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A large dark blue white polka dotted Polish pottery plate with smashed parmesan brussels sprouts.

Smashed Parmesan Brussel Sprouts

A large metal bowl full of homemade whipped cream with a spoon of whipped cream held above from the left.

Homemade Whipping Cream

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 lemon blueberry ricotta bundt cake dusted with powder sugar sitting on a round Polish pottery plate.

Blueberry Lemon Ricotta Bundt Cake

A close-up of a large baking sheet of hot cross buns frosted with an "X"

Hot Cross Buns

Bubbly and browned scalloped potatoes in a 9x13 baking dish.

Classic Scalloped Potatoes

An orange jello sherbet salad in the shape of a bundt cake with the middle filled with sour cream ambrosia salad sitting on a round platter.

Pam’s Amazing Holiday Jello

Mini marshmallows, mandarin oranges, pineapple and coconut mixed together in sour cream in a peacock-patterned bowl.

Sour Cream Ambrosia Salad

A large bowl of Funfetti Cake Batter Muddy Muddy Buddies

Funfetti Cake Batter Muddy Buddies

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 bowl lined with a striped kitchen towel filled with The Best Dinner Rolls.

The Best Dinner Rolls

stunning lemon zucchini bundt cake served on a beautiful polish pottery plate

Lemon Zucchini Bundt Cake

A mini cherry cheesecake on top of three small plates with two forks on the left of the plate. Faded in the upper background are more little cheesecakes on a large plate.

Mini Cherry Cheesecakes

Whole Lemon Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze sitting on a blue and white peacock patterned Polish pottery plate.

Whole Lemon Bundt Cake

No-bake Birds Nest Cookies sitting on a Silpat mat on top of a cookie sheet.

No-bake Birds Nest Cookies

A mini Cadbury egg blondie with a bite out of the corner sitting on a small white plate with Cadbury Mini Eggs scattered around and two more cut blondies sitting on white plates in the background.l

Cadbury Mini Egg Blondies

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