What were your favorite homemade desserts? Not apple pie but something not on the usual family table. Just had a craving for a dessert my mom would make. Nabisco Famous Chocolate wafers and whipped cream. Made in an icecube tray back when they had removable dividers spread whipped cream on a cookie, put on edge in tray continue to fill tray then cover with remaining whipped cream.Put in fridge over night. She also made a frozen dessert with milk and kool aid powder ,the recipe lost to time.

Orange Jello with bits of pineapple and carrot slivers.

Chocolate meringue pie.

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My grandma's apple dumplings. Made from the very tart apples from the tree in their yard and served with warm cream.

My paternal grandma wasn’t a particularly welcoming or nice lady, but she always had Graham crackers with chocolate frosting made into a sandwich in the freezer. They were quite nice.

1. Apple Crisp
2. Apricot Nectar Cake

Mother was an EXCELLENT cook!

Mom made from scratch Lemon Meringue Pie and Chocolate Meringue Pie. Dad seemed to be in charge of home made ice cream but I had to turn that hand crank as long as I could.

Mom made a German cookie at Christmastime named Springerle, I loved those. She also made orange jello with carrots and pecans and marshmallows, and a Waldorf salad.

All these were excellent. I sure do miss her.
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We called it "Tortilla Surprise". It was just a flour tortilla spread with butter, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, rolled, and popped in the microwave for a few seconds to melt the butter. Yum, yum!

Mom made chocolate chip cookies better than any cookie made today.

Mom made something very close to apple streudel but called apple 'crunch', that was outstanding. Her maiden name is unmistakably German, so it probably essentially was streudel. Also a Mandarin orange fruit salad that was exceptional. There was also a Mississippi mud cake that was pretty welcome every time. Then there was the absolute favorite, banana pudding, the only bananas in it were a little overripe, loosely cut up and mixed in. I believe it was just a vanilla pudding at it's essence but it was a sugar bomb and was indescribably delicious.

Mom's so-called 'egg' cake. From that simple yellow single layer of pure gastro bliss I got my lifelong addiction to cinnamon. Mom also did a mean Jell-O fresh fruit cocktail with a hint of 'secret sauce' (reduced sherry most likely, but to this day Mom never has divulged her recipe). Dad also made a pretty wicked banana split and root beer float in his day.

My grandfather always had to have a dessert. When Nanny didn't have a pound cake or something specific I'd generally save the biscuit from dinner for last and cover it with butter and syrup.

In a pinch it was a piece of sharp cheddar with syrup. Or a few mellow fluff Ritz crackers. The impromptu desserts are the ones I remember the most.

I think everytime she cooked rice she cooked double on purpose for left overs to go into rice pudding. Which I find out is way different for folks...ours was baked with eggs, condensed milk, sugar, cinnamon and turned out like a casserole. Not the tapioca wet pudding I see elsewhere.

One thing I specifically remember only from childhood we called Ambrosia. I recall only ever having it at potluck dinner events. If I recall it was basically cool whip mixed with pistachio pudding mix, a bag of the tiny multi color marshmallows, fruit cocktail from a can. Mixed all together I could eat it all day. It sounds a bit gross now. Not even sure how I remembered it but definitely never had after maybe age 12. So it was probably a 1970s thing.

My paternal grandmother was the best cook in the family, especially baked goods. I attribute it to her Swiss heritage.

I recall the incredibly rich coconut macaroons she would bake for us kids; deep coconut flavor, perfectly crisp on the outside and slightly gooey on the inside.

I make her version of molasses cookies. Only one out four batches come out as good as hers.

Something I still make and people go nuts over. Fudge pie. A lot like a brownie in a pie shell. Very simple to make.

My mom's lemon meringue and banana cream pies come to mind.

My mother made a dessert called “Devil’s Float”. It was a 1/2” layer of dense chocolate cake (a bit crispy in top) floating on a 1/4” layer of melted chocolate fudge. Sinfully good with cream from our Jersey cow poured over it.

My grandmother was Dutch and made something like a jolly rancher. The name sounds like brookie. It had molasses in it along with other stuff. Family has the recipe but no one can duplicate it. I miss that treat.

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Every so often or for special occasions my mother would make home made rice pudding.

She would also make chocolate chip cookies.

My mother would also make something we called crust.
She would just make a pie crust,roll it out flat and narrow,brush melted butter,sugar and cinnamon then tuck in the sides roll the ends and bake it. Sometime she would put grape jelly in side.

Rice pudding

I still love it and eat it when I can.

My wife is grossed out by the idea of rice in a dessert