June 27, 2015

15 of my favourite desserts ever (with vintage recipes for many of them)


With my birthday less than two weeks (yippee!), my thoughts have already started shifting towards how I'm going to spend it and what I'm going to serve up on the menu to celebrate it (sooo many possibilities!).

I've covered such things in various posts here over the years before, so I won't veer into broken record territory here again, but just to recap, between the fact that my diet is wildly restricted due to many of my chronic illnesses that are seriously affected by what I eat, that I'm a card carrying member of team Celiac Disease, have a nasty egg allergy, and, oh, you know, have eaten low carb at least 95% of the time for more than 3.5 years now (doing so is not only helpful in managing my weight, which some of my meds wreck havoc with at the best of times, but which is extremely beneficial, I find, for some of my conditions), planning the feast - very much including the sweet treat - for a special occasion is not something I take lightly.

As touched on in this vintage recipe post last December, if dining with a good number of my family members, I also happily have to keep their own dietary needs and preferences in mind, too, though for my birthday, I'll sometimes make multiple desserts so that everyone is safely covered and then just ensure that the one I'm tucking into is safe for me to consume sans awful repercussions.

Though I've always been more of a "salty tooth" than a sweet too, like most folks, I'm not adverse something on the saccharine side of things every now than then, especially when celebrating an event as marvelously exciting as a birthday.



{Just a few days stand between me and my 31st birthday, so as it rounds the bend again, I've suddenly got my favourite desserts on the brain! Image via Etsy seller Veetzy Innovations.}


The world of desserts is an incredibly diverse and exciting one, which has long been amongst the most voluminous in terms of its scope in the whole wide world. Each culture across time has created anywhere from a handful to hundreds (if not thousands, is some cases) of sugary treats that would set nearly anyone's tummy rumbling at the mere thought. In recent year the hybrid dessert (a mashup of two or more traditionally separate desserts - such as cookie cupcakes, red velvet cake s'mores, or the doughnut croissant lovechild that is cronuts) has caught on like wildfire.

Though there are some such exciting combination desserts I can eat, as I usually have to adapt dessert recipes quite heavily at the best of times to make them safe for me to tuck into, this isn't an area I've been able to explore to its fullest when cooking or baking for myself. Again, though, I do delight in those that I can and always keep my eyes open for desserts that look like they might work well on that front.

With the literal sweetest part of any celebratory meal at the forefront of my mind as my birthday rounds the bend again, I though that it would be rather fun on this last Sunday in June to shine the spotlight on a list of 15 of my favourite desserts of all-time.

I need to state emphatically before we proceed with this list that I cannot safely eat all of these things any more. Some of them have not graced my lips in over thirteen years now, and others have to be heavily modified (ditching the eggs, gluten, alcohol, caffeine, and other ingredients that massacre me ) before I can even contemplate sticking my fork, knife or spoon into them.

Much as I never stopped reading and adoring cookbooks when my diet was forced to make drastic changes though, I haven’t ceased loving these desserts either and just because I might not be able to eat them or consume them in their original form, doesn't mean that they don't still hold a special spot in my heart and memories. The latter of which is something I find always goes hand-in-hand with birthday celebrations, so that strikes me as all the more reason to highlight them here.

As some of these desserts are newer inventions and/or were not common in North America or the UK during the mid-twentieth century (or earlier), I haven't been able to find recipe pages (from cookbooks, magazines, ads, newspapers, etc) online for all of them, so when one wasn't forthcoming in my search, I tried to find an image that related to it in some capacity instead.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the desserts I enjoy (nor is it in any kind of "top favourite" order; the entries here are all completely random), but it does certainly shine the spotlight on some of my all-time favourites and I hope that you'll find some of your own most beloved sweet treats amongst them as well.




1. Dessert pizza: I'll never forget the first time I had dessert pizza. The setting was a Pizza Hut restaurant and I was maybe all of six years old. It was cherry, with crumbly, fantastic streusel topping and oodles of white icing piped across the top. It pretty much blew my young mind and I've been a devoted fan of all kinds of dessert pizzas ever since (the first time I had the apple cinnamon one from them, it did the same thing, too). You can easily make your own at home with any number of toppings, ranging from fresh or canned fruit to s'mores ingredients to ice cream, and each one will have you coming back for seconds for sure!




