Mint chocolate cookies and cream ice cream
What’s your favorite ice cream? For most of my life, mine’s been coffee. But when I was a teenager, two flavors—mint chocolate chip and cookies and cream—fought for my attention,…
Dessert recipes
Peach cobbler, banana pudding, pecan pie, chocolate sheet cake and cool ice creams are included in this category of beloved Texan desserts.
Peanut butter crisscrosses
At a recent Hill Country church bake sale, I was faced with a difficult decision—which dessert to try? There were pies, cakes, and cookies, and while they all looked good…
Strawberry spoon bread
Every spring when the wildflowers bloom, Texans will say thank you to Mrs. Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, the former first lady and native Texan who made it her life’s work…
Ruby red grapefruit and pecan sheet cake
March 2 is Texas Independence Day. On this day 176 years ago, a group convened at Washington-on-the-Brazos (back then simply known as Washington) to craft a declaration of independence from…
Dr Pepper oatmeal cake with a coconut and pecan topping
Isn’t January supposed to be a healthy month, a time when you renew your gym membership, eat soups and salads and have a piece of fruit for dessert? That’s what…
Complexion candy, a date, fig and pecan confection
The other day I found myself in a cookie coma. After eating nothing but cookies and homemade candy for several hours straight, my belly hurt and I could barely keep…
Texas Ranger cookies
When I was eight, my dad drove us from Carrollton to Arlington to see the Texas Rangers. It was my first baseball game. While my previous sporting experience had only…
Hatch chile apple cobbler
Last weekend, I flew home to Texas for a family wedding. It was the Aggie branch of my family—a group that not only lives near College Station but they all…
Pecan-peach ice cream
This pecan-peach ice cream is a mistake. A delicious mistake that turned out just dandy in the end, but still, it doesn’t quite fit in with the theme I had…
Lemon-and-lime icebox pie with a chocolate graham-cracker crust
The summer I was 10, I had an Elsie the Cow T-shirt. It had been a freebie at a swim meet, and so a bunch of my friends had the…
