Turtle Cookie McKenzie’s were also famous for their ladyfingers, buttermilk drops, Blackout Cake, wine cakes, King Cake, Halloween Cookies and the Chocolate Turtle Cookies featured in this post. And one of Monique’s all time favorite McKenzie’s Bakery favorites is these little baked cookie morsels with pecans and chocolate frosting, she will be surprised when she finds about 4 dozen of them in the kitchen today.

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This cake was as staple featured on the Columns Hotel dessert cart and sold out every night, and with only three ingredients for the cake itself it is quite a treat.

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The original recipe called for Andouille sausage, the spicy Louisiana favorite, the store brand Andouille looks nothing like the kind you get in La Place, Louisiana so we substituted some Polish Kielbasa in its place and it is some good. For more on Andouille, please click the hot link to delve.

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For this recipe, I used a combination of broccoli florets, shredded Chinese cabbage, sliced button mushrooms, mung bean sprouts, diced tomatoes from the garden, and snow peas for the fresh vegetables and water chestnuts with baby corn for the canned vegetables

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