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Summer

Summer is the perfect time for no bake desserts and fresh fruit desserts!

Wow your family with pina colada sangria, oreo dessert, or blueberry muffins! 

Kids love copycat dairy queen buster bars, watermelon cupcakes and rainbow popsicles! 

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

Strawberry Lemonade

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

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

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

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

fried ice cream on a white plate with a spoon, topped with a cherry and whipped cream

Recipes

Homemade Fried Ice Cream

Muffins

Best Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

A slice of no bake peanut butter pie with a chocolate cookie crust, topped with whipped cream and chopped peanut butter cups, sits in a glass pie dish.

Thanksgiving

Easy Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

A scoop of chocolate chip ice cream with chocolate chunks sits in a metal ice cream scooper on a white surface.

Frozen Desserts

Best Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Round cake pan of peanut butter ice cream with 3 scoops on top

Frozen Desserts

Peanut Butter Ice Cream

Closeup of strawberry shortcake cupcakes on platter

Cupcakes

Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes

Closeup of Cookie Monster Ice Cream scoop

Frozen Desserts

Cookie Monster Ice Cream

A round Orange Cake with smooth, light orange frosting is decorated on top with fresh orange slices and peel curls. The cake sits on a brown plate, with extra orange slices in the background for a vibrant display.

Cake

Orange Cake Recipe from Scratch

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