Entries Tagged as ‘Desserts’

July 21, 2008

Chocolate chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate chocolate chip cookies
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

If you are a chocolate chip cookie lover, then this recipe is for you. My friend, Betsey, gave me this recipe 12 years ago when I was going to a family reunion out of town. I wanted to take something homemade but the long distance and staying in [...]

January 9, 2008

Cheesecake

Cheesecake
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.
Cheesecake is one of the foods that I think makes the world go round. I haven’t been making this particular cheesecake recipe for very long, but I have had a ton of success with it. I have even made this recipe for a friend to take to her son’s baseball banquet. [...]

January 8, 2008

Pudge

Pudge!
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

About 9 years ago, I was looking for some recipes to make Christmas treats. I came across this recipe in an old church cookbook that my mom had had for years. I have always gone on the theory that you can’t go wrong with a church cookbook recipe because people aren’t going [...]

December 6, 2007

Almond-Scented White Cake (with Raspberries)

raspberry almond cake
It’s finally time for me to post the raspberry-almond cake. For a long time I didn’t give out this recipe. I know that sounds bad, but it’s my favorite and everyone loves it so I wanted it to be special when I made it. Or I would hate to go to [...]

December 5, 2007

Pumpkin Cake with Caramel-Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
I’ll start off by saying I heart pumpkin! When I saw this recipe in Food and Wine I knew I would be making this for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin cake-caramel-cream cheese -those are like three of my favorite things and to have them in the same recipe, I couldn’t go [...]

November 1, 2007

Coconut Cake

Coconut Cake
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.
I posted this recipe on Serendipitous Reflections almost two years ago and this weekend Sue Taylor and I were talking recipes. Since this is one of my favorites, we started talking about different coconut cakes. Since it was on my mind, I thought I would transfer it over here.
It’s a Martha [...]

October 30, 2007

Brown sugar and chocolate chip pound cake with maple-espresso glaze

Brown sugar and chocolate chip pound cake
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

I was so excited when I found this recipe in this month’s Bon Appetit. I had been look for a fall-ish dessert recipe to take to the mountains for the weekend and as soon as I saw the maple-espresso glaze I knew I had found it.
The [...]

October 17, 2007

Red Velvet Cupcakes

red velvet cupcakes
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

Sorry it’s been so long since I updated this blog. No excuses.
I love red velvet cake, but I have never made one myself. I remember seeing Paula Deen making one quite sometime ago, and of course you all know I love her recipes so I thought what the heck. [...]

September 13, 2007

Double chocolate peanut butter pie

double chocolate peanut butter pie

I am always on the look-out for chocolate and peanut butter recipes for Tiffany. Well I found a winner. This pie ROCKS! We had a cook-out for Dean’s office staff last weekend and this was one of the desserts. The staff was still talking about it [...]

July 24, 2007

Orange mini bundt cakes

Orange mini bundt cakes
Originally uploaded by jenianddean.

If you need an individual dessert that feeds a crowd, this is a good one. I made these mini bundt cakes for our New Year’s Eve dessert. They were wonderful. They are a great alternative to something like cupcakes. Everyone feels special to have their own [...]