Desserts

Buttermilk Apple Buckle

In this apple buckle recipe, the spiced apples settle down into the cake batter during cooking, while most of the pecan crumble mixture stays on top.

Desserts

Peach Cobbler

Some dishes can literally transport you to another time or place. In my mind, peach cobbler is one of those dishes. I have such strong memories of eating peach cobbler in the last few weeks of summer when peaches are ripe and juicy, the air is warm and breezy, and you’re with friends or family, […]

Desserts

Pudding Recipes

A roster of cozy puddings are just the thing for chilly fall weather. Make one that’s sweet or savory, then grab a spoon and tuck into bowl of warm, wobbly comfort.

Desserts

Fall Sweets Recipes

Each year with the foliage and a return to sweater-weather, we turn to the warm, spicy flavors of fall to warm us up from head to toe. Seasonal offerings like apples, pears, cranberries, and pumpkin mix together with cinnamon, oats, nuts, and more in one seriously delicious lineup of sweet fall treats.

Desserts

Summer Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies

Earlier this year I spent some time assisting Yankee’s Senior Life and Home Editor Amy Traverso with recipe testing for our upcoming annual “cookbookazine,” and one of my favorite recipes to come out of the cookbook process was the one for these jam-filled thumbprint cookies, which I am referring to as Summer Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies […]

Desserts

Irene’s Fudge Sauce

This easy homemade hot fudge sauce is so delicious, you’ll never buy store-bought again. Pour into jars for sweet and thoughtful gift.

Desserts

How to Win a Cooking Contest

Here are some tips from Mary Blenk: Don’t be intimidated. You have to just jump in. Enter often and don’t get discouraged. Learn from each experience. Any comment from the judges, positive or negative, is valuable. If your entry doesn’t win and you think it should have, enter it again–and again! There’s no rule against […]

Desserts

Marble Bundt Cake with Chocolate Glaze

We’re nearing the final stages of putting together the new Yankee cookbook (due out in October), and I’m having a hard time letting go. Looking through our archives, I keep discovering even more recipes to test and add to the collection, but we’ll soon be in the studio with Heath Robbins and Catrine Kelty making […]

Desserts

Hawaiian Wedding Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

One of the things I love about baking is enjoying time in the kitchen with loved ones, so when my sister Lindsey came to spend her spring break out on the East Coast with her favorite oldest sister, we spent a lot of time in the kitchen. One of the many things we baked that […]

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