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Funfetti Cookie Cake

May 6, 2025 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

This scrumptious Funfetti Cookie Cake is a soft, thick and chewy sugar cookie filled with rainbow sprinkles. Frost it with your favorite buttercream and it’s over-the-top delicious!

Cookie cake on a with a piece cut out, under that a piping bag with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles in a bowl. Under that a piece of cookie cake on a white plate.
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Filed Under: Cakes, Cookies

Royal Icing Recipe with Meringue Powder

April 25, 2025 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

This Royal Icing Recipe with Meringue Powder is delicious, smooth and glossy, has stiff peaks for decorating, but also thins easily for yielding different textures and flooding. You will love this versatile royal icing recipe!

Pink, white and green royal icing flowers on sugar cookies.
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Filed Under: Buttercreams, Frostings + Icings, Cake and Cookie Decorating

Perfect Non Spread Sugar Cookies

April 18, 2025 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

These Perfect Non Spread Sugar Cookies are thick, soft, sweet, keep their shape and never spread. The dough is just perfect for rolling and using with cookie cutters. So scrumptious!

Stacked sugar cookies on a green frilly apron with sprinkles in a green cup with a rolling pin in the background and some frosted sugar cookies on a white grid.
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Jumbo Funfetti Rice Krispies Treats

April 10, 2025 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Jumbo Funfetti Rice Krispies Treats are thick, crispy, buttery, gooey and loaded with marshmallows white chocolate and sprinkles. They are absolutely EXTRA!

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Filed Under: Brownies + Bars, Candies, Cake Pops + Snacks, Spring, Summer

Copycat Publix Key Lime Pie Recipe

August 9, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Copycat Publix Key Lime Pie Recipe is a homemade buttery graham cracker crust filled with a sweet and tangy key lime filling and adorned with homemade whipped cream and slivered almonds. SO delicious!

Key lime pie with whipped cream and almonds in a green pie plate with limes in the background
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Filed Under: Easter, Pies + Tarts, Spring, Summer

Booty Dip Recipe

July 1, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

This Booty Dip Recipe is my version of the viral Tik Tok recipe with whipped cream cheese, marshmallow fluff and the addition of mini chocolate chips. SO addictive and yummy!

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Filed Under: Candies, Cake Pops + Snacks, Easter, Spring, Summer

Ultimate Cookies and Cream Shake

June 27, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

My Ultimate Cookies and Cream Shake is thick, creamy and filled with crushed Oreo cookies. It’s quick and easy with just 3 ingredients!

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Filed Under: Ice Cream, No-Bake + Frozen Desserts, Spring, Summer

The Best Fudgy Brownie Recipe

June 11, 2024 by Michele Wendt 2 Comments

The Best Fudgy Brownie Recipe yields thick, rich, fudgy brownies with deep chocolate flavor. They are filled with chocolate chips and have gorgeous, shiny, crinkly tops!

Brownie squares on white parchment paper
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Filed Under: Brownies + Bars, Valentine's Day

Southern Baked Beans and Ground Beef

May 30, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Southern Baked Beans and Ground Beef is a hearty side dish made with ground beef, beans, bacon, onions, brown sugar and mustard. This recipe is so tasty and just perfect for a potluck, BBQ or anytime!

Baked beans and beef in a white square  baking dish with orange and brown flowers
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Carmelitas Dessert Bars

May 28, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Carmelitas Dessert Bars are buttery, chewy oatmeal layers stuffed with thick, melty caramel and chocolate chips inside. SO rich and decadent!

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Filed Under: Brownies + Bars, Spring, Summer

Texas Sheet Cake

May 22, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Texas Sheet Cake is a yummy, old-fashioned, tried and true moist chocolate sheet cake with a hint of cinnamon! All the ingredients in this cake are mixed up by hand so there is no mixer needed.

A slice of Texas sheet cake with a forkful missing on a white plate with a fork. A pan of cake and some cocoa in the background
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Filed Under: Cakes, Spring, Summer

Homemade Cake Release

May 22, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Homemade Cake Release is made of just three ingredients you probably already have in your pantry. It’s simple to mix up and it’s magical when it comes to your cakes not sticking to the pan.

A Bundt cake cooling on a cooling grid
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Copycat Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce

May 19, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

My Copycat Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce is thick, smoky, sweet and perfect to use with pulled pork, ribs, chicken and anything else you like to pour your sauce on!

Barbecue sauce dripping off of a spoon and into a glass jar
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Favorite Instant Pot Pulled Pork Recipe

May 18, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

My Favorite Instant Pot Pulled Pork Recipe is flavorful, tender, juicy and will leave you wanting more! It’s prepared with a flavorful rub and cooked in your favorite BBQ sauce.

Pulled pork on a bun with cole slaw and a bowl of bbq sauce and sweet potato fries in the background
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The Wendt House Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

May 15, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

The Wendt House Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are crispy on the outside and gooey, melty and delicious on the inside. These cookies are thick, buttery and every bit as good as a bakery cookie!

