cooking recipes
This Brownie Cheesecake Recipe With Hot Fudge Topping Is the Make-Ahead Holiday Dessert You Need My sister brought this to Sunday dinner last month and I watched three grown adults go completely silent mid-conversation. Forks down, eyes closed, that kind of quiet — the good kind, where nobody remembers to keep talking. I've been chasing […]
Coconut Cream Pound Cake My mom used to make this every Easter, and the smell alone would pull us all into the kitchen before the glaze even set. That buttery coconut aroma filling the house? Pure comfort. I hadn’t made it in years until last weekend, and the second I pulled it from the oven, […]
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pie: MawMaw's Silky Cocoa Custard From Scratch My husband's grandmother made this pie every holiday and most Sunday dinners, and he has been telling me about it for eleven years. MawMaw Hamrick's old-fashioned chocolate pie was the thing people fought over, the last slice that somebody always thought they'd taken. Last month his […]
Apple Snickerdoodle Dump Cake I made this on a Sunday afternoon when the house felt too quiet, and I swear the smell alone brought my neighbor to the door asking what was baking. This Apple Snickerdoodle Dump Cake is one of those recipes that feels like cheating — but in the best possible way. You […]
Caramel Cheesecake Swirl Brownies with Milky Way My sister brought these to Thanksgiving last year and I watched three grown adults nearly fight over the last piece. I’m not even exaggerating. I finally made them myself last weekend and now I understand why. That first bite — fudgy brownie, creamy cheesecake swirl, gooey caramel, all […]
Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake My mom used to make this every single time we had company over, and I swear people would call ahead just to make sure it was on the table. There’s something about the way Coca-Cola bakes into chocolate cake that makes it impossibly moist — like, you-can’t-stop-at-one-slice moist. The frosting gets this […]
Raspberry Shortbread Crumb Bars My mom used to make these every Christmas, and I swear the smell alone could pull you out of bed from three rooms away. Buttery shortbread, sweet-tart raspberry jam, and that crumbly brown sugar topping with chocolate chips scattered through — they disappeared faster than anything else on the dessert table. […]
Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Pie My grandmother used to make this every Sunday after church, and the smell alone would fill the entire house before we even made it through the front door. I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I pulled this out of the oven last weekend and my husband walked in from […]
Pecan Pie Dump Cake My sister-in-law brought this to Thanksgiving three years ago and I've been making it ever since. She called it her "emergency dessert" because she threw it together in about ten minutes when she realized she forgot to make pie. It got more compliments than anything else on the table. […]
Lemon Lush Dessert I made this lemon lush dessert for my sister’s birthday last month, and she called me the next day asking if I had any left. I didn’t. Her husband and kids had already finished it. There’s something about that creamy lemon layer sitting on top of a buttery graham cracker crust that […]