2. Ice cream cake: This - in the form of Dairy Queen's classic offering - was one of two staple birthday desserts for me when I was growing up (the other being homemade chocolate cake topped with mountains of seven-minute frosting), especially during the first ten or so years of my life, so it is impossible for my b-day to roll around with my mind racing straight to ice cream cake no matter how old I get.




3. Cherry Pie: I'm a huge fan of pies in general, but with the glorious abundance of cherries that are grown in Okanagan and which are in season at this time of the year, a cherry pie becomes a very natural fit for any July celebration (ditto for peaches and peach pie as the summer rolls on).




4. Nanaimo Bars: Canada has given the world many incredibly tasty recipes over the course of the few centuries, but few - if any - top the chocolate + coconut + custard filling heaven-on-your-tongue that is the mighty Nanaimo Bar.




5. Rice Pudding: File rice pudding under one of those foods that I could happily eat every single day for the rest of my life without growing tired of it. The creamier, the better, but rarely have I met a rice pudding I didn't adore and am always game to try new versions (plus, I love that most are GF right off and bat and many can be made sans eggs no problem).




6. Strawberry or raspberry trifle: Hands down the best English trifle I've ever had comes by way of my paternal Grandma, who would make one or more every summer with fresh picked raspberries from her thriving garden and generous amounts of rich custard sandwiched between the layers of fruit and cake. It, along with potato chip coated chicken and her delicious hamburger pie, were the tastes of summer at my grandparents house when I was a youngster.




7. Millionaire's Shortbread: A rich, crumbly shortbread base combine with tongue pleasing caramel (usually made with condensed milk) and alluring chocolate in this endlessly delicious treat that's served up in bars or wedges and for which anyone you make it for, will beg you for the recipe. I first discovered Millionaire's Shortbread while living in Ireland and have been hooked ever since.




8. Cheesecake: Oh silken, luxurious cheesecake, how I melt for you! Perhaps because I've had such good luck with both baked and no-bake GF, EF versions of cheesecake, it is one of the most common desserts I bake, very much including for my birthday (two years ago I made a strawberry + raspberry version was the after dinner star of my birthday bash).




9. Baklava: Honey, walnuts and/or pistachios, countless layers of pastry - oh my word, what's not to madly love about this classic Greek desserts? Though GF versions somewhat pale in comparison to the real deal, that doesn't stop me from trying my best to replicate this awesome Mediterranean dessert at least once a year (Nicole from the wonderful blog Gluten-Free on a Shoestring has a very good gluten-free phyllo dough recipe, should you be searching for one).




10. Spice Cake: Granted we just kicked off summer, but a great spice cake (likewise for pumpkin pie) is one of those awesome autumn favourites that I could happily tuck into any single day of the year (especially since one's birthday is the perfect excuse to indulge in any dessert you want, no matter what season it is most closely associated with).




11. Apple Crisp: Another fall time classic for sure, but one that can easily be whipped up any day of the year. I love to serve mine piping hot with straight-from-the-freezer vanilla ice cream or chilled with hefty wedges of sharp cheddar cheese (much like many folks enjoy their apple pie).




12. Bread Pudding: Comfort food par excellence! I love all kinds of bread puddings (also known as "bread and butter pudding") and have even come up with some great GF ones over the years, including a version that is a rife on a recipe I invented back in my teen years that marries classic bread pudding with fresh pears, cinnamon, and vanilla pudding (and in the same vein as bread pudding, I flat out adore a great Summer Pudding or Eve's Pudding, too).




13. Chocolate Brownie Pie: If you thought hybrid desserts were a new craze, guess again! Clever cooks and bakers have been fusing two or more sweet treats together for ages now, as this seriously delicious Chocolate Brownie Pie recipe attests to (this is the very same recipe I base my own version off of and can attest that it is immensely tasty!).




14. Pineapple Upside-Down Cake: Not only is this a massive mid-century dessert staple, but I find that it's surprisingly easy to make a GF and EF version that tastes strikingly similar to original versions we all know and love. Were I planning a tiki or tropical themed party, this would be one of the first things in the oven!




