Thanksgiving Desserts & Baking
Recipes & Videos
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Pumpkin
Pie |
Pecan Pie |
Pumpkin Cheesecake |
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My personal favorite pumpkin
pie recipe is this Pate Brisee recipe, as I like its' wonderful buttery
flavor and crumbly texture. more |
Pecan Pie is a delicious
combination of toasted pecans, sugar, and eggs which gives this pie
wonderful flavor with a dense and chewy texture.
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Pumpkin Cheesecake combines two
American favorites; New York style cheesecake and pumpkin pie. It is the
perfect dessert for Thanksgiving. more |
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Apple Pie |
Apple Gingerbread Cake |
Sweet Potato Pie |
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The Apple Pie, with its
two rounds of pastry enclosing slices of cinnamon sugared apples, is
a favorite dessert in North America. more |
This rustic looking
gingerbread cake tastes spicy sweet and is topped with caramelized apple slices and a sprinkling of
nuts. more |
A Southern pie traditionally
served on Thanksgiving. It's a single crust, custard pie made with a
delicious homemade Sweet Potato puree.
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Lemon Meringue Pie |
Apple Crisp |
Butternut Squash Pie |
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This pie takes a
prebaked pie crust and fills it with a deliciously tangy
lemon cream filling. The crowning touch is a billowy sweet
meringue.
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An apple
crisp is perfect when the weather turns cold. There is something so
appealing about warm baked apples covered in cinnamon and sugar,
made all the more tasty with a crisp and crunchy topping.
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A single crust pie
with a creamy custard like filling made with butternut squash puree,
cream, eggs, sugar, and aromatic ground spices.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies |
Pumpkin Cookies |
Pumpkin Roll |
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
are made with butter and a combination of white and brown sugars
which produces a rich and chewy cookie with caramelized edges.
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Pumpkin Cookies have a
wonderfully soft and spongy texture and taste of pumpkin and its
complementary spices (ground cinnamon, ginger and cloves). Absolutely
delicious with a cream cheese frosting.
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This lovely Pumpkin Roll
consists of sweet and moist pumpkin sponge roll wrapped around a tangy
cream cheese filling. more |
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Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake |
Cornbread Recipe |
Cherry Pie |
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A simple pound-like
cake that has a wonderful citrus flavor that comes from adding both
lemon zest and juice to the batter.
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This Cornbread
has a lovely golden brown cracked crust with edges that are
nice and crispy. Inside the cornbread is soft and dense,
with a crumbly texture. Wonderful warm from the oven.
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This homemade Cherry
Pie, encased in a delicious buttery pastry, is full of the sweet
flavor of cherries. more |
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Sponge Cake filled with Raspberry Cream |
Chocolate Pecan Pie |
Cranberry Orange Bread |
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Sponge Cakes presented in
this way have a beautiful pinwheel design and they are often filled with
toppings like lemon curd, jam or preserves, fruit sauces, chopped nuts,
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Chocolate Pecan Pie is a
rich combination of toasted pecans, sugar, corn syrup, butter, and
eggs which gives this pie a soft and gooey texture.
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Cranberry Orange Bread
combines the tartness of fresh cranberries with the sweet citrus flavor
of freshly squeezed orange juice. Delicious!
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Shortbread Tarts with Cream and Fruit |
Brownie Tart |
Apple Frangipane Tart |
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These rich and buttery
miniature shortbread tarts are filled with a delicious cream filling
made with cream cheese, condensed milk and lemons. Garnish with
fresh strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or kiwi slices.
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This recipe takes
brownies out of the realm of casual food and makes them an elegant
dessert. more |
The almond filling
(Frangipane) is a pastry cream made with almond paste that has a
delicious almond flavor. more |
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Coconut Cake |
Yellow Butter Cake |
Chocolate Cake with Swiss Buttercream Frosting |
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This cake consists of layers
of moist coconut-flavored butter cake that are filled with a tangy lemon
curd and then the entire cake is frosted with a smooth and shiny
7-Minute Frosting and sweetened coconut. more |
This Yellow Butter Cake
has two moist and buttery cake layers that are filled and frosted with a
delicious chocolate frosting. more |
Three layers of moist
chocolate cake sandwiched together with Dulce de Leche and a buttery
smooth Swiss Buttercream Frosting.
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Chocolate Cheesecake |
Lemon Tart |
Cranberry Galette |
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A Chocolate Cheesecake is a real showstopper that combines three
delicious layers of chocolate. The cheesecake layer is smooth and creamy
that will remind you of a thick chocolate mousse.
