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These easy Chocolate Souffles for Two drizzled with homemade creme anglaise are a perfect make-ahead date night dessert. Hey, do you need a recipe to impress? I have just the thing for you: chocolate souffles!! Here’s the thing about souffles: They sound fancy. They look and taste amazing. People think they’re hard to make. You are 100 percent capable of making one and winning at hosting forever and ever. Souffles get a bad rap but they are really not that difficult....

This easy lasagna recipe bakes up cheesy and beautiful. It’s quick and simple to throw together and is a total crowd-pleaser. This recipe was my family’s go-to lasagna recipe growing up, and it’s just about the easiest lasagna you’ll ever make. If you’re craving a plate of meaty, cheesy pasta comfort food, this lasagna absolutely delivers. Why You Should Make This Lasagna It’s totally foolproof and easy. There’s no cutting needed, and you can get almost all the ingredients pre-made, pre-shredded, and ready to go....

These are the perfect s’mores cupcakes: a graham cracker base, soft and decadent chocolate cake, gooey Hershey’s chocolate buttercream center, and toasted marshmallow frosting. It’s week four of my June Barbecue Menu where I’ve spent the month putting together an entire meal’s worth of BBQ courses. I started with Strawberry Limeades , followed that up with Loaded Baked Potato Salad with Yogurt as the side, used some Basil and Garlic Steak Marinade on some gorgeous rib-eyes for the main course, and now it’s time for dessert!...

A slightly spicy chicken salad packed with black beans, corn, red onions, and cheese and topped with a chipotle cilantro sour cream dressing. As sad as it is, all good things must come to an end, and we find ourselves today reaching the end of our January salad series. We’ve been all over the map with these salads. There was the hearty Cobb Salad , the delightfully sweet and fruity Asian Chicken Salad , a BLT in a bowl with the Light and Healthy BLT Salad , and for our last salad, we are going south of the border with a Slightly Spicy Chipolte Chicken Salad!...

This Small-batch Cookie Dough Frosting tastes just like an extra creamy batch of cookie dough that you happen to get to spread over a cupcake. If you’ve ever made chocolate chip cookies and been tempted to just eat the dough by the spoonful instead of baking it, this is the frosting for you. Hey, friends, I have another small-batch frosting recipe for you today. I started sharing these frosting recipes alongside my small-batch cupcakes back in August because I wanted you guys to be able to mix and match small-batch cupcakes and frostings to make whatever kinds of cupcake creations you were craving....

These small-batch peanut butter cookies are easy to make, super peanut buttery, and SO good. Hey, workweek got you down? You should make yourself a cute little batch of peanut butter cookies. Your day will get 97% better immediately. I promise. I love a good peanut butter cookie and these cookies definitely earn that label. Other words used to describe them by taste testers have been, “amazing,” “really really good,” and “my favorite peanut butter cookies ever....

This small-batch of Garlic Aioli, made with just three ingredients, is your new best friend if you want to upgrade your sandwich, french fry, and veggie dipping game. Today’s recipe is a total game-changer of a recipe: Small-batch Garlic Aioli. It’s made with just three ingredients, mayonnaise, garlic, and lemon juice (plus a little salt and pepper), that when mixed together basically become magic. You get a creamy spread perfect for dipping fries and veggies or slathering over sandwiches....

No-bake Oreo Cheesecake Bites are the perfect bite-sized treat. They’re cute, tasty, and almost too easy to make. Love homemade cheesecake but don’t love actually turning on your oven and baking one? Friend, I have just the recipe for you. These Oreo cheesecake bites have all the cream cheesy goodness of a baked cheesecake with about five percent of the effort so you can make them all the time. These bites are SO GOOD....

Carnitas Enchiladas (AKA Pulled Pork Enchiladas) are a delicious alternative way to eat enchiladas. Rich, crispy carnitas are wrapped in tortillas and covered with a tangy homemade enchilada sauce and plenty of cheese. This recipe makes ten enchiladas which can be baked all at once or frozen in batches for smaller households. Two weeks ago, I shared the best, most crispy and amazing Homemade Carnitas Recipe along with Carnitas Tacos, made three different ways ....

This cheesy Salsa Chicken is the easiest homemade chicken dinner ever. No cutting or measuring needed and made all in one pan! I’ve shared a lot of low-effort dinners here, like my Quick Beef Teriyaki , BBQ Chicken Thighs , and Parmesan Chicken Soup . Today I’m sharing the recipe I make when I don’t even have the energy to make those. This is the ultimate easy dinner, requiring no measuring, no cutting, you make it in one pan, and you probably always have the ingredients on hand: Salsa Chicken....

