Grandma’s Best Desserts-Old Fashioned Recipes

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There’s nothing better than grandma’s food! I love the memories of being fed pure love by my grandma. And now we have grandma’s best desserts gathered in one place for some old fashioned comfort you can make yourself.

Coffee and dessert

I have fond memories of my grandma baking away in the kitchen. She would embrace me there and let me make mistakes and try things. I would say how good cocoa powder smelled and she would say, should we taste some? And we would get a speck and it was so gross and we would giggle and say yucky.

She was such a delight.

It was so much fun to be loved by her! And she always had a big box full of recipes. She would cut the recipes off the packages, like the flour bag or out of magazines. She would save the best ones. She made notes on them. She had hand written recipe cards. Cooking was an important part of her life. And Grandma’s best desserts were a treasure!

I can always picture her sitting at the table with a cup of coffee and a little sweet of some kind. Sweets were her jam. She had a big sweet tooth and every cake and cookie she made tasted like pure love. I hope I’m passing that on!

I have worked at perfecting many of her recipes since she passed away. I remember her through her cooking. I have her canisters in my little kitchen, they are one of my most prized possessions. I think of her every time I cook and hope she is proud of how seriously I take it.

Today I’m going to share some of the recipes I’ve come up with that either remind me of her, that she taught me, or that I’ve tried to recreate that she would make. I hope it does her justice. She was just absolutely one of a kind. And anyone who knew her, when asked, will remark about her cooking.

Peach desserts

Peaches are my favorite! We love making this peach crumble and you’re going to be in love!

If you love crust, this old fashioned peach cobbler is a winner as well!

Apple dessert ideas

Apple crisp is a super fun old fashioned dessert. My grandma would whip up these crisps and crumbles with fresh fruit often. They taste like love.

My grandma loved cakes and she would always make an old fashioned apple cake like this one. I haven’t worked on a recipe for it yet, but I found this one and it’s very similar to how grandma made hers.

And again, if you’re a crust person, here’s a great old fashioned apple pie with a traditional crust.

And apple fritters cannot be ignored. I mean, what is better than fried dough? Am I right? Grandma didn’t make the