15. Cinnamon Buns: Bar none the best of which I've ever had are my mom's. You know Cinnabon's offerings - those sublimely scented temptations that make malls smell like pure dessert heaven? Yah, they smoke those out of the water. My mom is an amazing home cook and baker, but nothing, IMO, that she makes tops her cinnamon buns (note, the recipe above is not hers, but I think it looks pretty great, too). If I seriously had to plan my last meal, they would be a part of it (and it wouldn't matter that they have gluten in them, as, hello, last meal, gluten = mute point! ;)). Even the very modified gluten and egg-free version of it that I've been making for years now is still lip-lickingly fantastic.


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Tell me you aren't hungry as a bear after reading all those? Or at least very, very in the mood for something sweet! Which are of these scrumptious eats land on your own roundup of favourite desserts?

I must admit, with having to cut certain foods out my diet entirely for so long now, my mind does tend to gravitate towards things that I know I can still eat and thus isn't as apt as it would have been to list the same things it might have had I penned this post fifteen years ago (back then you might have found entries like lemon meringue pie, creme brulee, chiffon cake, pavlova, root beer floats, doughnuts, angle food cake, tiramisu, baked Alaska, and canolli), but I did let myself branch out still a bit here, as touched on above and it was fun to think about certain foods that I don't often get a chance to any more, unless I'm cooking for others or pining them to one of my many (many!) food related Pinterest boards.

With a touch under two weeks to go until my 31st birthday rolls around on July 10th, I still have time to finalize my birthday dessert or desserts. As is so often the case, there's a few big contenders, but I rarely end up making the final decision until the proverbial 11th hour (and on a few occasions, the literal one, too, on the evening of the 9th). Plus, in the course of putting together this post I came across two great articles 50 of the Best Dessert Recipes of All Time from Huffington Post and 92 Top Rated Desserts from Southern Living Magazine, respectively, that added some new contenders to the list big time!

It's been an age and half since I last had an ice cream cake, so that is well and truly up there, as is trifle, and a classic chocolate cake. We'll see. It will likely come down to my plans and menu for the rest of the day and what I'm in the mood for as I enter the second year of my thirties.

Whatever I make, it will be a treat of the sweetest caliber and one that will satisfy me on the sugar front if not until my next birthday, at least until Halloween rolls around again in just four months (what, I swear I'm not planning every last detail of that day already - nooo, it being my favourite holiday of all time, I'd never do that. Tee-hee-hee :D)

36 comments:

  1. Oh my! I want to eat all of these now. I am looking forward to reading your birthday posts!

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  2. I'm certainly feeling hungry now! Many of these I've never heard of but they do look delicious.

    My favourite pudding is Eton Mess which although I shouldn't eat it really, I just can't resist. I haven't had it yet this year, I'm a little wary to try as I have been having awful tummy troubles after every main meal lately and I think dipping into Eton Mess might not be wise. But my, I look lovingly at the ingredients in the supermarket (they have placed the meringues right near the fresh raspberries) and umm and ahh over popping them in my basket.

    Anyway, I hope you have oodles of sweet birthday treats and a lovely weekend xxx

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    1. Eton Mess is amazing!!! Prior to becoming allergic to eggs, it was one of my favourite and most frequently eaten desserts, particularly in the summer. I've always been huge on British cuisine and discovered it in a cookbook around the age of 12 of so and started making it from that week forward. The closest substitute for the meringues that I've found so far, and they're by no means the same thing, is GF/EF shortbread cookies - it's nice with crumbled GF/EF coconut macaroons, too, but neither are quite the same obviously.

      Thank you very much, sweet lady. I hope that you have a stellar weekend as well!
      ♥ Jessica

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  3. I've had so few of these :( I've never had dessert pizza, but it sounds great! I do LOVE baklava, they sell it at my university and its the best thing for assignment blues.

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    1. Isn't dessert pizza amazing? The closer we get to the 10th (of July), the more that one is calling my name here. I haven't had one in quite a while and it can be just the thing on a hot summer's eve, especially if you chill it after baking it.

      I hope that you're able to try many more of this splendid desserts, my dear. They're all truly fabulous!!! :)

      Wishing you an awesome weekend,
      ♥ Jessica

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  4. Like you, I prefer salt to sweet but these are delicious desserts. As you say, we can imagine how they taste without actually consuming them again.

