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Everybody needs a treat now and then! Indulge your sweet tooth with these recipes for homemade desserts.
“Healthy dessert recipes” seems like a bit of an oxymoron, but it is possible to indulge your sweet tooth with real food ingredients.
Featuring sweet treats like cookies and cake, quick breads, and breakfast muffins, these recipes might become favorites at your house, too!
From fruit-laden healthy dessert recipes like this strawberry cobbler to my famous not-one-bit-healthy gourmet fudge, you’ll find a variety of flavors to please your tastebuds.
The common thread running through all of these dessert recipes? They’re homemade and feature real food ingredients that you can pronounce.
Some of these desserts and sweets are a great way to enjoy in-season produce (like my Grandma’s apple pie). Others are recipes that come out just once a year for holiday baking. And because at least a couple of people in my household avoid eating wheat, many of these recipes are gluten free, too.
For an easy-to-make gift, cookies in a jar can’t be beat. Everyone loves homemade cookies! Make a bunch of these for gift giving & hostess gifts.
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This homemade kahlua recipe starts with freshly brewed coffee instead of instant granules. It’s great for gift giving or simply indulging yourself.
This easy fig jam recipe starts with fresh figs and is sweetened with honey, maple syrup, and a surprise ingredient. You may want to double the batch!
Perhaps the perfect summertime dessert, this old fashioned peach cobbler features biscuit dough on the top AND bottom. Perfect for topping with vanilla ice cream on a summer night!
Springtime generally means an uptick in fresh egg production for those of us who have laying hens. These egg recipes will help you use them up without boring repetition!
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This homemade marshmallow fluff recipe is so EASY, you’ll never buy the jars of fluff again. Learn how to make marshmallow fluff without corn syrup at home.
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If you are looking for THE best fudge recipe, look no further. This creamy, soft gourmet fudge outdoes the other recipes you’ve tried. Try this gourmet fudge once, and it will be the only fudge recipe you’ll ever use.
This persimmon cookie recipe is an old family recipe. The cookies are a bit cake-like. Make them in the fall with fresh persimmons, or store pulp in the freezer.
Made with apples, eggs, and a bit of cream, this historic apple tansey dessert dates to the 1700s, but it deserves a place at your modern day dessert table.
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