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Baked Goods

Cakes, cookies, pies, candies, and baked favorites tied to holidays and family celebrations.

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Sweet Counter17 recipes
01

Pound Cake

My mother's basic recipe for a pound cake.

Mother / family archiveDraft p. 54
04

Brown Sugar Pound Cake

You'll see a lot of recipes call for ‘creaming' the butter and sugar (similar for crisco, etc.).

PickleButt family archiveDraft p. 57
05

Buttermilk Pound Cake

A poundcake recipe that was not my mothers, but instead comes from my aunt Ellen.

Aunt EllenDraft p. 58
06

Fresh Apple Cake

This is a cake that freezes very well.

PickleButt family archiveDraft p. 59
08

Texas Cake

This recipe, and the one on the preceeding page, both come from my Aunt Ellen.

Aunt EllenDraft p. 61
09

Monster Cookies

From the PickleButt family archive.

PickleButt family archiveDraft p. 62
11

Peanut Butter Balls

Chocolate Covered Cherries (next page) might have been the crowd favorite of my mother's Chritmas Party recipes but this one was always my personal favorite.

Mother / family archiveDraft p. 64
12

Chocolate Covered Cherries

Of all the sweets that my mother made for the Christmas party this was probably the most labor intense, but also the universal favorite.

Mother / family archiveDraft p. 65
13

Fudge

Another one of the recipes my mother would make for the annual Christmas party.

Mother / family archiveDraft p. 66
14

Amaretto Crème Brule

Be careful when applying the torch, its easy to use too much and crack the glass.

PickleButt family archiveDraft p. 67
15

Pumpkin Bread

From the PickleButt family archive.

PickleButt family archiveDraft p. 68
16

Banana Nut Bread

From the PickleButt family archive.

PickleButt family archiveDraft p. 69
17

Swedish Spritz Cookies

A stand mixer is very useful here, especially if you try to make multiple recipes worth at once.

PickleButt family archiveDraft p. 70