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This Lemon Tart has a
buttery shortbread crust, a creamy lemon filling, and lovely swirls
of whipped cream on top. Absolutely Delicious.
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This makes the perfect
Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert; ruby red cranberries and walnuts
encased in a buttery flavored pastry.
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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies |
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
with Toffee Sauce |
Thumbprint Cookies |
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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies take
two round domed shaped pumpkin cookies and sandwich them together with a
soft and creamy vanilla filling. more |
Pumpkin Bread Pudding is a
delicious combination of cubed bread that is soaked in a rich custard
containing cream, pumpkin puree, and spices.
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A seasonal favorite,
buttery balls of dough are rolled in toasted nuts and filled with jam.
These little gems get their name from the fact you use your "thumb" to
make an indentation into each ball of dough for the jam.
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Gingerbread Men |
Pecan Tassies |
Individual Cheesecakes |
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Christmas baking
wouldn't seem complete without a batch of gingerbread men. Fragrant with
ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves the amount of which can be
adjusted to suit your own individual taste.
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Pecan Tassies are like
miniature pecan pies with their lovely golden brown crusts and their
sweet and gooey pecan filling. more |
Individual Cheesecakes have
a lovely creamy smooth texture and are wonderfully rich.
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Melting Moments |
Pecan Squares |
Chocolate Truffles |
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Melting Moments are a
delicious shortbread-like cookie covered with confectioners sugar that
literally melt-in-your-mouth. more |
Pecan Squares are the
perfect combination of a shortbread crust topped with a chewy and gooey
pecan filling. more |
These rich and elegant,
bite-sized round petit fours are made from a mixture of dark or white
chocolate and cream (ganache) to which various flavorings can be added:
butter, liqueurs, extracts, nuts, coffee, purees, spices, candied or
dried fruits. more |
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Shortbread Cookies with
White Chocolate & Raspberries |
Pecan Shortbreads |
Linzer Cookies |
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Shortbreads are a
buttery cookie (biscuit) that taste absolutely delicious when
sandwiched together with raspberry jam and grated white chocolate.
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Pecan Shortbread Cookies
have a deep golden brown color and come out of the oven wonderfully
crisp and crunchy. more |
Linzer Cookies use the same ingredients
as the Linzertorte but present them in a different way. Two cookies are
sandwiched together with a layer of preserves.
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Mexican Wedding Cakes/Russian Tea Cakes |
Oatmeal Cookies |
Chocolate Fudge |
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These melt-in-your mouth,
shortbread-like cookies go by many names; a Russian Tea Cake, a Mexican
Wedding Cake, an Italian Butter Nut, a Southern Pecan Butterball, a
Snowdrop, a Viennese Sugar Ball and a Snowball.
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Loaded with oats, this
version produces a crisp and chewy cookie that can be filled with
chocolate chips (white or dark chocolate), dried fruits, and/or
chopped nuts. more |
There seems to be a
consensus that fudge making began on American women's college campuses
during the 1890s. more |
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Gingerbread Cake |
Simple Vanilla Cake |
Chocolate Torte |
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This cake is very nice
plain but it is absolutely delicious when frosted with a lemon flavored
icing. The lemon frosting recipe given here dries to a beautiful, satiny
smooth, crusty finish. more |
Learn how
to transform a moist and flavorful Simple Vanilla Cake into
an elegant multi-layer cake with cream cheese frosting.
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Chocolate Torte is rich
and chocolately cake with an almost pudding-like texture.
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Pecan Custard Tart |
Linzer Torte |
Pavlova |
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A Pecan Custard Tart
has a smooth and creamy custard filling that provides a nice balance to
the slightly bittersweet pecan. more |
Linzertorte originated in
Linz, Austria and is very distinctive looking with its beautiful golden
brown crust, filled with ruby red preserves peeking through the pretty
lattice design. more |
This meringue cake, with its
unusual soft sweet marshmallow center and crisp crust is produced by
folding a little vinegar and cornstarch into the stiffly beaten egg whites
and sugar. more |
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Fruit Tart (Tarte
aux Fruits) |
Key Lime Pie |
Raspberry Crostata |
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Everyone loves the
elegance of a fruit tart with its topping of beautiful fresh fruit.
Whether you use a single fruit (like strawberries) or a medley of
berries, sliced kiwi, plums, bananas, pineapple, and/or melon no one
can resist its beauty. more |
Key Lime Pie has a sweet and
grainy graham cracker crust, a creamy and tangy lime flavored filling,
and is topped with a soft and fluffy whipped cream.
