These homemade Gooey Butter Cakes with fresh raspberry sauce are one of my favorite desserts to serve when I want something that feels extra special without a lot of work. Each little cake has a soft buttery exterior, a creamy gooey center, and a crisp sugar-coated edge that’s completely irresistible.

Serve them warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberry sauce, and you’ll have a restaurant-worthy dessert right at home.

Ingredients You’ll Need

One of the things I love most about these mini butter cakes is that they use simple baking ingredients to create a truly unforgettable dessert. The buttery cake, creamy filling, and fresh raspberry sauce come together perfectly in every bite.

• Turbinado Sugar: Creates the signature crunchy exterior that makes these butter cakes so irresistible.
• Butter: Provides rich flavor and the tender texture every great butter cake needs.
• Cream Cheese: Adds richness and helps create the creamy, melt-in-your-mouth texture.
• Sugar: Sweetens the cake while helping create a soft crumb.
• Egg: Provides structure and richness.
• Vanilla: Adds warm, classic bakery flavor.
• Almond Extract: A small amount adds incredible depth and enhances the buttery flavor.
• Flour: Gives the cakes structure while keeping them soft and tender.
• Baking Powder: Helps the cakes rise properly.
• Fine Sea Salt: Balances the sweetness and enhances flavor.

Cream Cheese Filling

• Cream Cheese: Creates the signature gooey center.
• Sugar: Adds sweetness to balance out the tang of the cream cheese.
• Egg Yolk: Adds richness and creaminess to the filling.
• Vanilla Paste or Extract: Adds warm flavor.

Raspberry Sauce

• Fresh Raspberries: Provide bright, fresh flavor that balances the richness of the cake.
• Lemon Juice: Brightens the raspberry sauce and enhances the berry flavor.
• Sugar: Adds sweetness to balance the tart berries.
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I added a secret ingredient to make the Creamiest Peaches and Cream Bars! I guarantee you’ll be making them all summer!

These no bake peaches and cream bars are everything I want in a summer dessert. A buttery graham cracker crust is layered with fluffy cream cheese filling and juicy peaches, then fridge-baked until perfect.

The inspiration for this recipe came from a conversation with my friend Sarah. She was telling me about a fresh peach dessert her family has loved for years, but there wasn’t a written recipe—just memories of layers of peaches and cream. I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

So I gave it an Oh Sweet Basil twist by borrowing the creamy filling from our favorite Berries and Cream Bars and pairing it with a simple graham cracker crust. After a little experimenting (and discovering that chopped peaches work much better than sliced!), these no bake peaches and cream bars were born. I think they just might become one of your favorite summer desserts too!

Ingredients You’ll Need

Simple ingredients come together to create layers of buttery graham cracker crust, juicy peaches, and fluffy cream filling. Here’s everything you’ll need:

• Fresh Peaches: Sweet, juicy peaches are the star of the dessert. Slightly firm peaches hold their shape best.
• Brown Sugar: Brings out the natural sweetness of the peaches.
• Cinnamon: Adds warm flavor without overpowering the fruit.
• Nutmeg: Just a pinch gives the peaches extra depth.
• Cornstarch (or EZ Gel): Thickens the peach juices into a light syrup that keeps the bars from becoming watery.

Graham Cracker Crust

• Sugar: Adds just a little extra sweetness.
• Graham Crackers Crumbs: Create a buttery, no-bake crust that’s sturdy enough to hold the creamy filling.
• Salted Butter: Holds the crust together while adding rich flavor.

Cream Filling

• Heavy Cream: Whips into a light, fluffy

This dulce de leche ice cream is unbelievably creamy, rich, silky smooth, and swirled with ribbons of sweet caramelized dulce de leche in every bite. It tastes like something you’d order from a fancy ice cream shop, but it’s surprisingly easy to make at home.

If you love caramel desserts, this homemade ice cream is absolutely dangerous.

Cade has been obsessed with dulce de leche ever since serving a mission in Brazil years ago where they call it Doce De Leite. He LOVES ice cream and while on his mission, they ate a lot of Doce de Leite and leite condensada. He even ate it on his oatmeal occasionally. Gross.

I love making anything that is Brazilian because I know that Cade will adore it. Have you tried our pao de quejo or our torta de limão? Holy moly, yum!

What is Dulce de Leche?

Dulce de leche is a rich caramel-like sauce made by slowly cooking milk and sugar until thick, creamy, and deeply caramelized.

Unlike traditional caramel sauce, which is made from sugar and water, dulce de leche has a richer, creamier flavor thanks to the milk.

Ingredients You’ll Need

You only need 6 simple ingredients to make this ultra creamy homemade ice cream.

