
My favorite category! Desserts feature so strongly in our traditions and memories.
Okay, another interesting term that needs to be explained. What the heck is mange! A dessert that sounds like a mite doesn’t sound very good. However, try to think French. This dessert is sweet and thick with cream and sugar.
Cake
Cakes can be so delightfully delicious when done correctly. We’ve all had that memorable cake that just melts in your mouth. Harder to come by these days. Cake flour is supposed to make a difference. This page will contain everything under the cake section of the recipe box, of course, but it will also have some cakes found elsewhere in the box. So be sure to check out the Bakery page.

20 Christmas Cakes from One Recipe
A Boiled Fruit Cake
A Fruited Luncheon Cake
A Labor Saving Cake
Angel Cake v. 1|2
Apple Johnny Cake
Birthday Fruit Cake
Black Walnut Angel Cake
Boston Cream Pie
Bran Coffee Cake
Brazilian Nut Fruit Cake
Bread Sponge Cake v. 1|2
Brown Sugar Devils Food
Brownstone Front Cake
Cake Coloring
Cake Fillings
Cake Glazes and Icings
Caramel Nut Cake
Carolina Tea Cakes
Change Bread to Cake
Cheap Fruit Cake
Cheese Cake De Luxe
Cheese Cake
Cheese Cakes
Cheese Gingerbread
Chocolate Angel Cake
Chocolate Cupcakes v. 1|2
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Chocolate Gems
Chocolate Layered Cake
Chocolate Marble Cake
Filling for Cake
Fruit Cake 1|2|3|4|5|6
Fruit Cake for Dyspeptics
Fruit Cake Uncooked
Fruit Coffee Cake
Fruit Orange Cake
Ginger Cream Cake
Gingerbread 1|2
Gingerbread Upside Down Cake
Golden Drop Cakes
Golden Fruit Cake
Good Date Cake
Graham Gems
Grandmother’s Eggless Gingerbread
Grandmother’s Fruit Cake Christmas Fruit Cake
Christmas “S” Cakes
Coconut Butterscotch Cake
Coffee Cake
Cranberry Spice Cake
Cracker Walnut Cake
Cranberry Spice Cake
Cream Blueberry Gingerbread
Cream Caramel Cake
Creole Cake
Crumb Cake
Crystalized Flower Decorations for Cake
Cup Cakes
Cupcakes with Currant Jelly Meringue
Dark Chocolate Cake
Date Cake v. 1|2|3
Date Coffee Cake
Date Fruit Cake
Delice Raisin Cake
Dessert Coffee Cake
Devil Fruit Cake
Devil’s Food Cake
Dolly Madison Fruit Cake
Dried Fruit Cake
Dromedary Fruit Cake
Eagle Cake
Economical Christmas Cake
Egg Fluff Cake
Eggless Fruit Cake
Emergency Two Egg Cake
English Dundee Cake
English Fruit Cake
English White Fruit Cake
Fattigesmanbattelske (Norwegian Christmas Cake)
Fig Filling for Cakes or Tarts
Filled Coffee Cake
Fruit Coffee Cake
Fruit Cake v. 1|2|3|4|5|6
Fruit Cake for Dyspeptics
Fruit Cake Uncooked
Fruit Orange Cake
Filling for Cake
Ginger Cream Cake
Gingerbread v. 1|2
Gingerbread Upsidedown Cake
Gold CakeGold Cake Silver Cake
Golden Drop Cakes
Golden Fruit Cake
Golden Spice Cake
Good Date Cake
Grandmother’s Fruit Cake
Grandmother’s Eggless Gingerbread
Graham Gems
Grandmother’s Tea Cake
Hard Gingerbread
Hard Times Fruit Cake
Hawaiian Cream Butter Cake
Hints of Baking Angel Food Cake
Hints on Baking Cakes
Hole in the Middle Cake
Honey Fruit Cake v. 1|2
Honey Tea Cake
Hot Milk Sponge Cake
Hurry Up Fruit Cake
Ice Box Cake
Imperial Sunshine Cake
Japanese Fruit Cake
Layer Cake Baked in One Pan
Lightning Cake
Log Cabin Cake Frosting
Los Angeles Choice Angel Food
Magic Chocolate Frosting
Making it on High Cakes
Maple Cake
Maple Puff
Maple Syrup Cake No. 2
Marble Cake
Mince Meat Fruit Cake
Miss Allen’s Graham Cracker Cake
Mixed Fruit Torte
Mock Angel Food Cake
Molasses Corn Cake
Mrs. Gray’s Special Filled Coffee Cake
Mrs. Hagstroms Fruit Cake Recipe
My Uncooked Christmas Fruit Cake
Nice Little New Year’s Cakes
North Carolina White Fruit Cake
Oatmeal Fruit Cake
Orange Rock Cakes
Peach Cake
Peach Tea Cake
Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes for Yuletide Cakes
Persian Fruit Cake
Pineapple Cake Glace
Pineapple Ice Box Cake
Plantation Christmas Cakes
Plantation Marble Cake
Pork Cake
Potato Cake
Prize Wedding Cake
Raisin Fudge Cake with Almonds
Rich Black Fruit Cake
Rich White Fruit Cake
Royal Cream Loaf Cake
Royal Date Cake v. 1|2
Sally Lunn
Silver Cake
Simple Layer Cake
Sirup Sponge Cakes
Small Angel Cake
Small Cakes
Snow Cake
Snow Flake Cake
Sour Cream Cake
Sour Milk Gingerbread
Southern Dried Apple Fruit Cake
Spice Cake v. 1|2|3
Sunshine Cake
Swans Down Angel Sponge Cake
Swans Down Chocolate Layer Cake
Swans Down Christmas Fruit Cake
Swans Down Nut Cream Cake
Tea Cakes
Thanksgiving Fruit Cake
The Christmas Fruit Cake
The Upside Down Cake
Two Egg Angel Cake
Uncooked Fruit Cake
Variety Batter
Virginia Fruit Cake
War Cake
Whipped Cream Cake
White Fruit Cake v. 1|2
White Mountain Cake
White Surprise Cake
Cookies

