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Desserts

Follow your (chocolate) bliss: Can you really have too many cool, creamy desserts in the summertime?

July 24, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

When I was in high school, our family spent a week with my mother’s side of the family on my great-aunt Marilyn’s cotton farm in Wichita Falls, Texas. One night,… Read story

The world is a wild and baffling place: Summer fruit crisp is the perfect comfort food

July 3, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

I was going to make a citrusy beverage to welcome the official start of summer but instead I have reached back into my childhood to make the most comforting dessert… Read story

With a cookie crust, cheesecake layer, whipped cream layer and a topping of toasted coconut, this dessert is four kinds of good.

Creamy coconut makes for a delightful dessert (if you do it right)

With a cookie crust, cheesecake layer, whipped cream layer and a topping of toasted coconut, this dessert is four kinds of good.

June 19, 2024, 6:01am Clark County Life

I think I’ve lost my touch. Read story

Strawberry cake mix, fresh rhubarb, ripe strawberries and cream magically create a custard-like layer of goodness.

Pretty in Pink: Strawberry Rhubarb Cake makes the most of seasonal flavors

Strawberry cake mix, fresh rhubarb, ripe strawberries and cream magically create a custard-like layer of goodness.

June 5, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life

I first tasted rhubarb on a dare. The family next door to my childhood home had a son my age and sometimes we’d talk to each other through the fence between our yards. One day I went outside and there was Adam, holding what looked like a super-sized stalk of… Read story

Marlow is the best dessert you&rsquo;ve never heard of &mdash; a creamy, warm-weather treat with melted marshmallows, milk and whipped cream.

Frozen marshmallow dessert Marlow is the bee’s knees

Marlow is the best dessert you&rsquo;ve never heard of &mdash; a creamy, warm-weather treat with melted marshmallows, milk and whipped cream.

May 22, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

I had a little extra time on my hands recently when I was holed up at home with a terrible cold. I did a lot of reading to distract myself, but man (or in this case, woman) cannot live by books alone. We also need the internet. As I was… Read story

With no butter, milk or eggs, this crazy mocha cake is extremely OK.

A Depression-era showdown between chocolate buttermilk cake and mocha crazy cake

With no butter, milk or eggs, this crazy mocha cake is extremely OK.

May 8, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

Last week I was rearranging some things in my kitchen and I came across my great-grandmother Ruth’s recipe for chocolate cake, scribbled on a yellowing index card. My middle name is Ruth, in honor of her. I never had the chance to meet her but I feel a kind of… Read story

These cake doughnuts have cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and vanilla &mdash; things that would theoretically make them good.

Can you make your own cake doughnuts at home? Better question: Should you?

These cake doughnuts have cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and vanilla &mdash; things that would theoretically make them good.

April 24, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life

I don’t like doughnuts that much, especially cake doughnuts. I know, I know — I might as well say I don’t like sunshine and money. I mean, I’m not crazy. I have reasons. Cake doughnuts just aren’t that exciting. They’re simply round pieces of cake. And cupcakes? Don’t get me… Read story