Mom's Best Recipe Contest

My mama makes an incredible pistachio chocolate cake with pistachio pudding, chopped pistachios, chocolate chips AND chocolate syrup. Amazing.

Coconut Patties
These are addictive and totally the best indulgent treat imaginable. Made with coconut and chocolate..simple but not simple tasting! :)

My Grandmother’s “Graham Sandwich Bars” are a delicious chocolate recipe that brings back fond memories from my childhood. The ingredients include two graham crackers filled with homemade maple buttercream frosting then hand dipped into smooth milk chocolate; each bar is then placed on parchment paper and placed in the freezer to set the chocolate. They are a delightful treat to be enjoyed by all! Happy Mother’s Day.

The recipe I use today for my Bakeapple Cheesecake comes from my mother, written into a book of mine years ago. Buttery graham crumbs under a baked custardy cream cheese mixture with a wonderful topping of sweet and tangy bakeapple sauce. It is a favorite dessert for special occasions, one the whole family loves. My mother still bakes many wonderful things, but its been my job since to make this one!

Stripe Delights
Graham Cracker crumb bottom
cream cheese mixed with whatever filling or pudding you like. (Chocolate, strawberry, cherry, blueberry or whatever you wish.
Topped with cool whip and chocolate shavings.

My favorite recipe made by my mom is her Coconut Oatmeal Fudge! With the simple ingredients of Cocoa, Sugar, Butter, Coconut, Oatmeal, Vanilla, and Milk, Mom's fudge doesn't last very long in front of anyone and it's only around at Christmas and special occasions!

It isn't actually a recipe from my mother but my grandmother, who was by far the most important chef in my life. And, If any of her recipes could be made into a truffle it would be her homemade jelly roll :) I don't know the all he ingredients as that isn't something thing she passed around that willingly. But the cake portion was the most delightful angel food , with a sweet light vanilla cream frosting and homemade raspberry jam. That was my favorite but there were variations of lemon and a chocolate. If anyone could do this dessert justice if would be you guys! Thank You

My favorite recipe that my Mom makes is
BAKE APPLE TRIFLE
The ingredients are:
Homemade bakeapple jam
Home made Pound cake sprinkled with bakeapple liqueur
Vanilla Custard
2 cu whipped cream
She makes it for special occasions and it's a hit at potlucks and lodge dinners. It's the best!!!
Val Corcoran

Growing up, my mom used to make this simple dessert, to my knowledge there is no name on it, but I LOVED it. She made them in individual dessert dishes. Bottom layer was graham wafer crumbs, middle layer was drained crushed pineapple and it was topped with cool whip or dream whip. She put it in the fridge and let the juices of the pineapple set through the crumbs. It was absolutely divine and oh so simple to make!

My mom is a amazing cook....the reason I choose a career in cooking....her meals always made with love and taste. Every hoilday function and event revolves around my moms cooking. Besides cooking for our family of 7 she spent years cooking for others 1000s of people who called her mom and never had a complaint. Out of the hundreds of recipes I could choose from I stick to one that brings my mom home...she was born in scotland and from time to time she will make her good old fashion simple but delish short bread cookies.
Yvonnes shortbread
ingredients simple
flour
sugar
butter
touch of salt
and sometimes a light drizzle milk chocolate on top for perfect bite.

My mom makes the best chocolate birthday cake every year - chocolate Khuala cake. So moist and perfect everytime! I say birthday cause that's when she usually makes this cake for someone's birthday!

During my childhood, Mom always made jello and custard for dessert on Sundays. My favorite was strawberry jello. Those flavors would make an awesome truffle!

My Moms best recipe is pineapple squares! Everyone that lives out of province always request them when we go home! Not sure on the recipe and don't want to know it, they would never turn out as good! Not one person I know can stop at one! :-)
Happy Mother's Day to all our wonderful Moms!

Cherry Cake
For every special occasion - Christmas, birthdays, my Mom made a cherry cake. Delightful flavours....marachino cherries, almond, cream and a hint of lemon.

My favorite childhood recipe that my mom used to make was her homemade candy! It was made with tin evaporated milk, sugar and coconut! So rich sweet and sugary! She has passed away over 13 yrs ago and every now and then I will make a batch of this just for "old time sake" I am visiting my sister in Halifax for Mothers Day and I will be making a batch to bring with me so we can reminisce together about our wonderful Mom on Mother's Day!

Mom makes *the* best carrot cake. The only thing my husband and I ever ask for for special events :-) No pineapple, and a perfect cream cheese icing.

My mom always made a cookie called WINTER WHITES
ingredients are:butter,sugar,vanilla, eggs,graham wafer crumbs,white mini marshmallows and dream whip

Snowballs!