• Dulce de Leche: Adds deep caramelized sweetness and creates those signature ribbons throughout the ice cream.
• Whole Milk: Keeps the ice cream smooth and scoopable.
• Egg Yolks: Create a rich custard base and silky texture.
• Sugar: Adds sweetness and helps keep the ice cream soft.
• Heavy Cream: Creates the rich creamy base for the ice cream.
• Salt: Balances the sweetness and deepens the flavor.

How to Make Homemade Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

1. Make the Custard Base: Heat the milk and 1 can of the dulce de leche until smooth and very hot, but not boiling.
2. Temper the Eggs: Whisk the sugar and egg yolks together until pale in color. Slowly whisk a few ta

These s’mores cookies are everything I love about a summer campfire wrapped up in one ridiculously good cookie. They’re packed with graham crackers, melty chocolate, and gooey marshmallows tucked right inside.

I’m a perfectly golden, never burned marshmallow girl. If my marshmallow catches fire, we’re starting over. I didn’t wait all year for camping season to eat charcoal. My family grew up camping. It’s what we did in the summer, in the backyard, girls camp and boys camp, and for spring break.

My mom is an amazing camper and can bust out the most amazing Dutch oven, campfire, reflector oven and even tin foil dinners. But the real star of the show was always dessert. Her peach cobbler in a Dutch oven is still one of the best things ever about my childhood, but right up there with it is a good s’more. Nowadays I’m not super into s’mores but put it in a cookie and I’m allllll over it!

Ingredients You’ll Need

These easy s’mores cookies are made with all the classic campfire ingredients—graham crackers, chocolate, and gooey marshmallows—plus a few baking staples for the perfect soft and chewy texture.

• Flour: Creates the structure and chewy texture of the cookies.
• Crushed Graham Crackers: Add that classic s’mores flavor and a hint of honey sweetness.
• Baking Soda: Helps the cookies spread and bake up soft.
• Baking Powder: Gives the cookies a little lift and tenderness.
• Cornstarch: Keeps the cookies extra soft and chewy.
• Salt: Balances the sweetness and enhances all the flavors.
• Unsalted Butter: Adds rich flavor and creates tender cookies.
• Brown Sugar: Adds moisture and a subtle caramel flavor.
• Granulated Sugar: Sweetens the cookies and helps create lightly crisp edges.
• Egg: Binds the ingredients together and adds richness.
• Vanilla: Enhances the chocolate and graham cracker flavors.
• Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips: Add melty chocolate in every bite.
• Hershey’s Bar: Delivers that classic campfire s’mores chocolate flavor.
• Large Marshmallows: Create a gooey, melty center inside each cookie.
• Whole Graham Crackers: Form the perfect crunchy base and complete the s’mores experience.

Sweet Fruit Pizza with Sugar Cookie Crust has been a family favorite for years! It has fruit piled onto a soft and chewy sugar cookie crust and dreamy cream cheese frosting. This classic summertime dessert is perfect for warm-weather parties and gatherings!

Fruit pizza is woven into my childhood in the same way that double stick popsicles, sunny days running through the sprinklers, and lazy afternoons watching clouds roll by on a hot bouncy trampoline are. It was written into my story, my life, and my family. My mom is the queen of the kitchen and her fruit pizza is something we all still crave to this day.

This is not that recipe. This is the sugar cookie version, and it is the one my own kids know and love. If you want my mom’s oat crust with that dreamy pudding topping, be sure to check out that recipe too!

Ingredients For Fruit Pizza

You only need a handful of simple ingredients to pull this fruit pizza together. The cookie crust relies on pantry staples, the cream cheese frosting uses just three ingredients, and the fruit topping is entirely customizable. Here is everything you will need:

Sugar Cookie Crust

• Unsalted Butter: Creamed with sugar to form the rich, tender base of the cookie crust.
•  Granulated Sugar: Sweetens the dough and helps create those slightly crisp edges on the baked cookie.
• Vanilla Extract: Adds a warm, classic flavor that complements the cream cheese frosting. 
• Almond Extract: Just a small amount gives the sugar cookie its signature bakery-style flavor. 
• Egg: Binds the dough together and contributes to the soft, chewy texture. 
• All-Purpose Flour: The main structure of the cookie crust.
• Baking Powder: Gives the cookie a gentle lift so it bakes up thick rather than flat.
• Cornstarch: The secret to an extra soft and tender cookie that stays chewy even after cooling.
• Cream of Tartar: Helps stabilize the dough and contributes to the signature tang of a classic sugar cookie.
• Salt: Balances the sweetness and enhances all the other flavors in the crust.

Cream Cheese Frosting

• Cream Cheese: The tangy, creamy base of the frosting that keeps it from tasting overly sweet. 
• Unsalted Butter: Beaten with the cream cheese for an extra smooth and spreadable consistency.
• Powdered Sugar: Sweetens and thickens the frosting to the perfect spreadable texture.

Fresh Fruit Topping

• Kiwi: Sliced into rounds or half-