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Best Lemon Bars

With only a few ingredients and a blender the Best Lemon Bars come together in minutes. A sweet cookie crust adds the perfect touch to the tart and creamy lemon curd filling. These easy lemon bars are perfect for spring parties, showers, picnics, or bake sales.

Bonus: If you like lemon desserts then you will love this lemon cream cheese pie and this strawberry lemon cream pie.

Three lemon cookie squares with powdered sugar stacked on top of each other.

Why This Works

These shortbread lemon bars are responsible for changing my mind about sweet and sour desserts. I used to avoid all sour things because they would make me pucker.

Even thinking about lemon desserts would make me shiver, but then I am happy to report that I decided to give lemon another chance. Adding a sweet cookie layer balances out that sour flavor for me.

These sweet and sour bars and these lemon cookie bars made me realize that I DO like lemon...with lots of sugar. LOL!

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Carrot Cream Cheese Muffins

If you love carrot cake, you have to try these Carrot Cream Cheese Muffins! These soft, spiced carrot cake muffins are loaded with shredded carrots and warm cinnamon and stuffed with a rich, creamy cheesecake filling. They're perfect for breakfast, snack, or dessert!

Two carrot cake muffins stacked on top of each other on an orange towel with a bite taken out of the top one showing the cheesecake center.

Carrot Cheesecake Muffins

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is one of my all-time favorite cakes, so it just made sense to make these carrot cake muffins with cream cheese filling.

As I was working on the recipe for these carrot cheesecake muffins, I had to make a few batches to get it absolutely perfect.

After a few test runs on the carrot cake muffins, I doubled the cheesecake center because more cheesecake is never a bad idea. Am I right?

Why You'll Love This Recipe

The muffins are soft and moist and have a delicious cheesecake center that will have everyone reaching for more. They're a great breakfast recipe for Easter or Mother's Day. Another great choice is this Starbucks copycat lemon loaf.

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Coconut Chocolate Pie

The rich and creamy layers in this Coconut Chocolate Pie recipe will make this pudding pie a hit with everyone. No bake coconut cheesecake and chocolate pudding will have you going back for another slice in a hurry!

Chocolate Pudding Pie with Cheesecake:

The other day I was craving pie like crazy. I'm not sure why. Usually when I want something sweet, I crave these Homemade Chocolate Chip Brownies.

But for whatever reason I couldn't get the idea of a creamy pie out of my mind. So, I looked through the pantry and refrigerator to see what I could come up with.

I found a few boxes of chocolate pudding, shredded coconut, cream cheese, and Cool Whip. I knew right away that a pudding pie with a no bake cheesecake layer had to happen right away.

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Easter Rice Krispie Treats

Easter Rice Krispies Treats with M&Ms are a fun and colorful treat that everyone will enjoy. Sprinkles, candies, and extra marshmallows make these the easiest and best sweets you will ever make.

Three Easter rice krispies treats with M&M candies and sprinkles stacked on top of each other on a pink board

The post for Easter Rice Krispie Treats was first published in March 2018. It was updated and republished in March 2021.

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Rice Krispie Treats with M&Ms

Today, we are talking about the easiest and best treat around: Rice Krispie Treats. They are seriously so easy to make for just about any reason.

I have no self-control around these easy no-bake treats, so I usually try to take them to different parties or get-togethers. Last week I made some Bunny Butt Rice Krispies that are so cute for Easter, so I have had no bake treats on my mind.

Since I had bags of Easter M&Ms and lots of sprinkles in our pantry, it seemed like another pan of these M&M rice krispies treats was the answer.

Why I Love This Recipe

These fun Rice Krispie squares are loaded with M&Ms and sprinkles. The bright colors pop out on these sweet treats. Feel free to use any variety of M&Ms to match your theme or mood.

Allow the warm marshmallow and cereal mixture to cool before adding the candies, or you'll end up with unicorn treats, as the colors will melt and spread.

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Cookie Butter Eggs

Cookie Butter Eggs are a delicious nut free candy that anyone can enjoy. A creamy cookie butter filling coated in white chocolate makes a dreamy Easter dessert.

A pink napkin with a white chocolate covered cookie butter egg on it and half of another egg stacked on top

Last weekend we made a batch of Peanut Butter Balls and decorated them to look like bunny butts. As I was eating one I started thinking about kids and adults with nut allergies who will never be able to enjoy Reese's eggs at Easter.

I decided to create a fun nut free candy that those with a nut allergy could make for Easter baskets.

They are just like these Peanut Butter Eggs, but these are stuffed with cookie butter goodness instead.

