Homemade Christmas candy was once as much a part of holiday cooking as the turkey. From Mamie Eisenhower's Fudge to Saltine Cracker Toffee, we remember.
Soft Caramels
Cut these bite-size candies into small squares or logs and twist them up in waxed paper, Tootsie Roll-style. Granted, “soft” is a relative term when describing caramels; these are firm and decidedly chewy.
Ocracoke Fig Preserves Cake with Buttermilk Glaze
Most bakers use the type of jam or preserve that is most plentiful in that place. So it stands to reason that along the Outer Banks, that is going to be fig preserves.
Muscadine Wine Cake
Smart bakers also pour a little fruit of the vine into the popular muscadine cake.
Cheerwine Pound Cake
Cheerwine pound cake might sound like a novelty, but it is a seriously good and proper pound cake, worthy of a place on a cake stand.
Appalachian Apple Stack Cake
For generations, families and communities have come together around this traditional Mountain dessert.
