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Family Favorites

Below you’ll find the most popular recipes on our site and for good reason – you’re making these recipes over and over & sharing them with friends and family! Browse these favorites by season!

Summer: lemon cookies and pina colada sangria
Fall: pumpkin bread and pumpkin dump cake
Winter: turtle cookies and chocolate pudding pie
Spring: box brownies made better and earthquake cake 

A close-up of a sliced marble loaf cake with swirls of chocolate and vanilla, topped with a glossy layer of chocolate glaze. Slices of the cake are arranged on a white surface.

Cake

Marble Pound Cake with a Bold Chocolate Swirl

A square piece of vanilla cake with chocolate frosting sits on a white plate next to a fork. Colorful sprinkles are scattered on the plate, and the background is softly blurred.

Cake

How to Make Box Cake Better Every Time

A hand lifts a gooey rice crispy treat from a batch of square-cut treats on parchment paper. The treats are golden brown with visible puffed rice cereal, stuck together with melted marshmallow.

Fall

Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats

two halves of an apple turnover, showing the inside with apple filling, with half leaning on top of a whole turnover and more turnovers in the background

Fall

Apple Turnovers With Puff Pastry

a small trifle dish full of ambrosia salad with a cherry on top surrounded by more dishes of salad, a light orange towel and a spoon

Miscellaneous Desserts

Classic Ambrosia Salad Recipe

a large trifle dish of dirt cake topped with gummy worms surrounded by smaller dishes of dirt cake, gummy worms and a light teal towel

Family Favorites

Best Recipe for Dirt Cake

a small white bowl with a serving of peach crisp with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Fruit Crisp

Peach Oatmeal Crisp

over head view of peach cobbler in a square white baking dish surrounded by fresh peaches, whole and slices, a stack of plates and spoon and a white and grey striped kitchen towel

Fruit Crisp

Homemade Peach Cobbler Recipe

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Recipes

Homemade Chocolate Covered Pretzels

strawberry shortcake on a small white plate with a fork and more strawberries sprinkled around and another plate of strawberry shortcake in the background

Cake

Classic Strawberry Shortcake

a slice of ice cream cake being lifted away from the rest of the cake with a spatula

Cake

How To Make Ice Cream Cake

overhead view of a cast iron skillet full of a giant chocolate chip cookie (pizookie) and three scoop of vanilla ice cream, with a spoon in the middle and bites missing out, sitting on top of a blue cloth surrounded by a cup of chocolate chips, chocolate chips scattered around and two spoons

Cookies

Pizookie Cookie Skillet

a white bowl lined with brown paper full of homemade chex mix

Recipes

The Best Recipe for Chex Mix

A slice of no bake oreo pie cheesecake on a white plate, topped with whipped cream, cookie crumbles, and a whole chocolate sandwich cookie, rests beside a black fork. A glass of milk is in the background.

Pie

The Best No Bake Oreo Pie

pie crust in a pie dish sitting on top of a dark orange towel on a wood surface

Pie

Homemade Pie Crust Recipe

monkey bread on a white plate on top of a colorful striped towel

Breakfast

Homemade Monkey Bread

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