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This rustic looking
Raspberry Crostata combines the sharp flavor of homemade raspberry jam
with a crisp and crumbly short crust pastry.
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Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches |
Cranberry Upside Down Muffins |
Homemade Mincemeat Tart |
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Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches
combine delicious chocolate cookies filled with white chocolate chips
and pumpkin ice cream. more |
Cranberry Upside Down
Muffins start with a glistening cranberry sauce, flavored with orange,
that is topped with a moist cake-like batter. more |
This Mincemeat Tart has
a lovely lattice pastry crust and is filled with homemade mincemeat.
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Cranberry Shortbread Bars |
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins |
Chocolate Sponge Cake |
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Cranberry Shortbread Bars
have two layers of buttery shortbread with a lovely tangy cranberry
layer in between. more |
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip
Muffins have a buttery flavor, dense texture, and are full of chocolate
chips. more |
This is a deliciously moist
chocolate sponge cake that melts in your mouth. Can be filled with
plain, chocolate, or raspberry whipped cream. more |
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Ricotta Cheesecake with Cran-Raspberry Sauce |
Vanilla Cupcakes (Fairy Cakes) |
Butter Tarts |
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Ricotta and cream
cheese are used in this cheesecake which makes it both light and fluffy
and smooth and creamy.
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Vanilla Cupcakes are wonderfully sweet and buttery and are frosted with a
lovely Buttercream. more |
These Butter Tarts
consist of flaky pastry shells that are filled with a sweet mixture
of butter, brown sugar, and eggs. more |
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Rum Balls |
Cranberry Christmas Cake |
Pound Cake |
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Rum balls are the
perfect adult indulgence for as their name implies, 'rum' balls
contain rum and since we do not bake these cookies the alcohol taste
and content are not lost during baking. more |
This Cranberry
Christmas Cake consists of a chocolate genoise that is split in half,
filled with chocolate cream and candied cranberries, and covered with a
snowy white whipped cream frosting.
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This Pound Cake is
wonderfully rich and buttery with a lovely golden brown crust.
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German Chocolate Cake |
Pumpkin Cake |
Pumpkin Cupcakes |
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This beautiful German
Chocolate Cake has three moist layers of chocolate cake, with a sweet
and gooey caramel frosting, laced with coconut and pecans.
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I particularly enjoy this
honey colored Pumpkin Cake with its shiny chocolate glaze. This cake is
full of flavor and keeps fresh for days, thanks to the pumpkin puree and
canola oil. more |
Pumpkin Cupcakes take
a dense and moist pumpkin cupcake and frost it with a tangy cream cheese
frosting and a sprinkling of nuts.
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Pumpkin
Bars |
No Bake Cheesecake |
Rocky Road Brownies |
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Pumpkin Bars are a delicious
combination of a buttery crisp shortbread crust, a layer of toasted
pecans, and a creamy smooth pumpkin
filling. Lovely garnished with a piped rosette of whipped cream.
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A No Bake Cheesecake combines
a graham cracker crust with a light and creamy no-bake cheesecake filling.
The finishing touch is a sweet cherry topping.
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Rocky Road Brownies are
amazing, with their deep chocolate flavor and dense fudge-like texture
topped with gooey melted marshmallows jumbled together with chocolate
chips and nuts. more |
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Profiteroles |
Hummingbird Cake |
Cream Cheese Pound Cake |
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Sweet Profiteroles are
delicious. This dessert takes small, crisp, hollow rounds of choux
pastry and fills them with ice cream and drizzles a warm chocolate sauce
over the top.
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This Hummingbird Cake is
moist and flavorful with chopped pecans, crushed pineapple, and mashed
bananas. It is frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting.
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This Cream Cheese Pound Cake
has a wonderful rich and buttery flavor, moist texture, and a golden
brown crust that is both sweet and crisp.
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Vanilla Cake |
Angel Food Cake |
White Butter Cake |
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This Vanilla Cake has a sweet buttery flavor
and
a moist velvety texture. The buttercream frosting
used to both fill and frost the cake has a sweet and buttery flavor with
a light and fluffy texture. more |
Angel Food Cake has a sweet
golden brown crust and a soft and spongy, snowy white interior.
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This White Butter Cake
has a sweet and buttery flavor and a light and fluffy texture. A layer
of jam is placed between the cake layers and it is also filled and
frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting. more |
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Yellow Cupcakes |
Chocolate Angel Food Cake |
Tiramisu
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Yellow
Cupcakes are wonderfully rich and moist with a sweet and buttery flavor.
They are frosted with a delicious chocolate fudge frosting.
