Some recipes come from family. Some recipes become family. I have always loved gooey butter cake. There is something impossible to resist about it—the buttery base, the cream cheese filling, the vanilla, and that perfect balance between cake and custard. It’s rich, sweet, unapologetically indulgent, and somehow always manages to disappear faster than expected. But…
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Ginger Snap Cookies
In the fall of Florida cane sugar growers take to the field to harvest cane stalks to make annual batches of cane syrup, the sticky coffee-brown southern cousin of molasses. On the outside of east Gainesville lies Morningside Nature Center, one of the only living history farms in the area. They put on a cane…
Sugar Cookies
This is the perfect sugar cookie recipe I use year round. They hold their shape and are buttery and soft to the bite. They lend well to decorating whether you use icing or imprints. Delicate enough to serve with tea yet sturdy enough to use with kids. I love all cookies but there is something…
Fruit Cake Cookies
I know I know fruit cake!? But seriously, these things are addicting. I like to believe that these are what fruit cake should be. These were my great grandmother Monnie’s special cookies that she would always make during the holidays. Passed down through my Grandmother, and then onto my mother, these were made all through…
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