Author name: Dorothy Kern

Easy Pumpkin Bread Recipe

A loaf of pumpkin bread is shown on a cooling rack, sliced to display its moist, orange interiorMy Easy Pumpkin Bread Recipe is one of my absolute favorite fall quick breads. I’ve been making variations of this bread for years and my family loves every single one! This is a classic pumpkin loaf with a crunchy cinnamon sugar topping – it has wonderful pumpkin flavor – the perfect quick bread recipe. I will never…

Candy Corn Brownie Bites

Several chocolate brownie bites topped with yellow and orange icing, a swirl of white frosting, and a piece of candy corn.Candy Corn Brownie Bites are easy bite sized Halloween treats – they can be made from scratch or semi-homemade and they’re so delicious. Brownies frosted like candy corn, how can you go wrong? If you’re in need of a quick and easy Halloween dessert, look no further than Candy Corn Brownie Bites. With just 3…

Apple Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Group of apple oatmeal cookies on a metal cooking rackApple Oatmeal Cookies are soft and chewy oatmeal cookies with chopped apples and tons of warm cinnamon spices – like an apple pie in a cookie. They’re perfect for fall baking and are so easy to make! Why This Recipe Works I love soft oatmeal cookies and always look for ways to give them a…

Coffee Cake with Coffee

A slice of crumb cake with a thick layer of cinnamon streusel topping and a light drizzle of icing, served on a white decorative plate.If you ever wanted to have a coffee cake with coffee baked inside then look no further! This soft and moist coffee cake recipe has a coffee flavored filling, coffee streusel, coffee icing AND coffee in the batter. It has most and soft coffee cake layers and is perfect for breakfast (or dessert!) I have loads…

Apple Fritter Bread

A sliced loaf of apple cinnamon bread drizzled with white icing sits on a metal tray. In the background, there are three green apples and a cinnamon stick on a beige cloth.Apple Fritter Bread is a pull apart bread made with cinnamon rolls and filled with apples! This is the perfect dessert or breakfast treat and tastes just like an apple fritter doughnut. Since I discovered my love of apple fritters, I’ve decided I want to make all the apple fritters. Now I’m adding Apple Fritter…

French Silk Pie without eggs

A slice of rich chocolate cream pie topped with whipped cream and chocolate shavings sits on a decorative plate, while the rest of the chocolate cream pie is visible in the background.A French Silk Pie is the perfect easy chocolate cream pie recipe! The filling is rich, smooth, creamy, and super chocolatey with fresh whipped cream on top and no eggs. I call it a heavenly pie recipe! I love this recipe because there are only five ingredients and it is easy to quickly make! This…

Pillsbury Stacked Sugar Cookies

A white bowl filled with colorful Halloween-themed sugar cookies decorated with designs like pumpkins and ghosts, edged with orange, purple, and black sprinkles.Pillsbury Stacked Sugar Cookies are an easy viral TikTok recipe that uses just a few ingredients and starts with Pillsbury sugar cookie dough! These are super fast and super easy to make and they’re a treat the whole family will love. These Pillsbury Halloween Cookies have just 2 basic ingredients plus sprinkles and/or sanding sugar.…

Apple Fritter Cinnamon Roll Bake

A baked apple cinnamon roll casserole in a white dish, topped with icing. Two green apples are in the background on a light surface.Pillsbury Apple Cinnamon Roll Bake is an easy brunch recipe that’s like a monkey bread and a bubble-up bake all in one! It’s got cinnamon buns and apples in a buttery sauce – and it’s semi-homemade so it’s SO easy (and absolutely delicious!) Have you ever made a recipe knowing that you immediately needed to…

Pistachio Cookies

A stack of three chocolate chip cookies with visible chunks of chocolate and pistachios, surrounded by more cookies and scattered pistachios on a white surface. A cooling rack with more cookies is in the background.Pistachio Cookies are soft and chewy with tons of pistachio flavor in every bite. These are completely from scratch – no pudding mixes needed – and no strange hard-to-find ingredients. With chocolate chips they’re gooey and rich with a nutty flavor – they’re my favorite new cookie recipe! Pistachio is having a moment and that’s…

Copycat Birthday Bundt Cake

A slice of bundt cake with colorful sprinkles baked inside, topped with white icing and more sprinkles, sits on a white plate with scattered sprinkles around it.The easiest way to make a cake for birthday celebrations: Birthday Bundt Cake! This Funfetti Bundt Cake Recipe is a copycat cake and one of the moistest and most delicious bundt cakes I’ve ever made. It’s gorgeous and tastes SO good – it will cure all your cake cravings. We’re all familiar with Nothin’ Bundt…

Pumpkin Pie Spice Substitute

A white bowl filled with ground pumpkin spice, a metal measuring spoon resting inside. Cinnamon sticks and small pumpkin decorations are nearby on a white surface.Have you ever wondered how to make your own pumpkin pie spice substitute? This easy DIY recipe is perfect for making a homemade pumpkin spice mix. Making your own spice blend is easy and perfect to make in bulk or just to use in a pinch when a recipe calls for it. I use this mix…

The Life of a Showgirl Charcuterie

A round tray filled with colorful cookies, crackers, animal-shaped snacks, and candies sits on a white surface. Red flowers, sparkling beads, disco balls, and two Bollywood magazine covers frame the tray.Step into the spotlight because it’s time for The Life of a Showgirl! Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album is the perfect gel-pen glittery album for a party. Having an album release or a party? Make The Life of a Showgirl Charcuterie – a glittery orange collection of desserts and snacks perfect to keep you munching…

