Baked Goods - Traditions and Failures

A chocolate pumpkin streusel bread - it tasted pretty good, but completely collapsed when I removed it from the bread pan...

Grandma Ladenburger's lemon bars - these used to be my birthday treat of choice when I was in elementary school and we got to bring a dessert to share with the class:

I made a half recipe, but the whole recipe goes like this:

Cream together:

1 1/2 c. flour

3/4 c. butter

6 Tbs. powdered sugar

Spread the mixture in a greased 9x15" pan and Bake 19 minutes at 350F

Mix together:

3 eggs

1 1/2 c. sugar

4 1/2 Tbs. lemon juice

3 Tbs. flour

1/8 tsp. salt

3/4 tsp. baking powder

Pour this on top of the baked crust and bake 18 minutes at 350F.  Let cool and top with a glaze of powdered sugar + lemon juice.

Finally, my Grandma Levitt's thumbprint cookies - I got walnuts for the traditional covering, but ran out before I finished rolling them, so I used popped amaranth for the rest.  The amaranth turned out to be better than the walnuts!