Seasonal collection
Potluck
Dishes that travel well in a covered dish. Church suppers, funeral dinners, and the ones that always come back empty.
7 Up Sheet Cake
A tender yellow cake made with a can of 7 Up and topped with a hot pineapple coconut frosting poured over while the cake is still warm.
Church-Supper Cream Cheese Bars
Grandma Rose's cream cheese bars. A yellow cake mix crust pressed flat, with a soft cream cheese and powdered sugar filling poured over the top.
Cinnamon Walnut Zucchini Bread
A pair of tender zucchini loaves spiced with cinnamon and studded with nuts. Two 9x5 pans out of one bowl, from Rose's tin box.
Corn Flake Pantry Potatoes
A church-basement classic. Hash browns baked with cream of chicken soup, sour cream, Velveeta, and a crushed corn flake topping.
Icebox Peanut Butter Pie
A soft peanut butter and powdered sugar crumble under a vanilla cream pudding, baked in a pie shell. A Rose original from the tin box.
Layered Lemon Icebox Dessert
A four-layer lemon icebox dessert on a pecan shortbread crust, with cream cheese, lemon pudding, and Cool Whip. A summer staple from Rose's tin box.
Old-Fashioned Cocoa Brownies
Grandma Rose's one-bowl cocoa brownies. Made with oil instead of butter and stirred by hand with a metal spoon. About half an hour from start to finish.
Piña Colada Cake
A poke cake soaked with sweetened condensed milk and cream of coconut, topped with a pecan-and-coconut Cool Whip. From a handwritten card in Grandma Rose's collection.