Let’s not forget the ultimate “junk food” desert...Vanilla Wafer Banana Pudding.

Oatmeal cookies. My mom made these, but messed up the recipe once. I think she doubled the butter, not sure.
Anyways, the cookies were thin and flat, almost like they were fried. Crispy edges, and very chewy. Best cookies I have ever had. She remembered the mistake and always made them that way.
Unfortunately she never wrote down how to make them.

Ex wife from when I was 19, made a no bake peanut butter cookie with honey. She would nuke the hell out of some ingredients and then mix it all together. They were pretty damn amazing, cheap, and could be made in five minutes or so.

My mom's home-made chocolate sheet cakes with home-made buttercream frosting... *sigh*...

Pineapple upside down cake. Basically pineapple rings rings in the bottom of an iron skillet. Sprinkled with brown sugar and dotted with a little butter. Mix a yellow cake mix according to directions, pour over and bake. Very quick for a working Mom.

My mother made a raisin and custard pie with a graham cracker crust. I haven't had anything like it in many decades. She also made a great pineapple upside down cake. Strawberry shortcake with whipped cream was a favorite as well.

Jim

My Mom’s sour cherry pie and my Grandmother’s Christmas cookies. The cookies were made with sour cream added to the dough, but the key to the taste was the added nutmeg.

My maternal grandmother made an outstanding pound cake. I haven't had one to rival hers. She also made a great Hummingbird cake, but that's one cake that I can make.

My paternal grandmother made the best German Chocolate cake.

I also miss their spicy cheese wafers.

One of my favorites was the banana bread one of my grandma's made. The other grandmother made a great pear pie.

Cream puffs
Strawberry Shortcake

I haven't had either since I left home as a teenager.

My mother was a terrible cook, I didn't know it at the time. I just thought all meat was was like cardboard and needed sauces to be eaten.

She was a great baker though and there was always baked sweets of some sort, cakes, pies, cookies, brownies and fudge

My favorites were this strawberry cake she made, chocolate cream pie, apple pie, rhubarb pie, pecan pie and coconut pie. Occasionally some relatives of ours would visit from the Keys and bring Key limes for us and she would make key lime pie. You couldn't get key limes in MI at the time. The best were her "monster cookies" they were oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chip and M&M's, they would be about 10" round and at least an inch thick

The holidays were a treat too, she would bake up a storm and even made several different kinds of candy

I didn't get chunky like my brother and sisters, only because of ADHD

Orguss nailed it, creampuffs!

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

My mother was a terrible cook

She was a great baker though

That's not really a surprise. Most people who are good at baking aren't great at hot food, it's pretty common in the restaurant world. Kitchen chefs and Pastry chefs are two very different animals.

Look at Bobby Flay when he has to make a cake or some other dessert or pastry on beat Bobby Flay, he's totally lost and admits it's not his wheelhouse and it's usually a trainwreck.

When my grandmother would make pies she would take the little extra crust and put it into a pot pie dish and make a custard pie for a treat. At least that’s what I think it was. It was heavenly for a little kid.

Applesauce cake with black walnuts and caramel icing.

Butterscotch meringue pie

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Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:


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.

My momma did this very thing!! Oh Boy, did I ever love that.

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:
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.

I do the same thing with soft sugar cookies. Yum! My mom made the graham cracker version for me to take in my school lunches.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
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.

My dad took Sorghum molasses and mixed butter in it, then spread it on biscuits. It was good.

flashguy

Milky Way pie and tapioca pudding were two of my favorites.

I'm very fortunate in that my aunt makes all the desserts that my grandmother made, the same if not better.


Too many to list here but for birthdays we'd get a cherry pound cake with a cherry glaze. Perfect to have with coffee or tea.

Then there's the rice pudding every Christmas with the shaved almond. The story goes the person who gets the shaved almond is the next one to be married. Being that I'm the only one in the family who isn't currently married they try to feed me a lot of rice pudding!

A rich extra moist chocolate cake covered with extra buttery vanilla frosting in turn with a bitter-sweet chocolate shell on the top and dripping down the sides. Served very well chilled from the refrigerator. Oh my.........

Home made Chocolate Chip Cookies baked by my Mom and carried on by myself. I even have the Betty Crocker cookbook she used.

Mom also made a mean Apple Pie and Banana Cake.

For a quick treat she would chop up a banana and put it in a bowl of milk for me.

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Michael
USMC Ret