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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

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

These smashburgers are our family's favorite burger. They cook in 4 minutes, have an amazingly juicy patty that locks in the flavor when smashed, a flavorful crisp crust, and a fantastic sauce that tastes so good with the burger. If you haven't tried making smashburgers before, these are a must try for your next barbecue! Here the smashburger is pictured centered in the image, assembled, and placed on a cutting board with fries in the sides and foreground and burger toppings and a drink in the background.

Best Smashburger Recipe

This delicious Baked Brie with Pecans and Cherry Sauce has a brown sugar coating on the brie, roasted pecans, and a sweet cherry vanilla balsamic sauce that perfectly complements the brie. We use frozen cherries to make it a year-round treat. It is one of my favorite appetizers; we love serving it with baguette slices or crackers. It is perfect served on its own or as part of a larger charcuterie board; it is both beautiful and delicious! Here the brie is plated with the cherry sauce and pecans on top of the Brie wheel and on the sides of the plate. The background pictures pecans, crackers, cherries, and sliced baguettes.

Baked Brie with Pecans and Cherry Sauce

These Fruit Pizza Cookies with Berries have a sugar cookie base, cream cheese frosting, and an assortment of berries as a decorative topping. Decorating the cookies is fun for kids and adults alike, it's a great group or family activity, and a perfect 4th of July or summer treat. Here the cookies are displayed on a cooling rack, frosted and decorated with different patterns of berries with a linen and container of berries on the sides of the cooling rack.

Fruit Pizza Cookies with Berries