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Vanilla Pudding Cookies

The best Vanilla Pudding Cookies are loaded with two kinds of chocolate chips, M&M's candies, and sprinkles. Adding a box of instant pudding keeps these pudding cookies so soft and chewy for days! Grab a few to enjoy with a big glass of milk.

Vanilla Pudding Cookies with M&M's

All you need to bake these pudding cookies is one bowl, a few ingredients, and a couple minutes. The dough comes together so quickly. There is no chill time, so you can bake the cookies right away.

The best thing about these pudding cookies is that you can make and bake them right away, and you can use whatever candy you have on hand. I had a few bags of Easter M&M's candy in the pantry, so I decided to make pudding cookies for our kids.

These are the perfect cookies to make when you need a quick and easy dessert, need a fun treat for get togethers or picnics, or just want cookies.

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Lemon Fruit Parfait

A Lemon Fruit Parfait is an easy treat to bring to summer cookouts or barbecues. Layers of snack cakes, lemon mousse, and fresh berries make each no bake dessert cup so fruity and delicious.

No Bake Parfaits:

Living in Florida, summer comes to us by early April. We are preparing for those nice hot days. Thankfully, the humidity does not come until later.

When it gets hot and extra humid outside, we really do not like to turn the oven on. Easy no bake desserts are the perfect thing for those hot summer days.

During the summer months I like to make a yogurt fruit salad using Cool Whip, lemon yogurt, and fresh berries for a light and refreshing dessert.

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Bunny Cupcakes

Marshmallow ears and candy eyes make these Bunny Cupcakes so adorable. This chocolate cupcake recipe is so easy to make with vanilla frosting, coconut, marshmallows, and sprinkles. Perfect treat for Easter or a cupcake decorating party.

Do you remember getting those giant chocolate bunnies in your Easter basket as a child? I swear they were at least 2 feet tall and were made of solid milk chocolate.

They were so big, that you were chewing on that chocolate bunny all the way until July!! Ok, ok, so maybe I'm stretching that part of it.

One of the running jokes in our house around Easter is all about the chocolate bunnies in the store. My husband says that over the years my mind has forgotten what those bunnies really looked like.

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White Chocolate Easter Popcorn

This easy white chocolate Easter Popcorn recipe is a fun snack to make for holidays. Pastel candies and colorful sprinkles give this Spring popcorn mix a fun pop of color! It's the perfect treat to snack on during movie nights or to give as party favors.

A white bowl on a pink towel filled with white chocolate popcorn that has sprinkles and candies in it.

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I loving shopping in the seasonal aisle at Target. Recently I was there and I filled my cart with a few bags of fun Easter candy.

After a week of the candy sitting in the back of the pantry, I decided to use a bag of candy in a dessert. At first I was thinking about another version of this Easter fudge.

But then I raided the pantry and found a few bags of microwave popcorn, a bag of white chocolate, and lots and lots of sprinkles.

Why Make This Popcorn

This Easter popcorn is easy to make in minutes. All you have to do is pop some popcorn seeds and melt some chocolate. The hardest part is waiting for everything to set up.

Each bite has the perfect sweet and salty flavor and is loaded with candies and colorful sprinkles.

If you love chocolate covered popcorn, make sure you check out our Reese's popcorn and this cookies and cream popcorn.

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Homemade Chocolate Chip Brownies

These Chocolate Chip Brownies will change your life. Skip the box mix because this homemade brownie recipe is easy to make and turns out fudgy and delicious every time. You will want to make these easy chocolate brownies all the time!

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What is your baking style? Do you like plain desserts or jazzed-up desserts? I'm Team Jazz all the way!

Why else would I add Dr Pepper to a chocolate cake? Sounds crazy? Maybe. But if you tried this Dr Pepper chocolate cake, you would be amazed.

I personally like to embellish these chocolate chip brownies with extra candy and toppings. But my family always asks for "plain" brownies or regular chocolate chip cookies. I have also mixed them and made these brookies!

I found this fudgy brownie recipe in an old church cookbook from Goodwill. After a few rounds of recipe testing and tweaking, I developed a dense brownie with a rich dark chocolate color that tastes amazing!

Why You Will Love Brownies With Chocolate Chips

Easy to make. The batter for these easy homemade brownies comes together in minutes with just a few ingredients.
Rich dark color and taste. Using dark cocoa powder and chocolate chips gives these brownies an amazing color and chocolaty flavor.
Seriously, the best homemade brownies! They are fudgy and moist with a crackly top.

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