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Penuche topped cake with a brown sugar, butter, and nut streusel baked right on a vanilla sheet cake. Served warm with whipped cream for a caramelized, crunchy finish.

A rich, fudgy Southern chocolate sheet cake made with real Coca Cola, buttermilk, and miniature marshmallows baked right into the batter. Topped with a warm cocoa cola icing that soaks in while the cake is still hot.

Buttery pretzel-shaped cookies made with powdered sugar, egg whites, and vanilla, baked golden and drizzled with an optional chocolate frosting. A fun twist on classic butter cookies.

Japanese Fruit Pie is a Southern American chess-style pie filled with dates, coconut, and nuts in a sweet egg custard. Mix, pour, bake. Despite the name, it's pure Southern comfort.

Sun-sational lemon cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, creamy citrus-scented filling, and a bright homemade lemon curd glaze. A proper springform showpiece with sunny citrus flavor.

Marble cheesecake swirls dark chocolate batter through a classic vanilla cream cheese filling on a graham cracker crust. A two-tone showstopper baked in a springform pan.

Chocolate cheesecake with a graham cracker crust, made with chocolate sweetened condensed milk for a silky, no-fuss filling. Six ingredients, one bowl, deeply chocolatey.

No-bake eggnog cheesecake with a chocolate pirouette cookie and graham cracker crust. Cream cheese, French vanilla pudding, rum, and nutmeg set into a chilled holiday showstopper.

No-bake eggnog cheesecake with a nutmeg graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling, and whipped cream. A chilled holiday dessert that needs no oven.

No-bake lemon cheesecake with graham crust, tangy lemon-cream cheese filling lightened by whipped egg whites, and a crumble topping. Cool, fluffy summer dessert set with gelatin.

Pineapple sour cream pie on a graham crust with a tangy pineapple-sour cream filling thickened with egg yolks and crowned with toasted meringue. Tropical, tart, and old-fashioned in the best way.

Miniature chocolate peanut butter pies in mini muffin tins. Graham crust, frozen peanut butter filling, and chocolate ganache topping. Make 24 ahead and stash in the freezer for up to a week.

Orange rice pilaf cooked in fresh orange juice with orange zest, celery, thyme, and sauteed onions. A bright, citrusy side dish that pairs with poultry, pork, and holiday roasts.

Easy dill biscuits made from refrigerated buttermilk biscuits split, tossed in dill butter, and baked until golden. A four-ingredient side ready in under 20 minutes.

Crunchy microwave snack mix loaded with honey-cinnamon cereal, peanuts, banana chips, popcorn, coconut, and raisins. Sweet, salty, and ready in minutes.

Pull-apart cinnamon nut bubble loaf with buttery dough balls rolled in cinnamon sugar and chopped nuts. Monkey bread in a loaf pan, ready in about an hour.