Author name: Dorothy Kern

Copycat Birthday Bundt Cake

A slice of bundt cake with colorful sprinkles baked inside, topped with white icing and more sprinkles, sits on a white plate with scattered sprinkles around it.The easiest way to make a cake for birthday celebrations: Birthday Bundt Cake! This Funfetti Bundt Cake Recipe is a copycat cake and one of the moistest and most delicious bundt cakes I’ve ever made. It’s gorgeous and tastes SO good – it will cure all your cake cravings. We’re all familiar with Nothin’ Bundt…

Pumpkin Pie Spice Substitute

A metal tablespoon in a white bowl filled with brown ground spice, likely pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon, on a white surface with a small orange decoration and cinnamon stick nearby.Ever wondered how to make pumpkin pie spice? Make a homemade pumpkin pie spice blend in under 5 minutes (either 1 teaspoon to substitute in a recipe or a big batch to have on hand all season). I usually need pumpkin spice way before grocery stores stock it, so knowing how to make it myself…

The Life of a Showgirl Charcuterie

A round tray filled with colorful cookies, crackers, animal-shaped snacks, and candies sits on a white surface. Red flowers, sparkling beads, disco balls, and two Bollywood magazine covers frame the tray.Step into the spotlight because it’s time for The Life of a Showgirl! Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album is the perfect gel-pen glittery album for a party. Having an album release or a party? Make The Life of a Showgirl Charcuterie – a glittery orange collection of desserts and snacks perfect to keep you munching…

Birthday Cake Popcorn

A bowl of popcorn covered in colorful rainbow sprinkles, with extra popcorn and sprinkles scattered on a white surface around the bowl.Your favorite new popcorn flavor: cake batter popcorn!! This birthday cake popcorn uses cake mix and white chocolate (and sprinkles!) to make a delicious and EASY sweet treat for any movie night or just because you have a sweet tooth like me. I love popcorn as a nighttime snack! I like to keep my mouth…

Birthday Cookie Board

A teal tray filled with assorted colorful cookies, candies, gummies, chocolate, and sweets, surrounded by party decorations, confetti, and plates on a white marble surface.Skip the birthday cake and make a Birthday Board with your favorite cookies and sweet treats – a birthday charcuterie board is superior! Plus it’s festive because of all the sprinkles!! It’s the perfect way to say happy birthday. Dessert boards are all the rage – and they’re so much fun to create! Think of…

Copycat Disneyland Recipes

Mickey Mouse shaped Rice Krispie treats covered in chocolate and colorful M&Ms.Love going to Disneyland or California Adventure? These copycat recipes are just like the originals but better because you can have them at home without the pricey price tag. From the classic Dole Whip to my recreation of Churro Toffee and even cocktails, these are my favorite copycat Disneyland recipes! Mickey Rice Krispie Treats are…

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

golden brown cookies stacked on each otherPumpkin Snickerdoodles are the perfect super soft and chewy pumpkin cookies, a twist on a classic snickerdoodle recipe with the added flavor of pumpkin. Using pumpkin spice and fresh pumpkin puree levels up classic snickerdoodles and makes them perfect for fall. What really makes the flavor of these pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies stand out is that you’re…

Birthday Cake Fudge

Close-up of creamy white fudge squares topped with colorful rainbow sprinkles, arranged on a white parchment surface. The fudge looks rich and festive, with a smooth texture and fun, vibrant colors.Skip the cake – make Birthday Cake Fudge instead! This easy white chocolate fudge is full of cake batter flavor and colorful sprinkles – it’s the perfect fudge recipe for birthdays or even holidays! Plus it’s so good – especially if you love funfetti flavor – a no bake sweet treat everyone loves! I’m obsessed…

Birthday Cake Recipes

A close-up of three stacked, frosted blondie bars filled with colorful rainbow sprinkles. The bars have a soft, chewy texture and are topped with white icing and extra sprinkles.If you love birthday cake flavor (AKA Funfetti or cake batter) then this is the list for you – all my favorite birthday cake recipes that aren’t just cake! From Rice Krispie treats to cookies, ice cream to snack mix – all of these easy recipes have tons of cake batter flavor. Cake Batter Cookies…

Peanut Butter Cookie Gooey Bars

A stack of three gooey chocolate chip cookie bars on a white plate, with melted chocolate visible and a few chocolate chips scattered around. The background shows more cookie bars slightly out of focus.These Peanut Butter Cookie Gooey Bars combine my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe and gooey chocolate for the most decadent gooey bar EVER! These bars start with my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe. I’ve used that same recipe for so many things, including s’mores, caramel cookie bars, and stuffed cookies. Then I turned them into…

Caramel Cookie Bars

A close-up of three stacked chocolate chip cookie bars filled with gooey caramel and melted chocolate chips, with a soft and crumbly texture. Unwrapped caramel candies are visible in the background.Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars meet caramel in these soft Caramel Cookie Bars! These bars have a layer of soft and gooey caramel baked in the center, so every bite is a pure heaven. These are gooey, rich, and delicious – a favorite recipe that everyone loves. Where do I start with these cookie bars? There are so many…

Homemade Cinnamon Bread

A close-up of a loaf of cinnamon swirl bread, sliced to show the spiral pattern inside, resting on a wire cooling rack with a light background.This Homemade Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe is an easy white bread recipe full of swirls of cinnamon sugar! The homemade version is way better than the stuff you buy – it’s fresh and SO GOOD and full of cinnamon sugar swirl. It makes two loaves, freezes great, and tastes amazing! I used to be scared of making…