    Food is nostalgic; your posts like this remind me of my youth and my mother caring for me and my brother. Those are fond memories.

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  5. Love these! Thanks for sharing them! Happy early birthday, wonderful Jessica!

    Hope it's fine I added a link to this post at my food site that often features vintage food ideas (http://favoritefoodthisweek.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-wonderful-posting-about-vintage.html ).

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    1. I'm thoroughly touched and very honoured that you gave this post a post of its own on your blog, dear lady. Thank you soooo much!

      Have a fantastic weekend!
      ♥ Jessica

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  6. Shouldn't have read this just before I start making dinner... At this point I might have to eat the chicken raw!! I never knew there were desert pizzas! My mind has been blown. I so want one... Hope you're having a fab weekend x

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    1. You absolutely, positively must make one, sweet dear (let me know if you have a hard time finding GF pizza crust mix in the UK and I'll happily mail you box). They're fabulous and open to endless versions. I'm partially to a cinnamon and apple one myself, but love them in every form I've ever had, including with ice cream on top, which just ups the treat factor all the more and makes it like a sundae pizza.

      Big hugs & happy first weekend of summer wishes!
      ♥ Jessica

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  7. I love shortbread, pies, cherries and pizza, the dessert pizza, too! I didn't know you had egg allergy, and you control carbs. It;s true, it helps controlling weight, something I should do, but on the other hand I can imagine it must be a concern, of course, when choosing what to it. I have a sister in-law that can't have milk and dairy, etc. It's a bit difficult, indeed. I myself am vegetarian, but then it's easier to me, I am not comparing, not in the least. I love the dessert pizza, as I said, and you can create many toppings! I ate one with melted chocolate and banana and cinnamon - it's lovely! I hope you have a nice weekend, dear Jessica!
    DenisesPlanet.com

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    1. Hi lovely Denise, thank you very much for your great comment and for sharing with me that your a vegetarian. I've posted many meat-free recipes here over the years, as well as numerous others that could easily be made such, so I hope that you'll find plenty to enjoy (you can check out my "Vintage Recipes" tab at the top of my blog to see a page with all the recipes I've posted here before).

      Oh wow, that dessert pizza sounds amazing!!! Bananas and chocolate with cinnamon is a combo I'll definitely have to try now myself. Thank you for the tasty inspiration.

      Have a marvelous weekend!
      ♥ Jessica

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  8. I have them all, right now, please! ;)

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  9. Food allergies are a pain...literally and figuratively :\

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    1. They truly can be for sure. I'm so used to eating/for around many of my chronic illnesses though, that adding them in just seems like part and parcel. Still, that said, I often find having to omit eggs, especially when I can't safely eat a lot of things that are often used as egg replacers (due to said conditions), to be the trickiest thing to work around when it comes to cooking and my diet. Oh well! It is what it is and I'm just super grateful for those foods that I can eat - I know all too well that more of them could vanish at the drop of a hat, so it's wise to make the best of things while I still have the current selection that I do (have) available.

      Thank you for your comment. Have a great weekend!
      ♥ Jessica

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  10. Can you eat dairy? Because my absolute favorite rice pudding recipe is just risotto rice, milk, sugar, and flavorings, simmered together until it thickens. I've even made it with brown rice and less sugar as a breakfast. I think the original was a Giada DeLaurentiis recipe or something. I've made it with vanilla, cardamom, almonds, ginger, nutmeg, and combinations thereof. It might work with a rich milk substitute, like homemade almond milk or coconut milk.

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    1. Hi sweet gal, at present I can eat some dairy products (there have been periods, often of multiple years at a time, when I couldn't do so) and will definitely give your easy rice pudding recipe a go. That sounds soooo good! I swear, I could live off rice pudding if my waistline wouldn't pay the price for doing so! Thank you very much for sharing this scrumptious recipe with me. I might just have to whip some up for a Canada Day treat.

      Tons of hugs & happy weekend wishes,
      ♥ Jessica

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    2. this pudding recipe is actually what they did before food industry invented instant pudding!!!!
      (have an old cookbook from the times before it even had a food industry)
      the recipe works with soy or other vegan "milk" too!
      xxxxx

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  11. These look so delicious! I love any kind of sweet pie!! Cherry pie looks yummy and the Chocolate Brownie Pie looks smashing!!

