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A loaf of chocolate zucchini bread partially sliced sitting on a dark blue Polish pottery plate with a bubble white pattern and a lattice pattern around the edge.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

A serving of ground beef rice casserole and two scoops of pumpkin on a dark blue plate. A fork is inserted into the casserole from the left and a spoon in the upper left corner.

Dinner in a Pumpkin

The corner of a glass 9x13 baking dish of no-bake peach cheesecake with a slice cut out of the corner.

No-Bake Peach Cheesecake

A glass mixing bowl with carrot kimchi with a spoon held above with a scoop of carrot kimchi on it.

Carrot Kimchi

Several Saint Clement Squares on a light blue plate with a dark blue rim. A lime is in the left bottom corner, two forks in the upper left corner, and an orange in the upper right corner and an orange on the right of the plate.

Saint Clement Squares

Three fajita stuffed sweet potatoes sitting in a glass 9x13 baking dish topped with melted cheese and sliced green onions with melted cheese surrounding the bottoms of the sweet potatoes.

Fajita Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

A dark blue, white polka dotted Polish pottery soup bowl of beef barley soup with a spoon inserted in the soup resting on the edge. A pot holder is laying on the right of the bowl.

The Best Beef Barley Soup

Two slices of pumpkin bundt cake with cream cheese frosting sitting on small plates with two forks crisscross on each other between the plates. In the upper right corner is a pumpkin bundt cake with cream cheese frosting on a round platter with a couple slices cut out.

Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Baked Sweet Potato Wedges on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper.

Baked Sweet Potato Wedges

6-photo picture collage of carrot cake, chocolate zucchini muffins, Samoa Rice Krispie treats, raspberry cheesecake brownies, tres leches cake, and magnolia bakery blueberry jamboree with the text of the title overlayed on the collage.

2023 Readers’ Favorite Dessert Recipes

A bowl of red lentil curry soup with a spoon on the left side of the bowl.

Red Lentil Curry Soup

Cut Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting in a large cookie sheet with a piece missing from a corner.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

A bowl filled with quinoa, roasted corn, zucchini, chopped sweet potato and spinach topped with feta cheese, half an hard-boiled egg, chickpeas, and balsamic dressing.

Sweet Potato Quinoa Bowls

A round upside down apple cake sitting on top of a lattice and bubble-patterned Polish pottery plate with a red and green apple in the left corner.

Upside Down Apple Cake

A horizontally placed oval dish of Apple Crisp.

Apple Crisp

A large bowl of cucumber feta salad with lemon.

Summer Cucumber Salad with Lemon and Feta

Slices of zucchini bread with brown sugar streusel on an oval Polish pottery plate.

Zucchini Bread with Brown Sugar Streusel

6-photo picture collage of a slice of peach dessert, a slice of rice Krispy ice cream dessert, a strawberry rhubarb galette, a slice of brownie Oreo ice cream cake, a fruit pizza, and a slice of magnolia bakery blueberry jamboree with the text of the title centered and overlaying the photos.

Desserts to Sweeten your Summer

5-photo picture collage of sliced zucchini bread, a serving of zucchini skillet on a blue plate, lasagna, lemon zucchini bundt cake, and chocolate zucchini muffins with the text of the title overlaying in the middle.

30+ Zucchini Season Recipes

Mango Chopped Salad with Avocado Dressing in a white and blue-bubble patterned Polish pottery bowl.

Mango Chopped Salad with Cilantro Lime Avocado Dressing

A raspberry cheesecake brownie on a small white plate with a metal fork inserted downward into a corner of the brownie. In the upper left is a fork head a part of another small plate.

Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies