This easy Chocolate Caramel Tart features an Oreo cookie crust, a soft buttery caramel layer, and a silky chocolate ganache finished with flaky kosher salt. It’s a rich, elegant-looking dessert that’s surprisingly simple to prepare. If you’re a chocolate lover, this tart is for you. A crisp chocolate cookie crust holds a warm, buttery caramel … Read more

These Coconut Cashews, inspired by Trader Joe’s, are made with coconut milk, coconut oil, sugar, and coconut flakes to create incredibly delicious candied nuts. On a recent trip to Salt Lake City for a blog conference, I discovered Trader Joe’s Coconut Cashews and immediately fell in love. Since I don’t live near a Trader Joe’s, … Read more

Raspberry Fluff Fruit Salad is a classic jello-style fruit salad everyone enjoys. With just four ingredients and about five minutes of prep, it’s an easy, sweet side for potlucks, picnics, or BBQs. At potlucks I always save space for salads, and a fluffy jello fruit salad like this is a favorite. There’s also an orange-flavored … Read more

Strawberry Sugar Cookie Bars – soft, moist sugar cookie bars topped with a naturally flavored strawberry frosting. Easy to make and ideal for serving a crowd. When strawberries are at their peak in spring, I love turning them into bright, fruity desserts. For these bars I adapted my favorite sugar cookie dough into a sheet-baked … Read more

Scotcharoos are extra-soft peanut butter Rice Krispie bars topped with melted chocolate and butterscotch chips. These old-fashioned, no-bake treats are simple and nostalgic. More Butterscotch Desserts: If you enjoy butterscotch, try Butterscotch Pudding Cookies, Pumpkin Butterscotch Muffins, Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies, or classic Seven Layer Bars for more ways to use butterscotch chips and … Read more

Turtle Thumbprint Cookies are soft chocolate cookies rolled in pecans, filled with caramel, finished with a sprinkle of flaky salt and a chocolate drizzle — a perfect holiday treat. These turtle thumbprint cookies are impressive to look at and even better to eat. They have a tender, brownie-like chocolate base, a gooey caramel center, crunchy … Read more

This is the BEST banana cake topped with the BEST cream cheese frosting! Perfect for picnics and potlucks, this banana sheet cake is a crowd-pleaser—everyone asks for the recipe. For a while we weren’t using our bananas, so I froze several that were getting too ripe. After finishing a recent health challenge (I lost 11.8 … Read more

This one-pan chicken dinner features a honey-garlic glazed chicken served with tender roasted potatoes and crisp green beans. It’s simple, flavorful, and guaranteed to become a repeat favorite. This sheet-pan meal is one we make often — it’s easy, satisfying, and full of flavor. The honey-garlic glaze is sweet and savory, and it pairs perfectly … Read more

If you enjoy apple fritters, you’ll love this peach fritters donut recipe. Fresh peaches tossed with brown sugar and warm spices are folded into frozen yeast dough, deep-fried, and dipped in a cinnamon-peach glaze. These Southern-style fritters use a yeast dough rather than a batter, giving them the soft, airy texture of bakery-style doughnuts. Using … Read more

This Apple French Toast Casserole features an oat and apple mixture baked on the bottom that becomes the topping when you invert each slice—an easy, flavorful breakfast or brunch favorite. Apples are one of my favorite flavors, especially as the weather cools. Even though it’s a bit early to be thinking fall, a stretch of … Read more