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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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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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Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars Recipe

Mint and chocolate swirls make these Grasshopper Cheesecake Bars a decadent and dreamy dessert. It really is SO EASY to make this mint cheesecake recipe. The creamy cheesecake bars have an Oreo cookie crust, homemade whipped cream, and green sprinkles. Such a delicious dessert for St. Patrick's day or any day of the year!

A white plate with a square of grasshopper cheesecake with chocolate swirls and topped with whipped cream and sprinkles

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If you love making seasonal treats and desserts, you are going to love these chocolate mint bars. There is just something so fun and exciting about baking (and eating) holiday desserts.

Different holidays in each month give you an excuse to bake and decorate something sweet and delicious for your sweet tooth. And it gives you an excuse to pull out a giant box of sprinkles to decorate with.

I love baking easy cheesecake bars in different flavors and colors. One of my personal favorites are these chocolate cheesecake bars. Last week I had so much fun re-making these Rainbow Cheesecake Bars, that we decided to do a fun mint chocolate swirl for the next version.

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Rainbow Cheesecake Bars

Tired of boring desserts? Brighten up the dessert table with these easy Rainbow Cheesecake Bars. They have a swirl of bright tie dye colors on top making it the perfect dessert any time of year. It is an easy cheesecake recipe to customize for any theme or holiday by changing the colors.

Spring has definitely arrived here in Florida. Flowers are blooming, and the weather has been getting warmer during the day. I love going to stores and seeing all the pretty plants that you can plant in your own yards.

I have been trying to acquire a green thumb by planting more flowers and plants outside. Over the years I have learned to avoid the inside plants because those tend to die way too quickly on my watch.

So far, only a few outdoor plants have decided to pass on living in my flower beds. A few others were nibbled on by the deer, so I'm not taking credit for their deaths.

It's probably better if I stick to being a baker and making cheesecake bars instead of trying to be a gardener. These fun vanilla cheesecake recipe was inspired by all the flowers that I want to plant.

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Shamrock Shake Sugar Cookie Bars

These soft mint Shamrock Shake Sugar Cookie Bars are a fun and easy treat for St. Patrick's Day. White frosting, green sugar, and a cherry make this sugar cookie bar recipe look like the popular McDonald's shamrock shake.

Ok, so I realized that I just shared a sugar cookie bar with you recently. But this weekend I was scrolling through Facebook, and I saw a few different posts for shamrock shakes.

Want to know something? I don't think I have ever had one before. Can you believe that? Please tell me I am not the only one. I've been too busy making and drinking a Homemade Mint Latte instead.

And in 8 years of blogging I have never made any sort of shamrock dessert. I'm definitely a fly by the seat of my pants kind of blogger.

Usually on a whim, I get crazy ideas for food that I can't rest until I make. This was one of those moments!

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Cheesy Chicken Sliders

Add these Cheesy Chicken Sliders to your weekly menu and watch everyone devour the loaded chicken sandwiches when you place them on the table. These easy rolls come together quickly with a chicken and veggie mixture, Hawaiian rolls, and lots of gooey cheese.

Now that our kids are older, we enjoy having them help us with dinner. When they were younger, they would help by opening cans and pouring the ingredients into the pots.

We have now been having them plan and prepare dinner for us. It's not their favorite thing to do, but we want them to be prepared as they approach college age. Each week, they give us their dinner idea, and we purchase the ingredients for their meal.

They still have many questions about how to do things, but they are getting much better at reading a recipe and figuring out how to put it together in the right order.

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Sweet and Spicy Dr. Pepper Chili

A pot of this sweet and spicy Dr. Pepper Chili is the perfect choice for winter days, chili cook-offs, or game day parties. The hearty chili recipe gets its sweet-and-spicy flavor from chipotle peppers and a can of Dr. Pepper.

Two white bowls on black plates filled with Dr. Pepper Chili and topped with shredded cheese, sour cream, and green onions

The post for sweet and spicy Dr. Pepper chili was first published in March 2014. The post and photos were updated and republished in February 2021.

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Chili is one of the meals we eat the most during the winter months. Even the winter months in Florida get a little chilly. Occasionally, we even make a pot of this sweet and spicy chili or this low carb chili during the summer months.

I usually take the cheater chili approach. I open cans of beans, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice, and mix them in a crockpot with some cooked ground beef. Thankfully, my husband loves cooking, as my chili skills need improvement.

This Dr. Pepper chili is one of his best creations. He found a beer chili recipe online and modified it with soda and a few other ingredients to make it a family favorite.

The soda pop adds a sweet flavor to this chili, balancing the spice from the chipotle peppers. The peppers were actually my dinner idea contribution to the chili. Go me!

Spicy peppers pair so well with the sweet Dr. Pepper, making this the best chili ever!

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Funfetti Sugar Cookie Bars

These easy Funfetti Sugar Cookie Bars are made and frosted in one pan. A soft chewy cookie recipe with sprinkles and vanilla buttercream frosting will get smiles from everyone!

Change up the frosting color and sprinkles for any party or holiday.

Three funfetti sugar cookie bars with vanilla buttercream frosting stacked on top of each other and a bite out of the top bar

A few years ago I realized just how easy it was to make sugar cookies in a pan. Since then I have not spent any time at all with my big box of cookie cutters.

I'm all for saving time by baking and frosting cookies in one pan! Who is with me?

One of these days I'm sure those cookie cutters will have to come out for a batch of these Sugar Cookies, but until then it's bars all the way!!!

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