Upgrade your sugar cookies with this easy sugar cookie icing recipe that hardens for a glossy and beautiful finish. So much easier than royal icing, this frosting makes decorating a cinch and the cookies are stackable! Sugar Cookie Icing that Hardens While royal icing decorated cookies are beautiful, making the icing isn’t easy. Plus you…
Pumpkin Blondies are a cross between brownies and pumpkin cookies: soft, chewy, and fudgy with tons of pumpkin and pumpkin spice flavor. These are the ultimate fall cookie bar recipe! I created this Pumpkin Blondie recipe from my regular all-purpose blondie recipe, the one I’ve made hundreds of times. By adjusting the amount of brown…
A Frozen Mai Tai is the classic cocktail but blended frozen so it’s the perfect summer drink! With pineapple and orange, almond and rum it’s the perfect tropical cocktail! Move over Mai Tai, the FROZEN Mai Tai is in town! This easy cocktail is a frozen riff on the classic tiki drink and it’s become…
Key Lime Bars are key lime pie but in handheld bar form: a buttery graham cracker crust with a creamy, tart key lime filling. These are super easy to make with simple ingredients, and they’re perfect whenever you’re craving citrus desserts. I never had Key Lime Pie until I was in my 30s, can you…
Shredded Beef Tacos Recipe is an easy crockpot dinner that is assembled in no time. You don’t need to precook anything; just dump and cook. Serve as-is or make tacos with the juicy beef. My favorite slow cooker recipes are ones that are easy to prep and almost completely hands-off, like these slow cooker shredded…
Love a Piña Colada but don’t feel like using the blender? Never fear: Piña Colada on the Rocks is here! This easy recipe has 3 ingredients and is easier to make than the classic cocktail. If there is one thing I know, it’s that a Piña Colada is one of the most popular recipes out…
A moist Chocolate Zucchini Cake with rich chocolate frosting is the best way to use up shredded zucchini. This recipe is so simple to make as a sheet cake with tons of chocolate flavor and no one will guess it has zucchini in it! I absolutely love zucchini in desserts! I’ve been baking squash into…
Love Apple Pie? You must try my Apple Pie with Oatmeal Cookie Crumble. It’s an epic recipe with perfectly cooked apples and the best crumble you’ll ever eat. I have been making crumb apple pie for years (in fact, it was the reason I started this blog). So when I was trying to come up…
Have you ever tried a Savory Pancake? It’s a soft and fluffy pancake with tons of savory things, like cheese, bacon, and jalapeños. You can add anything you like and make this as one big skillet pancake or as individual pancakes. They’re perfect as a side dish! I love a pancake for breakfast, but sometimes…
Have you ever tried a Savory Pancake? It’s a soft and fluffy pancake with tons of savory things, like cheese, bacon, and jalapeños. You can add anything you like and make this as one big skillet pancake or as individual pancakes. They’re perfect as a side dish! I love a pancake for breakfast, but sometimes…
Pancake Rolls are like crepes, but made with pancake batter and no special equipment. You can fill them with anything you like, but we always use a cinnamon sugar filling. These freeze great, are perfect for making ahead, and everyone will love them (especially the kids). My mom made Cinnamon Sugar Pancake Rolls for me…
Pancake Rolls are like crepes, but made with pancake batter and no special equipment. You can fill them with anything you like, but we always use a cinnamon sugar filling. These freeze great, are perfect for making ahead, and everyone will love them (especially the kids). My mom made Cinnamon Sugar Pancake Rolls for me…
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread is an easy quick bread recipe that’s super moist thanks to all the pumpkin. It’s full of warm fall spices and gooey chocolate chips and is the best breakfast or dessert for fall! Why I Love This Recipe I never get tired of pumpkin anything, and when fall finally arrives, I…
Crockpot Apple Butter is so easy to make with just a few ingredients. It’s a thick applesauce with more condensed flavor and is perfect on toast or in recipes during apple season and homemade is so much better than what you get in the store. Apple Butter is expensive and it’s so easy to make…
Chewy Sugar Cookies take my favorite cookie recipe and instead of being pillowy soft, they have crunchy edges and chewy centers. Because these are sweet enough without frosting, this is an easy sugar cookie recipe you can count on to be the best one you’ve tried! This recipe has been updated to fulfil the chewy…
Easy Soft Sugar Cookies – a classic drop sugar cookie, no cookie cutters or rolling needed! With the buttercream cookie frosting on top these are perfect for any holiday or occasion – or because you can’t get enough sugar cookies! Drop sugar cookies are a go-to recipe for the easiest soft sugar cookies. These cookies…
Strawberry Shortcake Bars are an easy cake mix cookie bar topped with whipped cream frosting and fresh strawberries. The bars have a texture somewhere between blondies and cake, and paired with frosting and berries, they are the perfect treat for summer! This is the perfect summer cookie bar recipe: Strawberry Shortcake Bars! They’re basically your…
A Caramel Pear Galette is a rustic pie full of perfectly cooked juicy pears, caramel, and spices. It’s easy to make (no pie dish!) and the perfect fall dessert! A galette is basically fruit on top of a pastry. It’s similar to a pie but doesn’t have a top crust or a lot of other…
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip is a creamy and sweet dip that has all your favorite cookie flavors. It’s perfect as a fruit dip – or you can dip cookies or pretzels or anything you like. This cheesecake dip is full of chocolate chips! I love an easy dip recipe and when I can make…
Have you seen the Viral Dot Cakes trend all over social media? They’re super fun to look at and eat (cake and frosting, sign me up) but if you want a tutorial on how to make a dot cake at home so you can skip the pricey NYC bakery, here is the recipe for you!…
A box brownie mix might be nostalgic and easy but Homemade Brownie Mix is even better. This easy mix makes several sizes of rich, chocolatey, fudgy brownies anytime you want! Keep it in your pantry and you can have brownies whenever you want – no box needed! Growing up we lived on box brownie mix.…
Rich, fudgy brownies topped with delicious coconut pecan frosting: these German Chocolate Brownies are even better than the classic cake recipe. The cooked frosting is sweet and chewy from the coconut and pecans and is the perfect compliment to the homemade brownies. I first made this recipe a countless number of years ago and it…
Learn how to make frosting in so many flavors, from basic vanilla and chocolate buttercream to flavors like peanut butter, cream cheese frosting, and more. This is your one stop shop for every frosting you might want for any cakes, cupcakes, or cookies you make. Basic Frosting Recipes I love a good frosting recipe and…
Coconut Pecan Frosting might be the classic recipe for frosting on German Chocolate Cake, but it’s also a delicious frosting for anything you want to add it to: it’s great on cookies, brownies, even as a dip. This recipe will show you exactly how to make this decadent frosting with sweetened coconut and pecans so…
Salted Caramel Apple Pie is the best apple pie recipe – perfectly cooked apples baked with salted caramel sauce in a homemade pie crust! It’s one of my favorite Thanksgiving pie recipes – but it’s perfect all fall or all year long! This caramel apple pie takes a classic apple pie recipe and gives it…
