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Dessert Recipes

Discover your new favorite dessert recipes! Made from scratch with seasonal fresh fruits, edible flowers and herbs, and real ingredients, these sweet treats will be baked in your kitchen again and again.

From cookies and cake, to muffins and bars, even fruity cobblers, crisps, and galettes you will find sure-to-impress dessert recipes like Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies, Blueberry Cornmeal Skillet Cake, Lemon and Rosemary Shortbread, and Calendula and Thyme Shortbread.

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Fresh Peach Pie: Homemade Recipe for Peach Season

A fresh peach pie is a pinnacle dessert for a delicious late-summer peach season treat! Real peaches offer flavor to this peach pie filling that is as nostalgic as it perfect. With a homemade pie crust and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, this is a peach time recipe you’ll make every year! During mid to…

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Strawberry cobbler in a cast iron skillet, on a white surface surrounded by fresh strawberries.

Skillet Strawberry Cobbler

Skillet strawberry cobbler is the best way to use up this season’s abundance! Sometimes it seems that strawberries ripen all at once, and then have about a 4-hour window in which to eat them all at peak perfect flavor. I exaggerate, of course, but this strawberry cobbler recipe is here to help you use your…

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Candied rhubarb ribbons, some are light colored with pink along the edges, and some are dark pink.

Candied Rhubarb Ribbons: Dessert or Drink Garnish

This candied rhubarb tops the list for my favorite rhubarb dessert, make it and you’ll see why! Sweeten notoriously tart rhubarb in the most beautiful and delicious way to garnish any dessert or drink this season. Rhubarb candy ribbons look like it comes from a fairy tale, and taste just as magical! Rhubarb is a…

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Maple Leaf Cookies with Maple Icing

Maple leaf cookies are a staple in Vermont during sugaring season. Made with maple sugar, and maple syrup, and topped with maple cream icing, these are a delicious way to think warm thoughts and share with loved ones while snow is still coming down. Even if you don’t live in the cold hard north, make…

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Mushroom Chocolates with Adaptogens

Cute and mighty mushroom chocolates with adaptogens are here to balance your day in the tastiest way! Made with both reishi and lion’s mane mushrooms, these pack health benefits for your body and mind. Share these mushroom chocolates with your loved ones to spread the adaptogenic mushroom love on Valentine’s Day, or any day! Adaptogenic…

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Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies

I have a thing for lavender cookies. I also have a thing for shortbread cookies. It just makes sense to combine the two! There is something special about the combination of lavender and lemon that goes together so well, and these lavender lemon shortbread cookies are a great way to enjoy these refreshing flavors! Edible…

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A stack of lemon rosemary shortbread cookies surrounded by single cookies each with a fresh rosemary frond on top, on a dark wood board scattered with rosemary and lemon halves.

Lemon and Rosemary Shortbread Cookies

These lemon shortbread cookies with rosemary are easy to make and delicious! They are simple and refreshing with Meyer lemons and fresh rosemary. Offer them as a seasonal treat or enjoy them on the darkest winter days. They’re delightful! Bright Citrus Recipes for Winter The dark and dreary winter is often brightened by beautiful citrus….

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Homemade Marshmallows with Marshmallow Root

Homemade marshmallows are a fluffy, squishy, and delicious treat! The best part about this marshmallow recipe is that they are made with real marshmallow root, which is a beneficial herb. Using raw honey, this easy marshmallow recipe is all-natural with traditional herbal ingredients and a super tasty flavor that is amazing in hot cocoa and…

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Dandelion Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream Frosting

Dandelion cupcakes with lemon buttercream frosting are a delicious foraged treat! Sent right up from the dirt in the ground, dandelions have lovely honey-tasting petals and many health benefits. Enjoy them in an amazing lemony cupcake that seems to glow with the sunshine that grew the ingredients. If you are looking for a new favorite…

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Finished blood orange upside down cake

Blood Orange Upside-Down Cake with Rosemary

With caramelized honey and fresh rosemary, this blood orange upside-down cake is exactly the citrusy dessert you need! This cake turns out light, fluffy, and moist – no cake mix necessary. The blood oranges add an effervescent brightness while the rosemary grounds the whole cake with an earthy freshness. A Citrus Cake with Bright and…

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