Chewy Bars

    Ingredients: Instructions: Family Note This recipe is not to be confused with Lisa’s now famous made-to-order 7 Layer Bars (or six, or five, or four layers depending how you like it – only Lisa knows).

  • Bread Pudding

    Bread Pudding

    Ingredients: Instructions: Post-It Note If your name landed on a post-it note, that meant you were earmarked for family status. Upon marriage, that post-it turned to glittery goodness on a fluffy red stocking that was sure to age (less than gracefully) with each Christmas. Grandma’s post-it notes quietly supported her love for both God…

  • Apple Pudding

    Apple Pudding

    Ingredients Bake: “Greased”Bake at 350° for 45 to 55 minutes Family Note On the back of this recipe card you can find the handwritten name of Grandma’s daughter, Kelly. Likely sketched sometime around 1970, Kelly shares today that she’s never tried Apple Pudding or heard of Grandma making it. – Jessica (Kelly’s kid)