This homemade French silk pie is rich, creamy and unbelievably smooth, with a decadent chocolate filling, flaky buttery pie crust and fluffy homemade whipped cream. It’s an impressive make-ahead dessert that tastes even better than your favorite restaurant pie, without complicated baking techniques!

If you’ve ever had French silk pie from Village Inn or Baker’s Square, you know exactly why people love it! But OH MY GOODNESS, this homemade version takes it to another level! The chocolate flavor is deeper, the filling is silky and almost cheesecake-like, and that buttery crust makes every bite irresistible.

It’s the kind of pie that deserves a permanent spot on your Thanksgiving dessert table!

What Is French Silk Pie?

French silk pie is a classic American dessert made with a rich, whipped chocolate filling, a flaky pie crust and fluffy whipped cream.

Despite its name, French silk pie isn’t actually French! It’s known for its incredibly smooth, almost mousse-like filling made by whipping butter, sugar, melted chocolate and eggs together.

What’s the Difference Between French Silk Pie and Chocolate Cream Pie?

They might look similar, but the fillings are completely different!

• French Silk Pie: Rich, buttery and almost cheesecake-like, with a whipped chocolate filling that’s smooth and airy.
• Chocolate Cream Pie: Made with a cooked chocolate custard or pudding that’s softer and more pudding-like.

If you love a rich chocolate dessert with a melt-in-your-mouth texture, French silk pie is the one for you!

This easy pie crust recipe is flaky, tender and made from scratch with simple ingredients, including shortening, egg and vinegar. There’s no chilling required, so you can roll it out right away and no pie weights required for blind baking!!

This recipe has been passed down from my grandma to my mom and now to me, and it’s one of those family recipes I hope my girls will pass down someday, too! We call it Mom’s Fail-Proof Magic Pie Crust, and once you learn a few simple tricks, you’ll see that making homemade pie crust really isn’t as intimidating as it seems!

How to Make Homemade Pie Crust

You don’t need any

If there is one dessert worth making this week, it is Paula Deen’s gooey butter cake. This is the original recipe and it’s so easy with only a yellow cake mix, butter, cream cheese and eggs and it has that classic ooey, gooey middle!

Now don’t be confused, this is NOT the traditional St. Louis bakery version. This is Paula Deen’s original gooey butter cake recipe—the easy cake-mix version that made this rich, gooey dessert famous with home bakers.

Don’t worry, I’ll take you through all the trouble shooting below, but first, here’s one I don’t want you to miss:

How do I get the perfect gooey center?

This is so important!! 🚨 Don’t Wait for the Center to Look Fully Set!

You must do the jiggle test on an ooey-gooey dessert. It’s going to look undone, but give the pan a jiggle and then take the cake out of the oven when the edges are golden brown but the center still moves slightly.

What Does Gooey Butter Cake Taste Like?

Imagine a buttery, melt in your mouth yellow-cake crust topped with a rich cream-cheese custard that’s sweet, soft and just a little gooey in the center. It’s somewhere between a cake, cheesecake bar and blondie—but much more wonderful.

This is a pure Southern comfort recipe. Our Ooey Gooey Butter Cake with a dusting of powdered sugar on top makes it look as good as it tastes.

The Surprising Twist on How We Eat Our Gooey Butter Cake

Fair warning: Claire and I did extensive testing on the best way to eat this cake, and the unanimous winner was straight from the fridge the next day. Chilled, dense, and impossibly rich with that cold sprinkle of powdered sugar on top. Do not skip that step.

Jalapeno Corn Pudding is a sweet and savory cornbread with a spicy kick. With a golden brown crust and a soft, custard-like center, it’s American comfort food at its best.

I’ve loved corn pudding for as long as I can remember. Adding jalapenos gives the casserole a little bit of heat that I find irresistible.

Jalapeno Corn Pudding

Growing up, my mom made corn pudding for almost every holiday meal or special occasion. It’s a tradition I’ve carried on with my own kids, although I make my corn pudding from scratch instead of from a boxed mix.

Jalapeno Corn Pudding has all the nostalgic creamed corn flavor of the original but with a spicy twist. The heat from the jalapenos gives a satisfying balance to the sweet corn without lighting your mouth totally on fire. I love this so much that I’ve even been known to sneak bites of the leftovers cold, straight from the fridge! I hope it brings the same level of joy to your table.

Ingredients and Substitutions

Corn – You’ll need both whole kernel canned corn and creamed corn.

Dry Ingredients – I use cornmeal, along with all purpose flour, bakin

These Reese’s Krispies are crunchy, gooey peanut butter cereal clusters loaded with chocolate chips and chopped Reese’s peanut butter cups! Made with no marshmallows and no baking, these irresistible little treats come together in just 10 minutes, plus cooling time!

This was one of the very first recipes to go viral on Pinterest for Oh Sweet Basil, bringing in millions of views! And all these years later, I still can’t get over how ridiculously good they are. That sweet, sticky peanut butter coating mixed with crispy cereal and chunks of Reese’s?! OH MY GOODNESS.

We originally made these to use up leftover Halloween candy, but trust me, you’re going to want them all year long!