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Vanilla Pudding Cake with Brown Butter Icing

Vanilla Pudding Cake with Brown Butter Icing

this post may contain affiliate links   This vanilla pudding cake with brown butter icing is a fresh version of the pudding cakes you get at grocery store bakeries. The large bundt cakes with glaze on the outside in the clear containers. We have loved getting...

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Puppy Chow Haystacks

Puppy Chow Haystacks

  Puppy Chow Haystacks are sweet and salty mounds of crunchy Chex, salted peanuts and Heath toffee bits held together by the most delicious peanut butter white chocolate coating and topped with flaky sea salt. If puppy chow and the white chocolate Reese's Easter...

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Tom Cruise Cake

Tom Cruise Cake

this post may contain affiliate links   This is a copycat version of the famous "Tom Cruise Cake" from Doan's Bakery in California. It famously got its name from being ordered every year around the holidays by Tom Cruise and sent to his family and friends. At...

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Skillet Apple Crisp

Skillet Apple Crisp

  This skillet apple crisp is incredible. Its the perfect balance of sweet and tart with the most incredible crumble oat topping and cinnamon gooey center. I love that it comes together in less time than my traditional apple crisp recipe. It almost feels like...

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Easy Pizza Hut Cinnamon Sticks

Easy Pizza Hut Cinnamon Sticks

  Pizza Hut introduced the world to their cinnamon sticks in the early 2000's as a dessert option at the pizza chain. They're essentially a version of Pizza Hut's breadsticks but in dessert form. In keeping with tradition, the cinnamon sticks have a long...

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Maggiano’s Lemon Cookies

Maggiano’s Lemon Cookies

  The Maggiano's lemon cookies also known as "Vera's cookies," have been a longtime favorite dessert at the chain restaurant. They're a perfect end to a heavy Italian meal. Traditionally, Italian lemon cookies are moist, tender and have a cake-like texture with a...

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Chai Sugar Cookies

Chai Sugar Cookies

  Chai sugar cookies are moist sugar cookies perfectly spiced with a blend of cinnamon, ground cardamom, ground ginger, allspice and ground cloves. The chai spice blend is incorporated into the dough, rolling sugar and the glaze to create the perfect amount of...

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Pretzel Crisp Christmas Crack

Pretzel Crisp Christmas Crack

this post may contain affiliate links     Christmas Crack is a popular holiday treat made with just a few simple ingredients. Traditionally the dessert is made with saltine crackers, homemade toffee and chocolate. The combination of sweet and salty, plus the...

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Soft Chewy Caramels

Soft Chewy Caramels

this post may contain affiliate links   I thought I knew how to make caramels until I tried my mother-in-laws homemade caramels last year at Christmas. I can't recall if I'd had them before but last year in particular I remember taking a bite and being shooken to...

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