Chocolate chip cookies on a round cooling grid with chocolate chips in a small bowl on the left side
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Filed Under: Cookies, Valentine's Day

Southern Sweet Tea

May 12, 2024 by Michele Wendt 1 Comment

Southern Sweet Tea is made by freshly brewing a black tea base, adding sugar while it’s still hot, chilling, adding to a pitcher with an equal amount of water and then serving over ice. A refreshing hot weather staple!

A glass of iced tea with ice and lemon and a pitcher of iced tea and a bowl of lemons in the background
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Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake

May 9, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake is a delicious dense, moist lemon cake with fresh blueberries throughout. It’s decorated with a sweet lemony glaze.

Lemon blueberry pound cake on a white cake pedestal with blueberries and lemons and a glass of milk in the background
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Filed Under: Cakes, Easter, Spring, Summer

Easy Parmesan Roasted Asparagus

May 7, 2024 by Michele Wendt 4 Comments

Easy Parmesan Roasted Asparagus is fresh asparagus topped with olive oil, salt and pepper, freshly grated parmesan cheese that is roasted in the oven for a delicious and quick side dish.

Roasted parmesan asparagus arranged on a white plate
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Easy Buttercream Floral Cupcakes

May 6, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

These Easy Buttercream Floral Cupcakes are piped with Russian piping tips which makes them so simple to pipe a gorgeous flower in seconds!

Decorated lavender and yellow floral and swirl cupcakes on a white cake stand with cupcakes in the background
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Filed Under: Cupcakes, Muffins + Donuts

Air Fryer Hot Dogs

May 2, 2024 by Michele Wendt 1 Comment

Air Fryer Hot Dogs are amazing and finished in 8 minutes total cooking time. They are crispy on the outside and taste like they just came off of the grill. They are SO good!

Two hot dogs in a basket with ketchup, mustard and relish and then on the right two hot dogs in a basket on buns with no condiments. Ketchup, mustard and relish in the background
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Lemon Cake Pops

May 1, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

These Lemon Cake Pops are delicious little morsels of fun that are bursting with lemon flavor. They are perfect for any party or gathering and they will disappear quickly!

Lemon cake pops in a tall glass with yellow tissue paper and the pop in front has a bite taken out of it
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Filed Under: Candies, Cake Pops + Snacks, Easter, Spring, Summer

The Best Vanilla Buttercream

April 30, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

The best vanilla buttercream isn’t too sweet, is creamy and pipes beautifully. It’s made with melted, salted butter, which gives it a very unique flavor. It always gets rave reviews!

A cupcake piped with a swirl of buttercream with an aqua cupcake liner surrounded by purple sprinkles on a white cake pedestal
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Oklahoma Smash Burgers

April 25, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Oklahoma Smash Burgers are juicy with crispy edges, smashed into razor-thin cut onions, sprinkled with burger seasoning and dripping with homemade secret sauce. The sauce has an edge and the onions flavor the meat just right!

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Easy Buttermilk Air Fryer Biscuits

April 21, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

These Easy Buttermilk Air Fryer Biscuits are so soft and fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside. The dough is easy to prepare and bakes up quickly in your air fryer!

Buttermilk biscuits stacked on a white plate with a pad of butter melting on the top biscuit
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Filed Under: Breads, Buns + Rolls, Fall

Lemon Raspberry Cookies

April 15, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Lemon Raspberry Cookies are soft and thick, filled with fresh raspberries and bursting with tangy lemon flavor. These NO CHILL cookies are finished with a delicious lemony glaze!

Lemon raspberry cookies piled onto a white plate with raspberries and another cake plate in the background
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Filed Under: Cookies, Spring, Summer

Rhodes Rolls Monkey Bread

April 11, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Rhodes Rolls Monkey Bread is gooey, sticky, soft and full of buttery cinnamon goodness! Once you make monkey bread with rolls, you will NEVER go back to biscuits. Sinfully delicious!

Monkey bread turned out onto a white cake plate with a blue and white towel surrounding the plate
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Filed Under: Breads, Buns + Rolls, Christmas, Easter, Fall, Spring

Instant Pot Chicken Nachos

April 2, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Instant Pot Chicken Nachos are made with flavorful shredded chicken, crispy tortilla chips, chili beans, loaded with two different kinds of cheese and all of your favorite toppings.

Nachos on a white plate topped with black olives, green onions, avocado and sour cream
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Easter Egg Cheesecakes

March 29, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Easter Egg Cheesecakes are chocolate eggs stuffed with sweet and creamy no-bake cheesecake filling and topped off with swirls of chocolate and your favorite Easter sprinkles and candies. They are definitely little show-stoppers!

Three Easter egg cheesecakes decorated with chocolate, sprinkles and candy on a small white cake pedestal
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Filed Under: Cheesecakes, Easter, Spring

Peeps Air Fryer S’mores

March 25, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Peeps Air Fryer S’mores are colorful, gooey, melty and sweet, as a s’more should be, only cuter! You don’t need a grill or a fire to make these, just your air fryer.

