Cakes, Cupcakes, and Shortcakes - Syrup and Biscuits - Jackie Garvin's Southern food blog

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:35:02 +0000

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream is a classic fresh strawberry treat with sweet, short biscuits for shortcake, sweetened sliced strawberries and fresh vanilla whipped cream After moving from our hometown of Mobile, AL in 1985, we lived in Central Florida for 33 years before moving to our current home in the Smoky Mountains...

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King Cake with Cinnamon Filling

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:24:41 +0000

King Cake is a pastry filled with brown sugar cinnamon filling and decorated with colored sprinkles. The shape and colors of King Cake are symbolic of Epiphany and rooted in Christian history. The cake is popular during Mardi Gras season. Growing up in Mobile, AL, the real birthplace of Mardi Gras in the US,...

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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Brown Sugar Muffins

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:11:17 +0000

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Brown Sugar Muffins are moist, flavorful, and easy to prepare. Warm flavors from brown sugar, cinnamon, and chocolate compensate for the somewhat grassy note of zucchini and makes for a nutritious , handheld choice for breakfast, brunch, or snack. Summer gardens overflowing with ready-to-pick produce is a wonderful, beautiful thing....

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No-Bake Banana Split Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:57:36 +0000

No-Bake Banana Split Cake brings together all the favorite toppings you expect to find in a banana split: banana, pineapple, maraschino cherry, nuts, and whipped cream. The base is a no-bake, made from scratch, graham cracker crust covered with a sweetened cream cheese filling. Thumbing through some of my old recipes for inspiration for my...

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Apple Dapple Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:00:28 +0000

Apple Dapple Cake is an old hand-me-down recipe that’s been in my files for decades. It’s fresh apples and chopped pecans held together with just the right amount of a cinnamon and vanilla batter. The hot cake is glazed with a fresh, easy-to-make caramel glaze. Some of the glaze gets absorbed by the hot cake...

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Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:28:22 +0000

Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is a traditional Southern pound cake with added flavor from pecans. Pound cakes are best know for their dense texture. I love all things pound cake and this Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is no exception. I wish I could recall the first time I tasted a pound cake. I...

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Easter Basket Buttermilk Cupcakes

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 22:11:47 +0000

I love the bright spring-like colors of Easter. They always look so fresh and clean. I decided to go with pastels for our Easter Basket Buttermilk Cupcakes this year. My grandchildren loved helping decorate the cupcakes. They especially liked that I had to trim the tops of the unfrosted cupcakes to make them flat. Their...

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Cranberry Upside-Down Skillet Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:15:21 +0000

Cranberry Upside Down Skillet Cake matches the tartness of cranberries against the sweetness of a caramel glaze topping in a simple cast iron skillet cake. Great for snacking and breakfast. Cranberries are something I look forward to each year. The tart and tangy flavor is wonderful in baked goods. Plus, how can you have Thanksgiving without...

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Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:00:45 +0000

Jenny, a Syrup and Biscuits Facebook friend, recently posted a comment asking if anyone had a good Lemon Pound Cake recipe. Marie responded by posting this recipe for what she called Lemon Lover’s Pound Cake. My husband is nuts for anything lemon so this sounded like it would be right up his alley. This...

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Fresh Apple Sour Cream Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:42:48 +0000

Fresh Apple Sour Cream Pound Cake is the flavor of apple cake and texture of sour cream pound cake together in an outstanding dessert. My mother loved fresh apple cakes. I’d make one for her often during the fall. She especially like a fresh apple pound cake that I made for her. After all,...

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Green Tomato Skillet Cake

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 11 May 2016 19:55:33 +0000

Strong rain and winds ripped through recently. I’m always chomping at the bits to get out in the yard and survey the damage after a big rain storm. We’ve got many big trees and those hard-headed limbs don’t always drop in a well-suited location. They don’t care about the most gaw-jus plant in your garden...

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Carrot Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:52:12 +0000

Carrot Cake is one of my husband’s favorite desserts along with Classic Southern Pecan Pie. I frequently make this grand cake for special occasions. Recently, my six-year-old grandson, Jackson, got an introduction to Carrot Cake at my house. When he found out I was making a Carrot Cake, his response was the same as mine...

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Coconut Sheet Cake

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:52:32 +0000

Our dear friend, Thea Greer, is taking her daughter and several family members on a mission trip to Zambia, Africa this summer in order to build a preschool. She and her family are hosting a barbecue dinner at our church for a fundraising event to underwrite the trip. We’re blessed to support this worthwhile mission....

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Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:31:29 +0000

Our family has an Aunt Bea that all we love. She passed away recently and she’s certainly missed. I introduced you to Aunt Bea when I shared her Classic Pecan Pie recipe. Cream Cheese Pound Cake is another Aunt Bea recipe. She made a Butternut Frosting for it but I like the cake best when...

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Buttermilk Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 19:25:50 +0000

You don’t have to read much of my stuff to know that I value tradition and love heritage recipes. I woke up with pound cake on my mind today and decided to try my hand at a traditional pound cake that contained a pound of each of flour, butter, eggs and sugar, hence the name...

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Most Popular Recipes weekending 9/6/14

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:15:45 +0000

One of my favorite things to check each week is the list of the most popular recipes. This is one of those “behind the scenes” things that only I can see. I love to see which posts you’re sharing and the recipes that piqued your interest. You’re very gracious to share and pin so many...

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Triple Berry Upside Down Cake

Jackie Garvin — Sun, 25 May 2014 21:37:44 +0000

Triple Berry Upside Down Cake cooks in a cast iron skillet with a caramel sauce and summer berries such as blackberry, raspberry, and blueberry. Upside down cakes are either the work of a genius or a good mistake. If the result is from a good mistake, I have to wonder how it happened. As...

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1-2-3-4 Cake with Coconut Sour Cream Filling

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:07:12 +0000

One of the first cakes Granny taught me to make was a butter cake with coconut sour cream filling. Her local grocery stores, The Piggly Wiggly and the IGA, had both started carrying frozen coconut which was an ingredient needed for this filling. She and her friends were all a-twitter about this cake recipe. Well,...

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Animal Crackers in my Kitchen (Recipe: Animal Cracker Orange Slice Icebox Cake)

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:00:11 +0000

There’s an old-fashioned fruit cake, called Orange Slice Cake, that I dearly love. It’s made with orange slice candy, dates, nuts, raisins, coconut and just enough batter to hold it all together. The cake is dense and rich, exactly the way I like cakes. I haven’t made one in years because no one in my...

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I Knew You Were Coming, So I Baked a Cake (Recipe: Cane Syrup Cake)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:07:49 +0000

Cane Syrup Cake is an old-fashioned, basic cake made from cane syrup. The flavor of cane syrup is bold. Favored by rural Southerners, we grew up with it and love it. My son, Tyler, is responsible for recently making us empty-nesters. If the title applies to you, the feelings of mixed emotions are familiar....

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