Valentine’s Day desserts don’t have to be fancy to be delicious.
Today, I’ve chosen three I’ve never made from my stash of recipes in a drawer in a chifforobe in my kitchen. Any of the three could be the pièce de résistance to a meal you may be planning to make for your spouse or significant other.
I chose coconut pie because I’ve never made one but love coconut which, I’ve come to believe, is a love or hate thing with most people.
My mom used to make several coconut pies for the Optimist Club booth at the old Hamilton County Fair when it was held at Warner Park in the 1960s and early 1970s. I don’t have her recipe, which was delicious, but the one I found – which is not attributed to anyone – was easy.
I selected Mounds Candy Bar Cake because Mounds are one of my favorite candy bars. They, of course, also have coconut. Remember the 1970s advertising ditty: “Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t; Peter Paul Almond Joy’s got nuts; Mounds don’t”? It was not grammatical, but it was catchy.