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Amy found this recipe and tried it for our United Way bake sale at work. It is the first chocolate chip cookie recipe I have ever seen with pudding in the mix.
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I always loved when Mom made this Sour Cream Pound Cake. The crust is delightful. I finally made my first try of this earlier this year. I used a stoneware bundt pan and that was a mistake. The cake came out, sans crust. So I had to scrape it out to eat it. So was it really a mistake?

I’ve had my best luck making this in a standard loaf pan.

Serves: 12
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I remember when my mom got her first advanced microwave, when I was a kid. It had a meat and candy thermometer that allowed us to make some fun things. One recipe we used to make often during the holidays were these red hots. While you don’t have to use a microwave, it sure was easy with the temperature probe. Be careful though, the red hots stick to you and really can make a bad burn.
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It is unfortunate that fruit cake has gotten a bad name. It is the brick hard gift that keeps re-gifting. The typical insults about fruit cake are true with most store bought fruit cake. I love my mom’s fruitcake. She purchases her own fruit, with exception of the orange peel that she candies herself.

Serves: 32
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I love these. They are like little pecan pies, with a sweet glaze. Kind of addicting, but what good desserts aren’t?

Serves: 32 (if you cut them into 32 bars and only eat 1… I’ll call it serves 16.)
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As a kid, we made sugar cookies with cookie cutters. These are the plastic type of cookie cutter that include both the outside shape and other details. For example, a snowman with facial features, a scarf, etc. Once they are baked, we used food coloring to paint on the cookies.

Years have gone by since we last did this. Our family decided to paint cookies with the kids, this year. Here is the sugar cookie recipe that we have use, originally from the old red family cookbook.
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My mom see recipes as suggestions. She will read various similar recipes, then throw them away and make something. Here is a good example of a recipe she came up with that eliminates some allergens those in my family had at one time.

Serves: 32
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This pie is a family tradition, always present at Christmas and Thanksgiving. It is similar to a Pecan Pie, but with a little more body.
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