How to Cook Broccoli in the Oven: your complete guide to making the best, crispiest oven-roasted broccoli. Hey, friends. I have another simple side dish tutorial for you today, how to cook broccoli in the oven. And I am SO excited about this one because if this isn’t how you’ve been oven-roasting your broccoli, your life will from here on forever be changed for the better. Because this broccoli is the best broccoli....

This Iced White Chocolate Mocha is creamy, sweet, and perfect for sipping on a hot summer day. Last week I shared this Iced Mocha recipe and told you that since I’ve been getting a lot of requests for different iced coffee recipes recently, there’d be a bunch more of them hitting the site soon(ish). As promised, today, I have another one for you, an Iced White Chocolate Mocha. A Quick and Easy Iced White Chocolate Mocha Like my (hot) White Chocolate Mocha , this recipe is a cinch to throw together and only requires a few ingredients....

You can make Hannibal’s Sanguinaccio Dolce without blood for a surprisingly easy, elegant chocolate dessert. Heeeeeeey, it’s October! That means 31 days of pumpkins, pumpkin spice lattes , and spooky things!! Do you have any plans for Halloween yet? I’m not totally sure what I’ll be doing on the 31st, but I do know what I’m doing to celebrate on the blog… Last month the blog theme was Quick and Easy Recipes ....

How to make a vanilla milkshake, with tips and tricks for making the best shake possible. Vanilla milkshakes sometimes get a bad rap as being a little boring, a little, shall we say, vanilla. But you know what? A good vanilla milkshake is a thing of beauty, and today we’re going to make a really good vanilla milkshake. A Really Good Vanilla Milkshake Recipe There are three things we’re going to do to make the best vanilla milkshake possible:...

14 amazing slow cooker recipes for a delicious and easy dinner! Hey, we are in the last days of August! Thursday brings September, and September means fall, right!? Cool crisp mornings and chilly evening strolls are just around the corner. If I lie hard enough to myself, maybe it will become true… Anyway, this long, hot August, the recipe theme on the blog was slow cooker recipes so that our ovens might stay off and our kitchens might stay slightly cooler....

This BBQ Chicken Pizza is made with cubed or shredded chicken tossed with sweet and smoky barbecue sauce, sliced red onions, and a combo of mozzarella, smoked gouda, and a sprinkle of cilantro. If you’ve never tried BBQ Chicken Pizza before, you absolutely should because it’s is a total treat. Barbecue chicken makes such a good pizza topping, especially combined with red onions, mozzarella and smoked gouda, and cilantro. Depending on how much time you have, you can make the crust from scratch (I recommend the crust from my Margherita Pizza ) and cook the chicken yourself....

These Carnitas Burrito Bowls with crispy carnitas and homemade cilantro lime rice make a fabulous dinner or batch of meal prep lunches for the week. Hey, friend. Need something good and simple and easy today? How about a burrito bowl? Yes, I said a burrito bowl. I used to be kind of down on the whole food-in-a-bowl trend (someone, please explain to me how smoothie bowls are anything but exhausting), but you know what?...

This easy Chipotle Aioli is the perfect bright and tangy way to spice up sandwiches and burgers or use as a dipping sauce for pretty much anything. Last year I shared my favorite Garlic Aioli with you, and today I have a little twist on that recipe: Chipotle Aioli. Quick and Easy Chipotle Aioli Chipotle aioli is everything great about classic aioli with a little spicy chipotle kick. It’s the perfect bright and tangy way to finish off sandwiches and burgers or as a dipping sauce for pretty much anything....

These Heart Cookies with Cinnamon Icing are a copycat recipe inspired by my favorite California bakery. Dense and delicious heart-shaped sugar cookies covered with sweet cinnamon icing for Valentine’s Day and everyday. There’s a very famous bakery in my home town of Bakersfield known for their amazing cookies and donuts. To be completely honest, they might just be the best thing about the city. Every kid growing up there knows the distinct pleasure of seeing their teacher or a room parent walk into the classroom with one of their white bakery boxes with red lettering on the top and knowing that they are in for a treat....

Small luxuries for the kitchen, the perfect gifts for friends and family who love to cook. It’s my favorite time of year again, gift guide season! There’s nothing I love better than reading through prettily arranged lists of items recommended by my favorite bloggers, trying to match presents to people on my list and secretly just making an extra long list for myself. And as is tradition around here, I’m back this year with another incredibly specific gift guide of my own....