Fruit salad in fall and winter months is a little more challenging than fruit salad in the summer! This family recipe can always be found at our Thanksgiving table and Christmas table.....and the kids love to eat the leftovers for breakfast and snack. Serve it in a fancy dish with a silver spoon and you will wow your guests! This recipe makes a large batch - you can cut it in half if you are ... Continue Reading...
Our Famous Gingerbread Cookies
Our favorite thing about Christmas might just be our Gingerbread Cookies! This recipe has been in our family for almost 40 years and you can't beat it! We dare you!!! Double the recipe if you want them to last more than a day!! Gingerbread Cookies 1/4 cup butter, soft 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1/3 cup water 3 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Praline Cake
You can never have too many pumpkin recipes! You're gonna love this one! A spicy pumpkin cake with a caramel/pecan glaze that's baked into the cake. After baking, invert the cake on a tray and it's ready to eat! Caramel Topping 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup whipping cream or heavy cream 1 1/2 cup chopped pecans Mix the above ingredients in a saucepan on low until ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Bread
If we had to pick one word to describe the taste of fall it would be Pumpkin Bread! This is the perfect pumpkin bread - every time! No need for any other recipes - this is THE ONE!!!!! It is moist, dark, spicy, and melts in your mouth. A total classic! Everyone who tries it dies over it!! Ingredients 1 1/4 cup oil (1) 16 oz can pumpkin 2 cups sugar 5 eggs 2 cups flour 1 ... Continue Reading...
Just Like Mom’s Sugar Cookies
We've been making this Sugar Cookie recipe in our family for about 40 years now. You can't really improve on perfection!! These cookies are thick and soft and sugary - just like they should be. No fancy decorating here - we like a thick layer of butter cream frosting spread with a knife and topped with nonpareils. Sugar Cookies 1 1/2 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 2 ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Drop Cookies
Awhhhhh the soft, pillowy, spicy pumpkin drop cookie with cream cheese frosting!!! This is classic fall. The cookies are more "cakey" than "cookie" and have cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves!! Every fall the kids beg for these and when we run out they fuss for more!!! Let's get baking!!! Makes about 3 1/2 dozen. Ingredients 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 cup canned ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Banana Bread
This moist and spicy bread has been a family favorite for years! Don't let the "banana" in this pumpkin bread throw you off! You can't really tell it's banana, it just gives it an amazing moist texture! And it's another way to get your kids to eat fruit! We love that this recipe makes 2 loaves because 1 is just not enough. Ingredients 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 1/2 cups granulated ... Continue Reading...
Crackle Top Cookies
This recipe is a family fall favorite!! Molasses, cocoa, cinnamon, and cloves make these chewy crinkle top cookies some of our favorite to bake during fall and winter. They go great with a hot cup of hot cocoa! Crackle Top Cookies Ingredients: 4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ... Continue Reading...
Spicy Fall Punch
This is our most FAVORITE punch to make during the fall and winter holidays. You won't need to buy sparkling cider anymore because this is way better! It's hardly even a recipe! The day before you plan to serve the punch, put 2 cinnamon sticks in a bottle of apple cider and refrigerate. Put a 2-liter of ginger ale in the refrigerator also. To serve, simply combine the two ingredients. ... Continue Reading...
Mom’s Favorite Chili
There are thousands of chili recipes out there, many with new twists on chili. This recipe boasts nothing trendy or out of the box. Rather, it is the only chili recipe us picky children would eat! And so it became one of my mom's favorite recipes. It is a taste of our childhood and when we make it, it feels like we are 7 years old eating it on a cold Halloween night as we anticipate ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Spice Sheet Cake
When it's fall we can never get enough pumpkin and spice!!! This recipe is perfect when you don't have much time to bake but you want something pumpkiny and spicy and homemade. And a bonus - your home will smell amazing. We love making sheetcakes - they are perfect for feeding a crowd. Take this cake the next time someone asks you to bring a dessert :) Pumpkin Spice ... Continue Reading...
Perfect Apple Pie
Apple pie is one of those classic desserts that make you feel all fallish and cozy and happy! In fact, my daughter who has an October birthday, often requests it instead of a cake! This is our family's tried and true apple recipe - the one we make over and over and over! Perfect Apple Pie This recipe is for an oversized pie dish Grandma Mary's Pie Crust 2 1/2 cup flour 1 cup ... Continue Reading...
Apple Crisp
September means apple picking! After picking 90 pounds of apples we launched into making our favorite apple recipes! This one tops the list. Pretty much anything you can serve warm with ice cream is delicious! We used a variety of apples to add to the texture and flavor of the Apple Crisp. Its a family favorite! Apple Crisp Apple Filling: 8 medium apples, your favorite variety, ... Continue Reading...
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
It's fall and if we start now we might be able to bake all our favorite pumpkin recipes before Christmas baking season begins! These cookies are always a huge hit and my kiddos gobble them up before I can take them to friends and neighbors. They have the perfect combination of spice, chocolate, pumpkin, and chewy! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies 1 cup softened butter 2 cups brown ... Continue Reading...