It’s Dessert Time
We are on day 11 of the May Ultimate Blog Challenge and today I’m taking the daily blog topic suggestion. It’s Dessert Time and I’m sharing my best dessert! Well maybe not just one but a variety of them because when Lia bakes all her desserts are the best!
My favorite desserts are quick and easy for dessert time and some are even healthy!
My all time favorite especially in the fall when we get fresh picked apples is Yummy Apple Crisp. Lia and I made a big dish last fall and the apples were so sweet. I like an apple crisp with a topping of brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg added to the flour and butter. Other than apples, this is all that is needed to make Apple Crisp. The recipe we use is from a cookbook that belonged to my mom and I will be handing this down to Lia when she get’s older.
Once the apple crisp is baked and out of the oven it’s very hard to wait until it’s cool to try this mouth watering dessert. Of course top it with whipped topping or ice cream for that extra special dessert.
My dessert time baking wouldn’t be complete without the delicious Italian Drop Cookies made from a recipe our elderly neighbor shared with me back in the early 1980’s. This was a favorite for my girls to make for county fair baking contest and it’s the perfect Christmas cookie. Although the original recipe called for vanilla flavoring I always opt for different ones like almond, lemon or orange. I also add almond flavoring to the frosting, such a delicious cookie for anytime!
I can’t go without mentioning my grandmother’s famous chocolate mayonnaise cake! She would give me a piece for breakfast before I left for school (despite my mom saying she shouldn’t have sweets for breakfast) But gramma reminded my mom that her cake was just as healthy as a “real” breakfast because the cake had eggs in the mayonnaise, it had dark chocolate and best of all it was made with love! Now if that wasn’t a good enough explanation I don’t know what else would work!
Do you have a favorite dessert that has either been handed down through the years or maybe one you just came up with! Don’t forget, it’s dessert time and that can be any time, not just for after a meal!
Hi Martha . . . I really enjoyed your blog today. Your pictures are charming and beautiful. The three desserts you write about are some of my favorites also!
Glad you enjoyed them Debra! The apple crisp has always been a favorite of mine.
Oh this is wonderful. My favorite dessert is a chocolate cake
With a cold glass of milk Amrita! My grandmothers’ mayo cake is so delicious!
Yum! I’ve never heard of Chocolate Mayo Cake, but it sounds wonderful. Thanks, Martha!
It’s so moist Victoria! Plus you don’t need eggs!
Hi Martha, I knew this would be a day you would follow the suggestion. You have so many desserts. My mother made a mayonnaise cake that I loved. I may convert the recipe into a keto recipe and if I do I will share it with everyone as an article at a later date. I am not posting a favorite dessert today but I may just post a keto dessert for my keto longevity Lifestyle friends. I am not much for whipped cream unless I make it myself so it would be French Vanilla Ice cream on my apple crisp.
Oh yes, ice cream on warm apple crisp is SO good Chef William! I’d love to see your Keto recipe for the mayo cake, please tag me when you come up with it.
Martha, yum! I like baked apple Anything! So I may just try your recipe! Oh, and the chocolate mayonnaise cake– please and thank you– looks like a great breakfast food to me. Thanks for another great post.
Something about warm apple crisp just hits the spot Kebba! Whether it be chocolate cake or apple crisp, both make a good breakfast!
Apple crisp!!! Yum, yum! Lia and I have something in common. We were both chopping apples and making a crisp. I did, however, add rhubarb to mine! It was so delicious! I shared my dessert with a few neighbors, and I hope that everyone feels happy and well fed!
My father would love your recipe Alice, he had rhubarb growing behind our garage when I was growing up. I would pick it and take to my grandmother and she would make rhubarb pie. I was never big on that. I guess what they say is true, great minds think alike when it comes me making apple crisp!
Love this version of an apple crisp!
Now if you were closer, I’d bring you a bowl Roy! The crisp part is so crispy, I’m ready to make another batch soon!
All of those look so good.
They are Amanda and easy to make!
I love food.
I like trying different foods Amanda.