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This cake is also called an
Angel Cake, so named as its airy lightness is said to be the "food of
the angels." more |
Tiramisu is made by layering
cake (or ladyfingers), that have been soaked in spirits, with a rich
custard. more |
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Easy Fruit Tart |
Cranberry Raisin Pie |
Peanut Butter Pie |
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This Easy Fruit
Tart has a buttery sweet shortbread crust, a creamy smooth
filling made with mascarpone cheese and heavy cream, and
lots of beautiful fresh fruit.
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Cranberry Raisin
Pie has two layers of buttery crisp pastry with a rich and
spicy filling full of cranberries, dried fruit, chunks of
apple, nuts, and candied peel.
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This elegant
Peanut Butter Pie has a chocolate crust, a rich and creamy
peanut butter filling, and a smooth chocolate Ganache
topping. Tastes like a giant peanut butter cup.
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Coconut Cream Pie Recipe |
Chocolate Pie |
Chocolate Butter Cake |
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A Coconut Cream
Pie
takes a buttery crisp prebaked pastry crust and fills it
with a coconut flavored cream and a whipped cream topping.
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Chocolate pie starts with a
buttery crisp shortbread crust that is topped with a smooth and creamy
chocolate filling. The finishing touch is swirls of softly whipped cream.
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This beautiful
Chocolate Butter Cake has two layers of moist and tender chocolate
butter cake sandwiched together and frosted with a delicious chocolate
frosting. more |
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Red Velvet Cake |
Crème
Brûlée |
Strawberry Chiffon Shortcake |
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Red Velvet Cake is very
dramatic looking with its bright red color sharply contrasted by a white
frosting. more |
Crème Brûlée is decadent
dessert that takes a rich, vanilla flavored, baked custard and tops it
with a layer of crisp caramelized sugar.
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Two
layers of light and airy chiffon cake sandwiched together
with a delicious Strawberry Compote and lots of whipped
cream.
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Coca-Cola Cake |
Pumpkin
Tarts |
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins |
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This
Southern cake does contain Coca-Cola both in the cake and
frosting. It consists of a moist chocolate cake covered with
a fudgy frosting and chopped pecans.
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Doesn't Pumpkin Tarts sound
good? So try these individual rounds of pastry filled with a creamy
smooth pumpkin filling. more |
Try these moist
and flavorful pumpkin muffins that have a delicious
cheesecake-like filling.
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Lemon Frosted Pound Cake |
Key Lime Tarts |
Pear Frangipane Tarts |
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The constrast of
a buttery sweet lemon pound cake covered with a tangy lemon
glaze is irresistible.
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There are three tasty
components to a Key Lime Tart. A crisp pastry crust, a sweet yet tangy
lime flavored filling, and a dollop of whipped cream.
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These pretty
tarts have apricot glazed slices of pears encased in an
almond cream. Underneath the cream is raspberry jam. The
tart shells are sweet and crisp with a subtle almond flavor.
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Coffee Walnut Cake |
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes |
Almond
Cake |
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A rich
butter cake flavored with coffee that is filled and frosted
with a smooth and creamy coffee flavored frosting.
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Once you try this moist and
tender chocolate cupcake with a satiny smooth peanut butter frosting
it's sure to become a favorite.
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You will
love this soft and tender vanilla white cake that is covered
with crunchy bits of caramelized almonds.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake |
Pumpkin Bread |
Pumpkin Pound Cake |
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A cake that's sure to
please. Four layers of chocolate cake sandwiched together and frosted with
both a peanut butter frosting and chocolate ganache. Yum.
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Pumpkin puree is used to
make this sweet, moist, and flavorful quick bread. What sets this
bread apart is a layer of cream cheese filling.
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A pumpkin spiced
buttery sweet pound cake frosted with a delicious maple
cream cheese frosting and chopped pecans.
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New York Style Cheesecake |
Cranberry Upside Down Cake |
Golden Chiffon Cake |
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New
York Style Cheesecakes are creamy, and smooth, and rich, and dense, and
absolutely delicious. more |
A Cranberry Upside Down Cake
consists of lovely caramelized ruby red cranberries and a buttery white
cake. more |
A moist and
tender cake that is wonderfully light and spongy. Try
covering it with a delicious Marshmallow Frosting and
toasted coconut. Yum.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars |
Vanilla
Sheet Cake |
Carrot Cheesecake |
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These three
layer Bars start with a Graham Cracker crust, that is
covered
with a soft and fluffy peanut butter filling. They are
topped with a shiny chocolate ganache.
