Category Archives: Desserts and Treats
Rhubarb Cake
Chocolate Drop Cookies
Today we tackled another recipe from our Antique Recipe Collection. We are attempting Chocolate Drop Cookies. The recipe leaves a number of things to be desired. It is only a list of ingredients with no directions and 2 of the ingredients do not list the amounts to use. We recently succeeded in making Drop Hermit […]
Eclair Puffs
I am a big fan of dough, cream, and chocolate. Eclairs Puffs are a pretty good fit. I can remember in middle school sneaking across the street to Paul’s Pastries and buying eclairs after school. My grandmother still gets me a Boston Cream Cake on my birthday each year. Em’s aunt makes an eclair cake that […]
Orange Cream Cake
Cinnamon Flop Cake
I came across a recipe for Cinnamon Flop Cake in one of our Antique Recipe Collections. The recipe was titled “Grams Cinnamon Flop”. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out the cursive letter at the beginning of Flop was in fact an “F”. Having unlearned cursive sometime in the last decade I had to […]
Zucchini Crumb Muffins
In my never ending attempt to create things with zucchini I decided to try Zucchini Crumb Muffins. I still have quite a bit of frozen shredded zucchini from last years garden. I thought instead of making a zucchini cake I would try a muffin. Then I thought a streusel like topping might be a good idea […]