Here is the wonderful and easy 4th of July dessert recipe.

The fresh berries are perfect for any red, white and blue theme including Memorial Day and Fourth of July. These are so tasty though that they would be great for any get-together or party. This recipe requires just a few simple ingredients but still looks quite fancy. You can whip this up in no time at all and be out having fun in the sun with your friends. This would be easy to bring to a potluck as well. Be sure to scroll down for the full printable recipe. [Read more…]

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Looking for an easy patriotic dessert for a Fourth of July or Memorial day party? Check out these cute marshmallow pops that will be a hit at your next event.

I am always on the lookout for easy recipes that look cute and are tasty. These patriotic marshmallow pops are just that. You need just a few ingredients and they can be made quickly. They are super cute and fun though and would be great at any Fourth of July party.

Easy Patriotic Dessert Marshmallow Pop Ingredients

Jumbo marshmallows
Blue candy melts
Red candy melts
White sugar pearls
Decorating bag
Lollipop sticks

The ingredient measurements and printable recipe are at the end of this article.

Gather up your ingredients and two small microwave-safe bowls. These marshmallow pops are so easy that kids can easily help you make them. Younger kids could add the marshmallows to the sticks and even dip the ends in the melted candy melts. Tweens and teens could easily make these whole marshmallow pops themselves.

These holiday marshmallow pops are decorated for Fourth of July. However, you can use the same instructions with different color candy melts for birthday parties, baby showers, Christmas and more. You are only limited by your imagination.

Easy Patriotic Dessert Marshmallow Pop Directions

The first step is to stick 3 jumbo marshmallows onto the end of each lollipop stick. Next, in two small microwave-safe bowls, heat 2 cups of each blue and red candy melts on 50% power for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted.

Scoop your melted red candy melts in a decorating bag and cut a small tip off the end.

Dip the end of your marshmallow pop into the melted blue candy melts, making sure to cover the top marshmallow in the melted blue candy. Be sure to shake any excess candy melts off and place onto a piece of parchment paper.

You will then sprinkle some white candy pearls onto the melted blue candy melts.

Use your decorating bag to drizzle the red melted candy melts in stripes onto the other 2 marshmallows. Once complete, carefully transfer to the freezer for 15 minutes to harden.

Enjoy a tasty and easy patriotic dessert!

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Easy Patriotic Dessert Marshmallow Pop

These cute marshmallow pops are perfect for a Fourth of July party.

Servings: 10

Ingredients

• 30 Jumbo marshmallows
• 2 cups Blue candy melts
• 2 cups Red candy melts
• White sugar pearls
• 1 Decorating bag
• 10 Lollipop sticks

Instructions

• Stick 3 jumbo marshmallows onto the end of each lollipop stick.
• In two small microwave safe bowls, heat 2 cups of each blue and red candy melts on 50% power for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted.
• Scoop your melted red candy melts in a decorating bag and cut a small tip off the end.
• Dip the end of your marshmallow pop into the melted blue candy melts, making sure to cover the top marshmallow in the melted blue candy.
• Shake any excess candy melts off and place onto a piece of parchment paper.
• Sprinkle some white candy pearls onto the melted blue candy melts.
• Use your decorating bag to drizzle the red melted candy melts in stripes onto the other 2 marshmallows.
• Carefully transfer to the freezer for 15 minutes to harden.

Looking for the best candied pecans recipe? This easy sugared pecans recipe is a simple and tasty way to make candied nuts.

Cinnamon pecans or sugar coated pecans are a yummy sweet treat, especially around the holidays. I also love candied pecans for salad. It just brings a simple salad up a notch is taste and style. If you are looking for a simple DIY homemade food gift, you could package this sugar coated pecans in a mini mason jar or treat bag and tie with ribbon.

This recipe for candied pecans with brown sugar is so simple to make and requires just a few ingredients. If you are wondering how do you make candied pecans, this recipe shows just how easy it is to make sugared pecans on the stovetop.

You do need to make sure you watch and stir the glazed pecans nuts carefully as you are cooking them in the pan. You don’t want them to burn.

Easy Candied Pecans Ingredients

4 cups pecans
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch salt

How to Candy Pecans – Cinnamon Sugar Pecans

Add your brown sugar, butter, water, cinnamon and salt to a large sauté pan.

