- Strawberry dessert sauce
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- This delicious sauce takes a minute to whip up and is excellent on pancakes, waffles and French toast. No need for syrup! It is also wonderful on fruit salad, oatmeal or fruit nachos with "chips" made from thin slices of fresh apple or pineapple.
- Pumpkin layer cake with butterscotch-bourbon frosting
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- A layer cake is what inspired Teresa Urkofsky to become a chef. "At the age of 5, my mother took me to a bakery where I watched a baker decorating a layer cake," she recalls. "I said, 'That's what I'm going to do when I grow up.' And I did."
- Oma's famous butter cookies
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- Gerry "Oma" Van Ommering used to conclude her dairy tours by giving everyone homemade butter cookies, a rich delicacy from her home country of Holland. The simple recipe showcases the flavor of its star ingredient--butter.
- Mrs. Krause's plum pie
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- Plum grower Helen Krause of Reedley, who passed away last year at the age of 91, became a YouTube hit with her "How to make a plum pie" video. For the Chandler family of neighboring Selma, Mrs. Krause's recipe is a favorite for plums grown at their farm.
- Grilled apricots with honey
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- Jennifer Eubanks fires up the grill for fruit throughout the spring and summer. "The fruit should be just barely ripe, not mushy," she advises. "Toss in a little olive oil and throw on the grill. It's amazing." Serve over ice cream, if you wish.
- White chocolate brownies with cherry swirl
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- In the wintertime, caterer Jennifer Eubanks flavors these white chocolate brownies with cranberries instead of cherries. Either way, they're moist and delicious.
- Chocolate blackberry mousse cake
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- "Deliriously delicious" is how one Yelp reviewer describes this rich chocolate cake enveloped in fluffy blackberry mousse.
- Pears with blue cheese and walnuts
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Cookbook author Ann Evans gives the classic combination of pears, blue cheese and walnuts a twist by roasting the pears. "Roasting them slowly with butter intensifies their natural buttery flavor and helps to cook them to juicy spoon-softness," she said.
- Lemon blueberry bread
- Blueberries add a juicy burst of color to lemon-yellow loaves.
- Lemon glazed persimmon bars
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Self-proclaimed "persimmon nut" Jean Brine has been collecting and testing persimmon recipes for about 50 years. Her cookbook, "Perfectly Persimmon" (Morris Press Cookbooks), offers 1,010 ways to enjoy Fuyu and Hachiya varieties in sweet and savory dishes.
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