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  12. now i have to run for my own breakfast!!! i got very hungry reading this :-)
    although some of that ingredients make me scratch my head...... metaphorical and literally! (i get an itchy scalp from strange things in food!)
    but we can just copy the look of the vintage sweets with healthy ingredients - is´t?!
    we had out first local cherries a day ago - wahooo!!!
    xxxxxxx

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    1. Ooohh, I swear, I was flat out famished by the end of writing it, just from thinking about all of these sensational treats! :) I was a good lass though and refrained from making a mad dash to the kitchen. I'll save the fun - and calories - of a big dessert for my birthday. It's less than two weeks away now and I can certainly hold on for that long (perhaps with a small Canada Day treat in between :)).

      Wishing you a fabulous week - big hugs!
      ♥ Jessica

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  13. I don't think my previous comment went through, so second try. If it did, please just delete this one.
    Whatever you end up choosing, I'm sure it'll be a delicious capper to a fun celebration. All of these choices sound so delicious! I think the one that I would reach for right this second would have to be the tropical cheesecake, but I would love to try my hand at the Nanaimo Bars (which I have never heard of before! My mouth was watering just reading the description) or that Millionaire's Shortbread.
    I don't have any food allergies or sensitivities, but I know that when I was vegan I would sometimes despair about all of the things that I couldn't eat. On the other hand, I think we've talked before about how limitations can spur you to be more creative in the kitchen, and I think I'm a much better cook now because of it. Obviously choosing not to eat something is a very different animal from not being able to eat something because of a medical condition, but I think it's great that finding the perfect dessert and making to it suit your needs is such a challenge and a delight to you. Have fun with it!

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    1. Hi lovely lady, thank you very much for your great comment (of which this was the only one I received - don't you just hate it when Blogger or Wordpress eats one of your comments?!). You absolutely must try Nanaimo bars! They're as much a Canadian classic as maple syrup and every bit as delicious - if not more so (and no, that it is not Canadian heresy to say that :D).

      I completely agree with you regarding limitations working as a positive force in the kitchen - and, really, often in life in general. From my wardrobe to my dinner plate, my holidays to my hobbies, forces beyond (or only slightly under the realm of) my control have helped guide my life and help me grow as a person. While of course I would prefer these (medical issues) weren't there, I'm thankful for what I'm still able to do and eat in spite of them and have come up with some pretty tasty "alternative" dishes over the last 13 years (of being chronically ill). It will be fun to see what comes down the pipeline there in the future for sure.

      Tons of hugs & happy wishes for this sunny new week!
      ♥ Jessica

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  14. I, on the other hand, have long been known for my sweet tooth! I do love my savoury foods too, but I could happily have a dessert after every meal, and for snacks. Sometimes I do :P

    These include some of my favourites too, but also some I haven't tried - like brownie pie! Sounds awesome.

    I'm glad to hear that gluten free cinnamon buns turn out well, because I recently made some vegan ones and they were fabulous, but I have a friend who is gluten and dairy free, and I wasn't sure they would survive the transition!

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    1. Brownies pie is awesome - like, you'll wake up craving it completely out of the blue awesome! :)

      Your friend might really enjoy this GF, vegan cinnamon bun recipe: http://www.forkandbeans.com/2014/03/13/best-gluten-free-vegan-cinnamon-roll/

      There's precisely a week to go until my birthday now and I'm no closer to picking what I'll make - if anything, a few more options have joined the list of possibilities. Fruit pizza or a cheesecake are both edging out a bit, but we'll see. It's often sweltering here in July and sometimes you just want something nice and cold - or at least very light - such as an ice cream cake or banana split when such is the case.

