Bringing National Recipe Contests to Grassroots America...
These colorful and creative cookies are like mini fruit pies. They are crowd-pleasing and easy to make! You start with a delicious cookie shell made with butter, granulated and powdered sugars, baking soda, salt, and flour. Fresh out of the oven (while still in the tins) you re-press the cups (to be deep enough to hold the fillings) and let them cool. Beth Krauss won at the 2015…
If you are nutty for coconut like I am, I have a dessert you’re going to ADORE! Coconut Cupcake Bread Pudding! I made it with leftover homemade cupcakes, but you could use store-bought ones, a compatible flavor cupcake like lemon, vanilla, or chocolate. Even…
Any time I come across a recipe for something I grew up baking with my mom, I’m filled with warm fuzzies and a big craving to make whatever it may be, from no-bake cookies to “strike-it-rich” cakes. So imagine my…
You have been asking for more things chocolate. We’re on it! Check out these Triple Chocolate Cappuccino Cups. They are simple, delicious, and with their miniature size, not that indulgent. That is, if I stop at one, which I admit can be…
Quite a while back we tested some recipes in the vintage cookbook: “Great State Fair Recipes…A Collection of Minnesota State Fair Sweepstakes-Winning Recipes from 1906 to 1975.” This booklet I inherited from my predecessor and is one of dozens I’ve collected over…
This Peanut Dipping Sauce goes perfect with my Chicken Satay. It has coconut milk, peanut butter, honey, soy sauce, red curry paste, chili oil, and dried chili flakes.If you have leftovers or simply love the flavor and want to use it…
I can say without a doubt, this Chicken Satay recipe makes the best satay I have ever tasted. I make it almost every week and have started making quadruple batches of the marinade to keep on hand. This has been going…
The Mounds candy bar merges with the Almond Joy in this “Mounds of Joy Cake.” It’s inspired by a 1999 1st Place Michigan State Fair winning recipe. Eugenia Adams of Taylor, Michigan made a vanilla version of it and won a Championship…
I’m back on a nostalgia kick: here’s another recipe from 1999. Lemon Raspberry Chiffon Cake. This one originates at the New York State Fair, a first place winner from Luana Impellizzeri of Jamesville, New York.The cake is easier than it…
This goes in the “don’t knock it till you’ve tried it” category. SPAM Ice Cream. The SPAM recipe contest is an annual tradition at dozens of fairs across the country, including the Kentucky State Fair, which produced this winning recipe. It’s from…
Well, here it is, the carrot cake that won me over. It literally taught me to LOVE carrot cake.Can you believe I never liked it? The truth is, my main experience with it was trying a dry hunk from a stale or over-baked sheet…