Three Peeps Air Fryer S'mores in pink and blue with wooden Easter decorations around the s'mores
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Filed Under: Candies, Cake Pops + Snacks, Easter, Spring

Marry Me Chicken Pasta

March 18, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Marry Me Chicken Pasta is a flavorful and easy dish made with chicken, onions, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, spices and mixed with a decadent cream sauce. A yummy weeknight meal and great for company!

Marry Me Chicken Pasta on a white plate with a red bowl and some sun-dried tomatoes in the background
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Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

March 14, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a moist and tender cake with hints of cinnamon throughout and topped with a creamy, tangy and sweet cream cheese frosting. Heaven on a plate!

Overhead shot of frosted carrot cake with nuts on a pink cake plate
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Filed Under: Buttercreams, Frostings + Icings, Cakes, Easter, Spring

Leprechaun Bait Snack Mix

March 12, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Leprechaun Bait Snack Mix is a sweet and salty snack mix made with Chex and Lucky Charms cereals, pretzels, peanuts, M&M’s candies and then mixed with melted white chocolate. You are guaranteed to catch ALL of the leprechauns with this recipe!

Snack mix inside of a green baking dish with white flowers and white parchment
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Filed Under: Candies, Cake Pops + Snacks, Spring, St. Patrick's Day

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

March 10, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Traditional Irish Soda Bread requires just four ingredients, is easy to put together and is delicious warm out of the oven the day it is baked. This recipe does not require yeast to rise because the baking soda in the recipe does all of the work!

Baked irish soda bread on white parchment on a cutting board with butter in a white ramekin behind it and a bread knife on the right
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Filed Under: Breads, Buns + Rolls, Spring, St. Patrick's Day

Instant Pot Chicken Spaghetti

March 3, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Instant Pot Chicken Spaghetti is creamy, cheesy and every bit delicious! The little bit of cayenne in this dish gives it just the right kick. This is a simple and delicious pressure cooker dinner!

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Copycat Two Chip Chocolate Chip Levain Cookie Recipe

March 1, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

My Copycat Two Chip Chocolate Chip Levain Cookie Recipe makes an extra thick and gooey cookie on the inside and is crispy on the outside. They are loaded with two types of rich and melty chocolate chips which makes them extra delicious!

Four chocolate chip cookies stacked and the top cookie is cut in half exposing goey chocolate chips
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Filed Under: Cookies, Valentine's Day

Guinness Shepherd’s Pie

February 28, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Guinness Shepherd’s Pie is a meaty and delicious comfort food filled with ground beef, onions, garlic and carrots swimming in a rich beef gravy flavored with classic Guinness Beer. It’s topped off with cheesy, rustic mashed potatoes. Everyone will ask for seconds!

Shepherd's pie in a pie plate with a piece missing out so the middle is showing
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Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookie Blossoms

February 7, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookie Blossoms are a delicious, thick and chewy sugar cookie rolled in pretty sanding sugars and topped with a milk chocolate heart. Your Valentine will adore them!

A plate of Valentine sugar cookies with other cookies in the background and a small pink bowl of sanding sugar
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Southern Homemade Chili

February 2, 2024 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

My Southern Homemade Chili recipe is made with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, chili beans, a cozy blend of spices, a little sweetness, my secret ingredient and as much spicy as you like!

Chili in a bowl with chips, sour cream, cheese and green onions and condiments in the background with a red dish towel
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The Wendt House New York Crumb Cake

January 29, 2024 by Michele Wendt 1 Comment

The Wendt House New York Crumb Cake is a delicious buttery cake topped with a thick layer of soft cinnamon crumbs as thick as the cake itself. This recipe will be your new crumb cake go-to!

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Filed Under: Cakes, Easter, Fall, Spring, Summer

The Best Pumpkin Bisque

October 20, 2023 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

The Best Pumpkin Bisque is savory with a hint of sweetness, but full of the spicy flavors of fall! This rich and creamy bisque is just what you need to warm you on a cool day.

Three bowls of pumpkin bisque on a white napkin and wood cutting board with two ramekins with pepitos and nutmeg in the background
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Pumpkin Loaf Cake

October 1, 2023 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

Pumpkin Loaf Cake is a delicious, dense, moist cake that is all about the pumpkin and spices! This cake is a delicious fall breakfast or snack.

Sliced pumpkin loaf cake on a small cake grid with a piece of cake on a plate in the background
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Filed Under: Cakes, Christmas, Fall, Halloween, Quick Breads, Loaf Cakes + Scones, Winter

No Bake Peanut Butter Pie

August 29, 2023 by Michele Wendt Leave a Comment

No Bake Peanut Butter Pie has a buttery graham cracker crust, is rich and creamy and has big peanut butter flavor. SO easy to make and without turning on your oven!

Peanut Butter pie with a graham cracker crust in a red pie plate
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Filed Under: Easter, Ice Cream, No-Bake + Frozen Desserts, Pies + Tarts, Spring, Summer

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Hi, I’m Michele – wife, mom and granny with a love for all things homemade. I’m learning to grow food, I love to bake from scratch and I’m intentionally living a slower, more soulful life in sunny South Florida. Around here you’ll find vintage charm, from-scratch recipes, garden dreams and a sprinkle of sweet things. So glad you’re here!

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