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Chocolate Cherry Cookies

These easy Chocolate Cherry Cookies are topped with a maraschino cherry and a chocolate glaze with sprinkles. Such a fun holiday cookie to share with friends and family.

A white plate with chocolate cookies with a hidden cherry center.

I know it is totally cliché, but Valentine's Day and Christmas makes me think about chocolate and cherries. Now to be completely honest, I think about chocolate all the time. It's that dang sweet tooth of mine.

These Valentine's kiss cookies and chocolate thumbprint cookies make the top of my list for the holiday. But today I wanted something with cherries.

There are always cake mixes and maraschino cherries on my pantry shelves, so I decided to make a chocolate version of these Chocolate Chip Cherry Cookies. If you love chocolate and cherries, trust me and make both of these easy cookie recipes. This oatmeal cherry chocolate cookie is a great choice as well!

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White Chocolate Reese's Rice Krispie Hearts

These little White Chocolate Reese's Rice Krispie Hearts will make everyone smile when they see the cute treat. They are such a fun no bake treat to make for Valentine's day parties.

Rice krispie treats in the form of a heart with a heart chocolate candy on them.

I puffy heart love Rice Krispie treats. In fact, I love them so much that I cannot stop eating them until they are gone. It's bad people. Bad for the jeans in my life that is.

Me on the other hand...well, I am good with more krispie treats in my life. Although, I should probably stop making them when no one is home with me.

Now add a peanut butter cup heart to the top, and you will want to eat the entire batch in one day. You can also add these peanut butter hearts to these peanut butter cookie bars!

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Strawberry Kiss Cookies

These Strawberry Kiss Cookies are soft and chewy and have the prettiest pink sparkle. Adding a Hershey kisses to the tops of the easy cake mix cookies is a fun way to make them look like blossom cookies.

Pink cookies topped with a chocolate kiss stacked on a board.

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Strawberry Kiss Cookies

It's no secret that we love cake mix cookies around here. These cookies and cream cookies and Rolo cookies are two of our most popular ones.

For Christmas, we made these chocolate mint kiss cookies. We even have a chocolate kiss cookie for Valentine's Day. But I wanted to change them and make pink strawberry cookies with Hershey kisses. The candy on top of the pink cookies makes these look just like our chocolate blossom cookies.

These kiss cookies are seriously so easy to do. Using a cake mix with just a few ingredients makes a cookie dough that bakes up soft and puffy with a delicious chew.

Rolling the dough balls in pink sanding sugar gives the cookies a pretty shimmer. Plus, the sugar crunch is pretty awesome when you bite into each one.

Why This Recipe Works

Easy to make with just a few ingredients.
Soft and chewy cookies loaded with strawberry flavor.
The bright pink color makes them festive for Valentine's Day or baby showers.

Strawberry, chocolate, and pink sparkles...what are you waiting for? Get to work baking a batch of these easy strawberry cookies for dessert tonight.

Bonus: If you are looking for treats to show your love, check out these 45 Valentine's Day recipes and this Strawberry Cheesecake Stuffed Cookie!

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10 Best Game Day Recipes

These 10 Best Game Day Recipes are perfect appetizers to share with your friends and family for the next big game day.

This weekend millions of people will be gathering together to watch the big football game. We usually get together with a group of our friends and play games while the Super Bowl plays in the background.

The requirement to come is your favorite appetizer...or dessert if you are me. I usually have to make a few things like these Reese's rice krispie treats and these football bars. The game day table just isn't complete without dessert. Am I right???

These football party ideas will get you excited to plan a simple party where you can enjoy food, friends, and cheering on your favorite team.

Of course, appetizers and dips are the main feature on a day like this. Over the past few years, we have made and shared a few that we make over and over. I thought it would be fun to pick 10 of our favorite and best game day recipes to highlight again.

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Funfetti Banana Bread

Need a way to use up ripe bananas? It doesn’t get any better than this Funfetti Banana Bread! Loads of colorful sprinkles and a sweet glaze make this cake batter bread a fun treat for any occasion.

The answer is yes if you are wondering. Yes, I am currently obsessed with making sweet breads right now. Let me clarify that. Not just any sweet bread, lots and lots of banana bread.

A few weeks ago I had this crazy desire to buy a bunch of bananas, let them ripen, then develop every crazy idea I could for loaves of banana bread.

This Chocolate Banana Bread was the first one, followed by this crazy cake batter banana bread staring at you right now. Both were equally amazing and delicious.

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Caramel Peanut Butter Snickers Cookies

These Caramel Peanut Butter Snickers Cookies have a hidden candy bar center and a sweet chocolate glaze. Fill your empty cookie jar with a batch of soft cake mix cookies this week.

