Lemon Hush

Lemon Hush is a delicious layered dessert of shortbread crust, cream cheese filling, lemon pudding, cool whip and chopped nuts. A family favorite.

This Lemon Hush with its crumbly, buttery crust, cream cheese filling, lemon pudding and cool whip topping is sure to become an Easter must have dessert. **Update: this post was originally shared in March 2012. Photos and text have been updated to reflect the current feel of my blog. The recipe has not been changed.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars are one of the easiest and most delicious desserts around. Just a handful of ingredients and you’re on you way to dessert bliss. **UPDATE: this post was originally shared in 2012. Photos and text have been updated to better share my voice and photography skills. These Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars are

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Lemon Curd Shortbread Crumb Bars

This post is sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill. I am grateful for the opportunity to partner with a company I love and use in my daily life. Sponsored posts help keep the running of this blog financially possible. As always, all thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. It’s finally time for spring baking and

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Pistachio Cherry Chip Brownies

Pistachio Cherry Chip Brownies

These Pistachio Cherry Chip Brownies are the perfect way to add some festive cheer to your holiday cookie plates. Rich chocolate brownies are studded with salty pistachios and sweet cherry chips to create a delicious spumoni inspired treat. I totally and completely have holiday baking on my mind. It’s one of my very favorite things

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Patriotic Peanut Butter Frosted Brownies

You know how you run into Target for 2 things and leave with 10. Well, these patriotic M&M’s where one of the additional things on my latest trip. What is it about that place? Everything is so shiny and bright and hard to resist. I don’t know how they do it but they get me

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Peppermint Brownies

Mint and chocolate is one of my all time favorite combinations and is a classic for the holiday season. Combine it with fudgy brownies and it’s pure perfection. Although I do love peppermint, I enjoy it in small doses. Like peppermint patties…one bite is enough to fulfill my sweet tooth. So when I saw this recipe I

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Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Treats

When I think of fall, pumpkin and apples always come to mind. But another flavor profile that screams fall to me is caramel. Whether it’s caramel corn, rolls, cake, cider or apple pie, it’s always fall when I consider them.  It’s rich, sweet and creamy and salt always makes it better. We had some friends over recently for a Husker

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Loaded Peanut Butter Cookie Bars

These dense, chewy cookie bars are bursting with peanut butter and two different kinds of chocolate. They start out with my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe then huge handfuls of peanut butter M&M’s, dark and white chocolate are mixed in for some crazy good decadence. Then they immediately get taken to work with Joel because

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Butterfinger Blondies

My mixer hasn’t seen much action the past few months and Noah really wanted to make a pretend birthday cake. Yep, he’s a weird but very very smart child. He can think of any excuse for dessert. He’d been throwing me a pretend birthday party all morning and what’s a party without cake? I have trained

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