Pistachio Cake

Tuesday, September 16, 2025
If you’ve been searching for a retro dessert that’s moist, fluffy, and bursting with pistachio flavor, this Pistachio Instant Pudding Cake is the one you'll be addicted to!

Starting with using a simple cake mix and a box of instant pistachio pudding, this recipe has been a family favorite since the 1970s, when pudding-mix cakes first became popular.

It’s topped with a light whipped topping mixed with creamy pistachio pudding frosting made from whipped topping and more instant pudding for a dessert that’s as dreamy as it is nostalgic.


pistachio cake with doctored cake mix


Soft Chewy Sugar Cookies

Monday, September 15, 2025
There’s nothing more comforting than biting into a soft and chewy sugar cookie still warm right from the oven.

With their signature cracked tops, sweet sugar sparkle, and melt-in-your-mouth texture, these cookies are everything you want in a classic old-fashioned sugar cookie in texture and flavor.

Best of all, this recipe is simple, timeless, and guaranteed to give you bakery-style results right in your own kitchen.

Unlike most sugar cookies made with all butter, these cookies are made with both vegetable shortening and butter, giving them the perfect soft and chewy center without spreading too thin.

With the addition of both vanilla and almond extracts, you get a flavor that’s warm, sweet, and unforgettable, and our tips below will give you the perfect cookie.


classic soft chewy sugar cookies on a white plate


Peanut Butter Blossoms and Reindeer Cookies

Thursday, September 11, 2025
Peanut Butter Cookie dough is so versatile, and this recipe will make the best moldable peanut butter Reindeer for the holiday and Peanut Butter Blossoms ever!

Mom's peanut butter cookie recipe is easy, plus the cookies are soft and buttery tasting.

If you’re looking for the ultimate holiday cookie, these Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies take the classic recipe up a notch.

Traditionally topped with a Hershey’s Kiss, this version offers variety all from one peanut butter cookie dough—filled with jam, peanut butter cups, or Hershey Kisses.

Perfect for Christmas cookie trays, cookie exchanges, or simply treating your family, these blossoms combine rich peanut butter flavor with customizable fillings everyone will love.

The recipe was mom's go-to and is more than 50 years old, and I still have this one written on an index card in her handwriting.

As the years pass, this is the cookie my grandson still enjoys making every year with me, and he looks forward to making these with me every year.

The recipe card below is printable with mom's recipe for peanut butter cookie,s and the instructions just scroll to the bottom.


peanut butter cookies with jelly blossoms