American mardi gras recipes with 600 or more calories costing less than $1.5 per serving

Chocolate Boston Cream Cake

Broccoli Salad

Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake!

Chocolate sponge, Chocolate Chips and Chocolate Glaze - will fix any chocolate craving!

Hank's Chilli Fudge

This can be a appetizer or just a plain snack during gamedays. It's real simple and tastes great.

Ruby's Creole Bread Pudding & Butter Rum Sauce

NEVER throw stale bread away! You have the base for an absolutely delicious Creole bread pudding that will…

Savory Creole Sweet Potato Casserole

No sweet topping here - this has breadcrumbs & bacon and the Creole twist of Jamaican Pickapeppa Sauce in the…

Dorothy's Pickled Beets

This is a great and refreshing way to eat beets. No fuss, no muss, just big taste.

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…

Applesauce Cake Made From Scratch

This cake has become a family tradition during the holidays. I look forward to Christmas just to eat this…

Chocolate Rum Pecan Pound Cake

Let us celebrate holiday baking with this incredible chocolate pound cake. It’s great for holiday entertaining since it makes such a striking…

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…

Macaroon Kisses Cookie

Coconut kisses are so good. It's a holiday favorite.

Creole Rice

Snickerdoodles

Cookies with plenty of cinnamon and sugar!