Vintage Walnut Cake Recipe with Pink Icing
On the table reposed a nut cake which she had baked that morning . . . a particularly toothsome concoction iced with pink icing and adorned with walnuts. Anne of…
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Pink Rose Truffles
Pink Rose Truffles. January 21, 2026. About the time winter starts to feel long and endless, the pink and red hearts of Valentine’s Day begin to trickle into stores, bringing…
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Make a Cottage Gingerbread House
“An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.” William Shakespeare Make a Cottage Gingerbread House. December 11, 2025. Today’s post is the…
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Sugar Plum Oatmeal Jam Bars
“The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads” Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “twas the night before christmas’ Sugar Plum Oatmeal Jam…
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White Chocolate Walnut Blondies
White Chocolate Walnut Blondies. Sept 12, 2025. One of the best wedding presents I received almost 32 years ago was a Better Homes & Garden Cookbook. It served this young…
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Fannie Farmer’s Peach Crumble
An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach. george du maurier Fannie Farmer’s Peach Crumble. June 19, 2025. The juicy sweet taste of peaches is…
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Cottage Pudding Cake
Cottage Pudding Cake April 1, 2025. Many delicious and beloved recipes have been created throughout our history, although equally as many have been forgotten. Thankfully, there are resources to rediscover…
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Candy Cane Brownies
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” Washington Irving Candy Cane Brownies. December 22, 2024. The…
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Making Springerle Cookies
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24 Making Springerle Cookies. March 13, 2024. It was years ago while…
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Peppermint Christmas Cake
“There’s nothing better than cake, but more cake.” — Harry S. Truman Peppermint Christmas Cake. December 12, 2023. My dad and I have always had a shared love of 7-minute…
