Author name: Dorothy Kern

BEST Pudding Cookies Recipe

Close-up of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies with golden edges and melty chocolate pieces on parchment paper. Scattered chocolate chips are visible around the cookies.Not only is this the best pudding cookies recipe, but it’s also the best chocolate chip cookie recipe…and one of the only ones I ever want to make! They’re soft and gooey and full of chocolate – and they stay soft for DAYS! Have you ever just wanted the BEST basic recipe for something? A…

Black Forest Cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes topped with swirls of white frosting, a red cherry on top, and drizzles of cherry sauce are arranged on a white cake stand. Small chocolate shavings and cherries are scattered around for decoration.Black Forest Cupcakes are a single serve version of the popular layer cake – homemade chocolate cupcakes filled with tart cherry compote and topped with stabilized whipped cream frosting. These are showstopper cupcakes and so good! This recipe is sponsored by the Cherry Marketing Institute. All opinions are my own. You might say, but wait…

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Close-up of several chocolate chip cookies on a light gray surface. The cookies are golden-brown, with chunks of chocolate on top and around them, suggesting freshness and a soft texture.Mint Chip Cookies combine my two loves: mint chips and chocolate chips! These are chewy and soft chocolate chip cookies with mint chips inside – you will love these chewy cookies inspired by my best chocolate chip cookie recipe. Anyone a fan of Andes candies or other chocolate mints like I am? These are soft…

7 Layer Pizza Dip

pizza dip with 7 layers of olives pepperoni cheese and sauce7 Layer Pizza Dip is an easy hot cheesy dip recipe that is even better than pizza!! The layers of cheese, sauce, and toppings that will be the hit of your party. What will you top it with? Pizza is a huge weakness for me. I could eat it every day and never get tired…

Blackberry Key Lime Tarts

A close-up of a pastry topped with custard and a cluster of fresh blackberries, set on a white plate. The flaky layers of the pastry are visible, and there are more pastries and a slice of lime blurred in the background.These Blackberry Key Lime Tarts are the best bit-sized treats out there. They have an amazing puff pastry crust with an even better filling – they’re perfect for anytime you want a sweet treat or an easy appetizer. This recipe is just like a key lime pie, but in puff pastry form. These tarts have…

Gooey Nutty S’mores Crockpot Candy

Gooey S'mores Crockpot CandyThis easy Crockpot Candy recipe is made in a slow cooker with chocolate, graham cereal, peanuts, and marshmallows! The crockpot does all the work and the result is the best chocolate candy ever! Making crockpot candy is easy to make with simple ingredients! You just dump everything into the slow cooker and then let it…

Chocolate Chip Turtle Cookies

Close-up of two stacked cookies topped with chocolate chunks and pecan halves on a wooden surface, surrounded by more cookies and chocolate candies.These Turtle Cookies are my absolute favorite way to doctor my chocolate chip cookie recipe! You just add a Rolo and a pecan and you have cookies inspired by Turtle Candy – the perfect easy recipe! My mom loves Turtles – the candy, that is. Turtle candy is a chocolate and caramel confection with pecans.…

Oreo Cheesecake

A slice of Oreo cheesecake on a white plate with whipped cream and Oreo cookies on top. The cheesecake has a chocolate cookie crust and visible chocolate chunks. More whole Oreo cookies are scattered around the plate. A fork is beside the slice.Oreo Cheesecake is a creamy cheesecake recipe full of cookies ‘n cream flavor with an Oreo Cookie Crust. It’s a perfectly baked cheesecake that you’re going to love. I love cheesecake! It is one of my favorite desserts, and I know I’m not alone. All cheesecake is delicious, but this Oreo Cheesecake Recipe takes the…

Cranberry Sauce

A white bowl filled with glossy cranberry sauce garnished with orange zest curls. Fresh cranberries and orange slices are scattered around on the gray surface. Sprigs of rosemary are nearby, adding a touch of green.This Cranberry Sauce is the a classic make-ahead cranberry recipe with notes of orange. It’s super easy to make it yourself and it tastes a million times better than store bought! Cranberry Sauce is a staple for so many people during the holidays. Alongside meat, veggies, and stuffing it’s a classic Thanksgiving recipe! It’s made…

Apple Cranberry Pie

sliced pie with cranberries on the inside on a white plate.This Apple Cranberry Pie combines the perfect fall flavors of apple pie with cranberry. Cranberry Apple Pies are perfect for Thanksgiving – sweet and tart with a flaky pie crust. This pie is filled with the light and delicious fruit flavors of apple and cranberry. Together with my All-Butter Pie crust, it’s the best fall…

No Bake Butterscotch Pie

Slice of butterscotch pie on a white plate with recipe title on top of photoThis is the best Butterscotch Pie recipe that is easy to make completely from scratch. It has a creamy butterscotch pudding filling, a delicious graham cracker crust, and a pillowy-soft topping. You haven’t lived until you’ve tasted butterscotch pudding from scratch! Butterscotch pie is an old-fashioned pie recipe that is irresistible! It takes like a…

Cranberry Orange Bread

sliced cranberry bread on a cutting board.Cranberry Orange Bread is an easy quick bread recipe that’s soft and moist with tons of orange flavor. It’s bursting with fresh cranberries and a delicious orange glaze on top! I love quick bread so much – especially my banana bread recipe and my lemon bread. Orange and cranberry flavors go so well together and…

