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These Chocolate Frosted Cookies have a rich chocolate chocolate chip cookie base and the most creamy, decadent chocolate frosting. We love decorating them with sprinkles depending on the season. These cookies are a chocolate lover's dream and are perfect for the holidays, potlucks, or anytime chocolate cravings. Here the cookies are placed on a small cooling rack placed at a diagonal with a small bowl of sprinkles and a cookie in the background.

Chocolate Frosted Cookies

This Cottage Pie with Cheese (also known as Shepherd's Pie) has creamy Parmesan crusted mashed potatoes over a rich and flavorful beef and vegetable filling. The buttery mashed potatoes, enhanced with cream and additional Parmesan, are amazing on their own, but combined with the savory beef filling with gravy make the perfect comfort food. Here the shepherd's pie is featured with a serving cut out and a spoon in the center of the image filled with the beef filling.

Cottage Pie with Cheese

This Apple Caramel Bundt Cake is one of our favorite Fall desserts. The cinnamon-spiced cake is packed with tender pieces of apples and crisp pecans, and drizzled with a rich, homemade caramel sauce. In this image, a slice of the cake is plated in the center of the image with a fork resting on the plate and the caramel sauce drizzled over the top.

Apple Caramel Bundt Cake

This Easy Bacon Breakfast Casserole has a creamy, cheesy custard base and a topping filled with crisp, smoky bacon, mushrooms, and onion. Easy to assemble, it can be prepared just before serving or made ahead the night before. This casserole is a favorite for weekend brunches, breakfast for dinner, or holiday breakfasts. Here the casserole is shown with a slice on a wooden spatula in the center of the image above the casserole.

Easy Bacon Breakfast Casserole

These Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting have all the flavors of Fall. They are soft, sweet, slightly spiced cookies with pumpkin pie spice, and the cream cheese frosting adds that special, sweet, creamy finish. In this image, there are three cookies on a plate in the center of the image with a cookie in the foreground, and another plate of cookies and a cooling rack with cookies in the background. A little pumpkin pie spice is sprinkled near the cookies.

Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

These Chocolate Chip and White Chocolate Chip Cookies are filled with three kinds of chocolate chips- semi-sweet, milk, and white. Golden and crisp on the outside with a soft and fudgy center, they have layers of chocolate flavor and are a huge family favorite. Here the cookies are centered in the image on a small cooling rack with white chocolate chips and chocolate chips scattered around the cookies and a tray of more cookies in the background.

Chocolate Chip and White Chocolate Chip Cookies

This Cowboy Caviar (aka Texas Caviar or Mississippi Caviar) is a classic summer side dish. Easy to prepare and full of flavor, it's a favorite choice for potlucks, barbecues, and get-togethers. Filled with black beans, black-eyed peas, tomatoes, corn, sweet peppers, avocado, green onion, and cilantro, and tossed with a lime and red wine vinegar dressing, we love serving this with tortilla chips or as a side with grilled chicken. Here the Cowboy Caviar is shown in a large bowl being scooped up with a wooden spoon in the center of the bowl.

Cowboy Caviar with Avocado

These Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies are the ultimate salty-sweet combination cookie. Packed with red and green M&Ms, crushed pretzels, potato chips, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and red and green sprinkles, they are a festive, delicious cookie and my kids' absolute favorite. Here the cookies are plated in the center of the image with M&Ms and sprinkles in the foreground and background.

Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies

This Chicken and Broccoli salad is the perfect summer salad; no cooking is required, it is easy to prepare, and ready to eat in minutes. We love the balance of flavors and textures with the chicken, broccoli, grapes, celery, greens, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, and red onion, all brought together with a sweet poppy seed dressing. Here the image is pictured overhead with the salad arranged on a large oval platter, and the dressing drizzled over the top.

Chicken and Broccoli Salad with Grapes

Looking for Classic 4th of July Dinner Recipes? We've got you covered! From BBQ ribs and burgers to potato and pasta salad to festive cookies and pies, here we share some of our absolute favorites! The image is a college of our favorite 4th of July menu items with main dishes, sides, and desserts.

4th of July Dinner Recipes