It is that special time of year. Continuing the tradition started last year, I hosted the second annual Festival of Desserts on Friday. As always, I ran out of time and didn’t make all the desserts I wanted to prepare. Here are the desserts that were enjoyed for this year’s festival.

• Banana Chocolate Walnut Brownies
• Chocolate Brownies
• Egg Nog Rum Cake
• Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
• Cheesecake
• Lunchroom Butter Cookies
• McNannygocious Pound Cake
• Egg Nog Pound Cake
• Red Velvet Cake
• Banana Nut Bread
• 7 Up Cake

Special Guest Desserts

• Lemon Squares
• Sweet Potato Pie

Special thanks to Joey for the lemon squares, David for the sweet potato pies, and JS & AF for the chicken. Another big hit of the party was the hot apple cider with the mulling spices from Williams-Sonoma. A good time was had by all. I must apologize for not taking more dessert photos.