Simply Delicious: The Cookbook Project

A recipe-by-recipe adventure working our way through a treasured set of 1980s subscription-based cookbooks.

Group 17: Baked Goods

17-51: Three Palms Quick Bread

Jamie Martin Group 17: Baked Goods, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods October 6, 2015September 21, 2020all-purpose flour, baked goods, baking powder, baking soda, bananas, breads, breakfast, buttermilk, coconut, creamed, dates, dessert, eggs, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, granulated sugar, loaf pan, quick breads, shortening, sifted, snacks, untested, vanilla extract, vegetarian, yogurt

17-51: Three Palms Quick Bread tastes delicious, but took forever to end up making, since I never seemed to have bananas, dates, and coconut all at the same time. 🌴

If you like banana bread, this is a really good take on that. Plus, 3 palms instead of 1! Such a deal! 👍

17-36: Grandma’s Spice Cake

Jamie Martin Group 17: Baked Goods, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods September 13, 2015September 13, 2020all-purpose flour, baked goods, baking powder, baking soda, breakfast, brown sugar, butter, cakes, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, cranberries, creamed, dessert, dried spices, easy, eggs, gift ideas, ginger, grandma, granulated sugar, inexpensive, jam/jelly/preserves, loaf pan, melted, snacks, sour cream, untested, vegetarian, whipping cream

I don’t know about you, but my grandma is not much of a baker. Or a cook. In fact, if it can’t be cooked in a microwave, she’s really not that interested. However, someone at Simply Delicious must have had a grandma who liked to bake, since they included 17-36: Grandma’s Spice Cake.

I suppose they called it Grandma’s Spice Cake because it’s “old-fashioned”. Regardless of if an actual grandma baked/created this, it’s actually pretty good.

17-9: Brownies

Jamie Martin Group 17: Baked Goods, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods June 20, 2014August 31, 2020all-purpose flour, almonds, baked goods, baking powder, brownies, butter, chocolate, chocolate chips, cookies, creamed, dessert, double boiler, eggs, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, favorites, gift ideas, granulated sugar, melted, nuts, pecans, revisited, snacks, stand mixer, Tarzana apt, unsweetened, vegetarian, walnuts

Here’s another dessert for you. Book 3, Group 3 (Desserts), Subgroup 17 (Baked Goods) gives us card #9: Brownies. I’ve made these a bazillion times, and they are a GREAT base for adding your own ingredients.

These are good, easy, and fast–the trifecta you’re never supposed to be able to achieve. I highly recommend them, and I keep this recipe on hand for whenever I want to make brownies. One big difference: these use actual chocolate, not cocoa powder. 🍫

17-28: Pound Cake

Jamie Martin Group 17: Baked Goods, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods May 31, 2014September 5, 2020all-purpose flour, almond extract, almonds, baked goods, baking powder, breakfast, bundt, butter, cakes, cardamom, cinnamon, cut in, dessert, eggs, gift ideas, granulated sugar, half-and-half, lemon juice, lemons, loaf pan, orange juice, revisited, ring mold, snacks, stand mixer, Tarzana apt, vanilla extract, vegetarian, whipping cream

I went on a cooking spree and made 4 recipes last night. 17-28: Pound Cake was the last of what I cooked, when we were scouring the house looking for a dessert. 🍰

Hey! This one has MY handwriting on it! I said it was good a few years ago, let’s see if it’s still good.

Spoiler alert: it was. 🙂

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