Desserts and Baking

While the cake is fantastic the story behind the name is even better. In 1977 we had family visiting from Italy.  They were staying at Grandma Lucy’s house, which was close to us.  My mother decided to bake a cake to bring over that evening to have with coffee after...

A Grandma Bridget recipe!

A Grandma Bridget recipe!

I don't remember having this when I was growing up.  A year or so ago, we found a separate recipe for Monkey Bread and have made that a few times.  While it was good, I think it is a little too sweet.  As a result, I decided to combine the two recipes.  I will...

The original recipe was a “diet” version that was posted on the Splenda website many years ago.  It can still be found by searching for the recipe name.  This version uses the same basic recipe with regular, non-diet ingredients.