Toasted Coconut Rice Krispie Treats

Two rice crispy treat bars stacked on top of each other, with a plate of more bars and a small glass bowl of toasted bits in the background on a white surface.Toasted Coconut Rice Krispies Treats use my best recipe and add tons of coconut flavor! Coconut lovers are going to love these – they’re chewy and crunchy with coconut in every single bite. If you’re in search of the perfect treat – this is it! Coconut Rice Krispie Treats are my new favorite – these…

16 Rice Krispie Treat Recipes

hand pulling apart pumpkin Rice Krispie treat.Rice Krispie Treats are the best no-bake bars ever – they’re sweet and crunchy and so easy to make different flavors! From using different flavor cereal to adding things like peanut butter or pudding mix, it’s so simple to change up cereal treats (and so good too!) Classic Rice Krispie Treat Flavors Best Ever Rice…

Lemon Cupcakes

A lemon cupcake with creamy white frosting and a small lemon wedge on top, sitting on an unwrapped cupcake liner. Other cupcakes and a halved lemon are visible in the background.These Lemon Cupcakes are the perfect lemon dessert with triple the lemon flavor. It’s like lemon smacks you in the face in every single bite! This is one of my favorite cupcake recipes – moist lemon cupcakes with tender crumb, lemon filling and lemon buttercream frosting! It’s no secret that I love lemon recipe. I never used to like citrus in…

35+ Easy No Churn Ice Cream Recipes

Two scoops of vanilla ice cream in a blue patterned bowl, topped with colorful sprinkles and a spoon nearby. The slightly blurred background highlights the creamy texture—a perfect treat inspired by easy ice cream recipes.The only ice cream we make is no churn ice cream: it’s easier and tastes just as good as the real thing! Making ice cream at home can be really easy without a machine – you only need 2 ingredients for the base recipe and a whole lot of imagination for the rest. This is…

Crookie Recipe

Freshly baked croissants stuffed with chocolate chip cookie dough, some topped with colorful sprinkles, are cooling on a wire rack. The pastries are golden brown and flaky.The Crookie is one of the best viral recipe trends to hit the internet in a long while. Don’t roll your eyes at this – it’s absolutely delicious: a buttery croissant with chocolate chip cookies baked inside. It’s gooey and crunchy and soft and sweet and SO GOOD. I believe the Crookie trend started in…

15 Best Peanut Butter Recipes

Close up shot of XL bakery style peanut butter cookies on a sheet panI share a LOT of peanut butter recipes on this site because we absolutely love peanut butter desserts. My husband is a peanut butter lover so I’m constantly coming up with new ways to use it in recipes. Plus, for many years, it was the only dessert he’d eat (although his palate has expanded in…

Lemon Gooey Bars

Three square lemon bars stacked on a white plate, with a bright yellow color and visible chunks, set in front of a wire rack and a sliced lemon in the background.If you’re a lemon lover, you’re going to love these Lemon Cake Mix Bars. Also called Lemon Gooey Bars, they have just 5 ingredients! They’re gooey and rich and the best easy dessert recipe; these delicious lemon bars are the perfect cake mix dessert. If you love making cookie bars out of cake mix you’re…

Easy Soft Pretzel Bites

bowl of soft pretzel bitesDid you know you can make Soft Pretzel Bites at home? And they’re EASY – semi-homemade with just 4 ingredients? These is an epic soft pretzel recipe you’re going to love. You can enjoy soft pretzel bites at home; no mall trip necessary! While I love homemade soft pretzels and soft pretzel bites, sometimes I…

Greek Pasta Salad

A glass bowl filled with Greek or Mediterranean salad containing lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, chickpeas, black olives, feta cheese, and orzo, with wooden utensils and tomatoes in the background.This Greek Pasta Salad recipe is the perfect easy dinner recipe and it’s perfect for a summer potluck. It’s a simple pasta salad with orzo and tons of Greek flavors – feta and briny olives with fresh veggies and a red wine vinaigrette. We absolutely love this recipe! This salad has countless elements to it with so…

12 BEST 4th of July Recipes

white plate with pile of cookies with red white and blue M&MsI excel at making red, white, and blue desserts – it’s actually one of my favorite things. I’ve loved the color combination my entire life and I love adding sprinkles to anything, so it fits. No matter what you’re making or where you’re going for the Fourth of July, you need dessert. Treats are required…

Pistachio Pie (Watergate Pie)

A slice of creamy green pistachio pie topped with whipped cream and chopped pistachios sits on a white plate, with the rest of the pie and utensils visible in the background.No Bake Pistachio Pie is an easy no-bake pie full of Watergate Salad! It’s got a graham cracker crust and a creamy pudding filling with pineapple, nuts and marshmallows. It’s the perfect pistachio flavored recipe! If you remember this pineapple pistachio fluff from the 70s, you’ll recognize this recipe. Except I took it one further and turned it…

Pistachio Pie (Watergate Pie)

A slice of creamy green pistachio pie topped with whipped cream and chopped pistachios sits on a white plate, with the rest of the pie and utensils visible in the background.No Bake Pistachio Pie is an easy no-bake pie full of Watergate Salad! It’s got a graham cracker crust and a creamy pudding filling with pineapple, nuts and marshmallows. It’s the perfect pistachio flavored recipe! If you remember this pineapple pistachio fluff from the 70s, you’ll recognize this recipe. Except I took it one further and turned it…

Easy Oreo Fluff Salad

A blue bowl filled with cookies and cream dip, topped with a whole chocolate sandwich cookie, sits on a white plate with additional cookies and a gold spoon beside it.Easy Oreo Fluff Salad is a dessert salad that’s super creamy with fluffy marshmallows and crunch from TONS of Oreo cookies. This easy recipe is a no bake dessert from heaven with simple ingredients – everyone loves this so much. Seriously I could just face plant into this fluff recipe. It’s a bowl full of fluffy creamy pudding filled with…

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