All Recipes

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Spiced Pear Pie with Flaky Butter Crust

Tender, juicy pears baked with brown sugar, lemon, cinnamon, ginger and a whisper of cardamom inside…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cake with Warm Lemon Sauce

A dark, moist and tender molasses gingerbread cake warmed with ginger, cinnamon and cloves, served in…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cake with Broiled Coconut Pecan Topping (Lazy Daisy Cake)

A moist, tender brown sugar and cinnamon cake made with soaked rolled oats, finished with a…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned New England Indian Pudding (Baked Cornmeal and Molasses Pudding)

A silky, spiced baked pudding of milk, cornmeal and molasses, slowly baked until dark and creamy…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Concord Grape Pie (Naples, New York Style)

A deep purple, sweet-tart pie made with fresh Concord grapes in a flaky all-butter double crust,…

Desserts

Homemade Candy Corn (Classic Halloween Candy from Scratch)

Soft, buttery homemade candy corn with a creamy vanilla flavor and the classic yellow, orange and…

Desserts

Halloween Ghost Meringue Cookies

Crisp, melt-in-your-mouth vanilla meringue cookies piped into cute little ghosts with chocolate chip eyes. A light,…

American Classics

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Soft, fudgy chocolate cookies rolled in sugar and powdered sugar before baking, so they crack into…

American Classics

Classic Cream Puffs with Vanilla Pastry Cream

Light, crisp, golden choux pastry puffs filled with silky homemade vanilla pastry cream and dusted with…

Desserts

Coconut Alfajores with Dulce de Leche (Alfajores de Coco)

Tender coconut sandwich cookies filled with plenty of dulce de leche and rolled in shredded coconut…

American Classics

Southern Caramel Cake

Two tender, buttery buttermilk yellow cake layers covered in a rich, fudgy cooked brown sugar caramel…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Apple Dumplings with Cinnamon Syrup

Whole tender apples filled with cinnamon brown sugar and butter, wrapped in flaky homemade pastry and…

American Classics

Homemade Apple Cider Caramels

Soft, chewy caramels made with fresh apple cider boiled down to a tangy syrup, then cooked…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Indiana Persimmon Pudding

A beloved Midwestern fall dessert: ripe persimmon pulp, buttermilk and warm spices baked in a 9x13…

Desserts

Torta Rogel (Argentine Dulce de Leche Layer Cake with Meringue)

Ten paper-thin, crisp pastry layers stacked with plenty of dulce de leche and crowned with glossy…

Desserts

Chocolate Mousse Cake (Torta Mousse de Chocolate)

A moist chocolate cake base topped with a light, airy chocolate mousse and finished with grated…

American Classics

Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake

A classic Southern cream cheese pound cake with a velvety, tight crumb, rich buttery flavor, a…

Desserts

Coconut Flan with Caramel (Flan de Coco)

A silky baked flan made with coconut milk and shredded coconut under a dark amber caramel.…

Desserts

Pasta Frola (Argentine Quince Tart)

A tender, buttery lattice tart filled with quince paste. The classic Sunday dessert from Argentina and…

American Classics

Easy Banana Fritters (Buñuelos de Banana)

Golden, fluffy banana fritters made with ripe bananas and a simple batter, fried in minutes and…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Shoofly Pie (Wet-Bottom Molasses Pie)

Classic Pennsylvania Dutch shoofly pie with a gooey molasses layer on the bottom, a soft cake-like…

Desserts

Pumpkin Slab Pie

Classic pumpkin pie baked in a rimmed sheet pan: silky spiced custard, buttery crust and 24…

American Classics

Old-Fashioned Homemade Butterscotch Pudding

Silky homemade butterscotch pudding made from scratch with butter and dark brown sugar cooked until caramel-like,…

Desserts

Halloween Bark

Swirled chocolate loaded with pretzels, candy corn, sprinkles, and googly candy eyes. It takes 15 minutes,…