These sweet and salty caramel apples are festive and delicious.
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Iced Zucchini Bars
If you've never tried baking with zucchini before, we highly recommend it — it keeps these warm, spiced, and nutty bars especially moist and gives them a hearty texture. Plus, the addition of zucchini is bound to make you feel less guilty about having more than one.
Peach Cobbler
Sunshine in a bowl: It’s not really summer until the first peach cobbler of the season. This classic recipe is a sweet end to any summertime supper.
Lemon Icebox Cake
Sweet to eat and easy to make, this is a classic dessert in the “no-bake” canon.
3 Bakeries Run by the Greatest Generation of Bakers
In 1942, the United States enacted its first food ration of World War II — on sugar. After the war was over, many returning soldiers headed to the kitchen to make their lives a little, well, sweeter. Today, three North Carolina bakeries that opened in the wake of the war endure. Their stories are our history. And their cakes are pretty tasty, too.
See Jane Bake, a Mother-Daughter Bakery in McAdenville
A mother-daughter team serves up cookies, cakes, éclairs, and more in a cozy storefront in Gaston County.
Mama’s Egg Custard Pie
A blue ribbon winner to be sure, Egg Custard Pie is as classic as Southern desserts come.
Watch: How to Make Mom’s Prized Pineapple Pig Pickin’ Cake
In North Carolina, Pig Pickin' Cake is an essential companion to any good barbecue (noun, not a verb).
Cakes Become Edible Sculptures at One Belle Bakery in Wilmington
Here, where the science of baking rises to an art form, cakes become extraordinary sculptures worthy of the weddings, showers, and birthdays they’re made to celebrate.