Probably one of the easiest and best known desserts.

Alice Cookies and Soft Molasses Cookies
Almond Cookies
Berkshire Cookies
Black Walnut Cookies
Brownies
Butterscotch Refrigerator Cookies
Butterscotch Sticks
Carrot Cookies
Chinese Almond Cookies
Chocolate Bars
Chocolate Drops
Chocolate Macaroons
Chocolate Rocks
Chocolate Walnut Ice Box Cookies
Christmas Cookies
Cocoanut Cookies
Cocoanut Crmbles
Coconut Kisses
Coconut Macaroons v. 1|2
Coffee Cookies
Corn Flakes Cookies
Cracker Crumb Macaroons
Date Bars
Date Drop Cookies
Dried Pear Cookies
Eggless Fig Cookies
Fig Hermits
Filled Cookies
Filling for Cookies
For Thanksgiving’s Cookie Jar Date Cookies
Fruit Cookies v. 1|2|3
Ginger Cookies v. 1|2
Gingerbread Men
Grandmother’s Cookies
Grandmother’s Sugar Cookies
Heavenly Food
Hermit Drop Cookies
Honey Hermits
Ice Box Cookies (Andover and Butterscotch)
Jelly Delights
Maple Cookies
Mincemeat Cookies
Mock Macaroons
Molasses Coconut Cookies
None Such Cookies
Norwegian Nut Florentines
Nut Rings and Bars
Oatmeal Macaroons
Orange Rock Cakes
Peanut Butter Drop Cookies
Peanut Cookies
Peanut Kisses
Puffed Wheat Kisses
Puffed Wheat Macaroons
Raisin Riches
Rich White Cookies
Rolled Oats Cookies
Russian Nut Rocks
Sand Cookies
Sand Tarts v. 1|2
Shortbread
Snickerdoodles
Soft Cookies
Soft-Molasses Cookies
v. 1|2
Sour Milk Sugar Cookies
Southern Pralines
Sugar Cookies
Trilbys
Walnut and Date Cookies
White Cookies
Frozen Desserts

Nothing better than homemade ice cream. Some interesting takes on freezes and parfaits here too.

Miscellaneous Desserts
Kind of a catchall for those desserts that don’t quite fit into the scheme of things.
A Mint of Comfort
Apples in Rice Cups
Applesauce torte
Candied Cranberries
Candied Grapefruits
Candied Violets
Creamy Rice Pudding
Dish of Snow
Dresden Chocolate Crumbs
Pies
This section still needs to be filled out. Check back!
Pudding and Pudding Sauces

Custards, molds, puddings, whips, tapiocas, and mousses. Some of these concoctions have unusual ingredients like suet and peas, but most are sweet.

