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A cookbook titled Sweet. Family. Favorite. Desserts. by Beth Baumgartner. The cover features a close-up of a slice of colorful, sprinkle-filled layer cake with white frosting, set against a simple white background.Life is sweeter with my NEW cookbook - Sweet! 🧁

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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 

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

Best 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

an assortment of chocolate covered pretzels stacked and scattered around including chocolate with white chocolate drizzle, white chocolate with chocolate drizzle, and both chocolate and white chocolate coated in rainbow sprinkles

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

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

Recipes

The Best Recipe for Chex Mix

the side view of a slice of oreo pie being lifted out of a pie dish

Pie

Oreo Pie

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

Pie

Butter and Shortening Pie Crust

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

Breakfast

Monkey Bread From Biscuits

a bowl full of chocolate covered strawberries mixed with fresh, whole strawberries

Candy

Best Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Brownies and Bars

Strawberry Pretzel Jello Salad

Breakfast

Easy Banana Nut Muffins Recipe

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