American cinco de mayo desserts recipes with 600 or more calories

texas date loaf candy

This is a delicious old-fashioned Texas recipe similar to fudge but is shaped into a log and sliced. I was surprised to learn from a Mexican…

Banana Split Cake

Tasty desert reminiscent of a banana split but much easier to serve.

Piña Colada Cupcakes

Foolproof Sugar Cookie Recipe

This recipe is the best sugar cookie recipe ever! There is no mess with a pastry board full of flour! I use parchment paper to roll out the dough.…

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Yummy recipe, and very appealing to the eye as well with its distinctive red coloring.

Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yummy chocolate chip cookie

Basic Easy Pie Crust

For my grandmother, Eva Koehler, this was what passed for "easy." For me, easy means opening the box and removing the sleeve, cutting the end and…

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Delicious and rich.

Coconut and Lime Chewy Sugar Cookies

Our cool SoCal summer is fading away fast and the yucky August heat waves are upon us...oh how I dread hot and…

The Best Carrot Cake Ever

Rosalie Williams made the best carrot cake when I was a child. It was her specialty at church dinners. As an adult, I got her recipe because I…

Gobs

My mother has made these for over 40 years...and I still can't get enough of them. This is her version of Whoopie Pies.

Double Chocolate Cranberry Chunkies

Chocolate chunks and dried cranberries or dried cherries if you like.

Orange Marmalade Ricotta Cupcakes

My Favorite Cupcake

Tembleque (Coconut Custard)

Guest Post by Anthony Thompson This weeks post is different and special at the same time. I asked my other half to do a guest post. Anthony has…

Grilled Banana Parfait with Rum Sauce

You all know I love to make desserts on the grill! Bananas + ice cream + rum sauce = an insanely good dessert…