When you think about Southern food, it has a style and taste all its own. Then when you mix it with Mountain dishes, you have the most amazing result. The mix is like a party of flavor. In this book, I have tried to capture a collection of that amazing flavor, in a mix of baking recipes from my life on the mountain.

I was born Native American (Cherokee). Mix that with the variety of people who influenced the food on the mountain, from German, to French, to Italian and Polish. There were so many styles blended into our community, and that, I think made the foods we ate so amazing.

In this book, I have traveled back to a time when life was a little less complicated, when we all came together to enjoy a meal, as family and friends. I think that is why I choose to create food, to bring back a time when life was all about, family, friends and food.

In this baking collection, I include recipes for cakes, cookies, baked breads, cobblers and baked food dishes. Along the way, I even through in a few non baking dishes that I think you might enjoy. I hope you enjoy!

Among the recipes included here are: Southern Biscuits, Coconut Rum Balls, Drunken Chicken, Dinner Rolls, Tiger Cookies, Corn Bread, Icebox Rolls, Pumpkin Bread, Banana Bread, Ginger Bread, Potato Rolls, Beer Bread, Old Fashioned Pan Bread, Carrot Cake, Sweetened Condensed Pound Cake, Stack Cake, Apple Butter Cake, Rhubarb Cake, Dump Cake, Hershey Bar Cake, Pineapple Dream Cake, Blackberry Cake, 7-Up Cake, Chocolate Syrup Cake, Apricot Cake, Walnut Wonder Cake, Poor man's Cake, Mountaineer Delight, Tennessee Peach Pudding, Blackberry Cobbler, Pecan Pie, Apple Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, Buttermilk Pie, Rhubarb Pie, Peanut Butter Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Date and Nut Bars, Apple Butter Drop Cookies, Molasses Crinkles, Rice Pudding, Indian Pudding, Pumpkin Pudding, Apple Dumplings, Baked macaroni and Cheese, stuffed Shells, Baked Beans, Corn Pudding, Turkey Casserole, Cornbread Stuffing, Beef Pot Roast, and many more.