Variations on Cooking

These are fun to make, a wonderful devil's food cake-like cookie. You can fill them with ice cream, a simple icing, or what I like to...

Ingredients 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter - 10 tablespoons of the butter melted and cooled slightly 1 1/4 cups of unbleached flour 4 to 5...

Well it’s not your traditional cheese cake. In the steno pad from by Grandmother is this recipe, well most of it, I had to add in a few...

Holiday Cake

Holiday Cake

A standard dessert i serve at most of our dinner parties. Who does not like chocolate and it has the added kick of a hint of Ginger....

One of my favorite desserts, well Cherries are my favorite fruit. I did a variation on the cake from the cardamon cupcakes I have posted...

Ingredients 1 cup of Whiskey 1/2 cup of golden raisins 1/2 cup of raisins 4 1/2 cups of unbleached flour 3 1/2 cups of chopped pecans 2...

I found this recipe in my Grandmother cookbook, it took me a while to translate her handwriting and to figure out the ingredients and...

I had this cake, it is so good, Ina made it a few times for me, It also has the same frosting as the Orange Cake. Ingredients Cake 2 1/2...

Another of Ina's signature desserts, come to think about she always was had a cake on hand at all times. Ingredients Cake 2 3/4 cup of...

I was going through old files and came across more than a dozen recipes from a good friend and neighbor, Ina, from when I lived in...