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Strawberry butter just whipped and scooped into a small white prep bowl using a portioning scoop with a freeze dried strawberry slice on top for garnish and strawberries in the background with a strawberry tin holder barely visible in the background.

Strawberry Butter (w/Strawberry Honey Butter Option & Video)

This strawberry butter is sweet, tart, and chocked full of all-natural strawberry flavor! It’s the only homemade strawberry butter recipe you’ll ever need. With just 2 ingredients this is one of my favorite compound butters to make. Plus, it’s fully customizable, and you can use this recipe to make strawberry […]

A stack of 3 oversized whole wheat chocolate chip cookies on a colorful tray next to a Pols Potten brand ceramic mug with woman painted on the inside holding her nose like she's going under water and the foamy milk on top of the cappuccino right at the same level as her hand pinching her nose on a saucer with a painted bra that's been flung off and a spoon with a pair of underwear on them.

Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies (One Bowl, No-Mixer)

Forget any notion you’ve ever had about whole wheat or “healthy cookies” and their lack of texture or flavor! This sweet buttery whole wheat chocolate chip cookie recipe will change your life!  Or at the very least, it’ll have you eating less refined carbs while still enjoying every single thing […]

top down view into a jar of orange-red colored homemade strawberry-nectarine-apricot jam.

30-Minute Strawberry-Apricot-Nectarine Jam (Without Pectin)

If you love strawberry jam as much as we do and are just getting into learning how to make homemade jam, this unique fresh summer fruit jam recipe is for you! This isn’t just any strawberry preserves recipe, it also includes nectarines and fresh apricots to give it an almost […]

Strawberry cheesecake dotted with homemade strawberry jam dotting the top and baked in

Easy All-Natural Strawberry Cheesecake with Biscoff Crust

This is one of the best all-natural strawberry cheesecake recipes out there — no fake red food coloring, no fake strawberry flavor (not even an all-natural strawberry extract was used). Instead, delicious strawberries (frozen or fresh) treated in the just right way do all the heavy lifting flavor-wise. Tangy cream […]

pink with pink-dusted marshmallows "drops" surrounding a pink marshmallow bunny head in the middle

How to Make Homemade Peep’ish Peeps (No Corn Syrup)

If you’re here searching for a really beautiful recipe for perfectly piped homemade peeps, go ahead and exit right now. I’ve been making homemade marshmallows for years, but this year I wanted to try my hand at piping out homemade peeps. Holy crap — don’t do it, or do it, […]

Baked and cooled strawberry cheesecake crostata di marmellata dessert

Best Ever All-Natural Strawberry Cheesecake Crostata

If you love homemade strawberry cheesecake and Italian crostata di marmellata (jam tart), this is the perfect springtime dessert to make right now. One part strawberry cheesecake and one part Italian strawberry crostata, this easy dessert is a definite crowd-pleaser. There are 3 components: “pasta frolla” which is a very […]

a spoon full of homemade strawberry jam being taken out of the widemouth mason Ball jar

Easy 30-Minute No-Pectin Strawberry Jam (With Video)

This quick and easy homemade strawberry jam recipe (aka strawberry freezer jam) is delicious! It tastes as good slathered toast as it does drizzled over ice cream or used as a strawberry cheesecake topping. And it’s what I use to make one of our all-time favorite strawberry desserts –this Italian […]

a golden brown lattice-topped strawberry crostata di marmellata with scallop cutouts on top of the lattice and a piece removed from the pie tin

Easy Italian Strawberry Crostata (Crostata di Marmellata di Fragole)

This super delicious Italian strawberry crostata recipe is one of our favorite desserts to eat (or buy from our local pasticceria. But it’s so easy to make you don’t have to live in Italy to enjoy it! In fact, this strawberry dessert is an excellent recipe for beginner bakers and […]

Crostata with lattice top and heart cutouts on a grey linen apron.

Crostata di Marmellata (Authentic Italian Jam Tart w/Video)

Crostata di Marmellata is one of our favorite Italian desserts to eat here in Italy and lucky for us, you can find them just about anywhere! There are two components in this recipe for crostata: ‘pasta frolla’ (a forgiving easy-to-make rich and crumbly shortcrust pastry) and jam. But don’t let the simplicity […]

a stack of six berry pumpkin pancakes with melting butter on top, maple syrup surrounding it.

Fluffiest Blueberry Pumpkin Pancakes With Pecans (With Video)

These crispy-edged light and fluffy pumpkin pancakes are packed with a trio of juicy berries (blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries) and toasted pecans, topped with butter, and drizzled with pure maple syrup for a total fall breakfast win. These blueberry pumpkin pancakes are the perfect recipe to use up leftover canned […]

oversized chocolate chip pecan cookie on a platter

Half-Batch Bakery-Style Soft & Chewy Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies

Ready in just 20 minutes, these café-style soft and chewy chocolate chip pecan cookies are for anyone who doesn’t want the temptation of a whole log of cookie dough hanging out in their fridge (begging to be eaten by the spoonful or baked up hot and warm on a whim […]

Golden brown dark chocolate covered banana bread after just baking in a loaf pan

How to Make the Best Ever Dark Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This super easy homemade chocolate chip banana bread recipe is so tender it almost eats like cake. One of my most requested recipes on the blog, this is the best of both worlds — high-quality Lindt dark chocolate and my (most tender ever) classic banana bread.  If you’re looking for […]

a pitcher half full milky-looking bright yellow homemade Italian limoncello next to a bottle of homemade limoncello and a fresh lemon on a red and white striped pot holder

How to Make Easy Homemade Limoncello (The Italian Way)

This homemade limoncello recipe is the best of Italian summer in a bottle — it’s smooth and sweet with an intense lemon flavor without a hint of sour or bitter notes. And with just 3 simple ingredients (and a little time and patience), it couldn’t be easier to make at […]

A beautifully golden brown and bubbling turkey pot pie right out of the oven

A Better Homemade Turkey Pot Pie (The Ultimate Pot Pie Recipe)

This easy turkey pot pie recipe is the perfect way to use up leftover roast turkey from the holidays. It’s creamy, savory, loaded with tender chunks of dark and white turkey meat, and bursting with vegetables all tucked into a flaky pie crust. And you don’t have to roast an […]