Fruity Fudge Balls
These lovely candies can be made in a huge variety of flavors by swapping the type of chocolate and the flavor of preserves
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Fall Baking: Best Sparkling Cider Pound Cake
This lovely pound cake has a delicate crumb and a light apple flavor
Chocolate Star Cutout Cookies With Richmond Frosting
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These rich chocolate cutout cookies start crisp like an Oreo, but mellow into a softer, chewy cookie after a few days in a storage container.
The cookie recipe isn’t vintage–it’s from The Good Housekeeping Big Book of Christmas, circa 2025–but the frosting recipe was found among my great-grandmother’s recipes, and is from a newspaper clipping from the 1940s.
Cinnamon Walnut Brittle
You’ll be amazed at how easy this brittle recipe is, using your microwave instead of standing over your stove with a candy thermometer!
Two-Layer Apple Cake With Brown Sugar Frosting
This yummy two-layer cake is full of moist apples and warming spices, and the frosting is sweet, but not overly so.
Cream Cheese and Butter Cookies
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This recipe is from the mid-1990s from Taste of Home Magazine, and was originally called White Velvet Cutouts. They’ve got the decorating flexibility of sugar cookies and the flavor and texture of your favorite butter cookies!
I decorated these with a simple buttercream and McCormick Finishing Sugar in Salted Caramel and English Toffee, but they look amazing for the holidays in fun shapes and bright frosting colors and sprinkles or sugars.
Buttery Snickerdoodle Bar Cookies
Love Snickerdoodle cookies but don’t have the time to roll dozen of dough balls? These yummy bar cookies give you the same great flavor with less fuss!
Cranberry Orange Muffins
These Cranberry Orange Muffins are yummy as-is, but are extra good toasted and served with a bit of butter!
Pumpkin Ribbon Coffee Cake
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This recipe for Pumpkin Ribbon Coffee Cake was originally called Sour Cream Pumpkin Coffee Cake, and came from a library book in the mid-1990s. I have absolutely no idea what the title of the book was, so apologies to that book author/publisher.
It tastes like a cinnamon streusel cake, with a ribbon of pumpkin pie running through the center, and the sour cream keeps the cake nice and moist.
Victory Walnut Cake From WWII
This WWII Ration Recipe is full of walnuts and golden raisins, and is flavored with cinnamon and cloves
