No-Bake Key Lime Bars Recipe For National Key Lime Pie Day

  [1] Key lime bars instead of pie. The recipe is below (photos #1 and #2 © Go Bold With Butter). [2] These bars work as a casual dessert or something fancier. You can garnish the tops with whipped cream. We like to add a piece of chocolate-covered orange peel. [3] Key limes, plucked from…
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The Most Popular Dessert The Year You Were Born

[1] 1944: Shoefly Pie (all photos © TasteOfHome). [2] 1976: Banana Pudding. [3] 1984: Red Velvet Cake.   [4] 1961: Ambrosia.   Thanks to Taste Of Home for this bit of food fun: the popular desserts—and recipes for them—from the year you were born. There’s every year from 1940 to 2000. Think of what you…
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It’s National Chocolate Wafer Day. What’s A Wafer?

  [1] The Central European recipe for thin wafers came to the U.S. in the mid-1700s with émigrés from Moravia (photo © Dewey’s Moravian Cookies). [2] Nabisco sold millions of boxes to home cooks to make various icebox cake recipes. Word on the street was that they were discontinued, but they may be back some…
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Classic Quiche Lorraine Recipe For National Quiche Lorraine Day

If you remember the 1980s, you may well have enjoyed Quiche Lorraine. Along with a green salad and some crusty baguette and butter (not that you need it with the quiche), it was the go-to food for brunch, lunch, and dinner. It went by the way of the healthier-foods movement, buy is still a special-occasion…
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A Homemade Devil Dog Recipe For National Devil Dog Day

What food is celebrated on April 27th? It’s National Devil Dog Day! Drake’s Bakeries, originally known as Drake’s Cakes, introduced the Devil Dog—essentially a whoopie pie shaped like a hot dog—in 1926. The two layers of devil’s food cake filled with cream really took off. > In addition to a recipe for homemade devil dogs,…
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