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A large, chunky cookie filled with colorful candy-coated chocolates and chocolate chips sits on a cooling rack, surrounded by other similar cookies.

Cookies

Monster Cookies

A slice of layered strawberry dessert with whipped cream and graham crackers, topped with fresh strawberry pieces, served on a white plate with a fork.

No Bake

Strawberry Icebox Cake

A slice of icebox cake with layers of chocolate cookies and whipped cream sits on a plate, with cookie crumbs scattered around and whole cookies visible nearby.

No Bake

Icebox Cake

A slice of strawberry poke cake with white frosting, topped with two fresh strawberry halves, sits on a white plate. Fresh strawberries are visible in the background.

Cake

Poke Cake

A glass of bright red strawberry lemonade with ice, garnished with a lemon slice and strawberry. Another drink, strawberries, lemons, and a striped cloth are in the background on a woven mat.

Drinks

Easy Strawberry Lemonade Recipe

Two glasses of a creamy white drink with ice, each garnished with a lime slice, sit on a woven mat. Fresh limes and blue-striped straws are nearby, with a white tiled background.

Drinks

How to Make Brazilian Lemonade

A glass of pink lemonade with ice and lemon slices, garnished with a lemon wheel. Cranberries and lemon slices are nearby, with another glass and a large pitcher in the background.

Drinks

How to Make Pink Lemonade

A glass of lemonade with ice and lemon slices, placed on a white surface next to a halved lemon and a patterned green and white cloth in the background.

Drinks

Lemonade Recipe

A round cake with pink strawberry frosting sits on a white cake stand, topped with several fresh strawberries, some sliced in half. The background is softly blurred with hints of more strawberries.

Cake

Strawberry Cake

A partially eaten strawberry cupcake with pink strawberry frosting sits on a small white plate, surrounded by fresh strawberries. The cupcake’s liner is peeled back, revealing its moist, textured interior.

Cupcakes

Strawberry Cupcakes

A close-up of a red velvet cupcake with creamy white frosting and red crumbs on top, sitting on a parchment liner, with more cupcakes blurred in the background.

Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Cupcakes with swirled white frosting are topped with lemon wedges and lemon zest, arranged on a white surface, with a halved lemon visible in the background.

Cupcakes

Lemon Cupcakes

A variety of Easter-themed cupcakes on a wire rack, decorated as chicks with yellow icing, bunnies with pink ears, and some with blue swirled frosting topped with candy eggs.

Cupcakes

Easter Cupcakes

close up of a red velvet brownie topped with cream cheese frosting with a bite missing out of it, sprinkled with red velvet crumbs that are also scattered around

Valentine's Day

How to Make Red Velvet Brownies

close up of a pile of pink, white, yellow and green butter mints

Candy

How to Make Butter Mints

scattered and stacked peppermint patties with three halves in the middle on their sides, showing the white peppermint filling

Candy

Homemade York Peppermint Patties

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