      Big hugs & many thanks for your great blog comments this week,
      ♥ Jessica

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  15. yuuuum! dessert is basically my favourite thing of all time! it's funny how there are some things that are super popular in canada/the US that aren't a thing here, like cinnamon buns for example. i came home from the US obsessed with cinnamon but we don't really have cinnamon buns here, or pumpkin pie which i ADORE! there's one place i know of that has pumpkin pie that i make a point of going to pretty often to get my fix. and i adore baklava too, my favourite gelato place in sydney does weekly specials and every now and then they have a rosewater baklava flavour (rosewater gelato with baklava smashed through it) and it's incredible!

    jessica - littlehenrylee.com

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    1. Soooo true!!! I lived abroad in Europe for a while when Tony and I were dating and then after we got married, and I was very surprised to see what is and isn't common on the dessert front outside of North America. Granted there are somethings that we don't have or don't commonly serve here, too, that one would quickly encounter in Europe, Australia or of course other parts of the world, too, but it was a surprise to not even be able to find (at the time) canned pumpkin in Ireland. I got very good, if I may say so myself :), at roasting my own to turn the flesh into pie. I had to have a few pumpkin pies each fall and winter - doing so is too ingrained in the season for me not to.

      My word, that sounds amazing!!! If I could safely eat it, I'd probably consume double my body weight in that gelato. Yum, yum, and yum again!!!! :)

      Tons of hugs, happy July wishes, and sincere thanks for both of your great blog comments yesterday.

      ♥ Jessica

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  16. I hope you had at least one from your lovely list on your birthday, dear. My mouth is watering very much now for sure. I have never heard of dessert pizza, but think it just a kind of open pie. But I have made pineapple upside down cake for many years, and it is always a success. Plus it is cheap and easy to make. Perhaps I should bake one soon again. For son's party he wanted carrot cake, his all time favourite, with lots of slimming cheese cream. ;) He and his gardener friends literally ate all of it, huge success. Have a lovely day, dear. :)

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    1. Thank you very much, my darling friend. Dessert pizza is utterly amazing!!! You must give it a try, if you like pizza and/or pie. It's currently leading as my top choice for this Friday (my birthday), with a no-bake cheesecake coming in second place - and objectively that might win, as we're into the dog days of summer here and I'm not in a huge rush to turn on the oven (lol!). I'm going to do dessert pizza later in the season though and have some relatives over for it, if i don't do it this week.

      I love that about pineapple upside down cake. Plus, going back to a different recipe post of mine for a few months ago, if I make it GF and EF, it's something that I can eat and so can all of my relatives with special dietary needs. So it's a frequent player in our household. :)

      Tons of hugs & thanks again for all of your marvelous blog comments this week,
      ♥ Jessica

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  17. Oh, yes, I love many of these as well. Funny thing, my parents actually had spice cake for their wedding cake and my grandma even made it herself. They put a bit of it back for their first anniversary and when they went to eat it tasted like it was bell pepper cake with cream cheese frosting. It made for years of hearing it retold over again.

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    1. That's really wonderful! I think it's a shame that more families don't make wedding cakes for the happy couple any longer. It used to be such a common occurrence and you'll see various wedding cake recipes in lots of vintage cookbooks, now it's largely unheard of in most parts of the world.

      Thank you for sharing that lovely fact about your folks with me.

      Big hugs,
      ♥ Jessica

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  18. The chocolate brownie pie…. that I'd make !
    Oh and I just googled the Baby Ruth Cookie recipe and pinned it ! Let's see if i ever get to baking it :)

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    1. Do you celebrate Halloween? If so, it could be absolutely perfect for that festive celebration - given the natural pairing of candy and sweets in general with it.

      Happy baking!
      ♥ Jessica

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  19. I am so hungry now! There are several in there that I have never tried like desert pizza, Nanaimo bars and chocolate brownie pie. They sound good though! I love pineapple upside down cake, it was my favourite dessert at primary school. I do love a millionaires shortbread too. I had trifle for my birthday tea, you can't beat it!

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    1. They are...fantastically so! :) If you get a chance, I can't recommend trying all three enough, especially dessert pizza and Nanaimo bars. I really, really debated doing dessert pizza for my birthday last week, but it was about 40C at the time and I wasn't in the mood to fire up the oven, so I made a scrumptious no-bake GF berry cheesecake instead that was polished off by everyone at my birthday dinner that night. In fact, it was such a hit, that in future years, I'll likely make two! :)

      I'm still craving dessert pizza big time though, so when the weather cools off a bit, I'm going to have some people over for a dessert pizza party.


      Happy baking! :)

      ♥ Jessica

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