This super easy lemon cheesecake recipe gives you a rich smooth cheesecake. It takes a while to bake but there’s nothing particularly tricky about making it. You can buy a graham cracker crust or just crush up enough crackers and make your own easily enough. The recipe is from Mom’s Big Book of Baking, one…
Desserts
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
These Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies are what I grew up on and we all love them. I think my mom probably got them off the side of the Quaker Oats box but I’m not sure. They freeze well, too. (And even taste good frozen!) I recently upgraded my wire racks for cooling things like cookies…
Chewy Almond Squares
I think I found the link to these on Chowhound. But it prints really tiny and we keep making these and struggling to read the ingredients so I’m repeating it here. In large print! And so my daughters will quit asking me for the link. 😉 The name is as much description as you need:…
Mom’s Apple Walnut Cake
I have this recipe on an old recipe card in my Mom’s handwriting. I used to make it when the girls were little and our apple trees were bursting with fruit…then somehow I didn’t make it anymore. I ran across it the other day and had just picked some apples so I made it again,…
Broiled Apricots with Blackberries and Mascarpone
My apricot tree is fully loaded so apricot desserts are on the menu. Here’s a very simple one I saw in Pure Simple Cooking: Effortless Meals Every Day by Diana Henry: Broiled Apricots with Blackberries and Mascarpone. Preheat your broiler. Halve your apricots and put them skin side down (cut side up) in a baking dish. …