Monster Cookie Bars

Monster cookies are one of my all-time favorite cookies to bake and eat. I make them all of the time. Well, now I have a new favorite dessert, Monster Cookie Bars. They are basically monster cookies, but in bar form. I adjusted my classic recipe to mak…

Monster cookies are one of my all-time favorite cookies to bake and eat. I make them all of the time. Well, now I have a new favorite dessert, Monster Cookie Bars. They are basically monster cookies, but in bar form. I adjusted my classic recipe to make a bar cookie and they are fantastic! I…

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Pumpkin Banana Bread

I LOVE baking quick breads and two of my all-time favorite recipes are banana bread and pumpkin bread. Well, I decided to bring two of my favorites together to make Pumpkin Banana Bread. You get the best of both worlds in ONE loaf! This is the perfect …

I LOVE baking quick breads and two of my all-time favorite recipes are banana bread and pumpkin bread. Well, I decided to bring two of my favorites together to make Pumpkin Banana Bread. You get the best of both worlds in ONE loaf! This is the perfect recipe to make when you have brown bananas…

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German Pancakes

Our family LOVES a good breakfast. We love making French toast, waffles, pancakes, egg casseroles, smoothies, and more! German Pancakes are definitely a staple at our house. They are super easy to make and SO fun! If you haven’t tried a German pa…

Our family LOVES a good breakfast. We love making French toast, waffles, pancakes, egg casseroles, smoothies, and more! German Pancakes are definitely a staple at our house. They are super easy to make and SO fun! If you haven’t tried a German pancake, let me introduce you! I guarantee they will be a favorite breakfast…

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Quiche Lorraine

Quiche got a peculiar rap back in the 1980s when eating it was described as something that was not masculine. I’m not sure where that came from, but in France, everybody eats quiche. As the French debate how to address gender pronouns, in a language where crème, baguette, and salade are feminine and pâté, vin, and quinoa are masculine (although quinoa is a plante céréalière, which…

Quiche got a peculiar rap back in the 1980s when eating it was described as something that was not masculine. I’m not sure where that came from, but in France, everybody eats quiche.

As the French debate how to address gender pronouns, in a language where crème, baguette, and salade are feminine and pâté, vin, and quinoa are masculine (although quinoa is a plante céréalière, which is feminine), for no reason other than to make the language more challenging for the rest of us to learn (whether tique, the word for tick, was masculine or feminine has been hotly debated), quiche is enjoyed by tous (or everyone, which is masculine) in France, without any blowback.

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Baked Chicken Tenders

Do you have a few easy dinner recipes that you make over and over again? We sure do! A few of our favorites include: chicken penne pasta, taco salad, chickpea curry, taquitos and these Baked Chicken Tenders. Our boys request chicken tenders almost ever…

Do you have a few easy dinner recipes that you make over and over again? We sure do! A few of our favorites include: chicken penne pasta, taco salad, chickpea curry, taquitos and these Baked Chicken Tenders. Our boys request chicken tenders almost every single week. They are a staple in our house and I…

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Sprinkle Party Blondies

These blondies are ready to party, chock full of all the fun stuff: chocolate sandwich cookies, both white and dark chocolate chips, and a bevy of colorful rainbow sprinkles. The saying is true… blondes really do have more fun (when it comes to baked goods at least), and these sprinkle party blondies are quite possibly […]

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These blondies are ready to party, chock full of all the fun stuff: chocolate sandwich cookies, both white and dark chocolate chips, and a bevy of colorful rainbow sprinkles.

The saying is true… blondes really do have more fun (when it comes to baked goods at least), and these sprinkle party blondies are quite possibly the funnest.

Squares of sprinkle cookie party blondies on a pink background, with bowl of sprinkles on the side

Talk about cheerful, I dare you to take one look (let alone one bite) of these fun-filled blondies without smiling.

I was torn at what to call these celebratory treats. Double chocolate chip cookies ‘n cream confetti blondies is a mouthful even before you take a bite. They’re definitely more fun than funfetti, more colorful than cookies and cream. Party-something seemed appropriate, but I couldn’t decide between sprinkle party blondies, cookie party blondies, or house party blondies.

These blondies have so much going on you think it would be too much, but in this case… too much of a good thing? Even better.

They truly are a party in every bite.

Stack of three sprinkle party blondies with sandwich cookies, on a pink plate and pink background

The blondie base is very similar to my stuffed nutella blondies, though I reduced the scale since the mix-ins bump up the volume by quite a bit (the first batch I made was downright THICK), and skipped the brown butter since the focus of these blondies is on the flavorful mix-ins more than anything.

That said, you could easily substitute different mix-ins to suit your current cravings; the basic blondie recipe used here is a great foundation for just about any mix-in you can think of, from nuts to dried fruit to bits of chocolate or even toffee.

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Pumpkin Bread

I LOVE baking quick breads, hello, banana bread, lemon zucchini bread, chocolate banana bread, just to name a few. During the fall months, I love making Pumpkin Bread. I love my pumpkin chocolate chip bread recipe, but sometimes you just want classic p…

I LOVE baking quick breads, hello, banana bread, lemon zucchini bread, chocolate banana bread, just to name a few. During the fall months, I love making Pumpkin Bread. I love my pumpkin chocolate chip bread recipe, but sometimes you just want classic pumpkin loaf and this one is the BEST! The bread is super moist…

Healthy Banana Muffins

I have an obsession with banana bread (classic, chocolate, healthy, chocolate chip, peanut butter, and more) BUT I also love making banana muffins. Muffins are easy, delicious, and I love that I get my very own. I don’t have to share, ha! These H…

I have an obsession with banana bread (classic, chocolate, healthy, chocolate chip, peanut butter, and more) BUT I also love making banana muffins. Muffins are easy, delicious, and I love that I get my very own. I don’t have to share, ha! These Healthy Banana Muffins are a favorite banana muffin recipe at our house.…

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Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars

One of my super powers is turning zucchini into delicious desserts. If you’ve tried my chocolate zucchini cake, zucchini brownies, or zucchini cookies, you know it’s true. I have a gift for making the green vegetable taste super decadent an…

One of my super powers is turning zucchini into delicious desserts. If you’ve tried my chocolate zucchini cake, zucchini brownies, or zucchini cookies, you know it’s true. I have a gift for making the green vegetable taste super decadent and super delicious. These Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars are my latest and maybe greatest zucchini dessert.…

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deviled eggs

I will never find it again [please send me a link if see the original], but a few weeks ago a TikTok* went through my feed in which a woman is invited to eat half a dozen eggs and she says “Oh no, that’s too much.” “But…

I will never find it again [please send me a link if see the original], but a few weeks ago a TikTok* went through my feed in which a woman is invited to eat half a dozen eggs and she says “Oh no, that’s too much.” “But what if I scoop them out, mash it with mayo, and stuff it back together?” “Thanks, I’ll have the whole tray!”

hard-boiling eggs

I’m pretty sure this wasn’t the intended effect, but I’ve been craving deviled eggs since. I know we often think of them as a holiday party food, so this might make little sense, but I absolutely love them in the summer, especially when it’s too hot to cook anything real and I only want to eat, like, two cold salads and a handful of potato chips for dinner. Deviled eggs — basically egg salad with less gloop (my food writing chops are legendary, I know) — are the perfect piece to round out the meal. I like to keep hard-boiled eggs in the fridge anyway, so it’s just a matter of peeling, popping out the centers (why is this so fun), mashing them up, and spooning them back in.

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