Mix your ingredients over medium-low heat and mix in your pecans.

Cook and toss for 15 minutes.

Pour onto a sheet on parchment paper to cool and enjoy your cinnamon roasted pecans.

I love how this simple recipe is just perfect for the holidays.

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Candied Pecans - Cinnamon Sugar Pecans

Candied Pecans - Cinnamon Sugar Pecans

Ingredients

• 4 cups pecans
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• Pinch salt

Instructions

• Add your brown sugar, butter, water, cinnamon and salt to a large sauté pan.
• Mix your ingredients over medium-low heat and mix in your pecans.
• Cook and toss for 15 minutes.
• Pour onto a sheet on parchment paper to cool and enjoy.

Turkey Rice Krispie Pops Ingredients: 

Rice Krispie Treats Turkey Directions: 

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Rice Krispies Treat Turkey

Servings: 8

Ingredients

• 8 ct package of Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats
• 10 oz package of Wilton chocolate candy melts
• 8 large candy eyes
• 8 small candy eyes
• 11 oz package of Brach's Autumn Mix OR candy corn
• 8 popsicle sticks

Instructions

• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Open the 8 Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats and discard the wrappers.
• Insert a popsicle stick into the base of each Rice Krispie Treat.
• Place the treats on the plate and set in the fridge for 15 minutes.
• Pour the Wilton chocolate candy melts into a microwave safe dish. Heat in the microwave in 30 second increments stirring occasionally until melted.
• Remove the melted chocolate from the microwave and dip each Rice Krispie treat. Use a coat to carefully coat each treat and allow the access chocolate to drip back into the bowl.
• Place the chocolate covered treat on the lined baking sheet and give the turkey 1 large candy eye and 1 small candy eye, a candy corn nose and 6 candy corn feathers.
• Repeat with all 8 Rice Krispie Treats.

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Looking for a yummy fall treat? Check out this Cinnamon Easy Baked Apple Chips  Recipe.

One of favorite fall family activities is to go apple picking. We are lucky to live near some nice orchards. We usually come home with a ton of apples. Since this is more apples than we can easily eat,   I am always on the look-out for great apple recipes like this.

One easy way to use up some of those apples is to make baked apple chips. These work great for a snack or to send in with school lunches. The apples are baked so a bit more healthy. We added some cinnamon and sugar though to make them a sweet treat! Your whole family will love them.

Be sure to pin this baked apple chips in the oven recipe to keep on hand.

Easy Baked Apple Chips Ingredients

You need just 3 ingredients to make these dried apple chips in the oven. I love that the recipe is so simple and makes the best apple chips in oven.

4 apples (our favorites are Gala and Honeycrisp)
2 TBSP sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
zip lock bag

If you want healthy apple chips, you could reduce or omit the sugar. I would still add cinnamon for a bit more flavor.

How to Make Apple Chips – Easy Baked Apples

1. Preheat Oven to 200 degrees.
2. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
3. Slice apples thinly. I use my Cuisinart Food Processor to cut the apple slices thinly enough to bake.
4. Pour sugar and cinnamon in a ziplock bag.
5. Add sliced apples and shake.
6. Place apple slices in a single layer on the parchment lined cookie sheet.
7. Bake apple slice at 200 degrees.
8. Bake on one side for 1½ hours then flip them over to the other side and bake for another 1 hour.

9. When the final hour is complete, turn off the oven leaving the apple slices inside overnight.

10. Store in a ziplock bag.

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Cinnamon Baked Apple Chips

Author: Melissa

Ingredients

• 4 apples
• 2 TBSP sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• zip lock bag

Instructions

• Preheat Oven to 200 degrees.
• Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Slice apples thinly.
• Pour sugar and cinnamon in a zip lock bag.
• Add sliced apples and shake.
• Place apple slices in a single layer on the parchment lined cookie sheet.
• Bake 200 degrees.
• Bake on one side for 1½ hours then flip them over to the other side and bake for another 1 hour.
• When the final hour is complete, turn off the oven leaving the apple slices inside overnight.
• Store in a ziplock bag.

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These adorable Rudolph Cookies are adorable, festive and so easy to make.

These Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies make a fun treat for kids (and adults) plus they are so easy to make that the kids can help. This recipe requires just a few simple ingredients and you may have most of them on hand already! See the full printable recipe below.

I love that these are peanut butter easy reindeer cookies. Many Christmas cookies are sugar cookies so these have a whole different taste profile.

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies Recipe Ingredients

1/2 cup Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
1 Egg
1 1/3 cup Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
48 Red M&M’s
96 mini Chocolate Chips
Mini Twist Pretzels

Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.

Slowly add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beating until incorporated. Roll into 1/2-3/4″ balls and place on cookie sheet several inches apart. Sprinkle with sugar and gently make an indentation slightly off the center of each cookie. Bake 12-14 minutes.

After you bake the Christmas Reindeer cookies, it is time to decorate! This is my favorite part.

• Place an M&M in the indentation of each cookie.
• Insert 2 mini chocolate chips (pointy side down) above the M&M to be the eyes.
• Insert 2 pretzel pieces to be the antlers.
• If the antlers won’t stick, place some chocolate chips in a sandwich bag and microwave 30 seconds and knead until soft. Clip the very tip of the corner and pipe onto cookie to act as glue.

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies Recipe

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Easy Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies Recipe

Author: Melissa

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
• 1/2 cup Butter
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 Egg
• 1 1/3 cup Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 48 Red M&M's
• 96 mini Chocolate Chips
• Mini Twist Pretzels

Instructions

• Break pretzels into pieces to use as antlers.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
• Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
• Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
• Slowly add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beating until incorporated.
• Roll into 1/2-3/4" balls and place on cookie sheet several inches apart.
• Sprinkle with sugar and gently make an indentation slightly off the center of each cookie.
• Bake 12-14 minutes.
• Place an M&M in the indentation of each cookie.
• Insert 2 mini chocolate chips (pointy side down) above the M&M to be the eyes.
• Insert 2 pretzel pieces to be the antlers.
• If the antlers won't stick, place some chocolate chips in a sandwich bag and microwave 30 seconds and knead until soft. Clip the very tip of the corner and pipe onto cookie to act as glue.

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This Strawberry Jello Pudding Pops Recipe is so simple and so tasty. It is so easy to make that your kids will love to help make them. The hardest part is waiting for them to freeze. I love that this recipe includes fresh fruit. It makes me feel a little better about eating it even though it is a treat.

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If you are looking for a fun an easy Christmas treat, these Grinch Cookie Pops are sure to be a hit. They are so easy to make with Oreos, melting candy and red starbursts. I love that they are a bit subtle but anyone who is fan of the grinch will recognize the grinch green and tiny red heart.

And what happened, then? Well, in Whoville they say – that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day. And then – the true meaning of Christmas came through, and the Grinch found the strength of ten Grinches, plus two!

Grinch Cookie Pops Ingredients

Mint Oreos – You should be able to find these at your grocery store but can also substitute classic Oreos if needed

12oz Wilton light green melting candy

Red Starbursts – can just buy a multipack and pull out the red ones. You need about 10.

White sugar sprinkles

Lollipop sticks

mini heart cutter

How to Make Oreo Cookie Pops

Directions-
1. Lay out a piece of parchment paper and place your light green candy melts into a microwave safe bowl
2. Heat your candy melts on 50% power for 3-4 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted

3. Dip the end of your lollipop sticks into the melted light green chocolate, open an Oreo, place your stick inside, and sandwich the Oreo back together

4. Freeze your Oreos pops for a couple minutes so the chocolate hardens on the stick, then dip them into your melted chocolate making sure each side is covered, letting the excess chocolate drip off and place onto your parchment paper

5. Open about 10 Starbursts and roll them together between two pieces of parchment paper

6. Use your heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out small hearts and place them onto each green pop
7. Sprinkle with your white sugar and enjoy

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Grinch Cookie Pops Printable Recipe

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Grinch Cookie Pops

These fun & easy Grinch cookie pops will by the hit of any holiday party.

