Desserts

This coffee cake has a yummy crunchy topping. You can try making it with other fresh seasonal fruit, as well, such as peaches, pears, cherries, plums or berries. If you’re a nut lover, toss some sliced almonds on top, or broken walnuts or pecans.

Apple Nectarine Coffee Cake
1 3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar (can [...]

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With a little direction and supervision from mom, and some help with the electric mixer, this is a recipe easy enough for your kids. (Or use one of those hand crank egg-beaters!) My daughter made it for a delightful dessert to share with friends.
No-bake Strawberry Cheesecake
19-20 graham crackers, crushed
6 Tbsp. butter, [...]

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1 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
2 Tbsp. light corn syrup (optional)
dash salt
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla
In medium saucepan, stir together sugar and cocoa. Add butter, milk, salt, and optional corn syrup. Heat to a full boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Boil vigorously for 3 minutes, continuing to [...]

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School is out for summer! To celebrate, I made cake. Two, in fact: a Triple Chocolate Cake, and a Simple Little White Cake topped with Sweetened Whipped Cream and Fresh Strawberries.
Triple Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Chips, filled and frosted with Chocolate Icing

For this cake, I used this Chocolate Cake recipe (using oil in [...]

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This is a great-tasting chocolate cake that uses cocoa instead of baking chocolate (I tend to have cocoa on hand much more often than baking chocolate). It also uses buttermilk, which contributes to the moistness of the cake. If you don’t have buttermilk, you can substitute soured milk (eg. milk soured with a [...]

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