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S’mores Bars

June 16, 2024 by admin Leave a Comment

S´mores bars

There´s no need to camp out to make this ooey gooey, chocolately treat that will take you back to those summer nights around the bonfire at the lake.

Filed Under: Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: bars, chocolate, graham cracker, marshmallow, nostalgia, s'mores

Fresh Strawberry Pie

February 15, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Fresh Strawberry and Blackberry Pie

Robin: My mom was a consummate pie maker, able to produce a sweet, flaky-crusted work of art from berries, peaches, pears, pumpkin, pecans, custard, or almost anything else. I am definitely not a great pie maker, but even I can make this pie. And it’s delicious! Most people love strawberries, and they will be impressed…

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Filed Under: Extra Easy, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: fresh berries, fruit pies, no-bake, strawberries

Rhubarb Ice Pops

May 19, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Rhubarb Ice Pops

Robin: While I was growing up, rhubarb wasn´t really part of my life. I´d heard of it, tried it a time or two in pie (and hadn´t thought particularly highly of it), but it just seemed like a boring olden days thing that old timers talked about. I guess it didn´t help that said old…

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Filed Under: Extra Easy, Gluten-Free, Snacks, Sweets & Desserts, Vegetarian Tagged With: ice pops, rhubarb

No-Bake Pineapple Coconut Balls (“Snowballs” or “Bunny Tails”)

March 29, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

No-Bake Pineapple Coconut Balls

Robin: These two-bite balls of goodness call for only 3 or 4 ingredients and are super easy to make, but they are full of tropical-flavored deliciousness. They are cute enough to offer guests on a special occasion (call them “snowballs” if it´s winter, “bunny tails” in springtime, etc.), yet simple enough to make for a…

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Snacks, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: balls, coconut, cream cheese, pineapple

Banana-Blueberry and Banana-Cherry Breads

July 24, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Blueberry banana and cherry banana breads

Robin: Last week somebody someone at work gave me some leftover bananas and half-jokingly said, “Here, make some banana bread.” So I did. It had been many years since I´d made any. Maybe decades. I mean, I do occasionally bake a killer pumpkin bread, and I love these zucchini-bread-like chocolate chip cookies, so quick breads…

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Filed Under: Breads, Snacks, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: banana, blueberries, cherries, quick breads

Coconut Merengue Cookies

May 8, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Gluten- and lactose-free Coconut Merengue Cookies

Robin: I love the way that these cookies are familiar-feeling, yet different. They are a cross between a macaroon and a merengue, and as such, are both light/crispy and sweet/chewy. Their bright white color makes them a striking addition to an assorted cookie tray or dessert table. They taste good, too, of course! You might…

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Snacks, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: coconut, cookies, merengue

Basic Capirotada Bread Pudding

April 18, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Capirotada Bread Pudding

Robin: The origins of bread pudding are lost in the mists of time—which makes total sense to me, since it is an excellent way of putting stale or leftover bread to good use. One version of it, called capirotada de vigilia or simply capirotada, came to the New World via the Spanish colonists and evolved…

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Filed Under: Breads, Snacks, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: bread pudding, capirotada, Holy Week, Lent

Mexican Piggy Cookies

February 22, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Mexican Piggy Cookies (marranitos, puerquitos) cochinitos)

Robin: In Mexico, these piggies would probably not be called galletas (cookies) at all; there they are one of the dozens of traditional panes dulces (sweet breads) that are part of the fabric of daily life. Cookies in Mexico tend to be fancy, delicate little things, and these hog shaped pieces of baked dough are…

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Filed Under: Snacks, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: breakfast, cochinitos, cookies, marranitos, piggy, piloncillo, puerquitos

Sweet Potato and Cinnamon Gelatin

September 24, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Sweet Potato Cinnamon Gelatin

Robin: Inspired by the multitude of sweet gelatin dishes I came across in Mexico, I came up with this easy-to-make and somewhat sophisticated-looking dessert that might remind you a little of a crustless sweet potato pie. The gelatin is creamy and mousse-like in texture, but firm enough to hold its shape when cut into slices….

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: cinnamon, gelatin dessert, jello dessert, sweet potato

My Mom’s Pear Cake

August 29, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Joy's Pear Cake

Robin: When they lived on a tiny-but-lovely Royer Lake in northeast Indiana, Mom and Dad had their very own pear tree. Some years the harvest was huge, others not so much. When the supply was abundant, Mom would find creative ways to take full advantage of the delicious fruit, using pears in salads, desserts, and…

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Filed Under: Snacks, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: cake, comfort food, pear

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