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Zucchini–Blueberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Zucchini bread, muffins, and cupcakes are often presented as a way to make dessert healthier or a to sneak a few vegetables into your sweets. But the truth is: a cupcake will always be a cupcake. The...
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Salted Caramel Milkshake Recipe
Milkshakes are a perfect drink to get creative with! After all, a stellar milkshake doesn’t require any special skills or tools, just a blender, a little imagination, and a few minutes. One of my very...
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Simple Dots and Stripes Veggie Flatbread Pizzas
Pizza is always an event in my house. Even on an ordinary day or if we’re just ordering take-out, everyone gets excited for pizza night. Homemade pizza is my favorite, but making the dough and sauce,...
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Chocolate Chip Polka Dot Granola Bars
Every year at this time, I’m stunned by the frenetic pace that comes with the new school year. After the slow days of summer, everything needs to be quick, quick, quick. Mornings require precise...
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Baked Apple Cider Mini Donuts
Apple picking season is one I look forward to each year. I love everything about it – crisp weather, tiny apple trees absolutely brimming with fruit, and – of course – warm apple cider donuts. The...
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Blended Choco-Berry Bliss Smoothies
Parenting lessons are hard won and easy to forget. Both my girls are back in school and it’s taken me weeks of chaos to re-learn an important tenet of smooth weekday afternoons: without a good snack,...
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Simply Scrumptious Cinnamon Swirl Muffins
Let the fall baking season commence! Sure, I know others may have jumped in weeks ago, but I like to wait for cooler weather and leaves tinged with color. This weekend, I got my wish – cool, rainy...
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Homemade Kettle Corn Recipe
I love the season of crisp weather and rosy cheeks. As much as I enjoy a brisk walk or playing in the yard with my daughters, coming home to a toasty house and cozying up to a steamy mug of tea and a...
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Homemade Apple Vanilla Cobbler Recipe
Holiday cooking can get pretty complicated with all those geese and rib roasts and spiced cider and figgy pudding and myriad other dishes that only get made once a year. But I’ve found that when...
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Roasted Strawberry Milkshakes
After the long winter, early season strawberries are a welcome sight. Plump and lightly sweet, early strawberries are more mild-tasting than their vibrant red peak-season counterparts and I’ve found...
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Cherry Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
A great cake doesn’t always happen on the first try. When I began testing this cherry chocolate cake, I was inspired by the season of abundance and just could not temper my urge to cram a full pound...
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Healthy Summer Snacks: Ombre Fruit Cups
At my house, the arrival of locally grown seasonal fruit triggers an avalanche of desserts. I’m of the opinion that where there are berries, there should also be pie. And cake. And ice cream. Of...
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Cream Cheese and Cherry Swirl Blondies
Classic recipes are classic for a reason – they’re the kind of easy sweets everyone loves. But even the most beloved classics need an occasional upgrade, and that’s where these cream cheese and cherry...
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Fresh Raspberry Layer Cake
Creating a show-stopping layer cake doesn’t have to be complicated, especially when summer produce is at its very peak. This fresh raspberry cake makes the most of the season with perfectly ripe...
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Blueberry Hand Pies
Blueberry pie is undoubtedly a classic summer dessert. But since many of summer’s best moments happen on the go – at the beach or a picnic or just a casual outdoor cookout – cutting and serving pie...
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Triple Berry Oat Crumb Bars
This simple recipe for triple berry crumb bars is a great way to take a classic summer crumble on the go. Just as sweet and delicious as a classic fruit crisp or crumble, these oat crumb bars have a...
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Homemade Italian Sodas
Classic Italian sodas were a coffeehouse staple for me as a California teenager and I still find them to be a wonderful way to cool off in the worst heat of summer (or anytime, really). These homemade...
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Blueberry Limeade
Summer’s end may be within reach, but the weather’s as hot as ever and kids (and parents) everywhere are in need of serious refreshment. Lemonade often pops up as the summertime standard, but limeade...
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Whole Wheat Plum Cake
The transition from summer to fall is an excellent time to embrace produce – late August, in particular, offers the very best of fall and summer fruits and vegetables, all in season at the very same...
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Whole Wheat Pumpkin Pancakes
Fall weekends call for leisurely breakfasts and family time. After so many busy summer weekends – filled with travel, swimming, and cookouts – fall offers time to settle into a more relaxed pace. A...
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Cinnamon Tea Lattes
With the school year and fall schedules in full swing, it’s a great time to make sure that relaxing moments and downtime are even more special. Homemade cinnamon tea lattes are just the thing for...
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Chocolate Spiderweb Layer Cake
Halloween is a season of scary delights and creepy-crawly crafts, and this chocolate spiderweb cake offers the best of all possible worlds! With a host of decadent flavors like a rich chocolate crumb,...
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Spiced Butternut Squash Bundt Cake
Few treats capture the season as perfectly as spiced butternut squash bundt cake. This simple centerpiece has a springy, winter squash-suffused crumb, and is an ideal dessert for fall celebrations and...
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Baked Vanilla Cake Donuts with Sprinkles
Celebratory mornings are something we all need more of, and these baked donuts are the perfect way to get the (breakfast) party started. Because the recipe is so easy to put together and they bake up...
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Raspberry Lemon Bundt Cake
Every baker should have a springy, perfectly moist bundt cake recipe in their repertoire. This one has a bright, lemony flavor and a layer of tart raspberries that’s right at home at brunch or...
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Mixed Berry Country Cake
A berry-topped country cake is the pinnacle of summer eating. It has all the simplicity and of-the-moment flavor of strawberry shortcake but comes together as an easy layer cake that’s perfect for...
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Mini Banana Splits Recipe
There’s no need to wait for a trip to the ice cream parlor – these mini banana splits are decked out with all the good stuff! And, since they’re mini, you can enjoy without feeling you’ve overdone it....
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Monochrome Fruit Salad Cups
These arresting monochrome fruit cups make a simple, healthful treat feel special and new. If your kids ever resist eating their daily quota of fruits and veggies, these colorful fruit cups will...
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Mini Birthday Cakes with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting
Miniaturized birthday cakes are an incredibly cute, fresh take on traditional birthday fare, but the yellow cake’s lofty crumb and the tangy richness of chocolate sour cream frosting ensure that these...
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Spicy Caramel Corn
Crunchy caramel corn is a delicious snack to break out at parties or on movie nights. A hint of paprika and a sprinkle of sea salt balance the smoky sweetness of caramel beautifully. The recipe below...
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