Chocolate and peanut butter are my kryptonite. Ok, so maybe just sugar in general can do me in.

But chocolate and peanut butter are at the top of that sugar list. I have the hardest time resisting these Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats because of those two ingredients. So why do I keep making things that I'm going to have a hard time saying no to???

Well, I'm just trying to practice my self control. Just so you know, mission stay out of cookies this week was a complete and utter failure. Tomorrow is a new day...

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Almond Joy Hot Chocolate

Make an Almond Joy Hot Chocolate the next time you need a drink to warm you up. This easy, low carb hot chocolate tastes just like a gourmet drink, so no one will miss the sugar and calories.

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This past week we have been completely and totally enjoying the cold weather here in Florida. Although, I guess I should just say it is cool weather because we used to live in the Midwest. And those of you that live there know that is truly cold territory.

I can honestly say I do not miss those frigid, cold months. We do miss having a bonfire in our backyard though. There is just something about sitting around a warm fire and then waking up and smelling that lingering campfire smoke the next morning.

Those chilly nights around the fire always called for the three staples...hot dogs, s'mores, and hot chocolate. Not just any regular hot chocolate though. I recently realized how easy it is to make homemade hot chocolate using a few ingredients that we always have on hand.

Usually I would buy a big box of packaged mixes and keep those in the cupboard to mix up when the kids wanted a warm drink after playing outside. But now that I know how easy it is to make hot chocolate, it will be happening quite often around here.

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White Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Popcorn

A big bowl of this White Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Popcorn is a great snack mix to munch on during movie nights or game days.

This sweet and salty treat will disappear in a hurry, so you might want to make a batch of this Sweet and Salty Trail Mix too.

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Popcorn - this fun white chocolate covered popcorn is loaded with candies and pretzels. Make this easy no bake recipe to munch on during movies or games. #popcorn #chocolatecoveredpopcorn #whitechocolate #peanutbutter #pretzel #gameday #snackmix #nobake

I used to make chocolate covered popcorn all the time. An easy no bake snack mix that can be ready to be devoured in minutes is always a good idea. Well, maybe that's not such a good thing for my raging sweet tooth.

Anyway, I realized that it has been a few months since I shared some popcorn fun with you, so I had to change that. This month (and probably next month) I am on a mission to use up some of the extra baking stuff in the pantry. So, I started rummaging and pulled out some peanut butter M&M's, pretzels, and white chocolate melts to make something with.

White chocolate and peanut butter is quite an amazing combo. If you think so too, you have to try these Peanut Butter Balls dipped in white chocolate. They are also awesome in dark chocolate, just so you know.

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Double Chocolate Banana Bread

This Double Chocolate Banana Bread is the perfect way to start your day. It's sweet, moist, and has just the right amount of chocolate chips and frosting to make it extra special.

Love chocolate and banana together? Make sure you check out these double chocolate banana muffins and this Oreo banana bread.

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Chocolate Banana Bread

Do you ever look at the bananas on your counter and wonder what you are going to do with them when they ripen? Most of the time we use over ripe bananas in sweet breads or muffins.

I usually just make this sour cream banana bread because it's my favorite sweet bread, and it turns out perfect every single time. But it is also an easy recipe to change and modify when I'm craving something new.

Over the years, I have used it to make maple pecan banana bread, cherry chocolate chip banana bread, and cinnamon banana bread. This time, I decided to turn it into dark chocolate banana bread.

Why This Recipe Works

Chocolate makes everything better. Three times the chocolate really gives it a deep chocolate flavor.
The texture is kind of like a brownie - rich, decadent, and moist.
Great way to use up ripe bananas and satisfy your chocolate cravings.
Add chocolate frosting to take it over the top for the chocolate lover in your life.
Best and acceptable way to enjoy chocolate for breakfast.
Dark chocolate in it is full of antioxidants. Wink, wink!

This loaf of banana bread came out so amazing! The inside is soft and moist, with lots of chocolate chips in every bite. You won't be able to resist this tasty double chocolate banana bread.

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Easy Chicken Enchilada Soup

This Easy Chicken Enchilada Soup is loaded with veggies, meat, and pasta. It is a delicious recipe to make in under 20 minutes and is perfect for cold nights.

Winter weather around here has been crazy. Warm 80 degree weather one day, then chilly 50 degree weather the next day. I guess those are the benefits to living in Florida during the winter. You never know what you are going to get.

I really have been trying to do better with cooking dinner. But then there are those weeks that I totally slack off because my husband is out of town, so the kids ate cereal and quesadillas all week long. It could be worse I guess.

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