Creative Ways to Make Desserts More Fun

There’s nothing quite like a great dessert to finish of a good meal. We all know we shouldn’t, and we feel guilty eating it, but it’s hard to resist your favorite treats when they are them on offer.

Using Vanilla in Mexican Recipes

Vanilla features in many Mexican dessert recipes and beverage recipes. It is an aromatic spice which comes from a special variety of orchid. Vanilla comes in different forms, including beans, extract, flavored sugar and powdered vanilla.

How To Make Yummy Old Fashion Cakes

Sometimes we have to dig up the past to really experience a good recipe.  Here are a couple of recipes for cakes from my collection of vintage recipes.  Try this Upside Down Grape Cake for a really different small cake.   This recipe makes an 8-inch square cake; little but tasty.  Mom’s Fresh Rhubarb Cake is a cake my mom made when I was a kid.  Mom has been gone for several years now but I still love a piece of her yummy cake.

Try These Divine Ice Cream Flavors

I’ve always been a big fan of ice cream. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a love for a nice cone of ice cream with a few sweet, dripping scoops. The toppings are just as enjoyable to me, and nothing beats a nice ice cream sundae or a banana split.