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Heart-shaped sugar cookies frosted and decorated sitting on a black wire cooling rack.

Easy Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe

A bowl filled with quinoa, diced chicken taco meat, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, black beans and topped with shredded cheese. On the left is a partial photo of chicken taco meat and a grey kitchen towel. On the right are two small glass bowls, one with chopped cucumber and the other with pico de Gallo.

Chicken Quinoa Burrito Bowls

Bite-size chicken taco meat in a nonstick skillet with a wooden spatula inserted on the right.

Easy Skillet Chicken Taco Meat

A plate full of easy almond flour chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chips scattered around the plate.

Easy Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

simple weeknight meal of Chinese eggs and tomatoes served over rice

The Best Chinese Tomato and Eggs

A plate of S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Hershey bar in the upper left corner and mini marshmallows scattered around the plate.

S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies

A hand holding a peppermint kiss cookie above more peppermint cookies and Peppermint Hershey Kisses all sitting on a crumpled brown paper.

Shortbread Peppermint Kiss Cookies

Little Carmelitas scattered in a group with caramel bits and chocolate chips.

Carmelitas

A large blue plate with a dark blue border filled with white chocolate peppermint cookies with white chocolate chips and peppermint pieces surrounding the plate.

White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze on a round serving platter with three cranberries and a leaf on opposite ends. Whole cranberries are scattered around the plate.

Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze

Sausage and Spinach Quiche.

Sausage and Spinach Quiche

toasted coconut and pecan fudge, cut and stacked so you can see the creaminess and the pieces of pecan and coconut throughout.

Toasted Coconut and Pecan Fudge

A large bowl of Funfetti Cake Batter Muddy Muddy Buddies

Funfetti Cake Batter Muddy Buddies

Gingerbread baked oatmeal in a glass 8x8 dish on top of a small checked dish towel.

Gingerbread Baked Oatmeal

Easy no-bake banana cream pie with a grey kitchen towel to the left, a banana on the upper left, and a peeled and partial slice banana and a few forks on the right.

Easy No-bake Banana Cream Pie

A glass 9x13 baking dish of Loaded Pepper Jack Mac and Cheese sitting partially on a white and blue flannel patterned kitchen towel.

Loaded Pepper Jack Mac and Cheese

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