My mother makes the best snowballs! 35 years later I still have her making them for me during Christmas, I freeze them and will even eat them frozen! Now I have to fight my kids for them, they are just that good !
sugar
butter
milk
rolled oats
unsweetened fine coconut
cocoa
If you make some don't forget about me :)

My mother was a genius in the kitchen, but the thing I miss most are her peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies. They would be perfectly crispy on the outside, soft and buttery on the inside, with the melted chocolate chips like treasures in every bite. It's been ten years since she passed away, but I can still remember sitting with her in her kitchen, a plate of these, warm from the oven, and a glass of cold milk, having a chat.

My favorite recipe that my mom makes are namino bars. Chocolate fudgey bottom, creamy icing in the middle topped with a chocolate ganache. I can't make them at all.

Homemade Jam Jams. Recipe - flour sugar butter molasses baking soda hot water. bake 350 and fill with homemade partridgeberry jam while still warm. can substitute other jams like strawberry and blueberry

My mother made truffles during the rationing of WW2 in England, out of cocoa powder, powdered skim milk,condensed milk, crushed stale Marie biscuit and a dash of rum. It was amazing what you could produce when you had very little.

My fav dish my mom makes has to be her homemade pea soup! I absolutely love it and she makes it for me every few months. It's delicious. I am not 100% on all her secret ingredients that make he soup so tasty but I can name things I know she definitely uses! Obviously split peas! (North Star brand) Salt Beef to give it that amazing briny taste. Also, bite sized pieces of carrot, turnip and onions. Salt & pepper. Seems super easy, right? I've tried but it just doesn't taste like moms. Whatever magic she adds to that pot, it works like a charm, every spoonful is tantalizing. She says its the "love" she makes it with, that seasons it so well, but I think it's the beef! :)
Love you mom!!! Can't wait until you make it again. xoox

Mom made the best cheesecake ever!The main ingredients were Cream cheese, graham crumbs and coolwhip.

First let me say getting the specifics of this recipe was a challenge. My mother was a traditional Newfoundland mom who baked without exact measurements. I got the recipe in 2010 for a collection of recipes in honour of her 50th wedding anniversary. This coconut pudding is a favorite dessert, especially on the big "turkey" holidays such as Christmas and Easter. The upper layer of coconut toasts nicely in the oven so you get the contrasting toasted coconut and sweet baked coconut flavours.
Coconut Pudding
Fill a baking dish 1/2 full with boiling water
add 1/4 c margarine
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c coconut
In another bowl mix
1 c flour
1 tbsp. butter
1/4 c sugar
2 heaping tbsp. baking powder
mix with cold water to make gooey dough
put in baking dish
sprinkle a 1 inch layer of coconut on top
bake a t 350 for 20 minutes

Kim Pope (and my Mom is Nancy Bursey)

Snowballs
white cake cut in squares, roll them in cocoa sugar vanilla that is boiled and than in coconut

Rhubarb Pudding Cake. The eagerly awaited first 'fruit' from the garden in the spring was always rhubarb. This was a true family effort since my brothers and I would go to the garden to cut and chop the rhubarb. Mom would toss the chopped rhubarb with sugar and cover it with dough, then sprinkle the dough with sugar. Just before baking boiling water was added. The sweet perfectly balanced the tart. And the texture of the cooked rhubarb was a tasty contrast to the crunchy caramelized sugar on top.

My mother makes a frozen chocolate torte for everyone's birthdays ! It is made of two crispy meringues and in between them is a layer of chocolatewhipping cream. Then on top she puts pecan halves and it gets put right into the freezer! So rich and creamy and it reminds me of my childhood!

my moms best recipe was a chocolate cheesecake brownie flan ,with white and milk chocolate drizzled over the top with chocolate shavings

Our recipe is Grandmother Clarke's "Apple Dumplings". I am a mother now to two sweet little boys and I enjoy making this dessert for specia occasions and when company visits. The recipe was passed along to me at my wedding shower 5 years ago. To this day when we visit home and go to Garnish to see Nanny she always has these prepared for us :) It's the perfect combination of peeled/cored Apples that are each covered in a sweet pastry leaving a hole in the top to be filled with Nanny's secret sauce with sugar, water, red coloring,cinnamon and the perfect dash of nutmeg. Once all the apples and filled they are baked in the oven and served hot with your choice of whipped topping or ice cream. I love that every time I make these my kitchen smells like Nanny's with the sweet smells of apples and cinnamon :) Now whenever I am home sick it only takes a dozen apples and 350 degrees to bring me back to memories of Nan's kitchen.