This is a little different from the kind of recipes we usually post here, but I’ve really enjoyed trying all the great summer recipes over the past couple of months and I feel like this straightforward strawberry jam recipe/instructional definitely deserves to have a place of honor with the rest of those.  This jam just takes like warm summer mornings in a jar.

Making jam can be a laborious endeavor, but this recipe seems to be more beginner friendly.  All of the steps are clear and concise enough that I decided to make this my first ever attempt at making and canning jam.  It’s still kind of a tricky process, because some things have to be very particular for the jam to firm up the way it should.

Recipe is courtesy of Ball Canning & Recipes

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Quick Tip: The taste of this jam is very sweet.  If you find it too sweet for your taste, you can decrease the sugar until you get the flavor where you want it.

If You Are a Lover Of All Things Mocha, You’re Going To Go Gaga Over This Delicious Dessert!

Who here swears by their morning cup of coffee? I’m sure if I could see everyone reading this, I’d being viewing a sea of raised palms. If I don’t get my coffee in the morning, life just doesn’t happen. Mama needs her java! What if you could pair that cup of Joe with a slice of mocha espresso cake? I bet your curiosity has just been piqued, hasn’t it? I don’t blame you! When I came across this mocha espresso chocolate cake recipe, my heart skipped a beat, too!

This cake is so decadent and yummy. You’re going to love it! Another “perk” is that isn’t too terribly hard to make, either! In fact, my kids can make this dessert on their own. Cool!

And get this? You can use different flavorings to make different types of cake. One of my all-time favorite flavor combos is peanut butter with chocolate. Delish!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Yes to Yolks.

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Quick Tip: Feel free to eat this cake with your morning coffee as part of your breakfast. You know you want too!

Are you looking for a cookie recipe that takes the cake above all others? Well, you’ve come to the right place because these monster cookies are larger than life! They are scrumptious, filled with a plethora of yummy goodies, and very easy to make. What’s not to love about that?

I enjoy making monster cookies when my children have classroom parties because the kids and teachers alike love them. They are big, colorful, and delicious. Seriously, everything but the kitchen sink goes into these amazing cookies. From oatmeal to chocolatey M&Ms, you’ve got a little bit of everything in there.

Recipe and photo courtesy of The Pioneer Woman.

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Quick Tip: Get creative with these cookies and use a any yummy ingredients that you would like.

This Dessert May Look Plain, But Trust Me, It Packs a Punch Of Flavor That Will Leave You Speechless!

If you’re anything like me, you love butter! If I could slather the yummy stuff all over my face, I would! OK, maybe I wouldn’t go that far, but you get my drift lol! So, what goes good with butter? Cake! You probably thought I was going to say bread, right? Nope. Today we are talking about brown butter cake!

If you haven’t ever experienced the beautiful flavors of caramelized brown butter cake, you haven’t yet begun to live. I’m telling you, this cake is the cat’s meow! It’s tasty and super easy to make. I actually left the recipe with my 15-year-old daughter and she made the cake herself, and it tasted like a slice of heaven on earth.

Let’s hear it from our friends over at 12Tomatoes:

Don’t be fooled by its appearance – this is seriously one of the best tasting cakes we have ever tried, and it’s so totally simple! It caramelizes right in the pan while it’s baking, so you don’t even need to frost it! How easy is that?! (You can if you like, but there’s really no need!)

Recipe and photo courtesy of 12tomatoes.

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Quick Tip: This cake goes wonderfully with your morning coffee!

One of my husband’s favorite treats is peanut butter and chocolate desserts.  I’ve made brownies, oatmeal, and so many other treats with the same ingredients.  He absolutely loves them.  I’ve truthfully never been so fond of these ingredients combined together…until now.

This has got to be the best chocolate and peanut butter combination dessert.  It has a perfect balance of sweet and salty and I especially love it when it’s cold right out of the fridge.  It just makes is so refreshing too.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Spicy Southern Kitchen.

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Quick Tip: Refrigerate longer if possible.  It helps the cake completely settle.

I’ll admit.  I’ve never been fond of sweet potato casserole.  I was the guilty one who always picked at the roasted marshmallows over the top, but did not eat the sweet potato underneath.  It was just so strange to me to be eating a completely sweet dish next to all that salty food.  It just seemed like a dessert.

This one however.  Mmmmm, so good.  It’s the perfect balance between sweet and salty, the texture can be changed so easily and it’s just all around delicious.  It’s definitely a Thanksgiving side, but you don’t have to wait until then to enjoy it!  I certainly don’t, anyway.  This is too good to enjoy only once a year.

Recipe and photo courtesy of The Pioneer Woman.

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Quick Tip: Add chopped pecans into your sweet potato mixture for a lovely crunchy addition.

I still kind of can’t believe how easy this recipe actually is.  I’ve made it twice now and I realized the second time that I actually remembered it all.  That’s how simple it is.  Chances are, short of the frozen blackberries (which I actually DID happen to have in my freezer, amazingly), you almost certainly have four of the five ingredients needed to make this blackberry cobbler.  

Yes – FIVE INGREDIENTS.  And this definitely does not taste like a quick, five ingredient dessert that you toss together at the last minute.  Well, I mean, you can toss it together pretty fast.  The recipe says prep time is five minutes, but I think you could take it down to four without even having to try too hard.

Recipe is courtesy of Southern Living

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Quick Tip: I’m refraining from typing this in all caps, but read this with the emphasis it deserves: you don’t even have to thaw the blackberries.