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    Desserts and Cakes

    Satisfy your sweet tooth with these easy Southern recipes for desserts, pies, cakes and ice cream that embody the heart warming flavors of the south without lengthy ingredient lists and with shortcuts to simplify the process.

    • Chocolate Magic Cake
    • Sticky Fig Pudding Cake
    • Miniature Brownie Bites (Frosted)
    • 27 Easy Memorial Day Recipes (Southern)
    • Mini S'mores Pies
    • Blonde Brownies with Cheaters Caramel Icing
    • Cookies and Cream Shortbread Cookies
    • Honey Bread Pudding with Raisins and Vanilla Sauce
    • Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip
    • Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cake (9x13)
    • Easy Air Fryer Apple Pie Bombs
    • Cathedral Windows (Church Window Cookies)
    • Date Nut Balls
    • Apple Pie Dip
    • Peanut Butter Sheet Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting
    • Easy Peach Crumble
    • Best Pecan Cream Pie
    • Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
    • Shortcut Salted Caramel Nut Rolls (Peanuts & Nougat)
    • Persimmon Pie
    • Easy German Chocolate Pie
    • Caramel Glaze and Sauce
    • Easy Apple Pecan Cake with Caramel Glaze
    • Sugardoodles
    • Pineapple Zucchini Bread
    • Blueberry Peach Cobbler with Oatmeal Cookie Streusel
    • Shortcut Strawberry Shortcake Dip
    • Easy Pecan Recipes
    • Shortcut Strawberry Fudge
    • Top 10 Super Bowl Southern Shortcut Recipes
    • Sweet Tea Tiramisu Trifle for Two
    • Purple Sweet Potato Magic Cake
    • Cookie Butter Puff Pastry Christmas Trees
    • White Texas Sheet Cake (with Cake Mix)
    • Pecan Crust Recipe for Pie
    • Mississippi Mud Brownies (with Brownie Mix)
    • Best Microwave Peanut Brittle
    • Microwave Pecan Brittle
    • Easy Pecan Praline Sauce
    • Walking Banana Pudding

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    Hi y'all! I’m Kathleen. I share Southern shortcut recipes! I’m a food stylist, cookbook author, and former test kitchen director in Alabama. I take traditional Southern recipes you know and love (and a few new ones) and make them with shortcuts so you can enjoy them faster.

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