I heard you were awesome so I baked a cake!

Posted by MELINDALITTLEBLOGS.COM on OCTOBER 5, 2016

Growing up in the south, food was such a big part of our lives. Holidays, birthdays,

My mom and grandmother with Will and Katie around 1993.

Sundays or any celebration like good grades on a report card or Wednesday, always centered around food and the end of every good feast, the dessert. As a kid I remember the women in our family would begin planning for Thanksgiving and Christmas in July. Menus would be discussed and discussed and discussed and discussed some more. Thanksgiving always included my grandmother’s famous turkey and cornbread dressing. Sometimes the cornbread dressing included oysters and other times pecans, but it always contained homemade cornbread. For Christmas we always mixed it up, having ham, rib roast or lamb as the meal’s centerpiece, but regardless of the main dishes for Thanksgiving and Christmas the side dishes and dessert were the key topics of all menu planning conversation.

My brother is a pie man. He especially loves pecan pie, and even now he starts talking

My brother Mike, the pie man last Christmas.

about homemade Thanksgiving pie about the time summer ends. It is in our genes to plan for Thanksgiving in the summer, I guess. On the other hand, while I like pie, I love cake. My grandmother used to make an Italian cream cake for Christmas that was and is still my favorite cake of all time. I often still make it for Christmas Eve for my family. The problem with this particular cake is I love it so much I usually have to throw it away before I eat the whole thing by myself! My name is Melinda and I am addicted to homemade Italian Cream Cake.

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