I like to find recipes from former first ladies and post updated versions from time to time, and while there are a few recipes that survive from Martha Washington, there is no recipe for a cherry dessert. If she’d known how the myth of her husband admitting to chopping down a cherry tree to prove his truthfulness and integrity would grow to become a part of American folklore, I’m sure she would have left us her recipe for Tidewater cherry […]

This is a last-minute party dessert, for when you want to make a big Valentine’s splash, but there isn’t much time. The ingredients are available at just about any grocery store, and the whole thing took less than an hour. First, I made a big pan of brownies, baking 3 brownie mixes together in one baking sheet. I cut 3 large hearts out of the pan, frosted them lightly with premade chocolate frosting – just enough to make the sparkly […]