Ingredients

• Mint Oreos
• 12 oz Wilton light green melting candy
• Red Starbursts
• White sugar sprinkles
• Lollipop sticks

Instructions

• Lay out a piece of parchment paper and place your light green candy melts into a microwave safe bowl
• Heat your candy melts on 50% power for 3-4 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted
• Dip the end of your lollipop sticks into the melted light green chocolate, open an Oreo, place your stick inside, and sandwich the Oreo back together
• Freeze your Oreos pops for a couple minutes so the chocolate hardens on the stick, then dip them into your melted chocolate making sure each side is covered, letting the excess chocolate drip off and place onto your parchment paper
• Open about 10 Starbursts and roll them together between two pieces of parchment paper
• Use your heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out small hearts and place them onto each green pop
• Sprinkle with your white sugar and enjoy

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Strawberry Chocolate Pancake Muffins Recipe

Author: Melissa

Ingredients

• 1 Egg
• 1 Cup milk
• 1 Tbsp sugar
• 1 Cup flour
• 1 Tsp baking powder
• ⅓ Cup Cocoa powder
• 1 Cup strawberries sliced

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Grease a muffin pan.
• In a medium bowl mix the egg, milk, and sugar.
• Add the flour, baking powder, and cocoa powder.
• Mix well until the batter has no lumps.
• Then add ½ cup strawberries and carefully mix until incorporated.
• Pour the batter into the pan, and top with the strawberries.
• Take to the oven for 15-20 minutes or until done.
• Serve and enjoy.

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Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino Cupcakes

Looking for a fun and yummy coffee cupcake recipe? Then check out these Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino Cupcakes. They are easy to make with  a boxed cake mix and Starbucks Via Coffee. Plus we have included a  FREE Starbucks cupcake wrapper printable to really make your cupcakes special.

INGREDIENTS

1 box White or Yellow Cake mix
3 Egg Whites
1/3 cup Vegetable Oil
1 1/4 cup Water
2 Starbucks Via Ready Brew Coffee, Caramel Flavored
1/2 cup Torani Caramel Sauce
4 cup Powdered Sugar
1 cup Butter
2 tbsp Milk

DIRECTIONS

• Mix 1 1/4 cups hot water with 1 Via packet.
• Make cupcakes according to box directions except use coffee in place of water.
• Transfer to wire racks to cool.
• Cut a small square in the top of each cupcake and remove a chunk from the middle of the cupcake.

• Pour a small amount of caramel sauce into the middle of each cupcake.
• Place the top of the “plug” back on each hole.
• Cream butter and 1 packet of Via in a medium bowl.
• Slowly add in the powdered sugar,  and milk as needed, until everything is incorporated and frosting is right consistency.
• Transfer to piping bag or zippered bag and clip corner to pipe.
• Ice each cupcake and drizzle tops with caramel sauce.

 FREE Starbucks cupcake wrapper printable

• Print  FREE Starbucks cupcake wrapper printable
• Cut out cupcake wrapper
• Place each cupcake into wrapper
• Add a straw for decoration if you choose

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Key Lime Pie in a Jar Recipe

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Looking for a fun spring or summer dessert? Then consider this yummy easy key lime pie in a jar recipe.  This recipe is so easy to make but looks very special. Your friends will be so impressed with this great dessert and you don’t have to tell them how easy it was to make. There is just something about an individual dessert in a jar that takes it to the next level.

If you can’t be in Florida having Key Lime Pie then this is the next best thing. This would work great for dinner parties or even a wedding or baby shower. This would also be a simple and cute dessert for Easter.

Each individual pie is made in 4 oz Jelly Canning Jar. These are available for purchase on Amazon.

Easy Key Lime Pie in a Jar Recipe

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Easy Key Lime Pie In a Jar Recipe

Key Lime Pie in a Jar (Yield 8 jars)

Author: Melissa

Ingredients

• 1 cup crushed Graham Crackers
• 2 tbsp melted Butter
• 3 Egg Yolks
• 14 oz Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1/2 cup fresh Key Lime Juice.
• Whipped Cream
• 8 4 oz Jars

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mix graham crackers and butter until well mixed.
• Press 1/8 of the mixture in the bottom of each jar.
• Combine egg yolks, condensed milk and lime juice. Beat just until smooth.
• Divide lime mixture evenly between jars.
• Place jars on baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
• Allow to cool for 1 hour then cover and refrigerate to chill.
• When ready to serve, top with whipped cream and lime zest.

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