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A showstopping bundt cake with a hidden mint cream cheese swirl inside and a drizzled chocolate-mint glaze on top. Semi-homemade with devil's food cake mix.

Pumpkin-shaped peanut butter cookies decorated with orange juice frosting for Halloween. Easy cut-out cookies kids love decorating with candy corn faces.

Red, white, and blue striped slice-and-bake cookies for the Fourth of July. Simple sugar cookie dough tinted with food coloring, stacked, chilled, and sliced into patriotic treats.

Pumpkin-shaped Halloween cake bakes two fluted bundts, fills them with a pecan cream filling, and stacks them into a sphere iced in orange buttercream with a green ice cream cone stem. A novelty cake kids love.

Easy angel cookies use just three ingredients: angel food cake mix, water, and chopped fruit. Light, puffy, and ready in 20 minutes with no eggs, butter, or oil.

Easy glazed smoked ham trims, scores, and bakes a fully-cooked smoked ham with a simple sugar coating for a holiday-worthy main with minimal effort. The classic Sunday-supper or Easter-table centerpiece.

Halloween face paint mixes cornstarch, water, cream, and food coloring into a homemade non-toxic costume paint. Skin-safe, kid-friendly, and ready in seconds for trick-or-treat night.

Lemon poppyseed spritz cookies are pressed into star and swirl shapes, baked tender, then iced with a pale lemon glaze and finished with a poppyseed sprinkle.

Betty Crocker mint swirl chocolate cake, that's easy to make using box cake mix and turns out very pretty.

Homemade chocolates in the Laura Secord style: a creamy fondant center mixed with maple, mint, lemon, orange, or almond flavoring, then dip-coated in semisweet chocolate. The chocolate-shop classics, made on the kitchen counter.

A festive red velvet cake made with German chocolate cake mix and sour cream, topped with a cooked flour frosting and handmade marzipan holly leaf decorations.

Layers of angel food cake, sweetened cream cheese, whipped topping, and fresh strawberries under a shimmering strawberry jello glaze. A no-bake showpiece for any gathering.

Bienville sauce, the rich New Orleans seafood velouté spooned over baked oysters Bienville. Trout, shrimp, crab, and Chablis enriched with egg yolks and cream. Classic Creole French Quarter classic.

Halloween chocolate blood cake with red-dyed white chocolate sponge, strawberry ice cream center, and a creepy dripping red icing topped with vampire teeth candies. Spooky party showstopper.

Kaleidoscope slice-and-bake cookies with red, green, and plain dough rolled together for a colorful Christmas pattern. Freezer-friendly holiday cookies that store up to 6 months.

Varicose Veins on a Leaf is a creepy Halloween appetizer with French-style green beans dyed red to look like veins, arranged on lettuce leaves with sliced almond bones. Spooky, edible, fun.