Connie Mullins

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With D Magazine – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉
06/09/2026

With D Magazine – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

Today’s dessert for the guys is a true Texas treasure!I pulled out one of my favorite old PTA cookbooks, the Obadiah Kni...
06/03/2026

Today’s dessert for the guys is a true Texas treasure!

I pulled out one of my favorite old PTA cookbooks, the Obadiah Knight Elementary PTA Cookbook from Dallas ISD and made Mrs. John H. Powers’ Butterscotch Chewy Cake. This rich, gooey, chewy cake has been a favorite of mine for many years and never disappoints.

Growing up in the Dallas Independent School District, I was surrounded by these wonderful community cookbooks. In my opinion, some of the very best recipes ever published came from PTA cookbooks. They weren’t created by celebrity chefs or food magazines—they came from home kitchens, church suppers, bake sales, and generations of great cooks sharing their family favorites.

Today I served the cake warm with a scoop of Arran’s Traditional Vanilla Ice Cream, a wonderful Scottish ice cream available exclusively at Central Market. Of course, I finished it with a generous drizzle of my homemade toffee sauce.

Now I’m curious—who else has a collection of old PTA cookbooks? Do you still cook from them? I think some of the best recipes in Texas are hiding in those well-loved spiral-bound books.

I’m including the recipe so you can enjoy a little piece of Texas culinary gold. These old PTA cookbooks are filled with recipes that have stood the test of time, and this Butterscotch Chewy Cake is one of them.

It’s Fruit Pie Season in Texas🥧 🍒 🍑 BAKING TIP:Flaky Pie dough… is simple right? Mix flour, salt, and sugar, blend in fa...
06/01/2026

It’s Fruit Pie Season in Texas🥧 🍒 🍑
BAKING TIP:

Flaky Pie dough… is simple right? Mix flour, salt, and sugar, blend in fat, add water, mix it up and roll it out. Simple… but it can all go wrong …easily. Your Pie Dough is not tender and flaky, it went… south. Proper technique and adding some ice cold vodka ( keep a bottle in freezer) along with your ice cold water…you, will be well on your way to foolproof pie dough.
For Flaky Pie Dough the cold fat is rubbed into flour size of peas or walnuts, flour is not completely blended.

Ingredients:
Pastry flour is best choice because it is low enough in gluten, slightly stronger than cake flour. If you don’t have pastry flour, you can easily make pastry flour by mixing half cake flour and bread flour or all purpose flour.
Fat: Unsalted Butter (I use Plugra Butter )contributes excellent flavor. (Make sure butter is cold) It’s frequently avoided for 2 reasons: cost and it melts easily making dough difficult to work. (butter should be chilled)
Shortening is great for pie dough because it has properties that produce good flakiness, it is firm, lower in cost and it doesn’t melt while working with it , but it virtually have no flavor.
I have found that a combination of unsalted butter & a little shortening provide the best balance of flavor & tenderness.
Liquid:
What happens when water is added to flour? Gluten forms. It is necessary to develop some gluten in the flour and give it structure & flakiness. Too much gluten will make pie dough tough. Traditional pie dough's are stingy with water for this reason. Vodka lets you add more liquid. Try using equal parts of ice cold water & vodka.
And of course sea salt and I add a little sugar to mine.

Bake On 🙂

Cocktail hour snacks 👩‍🍳⛰️
05/30/2026

Cocktail hour snacks 👩‍🍳⛰️




Old-Fashioned Coconut Layer cake👩‍🍳🤍Meringue Frosting (aka 7 minute icing)
05/29/2026

Old-Fashioned Coconut Layer cake👩‍🍳🤍
Meringue Frosting (aka 7 minute icing)



Fresh made batches of Texas Gold and ready when you are. Here’s a yum way to use up those tiny golden pieces in the bott...
05/25/2026

Fresh made batches of Texas Gold and ready when you are.

Here’s a yum way to use up those tiny golden pieces in the bottom of the bag.
Valrhona Brownie Sundae topped with Texas Gold.
Its a whole nother level to yum 😋
Have a great day 👩‍🍳💫

Memorial Day weekend and summer just around the corner, give my Mama's Country Vanilla Ice Cream a try... I promise you ...
05/24/2026

Memorial Day weekend and summer just around the corner, give my Mama's Country Vanilla Ice Cream a try... I promise you will LOVE it.
Have a sweet weekend.

Country Vanilla Ice Cream
4 eggs
2 1/2 cup sugar
5 cup whole milk
4 cup heavy cream
2 Vanilla Beans or
4 teaspoon pure vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
Heat Whole Milk, Sugar, & Salt. If using Vanilla Beans, split beans and scrape seeds into milk and add the beans. Heat until milk steams. Temper in eggs and cook until custard just begins to boil. Pour into stainless steel bowl over ice bath and remove beans. Add Heavy Cream and stir over water bath until custard cools off. Add Vanilla if you didn't use vanilla beans. Pour in container and cover and chill over night. Pour cold custard into mixing canister and follow your manufacturer's directions.

Butter Nut Ice Cream

Sauté 2 cups chopped pecans, almonds or walnuts in 3 tablespoons butter. Cool completely. Churn Country Vanilla Ice Cream and for about 15 minutes or until a mushy consistency. Add chopped nut and continue freezing as directed.


Fun lunch today, the guys were so happy with their 7 meat Italian sandwich and my Valrhona Brownie Sundae 👩‍🍳🥪🤎
05/20/2026

Fun lunch today, the guys were so happy with their 7 meat Italian sandwich and my Valrhona Brownie Sundae 👩‍🍳🥪🤎

Cherry pie à la mode 👩‍🍳🍒🥧😋
05/15/2026

Cherry pie à la mode
👩‍🍳🍒🥧😋

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