Make Mom's Banana Cake from Sweet Home for your Mom this Sunday.
In Sweet Home: Over 100 Heritage Desserts and Ideas, food writer Rebecca Miller Ffrench shares how baking sweet treats can be nurturing, loving and caring, recalling and creating lasting memories. Her family has a long dessert-loving tradition, from her grandparents’ remembered nighttime sweets routine to her mother who always had an after-dinner treat waiting. And she carries the tradition on, making dessert for her own children regularly. Sweet Home is a collection of Rebecca’s family recipes, along with ideas and inspiration for preserving your own family’s recipes and starting your own traditions. It’s a beautiful and sentimental cookbook everyone (especially Mom!) is sure to enjoy.
Try a few recipes from Sweet Home today:
Strawberry Surprise Cupcakes
Black-Bottom Ice Cream Pie
Mom’s Banana Cake
Rhubarb Crumble Bars
In these simple springtime bars tart rhubarb is countered by sweet crust and a crumb topping.
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my grandmother's manicotti. we use crepes, not pasta, for the shells.
delicious recipes!
I would have to say my Mom's pumpkin pie and my Mother-n-law's lemon bars. Both are very hard to walk away from!
Blueberry banana bread!!! The best combo in the world!!!
My grandmother's chocolate cream pie!
any of my grandmother's recipes
My grandmother's Doce De Coco ! It's so sweet and chewy made of just condensed milk, coconut flakes and a couple of other ingredients. I can never make it like she does!
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Making Nestle's Toll House cookies with three generations of the family participating, the family fun was as important as the cookies were tasty!
I love the strawberry surprise muffins I love anything strawberry and can't wait to try the banana cake…
Lemon Meringue Pie, my grandmother's recipe
My mom makes this amazing cake that's layers of sponge cake and a cannoli cream filling, then topped with ganache.
My mom and grandmother weren't very creative in the baking dept but what they did, they did well. I'd have to say my mom's 4 layer Jell-o pudding dessert lol.
My moms mistake cake. She started out making one cake but got confused and started making the other in the middle of one recipe. The result was the best cake I have ever eaten!
My mom's peach cobbler or her cinnamon rolls (not a dessert, I know, but they are amazing and we only get them once a year at Christmas)!
my mom's black forest cake…delicious!
I would say my favorite desserts are Tiramisu and Nutella Cheesecake!!!
An apple cake that is one of those cakes that you keep going back for another little slice after slice after you've already eaten a proper slice when it was first served.
Chocolate crepes filled with raspberry marscapone cheese and lemon raspberry sauce
My favorite family recipe is a Neapolitan cake. Traditionally, in my family, it's made when a new baby is born, and once the gender is known that determines the color of the icing. Back in the day, nobody knew until the baby was born, so there was always a rush to get the cake done right — and the cake itself takes over a day to make!
Mother's Peach Cobbler! I make it with peaches OR peaches and raspberries OR blueberries – it's easy and fantastic!
My favorite family dessert recipe is capirotada. It's a sweet Mexican bread pudding made with cheese, raisins, walnuts, and spicy syrup that we make during Lent. It looks really, really ugly but it's delicious!
apple crisp!
My mom's not the best cook, but she makes an awesome Jewish Apple Cake. I can eat the entire cake in one day!
I was told a recipe by my husband's cousin that was super easy. Caramel Pie! It uses two cans of sweetened condensed milk boiled for a few hours until it turns to caramel. Pour out of the can into the graham crust and top with a meringue. Pop into oven to get some color on the meringue and you're done!
Sound great! I would like to try this. How long do you boil the sweetened condensed milk? How many is a few hours?
My mom's blackberry strawberry with mascarpone cheese tamales are amazing. They are sweet and just delicious. I have to force myself to stop eating them.
My grandmother's chocolate chip cookies!
My grandma's German Chocolate Cake, Apple Pie, Lemon Bars, and Banana Bread!!! Can't choose just one, they are ALL too good
I would dearly love to win a dessert cookbook. I go to so many parties in the course of a year, and I get a little tired of bringing the same green bean casserole as always.
My grandma's brownies!
My mother's big egg and bacon pie because it is full of flavour and was always nice and moist…
Mum i coming to Hobart to see you soon,hint,hint lol xx
My mom's Chocolate pie with graham cracker crust !
My mom makes a fruit pizza with strawberries.
We make something called "Mud Pie." It's a delicious four layer dessert with chocolate pudding, whipped cream and cream cheese, all layered on a shortbread cookie crust! Delish!
Fried banana.
Triple berry crisp. Made with strawberries, blueberries and blackberries and a healthy dollop of whipped cream. Yum!
Nalesniki…Polish crepes filled with tart cherries and cream cheese!
I love my mom's chocolate chip cookie ice cream cake!
My family loves when I make pumpkin cheesecake for the holiday's
my grandmother's icebox cinnamon rolls. they taste just like the cinnabond one's
My mom's special raisin cake. She adapted it for my grandfather, and it didn't have a single raisin in it! Chocolate chips … Yes … Raisins … No!
When my 4 daughters were at home, we made hand-cranked ice cream a lot, as much for the activity as for the ice cream. Now, I live alone and the dogs, cats, and I enjoy sitting to watch the automatic self-refrigerated ice cream maker spin itself into a treat (which animals get to share by the teaspoon-ful).
I think it is either my lemon squares recipe or my banana cake with cream cheese frosting recipe
Apple tart tatin. Learned how to make it a year ago and its been the favorite ever since
My kids tell me I make a mean lasagna. In my opinion I think my homemade banana cream pie is my best work. Guess it comes down to savory or sweet. This banana cake looks delicious. Would love to try it.
A woman at work use to bring these treats called Scotcharoos. Rice Krispie treats with chocolate and butterscotch. They always went fast.
Monster cookies. Those rhubarb bars look amazing!
My favorite sweet recipe that my momma makes is Banana Pudding….yummy!
My favorite is my grandmothers lemon pound cake
My mothers cherry pineapple cobbler-so good:)