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Fun and fruity!  Rainbow Lemon Meringue pie has the fresh sweet citrus flavor of classic lemon meringue with a colorful rainbow surprise hiding inside. I don’t know why, but for years now I have made a rainbow dessert around Easter time. Usually I make rainbow jello, but I haven’t been making that as much since I accidentally caused a steam explosion in my microwave boiling water. Yes, that’s a true story. Once I blew up my microwave by way of…

Chocolate chip cookie pie takes the best parts about chocolate chip cookies and transforms them into a rich, over the top, decadent dessert that’s simple to make. Imagine the center of a chocolate chip cookie, still warm from the oven. As you sink your teeth in, it’s the perfect texture; soft, buttery, sweet. The chocolate chips are still melty and you find yourself licking chocolate off your lips and the corners of your mouth. That’s what chocolate chip cookie pie…

Part pie, part coffee cake. Elegant, easy, and incredibly versatile. These bold and bright flavored Lemon Poppy Seed Blueberry Squares are a great new flavor variation of my popular Cherry Almond Squares. Sometimes I feel like my entire life would be better, could be better, if I spent more time in books. Now, since I work at a library I don’t mean just spend more time in books, because I am literally eye high in rooms full of books every…

 This Pear Plum Galette is sweet and tart. Flaky pastry crust is filled with juicy pears and plums, then brushed with a red plum and honey glaze. This fresh summer dessert is ready in about 30 minutes and is fabulously easy to make. Sometimes people forget they like things. Whether it’s time or circumstance, the fact that we liked a particular thing fades away, a forgotten memory. I had a couple forgotten memories surface this week. We are well into…

  Sweet raspberry filling is surrounded by moist and dense cake and topped with cream cheese glaze. These Raspberry Cream Cheese Squares are a breeze to make and make a big batch to boot. Next time you’re looking for a crowd pleasing dessert, you’ll know just what to bake. I’ve officially been a working woman for a month now. It’s weird. I feel like I can finally cash in my responsible adult card. Like when I go to my next…

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EffortlessPies #CollectiveBias Most people eat pumpkin pie  about once a year. My kids eat pumpkin pie almost every single Sunday. No joke. They like it so much that they request my mother in law make it every week for dessert at Sunday dinner. Most of the time, she does. I’d say she bakes around 200 pumpkin pies a year. We have a big family…

I wish that everything was as good and as simple as this fresh peach kuchen. I tell you if it was the world would be a lot happier place. It’s like a hug on a plate. We usually go spend Memorial day weekend down at the Lake of the Ozarks with my husbands whole family. 14 kids and 8 adults. It’s a wild, wild time. However, this year we didn’t get to go down because of my daughter’s track meet.…