Cream Cheese Cookies

stacked cookies with powdered sugar sprinkled over top.Cream Cheese Cookies are the best soft bite size cookies! They’re sweet with the tang from cream cheese and they melt in your mouth. This is the perfect cookie if you’re looking for a new way to make Russian Tea Cakes that are softer and tangier! I love cream cheese and it goes so well…

Buttermilk Biscuits

Close-up of freshly baked, golden-brown biscuits on a metal baking tray. The biscuits are flaky and layered, with a soft texture. The background is a blurred, light gray surface with a hint of a striped cloth.Learn how to make the best ever Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe! They’re tender, soft, flakey, and buttery biscuits made with just a few ingredients and done in under 45 minutes, perfect as a side dish with butter or gravy or as breakfast with jam! NOTHING compares to soft and fluffy homemade buttermilk biscuits – these are…

Flourless Chocolate Cookies

A close-up of a stack of three decadent chocolate cookies on a cooling rack. The cookies are rich and glossy, with a slightly cracked surface, evoking a freshly baked, indulgent treat.Flourless Chocolate Cookies – you don’t need butter or oil for these! They taste like a brownie cookie with intense chocolate flavor, crunchy outside and chewy inside, and they’re rich, fudgy and so decadent! This flourless chocolate cookie recipe is what I turn to when I have a serious chocolate craving and can’t decide between…

Pumpkin Bars with cream cheese frosting

pumpkin bar with cream cheese frostingThese Pumpkin Bars have a delicious cream cheese frosting and are so easy to make. The texture is a cross between a cookie and a blondie – easy pumpkin bars must have a place at your holiday table! One of my favorite things to make with pumpkin are my pumpkin cookies. I’ve stuffed them with…

Lemon Chess Pie Recipe

lemon chess pie one a white plate with a sliced lemon in the back.This Lemon Chess Pie recipe is so easy and always a hit! The filling is tart and sweet and delicious – it’s creamy and perfectly lemony. If you love chess pie this is the perfect lemon variation and much easier than lemon meringue pie! BEST Lemon Pie Recipe Chess pie has been around for a…

Turtle Pie

turtle pie next to pecans on a blue and white flower plate.Turtle Pie doesn’t get any better than this: It has an Oreo crust, salted caramel pecan layer, and a thick chocolate ganache layer covering it all! This pie will remind you of those Turtle candies – the ones with pecans and caramel and chocolate – it’s an EPIC pie recipe! I’m hitting you with this…

Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies

A bowl filled with powdered sugar-covered cookies, some of which have chocolate chips visible. One cookie is broken in half to reveal the chocolate chips inside. The bowl has a colorful floral pattern.This Snowball Cookie Recipe has chocolate chips! Whatever they’re called, they’re one of my favorite Christmas cookies. Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies have no nuts so they’re allergy friendly – and hello, CHOCOLATE. They melt-in your mouth and are one of my MOST POPULAR holiday cookies! Do you have a food that, whenever you see or…

Pumpkin Roll

sliced pumpkin cake roll with a white buttercream in the center.This Pumpkin Roll has been in my family for years! On my first Christmas with my husband’s family, my mother-in-law (the grandkids call her Mima) gave me a pumpkin roll as a gift and we’ve been making it ever since. It’s a soft pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting and it’s so easy to make…

Grape Pie

grape pie with purple grape filling in a clear pie pan.This Old-Fashioned Grape Pie is such a delicious fruit pie recipe. Make it with a homemade pie crust and seedless grapes to make your life easy – it’s a juicy, sweet, and tart pie! If you love grape, this recipe is for you! Not only does this Grape Pie recipe have a delicious pie crust,…

Pie Crust Cookies

pie crust cookies covered in cinnamon on a silver baking pan.Pie Crust Cookies are the easiest cookies you can make with just pie crust! I used fall-themed cookies cutters on homemade pie dough – you can even use scraps. Topped with cinnamon sugar these are a pie making day staple. The Easiest Pie Crust Cookies These easy cookies are such a great recipe: pie crust…

Lemon Cheesecake

lemon cheesecake with lemon curd and whipped cream on top.Lemon Cheesecake is a creamy, delicious cheesecake recipe with lemon flavor in every bite! The rich lemon cheesecake is on top a thick graham cracker crust and topped with tart and sweet lemon curd – the perfect baked cheesecake recipe! I love lemon and I love a good baked cheesecake, so I figured – why…

Crockpot Cake

chocolate cake in a crockpot.This Crockpot Cake is a perfect warm chocolate cake that you can make in a slow cooker. It even makes it’s own pudding frosting and it’s pure heaven! Chocolate Cake Recipe in the Crock Pot This crockpot cake is similar to dump cake, hot fudge cake, or a lava cake, but it is made in…

Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes

mashed potatoes in a white bowl.These Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes are the perfect recipe for any holiday or even just weeknight dinner: Make them up to a day ahead! They’re full of butter and cream cheese and are the best mashed potatoes I’ve ever had. Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes I didn’t eat a lot of mashed potatoes growing up, but as…

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