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    Halloween/Fall

    Try these easy Southern shortcut recipes for Halloween treats and fall favorites—quick, simple and festive ideas your whole family will love.

    • Peanut Butter Sheet Cake with cake mix scored into slices in the pan topped with chopped peanuts.
      Peanut Butter Sheet Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting
    • smores cupcakes on a metal tub with words Campfire Cupcakes strung across
      Campfire S'Mores Cupcakes (plus Shortcut Version)
    • Stack of pecan cookies on wire rack with maple icing on them.
      Maple Pecan Cookies (Slice and Bake)
    • Spicy Sweet Potato Fries in parchment paper cooked in air fryer.
      Air Fryer Spicy Sweet Potato Fries
    • Cooked Brussels sprouts with bacon on a white plate.
      Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts with Sorghum Molasses & Bacon
    • Crab Corn soup in terra cotta bowl on blue checked napkin.
      Shortcut Crab and Corn Soup
    • Side view of a slice of apple oatmeal cake on a blue plate.
      Apple Oatmeal Cake
    • Rectangle brown wicker basket of fried green cherry tomatoes on a wooden tray and sauce next to it.
      Fried Green Cherry Tomatoes
    • Double Stuffed Cinnamon Rolls in red baking dish
      Double-Stuffed Cinnamon Rolls
    • Cranberry cookies in a red snowflake bowl.
      Cranberry Orange Cookies
    • Close up of platter of bbq wings with bowl of Ranch dressing in the background
      Air Fryer BBQ Chicken Wings
    • Leftover turkey in a turkey pot pie topped with tater tots on a plate with pie plate in the background.
      Tater Tot Turkey Pot Pie
    • 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Pie Minis
    • Stack of 3 glazed yeast donuts on a white plate
      Best Copycat Krispy Kreme Donuts with a Shortcut
    • peanuts in the shell cracked open on a blue tin plate
      Easy Instant Pot Boiled Peanuts
    • Slice of pecan cream pie on white plate in front of whole pie in background.
      Best Pecan Cream Pie
    • pumpkin beside an Instant Pot
      How to Cook a Whole Pumpkin in an Instant Pot (Homemade Pumpkin Puree)
    • Square white bowl of black eyed peas with torn corn bread in background.
      Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas
    • Baked apple fritters on a wire rack to set the glaze.
      Baked Apple Fritters
    • Fig Jam Cake frosted with Maple Buttercream on a turquoise platter
      Fig Jam Cake with Maple Frosting
    • Small Batch Scuppernong Jelly
    • Bowl of roasted butternut squash on fall colored cloth with wooden spoon next to it.
      Air Fryer Butternut Squash
    • Spoonful of chicken wild rice soup hovering over a bowl of soup.
      Chicken Wild Rice Soup (Panera Copycat)
    • Four southern slow cooker recipes: apple butter, ham, peas, figs.
      Easy Southern Slow Cooker Recipes
    • Pecan crust for pie with pecans scattered on the surface.
      Pecan Crust Recipe for Pie
    • Overhead image of orange poppy seed cake with three slices shingled.
      Orange Poppy Seed Cake
    • Slice of chocolate peanut butter cake on a plate in front of a 9x13 pan
      Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cake
    • A carrot bundt cake on a wood cake pedestal.
      Carrot Bundt Cake
    • A blue and white bowl with crock pot ham and cabbage and a fork resting on the side.
      Crock Pot Cabbage and Ham
    • Fig pudding cake with sauce in bottom of white bowl topped with vanilla yogurt
      Sticky Fig Pudding Cake
    • Blue rimmed bowl filled with cooked collards with Instant Pot at top.
      Instant Pot Collard Greens
    • Close up of a smores mini pies in graham cracker crusts.
      Mini S'mores Pies
    • Stack of blonde brownies on brown paper.
      Blonde Brownies with Cheaters Caramel Icing
    • Wooden bowl of pecan halves with stack of wooden bowls above it.
      Roasted Pecans in Air Fryer
    • Slice out of artisan round loaf bread. Piece of bread sitting in oil in a plate
      Dutch Oven Artisan Bread (No Knead)
    • Close up hand holding apple pie filled donut with stack in the background.
      Easy Air Fryer Apple Pie Bombs
    • Apple pie dip topped with chopped apple pie filling in a green apple-shaped dish
      Apple Pie Dip
    • peeled clementine oranges with cucumbers in them to look like pumpkins
      Mandarin Orange "Pumpkin" Treats (Healthy Halloween Snack)
    • Mummy brownies on white platter with skeleton shaped spoons.
      Mummy Brownies
    • Pecan Pumpkin Belgian Waffles stacked with maple syrup and whipped cream.
      Pecan Pumpkin Waffles

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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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