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Molasses Spice Crinkle Cookies

These Molasses Spice Crinkle Cookies are just one of many of my favorite southern holiday traditions. These cookies are made year after year, by generation after generation. They’re made from recipe cards tattered by age, discolored by drips of molasses and sugar crusted fingers, the paper worn soft with age and use, the scent of ginger, molasses, cinnamon, and cloves woven into the recipe cards themselves.

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Quick and Easy Sopapilla Beignets

Growing up in Texas means a familiarity with a delicious puffy, light, fried dough dessert by the name of Sopapilla; growing up in Texas also means frequent trips to Louisiana, which means an abiding love for those rich fried dough desserts known as beignets. What these two have in common is fried dough (duh), powdered…

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Chocolate Cobbler

Easy and Delicious OOEY GOOEY Chocolate Cobbler Well… Chocolate Cobbler it is, y’all. It’s A Chocolate Cake Top Layer with a Gooey-fudgy-melty-rich chocolate pudding bottom layer. Y’all Chocolate Cobbler recipes have been around since Moby Dick was a minnow; hundreds of southern lady church cookbooks have a chocolate cobbler, chocolate mud cake, chocolate pudding…

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Snickerdoodles Cookies

Snickerdoodles or “Snickering Doodles” as Princess calls them is one of our family’s favorite cookies. Sweet buttery cookies, rolled in cinnamon-sugar, slow baked to a chewy-crisp perfection, and then sprinkled with a bit more cinnamon-sugar just as they’re removed from the oven to finish them off. Snickerdoodles have been declared to be the…

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Granny’s Sock It To Me Cake

One of the first cakes that Granny made for Nathan was her Sock It To Me Cake. I’m pretty sure he asked her to marry him after the first bite. Granny would have turned 95 today. Mary Cecil Trew {Granny} April 18, 1920 – April 16, 2014 Granny was everyone’s Granny. Every single one of…

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Easy Funnel Cake Recipe

Whenever we go to the rodeo, the fair, the boardwalk – my kids want funnel cakes. Fluffy, crispy, chewy, sweet, powdered sugar dusted fried swirls of awesomeness. I had no clue that funnel cakes were so simple to make, or so much fun to make… let’s just say that now that I know, there will be lots…

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Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sometimes you just want a perfectly delicious, yet simple – chocolate chip cookie – a crisp around the edges, chewy in the middle, chocolate chip cookie. If you’re anything like Princess – you want one without frills – no additions. no fruit. no silliness. Just sugars, butter, vanilla, chocolate chips and happiness. A couple months ago…

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Carnival’s Famous Melting Chocolate Cake Recipe

If you’ve ever heard of Carnival Cruise Lines, you’ve heard of their famous melting chocolate cake, now you can make it at home with this easy and delicious recipe straight from the Carnival Cruise Line Chefs!

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Easy Shortbread Cookie Recipe

It’s finally here! The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap Recipe Reveal Day! Today is the day that I can share the recipe for the easiest shortbread cookies! This was my 2nd year participating in the Food Blogger Cookie Swap and I love it! Not only are delicious cookies shipped from food bloggers all across…

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Texas Pecan Butter Cookies

These buttery, crunchy, pecan filled, powdered sugar rolled cookies are a Texas tradition and Christmas cookie exchange must!

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Spiced Pear Cake

Spiced Pears baked into a cake in a cast iron skillet. This cake is simple to make, and delicious to eat! This spiced pear cake is rustic, simple, delicious, and makes your house smell incredible.

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Bacon Pecan Brittle

This Bacon Pecan Brittle is Epic, y’all. EPIC! Bacon, Pecans, and Sugar OH MY! You can’t go wrong with ingredients like those! Look at those stacks of gorgeous bacon pecan brittle. a huge thank you Fisher Nuts for sponsoring this post I’m not one for jumping on bandwagons, and while I love bacon – I…