Royal Fruit Lime Loaf
A colorful Royal lime gelatin dessert made with cream cheese, pineapple, and mandarin oranges, then chilled in a loaf mold.
Category Desserts
Dessert recipes from Aunt Bertha’s Recipe Box, including cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, candies, and other homemade sweets collected over the years.
Eagle Cookie Bars
A typed recipe for rich and sweet cookie bars made with chocolate chips, graham cracker crumbs, and condensed milk.
Molasses Cookies
A typed recipe for soft and spiced molasses cookies made with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.
Drop Sugar Cookies
Classic drop sugar cookies flattened with a sugared glass and baked until lightly golden.
Olga’s Molasses Cookies
An old fashioned handwritten molasses cookie recipe flavored with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, with part of the baking instructions missing.
Myrtle’s Tea Wafers
A handwritten recipe for delicate butter tea wafers made with vanilla and nuts.
Nora’s Lemon Fluff
A handwritten recipe for Nora’s Lemon Fluff, a light and airy dessert made with lemon Jell-O, evaporated milk, fresh lemon juice, and sugar.
Tillie’s Buttery Canapé Shells
A handwritten recipe for Tillie’s Buttery Canapé Shells, a rolled and folded pastry dough made with plenty of butter and chilled before slicing and baking.
Irma’s Lemon Jello Cake
A typed recipe for Irma’s Lemon Jello Cake, a cake-mix dessert made with lemon gelatin and finished with a fresh lemon glaze.
Vera’s Lemon Velvet Cake with Glaze
A typed recipe for Vera’s Lemon Velvet Cake with Glaze, made with Betty Crocker Lemon-Velvet Cake Mix and lemon Jell-O, then finished with a fresh lemon glaze.
Alice’s Rhubarb Custard Pie
A handwritten recipe for Alice’s Rhubarb Custard Pie, with fresh rhubarb baked in a sweet, nutmeg-spiced custard and measurements for both 8- and 9-inch pies.
Butterscotch Pudding Cookies
A typed recipe for Butterscotch Pudding Cookies, made with pudding mix and rolled oats, with raisins, dates, or nuts added however the baker pleased.
Devil’s Food Cake with Filling and Icing
A typewritten Devil's Food Cake recipe made with chocolate, buttermilk, and Swans Down cake flour, finished with a rich chocolate-orange filling and icing flavored with fresh orange juice and zest.
Violet’s Coffee Cake
Violet’s old fashioned Coffee Cake made with brown sugar and nut meats, from a handwritten recipe with wonderfully brief directions.
Ruthie’s Sugar Cookies
A handwritten sugar cookie recipe made with buttermilk, shortening and a touch of nutmeg.
Ella’s Sponge Cake With Lemon Filling
A handwritten recipe for Ella’s Sponge Cake with Lemon Filling—six eggs, homemade lemon filling, and the wonderfully vague direction to simply “bake slowly.”
Nellie and Cressa’s Spice Cookies
A handwritten 1970 recipe for Nellie and Cressa’s Spice Cookies—with dark molasses, warm spices, and the choice to bake them now or chill the dough for tomorrow.
Alice’s Rhubarb Torte
A handwritten recipe for Alice’s Rhubarb Torte—just a handful of ingredients, 35 minutes in the oven, and rhubarb gets to steal the show.
Pumpkin Pie
A typed recipe for Pumpkin Pie—warm spices, brown sugar, creamy pumpkin filling, and one very good reason to save room for dessert.
Ranger Cookies
This typed Ranger Cookies recipe combines oats, coconut, and Rice Krispies for a hearty cookie with plenty of crunch. A satisfying mix of chewy and crispy textures makes these cookies a welcome addition to the cookie jar.
Simple Date Cake
A typed recipe for Simple Date Cake—rich with chopped dates and nuts, with whipped cream or hard sauce waiting to dress it up.
Stuffed Date Drops With Frosting
A typed recipe for Stuffed Date Drops—pecan-stuffed dates wrapped in sour cream cookie batter and topped with glorious browned-butter golden frosting.
Swedish Pudding
A typed recipe for Swedish Pudding with a handwritten addition—and the unforgettable promise, “After the war, serve with whipped cream!”
Sauce for Plum Pudding
A typed recipe for Sauce for Plum Pudding—a sweet finishing touch with your choice of brandy, lemon, nutmeg, or vanilla to make it your own.