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You'll love this moist and flavorful Vanilla
Butter Cake frosted with a tangy sweet Cream Cheese Frosting. Perfect
for any occasion. more |
This two layer cake combines a
rich and moist spice cake, full of grated carrots and
chopped nuts, with a smooth and creamy cheesecake topping.
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Apple
Crumble Pie |
Carrot Sheet Cake |
Mini Vanilla Cupcakes |
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Enjoy this delicious pie with
its crumble topping, apples slices coated with an thick apple syrup, and a
buttery crisp pastry crust.
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A delicious cake full of grated carrot, chopped nuts, dried coconut, and
crushed pineapple. It is especially good covered with a cream cheese
frosting. more |
You'll love
these sweet and buttery Vanilla Cupcakes made in miniature
that are frosted with a delicious Confectioners Frosting.
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Brown Sugar Pound Cake |
Pumpkin
Cranberry Cake |
Soft Dinner Rolls |
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A buttery
rich Pound Cake with a dense yet moist and tender crumb, It
is covered with a Broiled Frosting full of toasted pecans.
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A buttery moist cake flavored
with pumpkin, dried cranberries, toasted pecans, and aromatic spices. Excellent
plain, but even better with a Cream Cheese Frosting.
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These Soft Dinner Rolls have a golden brown
crust that wonderfully chewy, while inside their texture
is soft and oh so fluffy. more |
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Crispy Peanut Butter Balls |
Buckeye Candy |
Chocolate Sheet Cake |
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These no bake
peanut butter balls contain rice cereal which adds a nice
crispy crunch. They have a
shiny coating of dark chocolate with a sprinkling of chopped
peanuts. more |
A delicious
bonbon that has an outside coating of dark chocolate,
with a smooth and creamy
peanut butter filling. more |
A soft and moist
cake with a rich chocolate flavor, covered with a creamy
smooth chocolate frosting.
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Basque
Cheesecake |
Pumpkin Spice Macarons |
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This cheesecake has a beautifully caramelized
outer crust. Yet inside its wonderfully
light and airy, almost
mousse-like in texture. more |
Two almond meringue cookies
flavored with pumpkin pie spice, sandwiched together with a delicious
pumpkin flavored cream cheese filling.
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Thanksgiving
Day is an annual holiday to give thanks. It is celebrated in both the United States,
on the fourth Thursday of November, and Canada, on the second Monday of October. Both countries celebrate this holiday by gathering with family,
and food, most notably the turkey, takes center stage. (That is probably
why Thanksgiving is also known as "Turkey" Day.) Parades and football are
also part of the festivities with the parade watching usually taking place 'before' the feast
and football watching taking place 'after' the feast. The traditional
Thanksgiving dessert, in both countries, is pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin Pie is an open-faced single crust pie shell that
is filled with a smooth custard-like filling made with pumpkin
puree,
eggs, cream or milk, sugar, and spices (mixture usually consisting of cinnamon,
ginger, allspice, and cloves). It is considered a "soft" pie because it is
made with an unbaked crust and uncooked filling that is baked until the crust
has browned and the filling is set.
Another popular pie, especially in the
Southern U.S., is the Pecan Pie. It,
like the pumpkin pie,
is an open-faced single crust
pie shell that is filled with a custard-like filling. But, unlike the
pumpkin pie, the filling isn't smooth, as it is chock full of toasted and
chopped pecans which makes this pie very rich and decadent.
Now, there are other desserts that are traditionally served at this feast, but these
often vary from family to family as well as by region of the country. But
if your dessert menu is looking for something new this year, may I offer some
suggestions. For the pumpkin lover, besides pumpkin pie, try either
the Pumpkin Spice Cake or the Pumpkin Cheesecake as it combines that classic New
York-style cheesecake (always a favorite) with pumpkin puree and its
complementary spices. Other real showstoppers are the raspberry-topped Chocolate Genoise,
the truffle-topped Chocolate Hazelnut Torte, the Raspberry Cream-filled Sponge
Cake, the beautifully topped Fruit Tart, or the brilliantly colored Red Velvet
Cake. More homey desserts are the Apple Pie, Apple Crisp, or the Cranberry
Pear and Apple Crumble. Of course, we cannot forget the children, and
nothing pleases them more than cookies, whether that is Chocolate Chip Cookies,
Chocolate Fudge, or deliciously decorated Gingerbread Men.
We will soon be heading
into the busy Holiday Season which means decorating the house, buying gifts and
lots and lots of baking. So for now, take the time to give thanks and
enjoy the company of your family and friends.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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