Birthday Cake Popcorn

A bowl of popcorn covered in colorful rainbow sprinkles, with extra popcorn and sprinkles scattered on a white surface around the bowl.Your favorite new popcorn flavor: cake batter popcorn!! This birthday cake popcorn uses cake mix and white chocolate (and sprinkles!) to make a delicious and EASY sweet treat for any movie night or just because you have a sweet tooth like me. I love popcorn as a nighttime snack! I like to keep my mouth…

Birthday Cookie Board

A teal tray filled with assorted colorful cookies, candies, gummies, chocolate, and sweets, surrounded by party decorations, confetti, and plates on a white marble surface.Skip the birthday cake and make a Birthday Board with your favorite cookies and sweet treats – a birthday charcuterie board is superior! Plus it’s festive because of all the sprinkles!! It’s the perfect way to say happy birthday. Dessert boards are all the rage – and they’re so much fun to create! Think of…

Copycat Disneyland Recipes

Mickey Mouse shaped Rice Krispie treats covered in chocolate and colorful M&Ms.Love going to Disneyland or California Adventure? These copycat recipes are just like the originals but better because you can have them at home without the pricey price tag. From the classic Dole Whip to my recreation of Churro Toffee and even cocktails, these are my favorite copycat Disneyland recipes! Mickey Rice Krispie Treats are…

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

golden brown cookies stacked on each otherPumpkin Snickerdoodles are the perfect super soft and chewy pumpkin cookies, a twist on a classic snickerdoodle recipe with the added flavor of pumpkin. Using pumpkin spice and fresh pumpkin puree levels up classic snickerdoodles and makes them perfect for fall. What really makes the flavor of these pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies stand out is that you’re…

Birthday Cake Fudge

Close-up of creamy white fudge squares topped with colorful rainbow sprinkles, arranged on a white parchment surface. The fudge looks rich and festive, with a smooth texture and fun, vibrant colors.Skip the cake – make Birthday Cake Fudge instead! This easy white chocolate fudge is full of cake batter flavor and colorful sprinkles – it’s the perfect fudge recipe for birthdays or even holidays! Plus it’s so good – especially if you love funfetti flavor – a no bake sweet treat everyone loves! I’m obsessed…

Birthday Cake Recipes

A close-up of three stacked, frosted blondie bars filled with colorful rainbow sprinkles. The bars have a soft, chewy texture and are topped with white icing and extra sprinkles.If you love birthday cake flavor (AKA Funfetti or cake batter) then this is the list for you – all my favorite birthday cake recipes that aren’t just cake! From Rice Krispie treats to cookies, ice cream to snack mix – all of these easy recipes have tons of cake batter flavor. Cake Batter Cookies…

Peanut Butter Cookie Gooey Bars

A stack of three gooey chocolate chip cookie bars on a white plate, with melted chocolate visible and a few chocolate chips scattered around. The background shows more cookie bars slightly out of focus.These Peanut Butter Cookie Gooey Bars combine my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe and gooey chocolate for the most decadent gooey bar EVER! These bars start with my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe. I’ve used that same recipe for so many things, including s’mores, caramel cookie bars, and stuffed cookies. Then I turned them into…

Caramel Cookie Bars

A close-up of three stacked chocolate chip cookie bars filled with gooey caramel and melted chocolate chips, with a soft and crumbly texture. Unwrapped caramel candies are visible in the background.Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars meet caramel in these soft Caramel Cookie Bars! These bars have a layer of soft and gooey caramel baked in the center, so every bite is a pure heaven. These are gooey, rich, and delicious – a favorite recipe that everyone loves. Where do I start with these cookie bars? There are so many…

Homemade Cinnamon Bread

A close-up of a loaf of cinnamon swirl bread, sliced to show the spiral pattern inside, resting on a wire cooling rack with a light background.This Homemade Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe is an easy white bread recipe full of swirls of cinnamon sugar! The homemade version is way better than the stuff you buy – it’s fresh and SO GOOD and full of cinnamon sugar swirl. It makes two loaves, freezes great, and tastes amazing! I used to be scared of making…

Toasted Coconut Rice Krispie Treats

Two rice crispy treat bars stacked on top of each other, with a plate of more bars and a small glass bowl of toasted bits in the background on a white surface.Toasted Coconut Rice Krispies Treats use my best recipe and add tons of coconut flavor! Coconut lovers are going to love these – they’re chewy and crunchy with coconut in every single bite. If you’re in search of the perfect treat – this is it! Coconut Rice Krispie Treats are my new favorite – these…

16 Rice Krispie Treat Recipes

hand pulling apart pumpkin Rice Krispie treat.Rice Krispie Treats are the best no-bake bars ever – they’re sweet and crunchy and so easy to make different flavors! From using different flavor cereal to adding things like peanut butter or pudding mix, it’s so simple to change up cereal treats (and so good too!) Classic Rice Krispie Treat Flavors Best Ever Rice…

Lemon Cupcakes

A lemon cupcake with creamy white frosting and a small lemon wedge on top, sitting on an unwrapped cupcake liner. Other cupcakes and a halved lemon are visible in the background.These Lemon Cupcakes are the perfect lemon dessert with triple the lemon flavor. It’s like lemon smacks you in the face in every single bite! This is one of my favorite cupcake recipes – moist lemon cupcakes with tender crumb, lemon filling and lemon buttercream frosting! It’s no secret that I love lemon recipe. I never used to like citrus in…

35+ Easy No Churn Ice Cream Recipes

Two scoops of vanilla ice cream in a blue patterned bowl, topped with colorful sprinkles and a spoon nearby. The slightly blurred background highlights the creamy texture—a perfect treat inspired by easy ice cream recipes.The only ice cream we make is no churn ice cream: it’s easier and tastes just as good as the real thing! Making ice cream at home can be really easy without a machine – you only need 2 ingredients for the base recipe and a whole lot of imagination for the rest. This is…

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