Apple Batter Pudding
Apple Crumb Pudding
Apple Custard
Apple Orange Pudding
Apple Pudding
Apple Roly Poly Pudding
Baked Custard
Baked French Custard
Baked Lemon Custard
Banana Fluff
Banana Pudding
Banana Whip
Berry Cottage Pudding
Boiled Apple Pudding
Boiled Bread Pudding
Brown Cottage Pudding
Brown Sugar Floating Island
Brown Sugar Pudding Version 1|2
Buttermilk Crumb Pudding
Cabinet Pudding Version 1|2
Caramel Cup Custard
Carrot Pudding Version 1|2
Chocolate Cocoanut Pudding
Chocolate Nut Pudding
Chocolate Pudding
Coffee Custard
Corn Custard
Corn Meal and Apple Pudding
Corn Meal and Fig Pudding
Corn Meal Pudding
Corn Pudding
Corn Pudding Deluxe
Cranberry Raisin Pudding
Cranberry Whip
Creole New Years Pudding
Crumb Custard
Crumble Pudding
Dainty Chocolate Custards
Date and Peanut Pudding
Date Custards
Date Meringue Pudding
Date Pudding 1|2|3|4
Date Tapioca
David Hannum Plum Pudding
Dried Peach Whip
Egg Noodle Custard
Fig Pudding
Fig Tapioca
Floating Island Pudding
Fruit Bread Pudding
Fruit Pudding Version 1|2
Ginger Custards
Gingerbread Custard
Glasgow Pudding
Graham Cracker Baked Pudding
Graham Cracker Pudding 1|2|3
Graham Cracker Whip
Graham Pudding
Here’s a good recipe for Cocoanut Bread Pudding
Honeycomb Pudding
Inexpensive Date Pudding
Jellied Custard
Jell-o Cake Pudding
Jonquil Mold
Judge Peter’s Pudding
Lemon Ice Box Pudding
Lemon Pudding Version 1|2
Lemon Whey Pudding
London Apple Pudding
Maple Mousse
Maple Sponge or Caramel Whip
Maple Syrup Custard
Marshmallow Pudding
Marshmallow Whip
Milk Chocolate Bar Mousse
Mincemeat Pudding
Minute Tapioca Apple Sausage
Minute Tapioca Butterscotch Pudding
Minute Tapioca Cream
Minute Tapioca Graham Pudding
Minute Tapioca Grape Nuts Pudding
Minute Tapioca Ice Box Pudding
Mocha Mousse
New England Cracker Pudding
New England Pudding
None Such Pudding
Norwegian Pudding
Novel Prune Whip
Oatmeal Cream Pudding 1|2
Orange Custard
Orange Marmalada Pudding
Orange Pudding 1|2
Oriental Plum Pudding
Pea Pudding
Peach Bavarian
Peach Cottage Pudding
Peach Macaroon Custard
Peach Pudding 1|2
Peach Tapioca a la Cream
Pear Whip
Pineapple Bavarian Cream
Pineapple Cake Crumb Pudding
Pineapple Rice Pudding
Pineapple Sponge Pudding
Plum Pudding 1|2|3
Plum Pudding Creole Sauce
Prune Pudding 1|2
Prune Whip
Pudding That Quakes
Quaking Custard
Quick Pudding
Raspberry Tapioca
Raspberry Whip
Rhubarb Cottage Pudding
Rhubarb Pudding Version 1|2
Rhubarb Tapioca
Rice and Apple Pudding
Rosalie Carrot Pudding
Scalloped Apple Pudding
Snow Pudding
Soft Custards
Spiced Cheese Pudding
Steamed Carrot Pudding
Steamed Chocolate Pudding
Steamed Corn Meal Apple Pudding
Steamed Cranberry Pudding
Steamed Custard
Steamed Date Pudding
Steamed Fruit Pudding
Steamed Raisin Pudding
Strawberry Pudding
Suet Pudding
Sunmaid Bread Pudding
Sunsweet Prune Bread Pudding
Tapioca Pudding
Tapioca Pudding with Pineapple
Thickened Custard
Tropical Dessert
Vegetable Plum Pudding
White of Egg Custard


Delicious sauces to accompany your fine puddings (and ice cream too!)
Shortcake
When I think of shortcake, I think of it as a dessert and really just something to top with fruit and whipping cream. Now here comes a recipe for vegetable shortcakes. They are basically made the same way but you fill them with things like asparagus and eggs. Wow.
A Fine Shortcake
Apple Shortcake
Best Strawberry Shortcake
Blackberry Shortcake
Cranberry Shortcake v. 1|2
Egg Shortcake
Old Fashioned Shortcake v. 1|2|3
Candies can be found on their own page since they aren’t exactly dessert, right? Also, check out fruits, breads and nuts for more options.
Last Updated on May 29, 2021 by rootie