Healthy Strawberry Oat Muffins with Greek Yogurt (Super Soft)

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Healthy Strawberry Oat Muffins with Greek Yogurt (Super Soft)

This Healthy Strawberry Oat Muffin Recipe is made with Greek yogurt and fresh strawberries, resulting in muffins that are moist, fluffy, and packed with extra protein. They’re perfect for busy school mornings, leisurely weekend breakfasts, or quick on-the-go snacks.

Cade and I were chatting a few weeks ago about how hectic our mornings have been. Getting ourselves and the kids out the door is like a circus. He was complaining about never having time for breakfast, either skipping it or grabbing something on the go, when I had an idea. What if I baked a batch of nutritious muffins that we could freeze and grab quickly in the mornings? I got to work, and now these muffins have officially been crowned our favorite go-to breakfast for busy mornings.

They strike the perfect balance between natural sweetness and wholesome ingredients, making them great for breakfast or an easy, feel-good snack. Packed with fiber and antioxidants, they’re light yet satisfying and full of fresh strawberry flavor.

This muffin project went through several versions before we landed on the strawberry ones. We tried blueberry oatmeal, banana oat, brown sugar cinnamon oat, and chocolate chip oatmeal muffins, but the strawberry version was our favorite. The texture is perfect, the flavor is fresh and bright, and those tall, bakery-style muffin tops make them irresistible.

Ingredients For This Strawberry Oat Muffin Recipe

This healthy oatmeal muffin recipe is surprisingly easy to make. They’re delicious on their own, but when my kids were younger, I loved baking mini muffins for quick snacks and easy grab-and-go bites. These muffins are perfect for that, too! Here’s what you’ll need:

  • White Whole Wheat Flour: Forms the structure of the muffins while keeping them light and tender.
  • Old Fashioned Oats: Add texture and a subtle, hearty bite. For best results, do not substitute with quick oats or steel-cut oats.
  • Baking Powder: Helps the muffins rise and stay fluffy.
  • Baking Soda: Works with the banana and yogurt for extra lift.
  • Salt: Balances the sweetness and enhances flavor.
  • Banana: Adds natural sweetness and moisture.
  • Plain Oikos Greek Yogurt: Keeps the muffins soft and tender while adding protein.
  • Milk: Loosens the batter for the perfect consistency (or use extra yogurt instead).
  • Honey: Naturally sweetens the muffins.
  • Large Eggs: Binds everything together.
  • Vanilla Extract: Adds warmth and depth of flavor.
  • Fresh Strawberries: Bring juicy bursts of sweetness in every bite.

These are great for a quick morning breakfast, a healthy snack, or a lunchbox treat. They’re easy to bake and even easier to love.

Tres Leches Cake Recipe (Mexican 3 Milk Cake)

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a photo of a pieces of tres leches cake with a bite removed so you can see the inside of the moist cake topped with whipped cream, sliced strawberries and shaved chocolate

This rich and creamy Tres Leches Cake is a classic Latin American dessert made with three kinds of milk for an ultra-moist, tender cake. It’s an easy recipe you can make at home for celebrations, holidays, or anytime you want a sweet treat. It’s finished with cinnamon, chocolate shavings, and fresh berries.

Tres Leches Cake is Spanish for “3 milk” cake. It has three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and a little bit of heavy cream. This cake recipe is the perfect make-ahead dessert and it’s even better than the one at your favorite mexican restaurant. The cake base itself is chiffon. It’s spongy and light, which is perfect for absorbing the moisture from all three milks, making it to die for!

Ingredients for a Tres Leches Cake

A tres leches cake is essentially a poke cake, just like our popular lemon jello cake. You’re going to need basic cake-making ingredients, the 3 milks, and then ingredients to make the whipped cream on top and whatever garnishes you might want to add. Here is everything you will need:

For the Cake:

  • Flour: Just regular all-purpose flour is all you need
  • Baking Powder: acts as a leavening agent to give the cake rise and fluffiness
  • Salt: enhances all the flavors
  • Eggs: You’ll separate the eggs and add the egg yolks and egg whites separately into the batter
  • Sugar: just regular white granulated sugar
  • Whole Milk: helps bind all the ingredients together
  • Vanilla: adds flavor

Leches

  • Evaporated Milk: can be found in the grocery store on the baking aisle
  • Sweetened Condensed Milk: can be found on the baking aisle
  • Heavy Cream: Whole milk also works if you don’t have cream

For the Icing:

  • Heavy Whipping Cream: the base for the whipped cream
  • Sugar: adds sweetness
  • Vanilla Extract: adds flavor

Decoration:

  • Strawberries: sliced thin
  • Cinnamon: just a little sprinkle over the top adds a great pop of flavor and warmth
  • Shaved Chocolate: see the section below for instructions on how to shave chocolate

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card down below. Keep scrolling for all the details.

Making This Recipe

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Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Biscuits Recipe

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Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Biscuits Recipe

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Forget those little store-bought fake-cake shortcakes! This is the most delicious strawberry shortcake recipe we’ve ever made! We layer our buttery, flaky homemade biscuits with irresistible sweet strawberries and whipped cream to make homemade strawberry shortcake completely from scratch!

This strawberry shortcake is so simple that you can make it within the hour, and so satisfying that it will easily become your go-to summer dessert.

For me, the moment that marks the beginning of summer is when I bite into my first strawberry of the season. Is it even a lazy summer day if it doesn’t end with juicy berries piled on flaky biscuits and a big dollop of freshly whipped cream?! Homemade strawberry shortcake is the essential dessert for summer!

Gardening with Mom

I grew up obsessed with strawberry shortcake! Not only was it my favorite, it was a reward for hard work. 

Every summer, we’d plant the biggest garden, and by “we,” I mostly mean my mom. I remember Dad tilling the soil, and my 4 siblings and I “helping” for what felt like hours (it was probably 30 minutes). We’d dig through tomato vines and hunt for huge spiders with colorful patterns and potato bugs, then rush back to the house with dirt in our shoes and under our nails.

Fried Chicken, Jojo’s and Strawberry Shortcake

After a hot shower, we’d all pile around the table for fried chicken, JoJos (if you’re from the Pacific Northwest, you know), and to finish the day: strawberry shortcake. Always from those little spongy packages, always stealing the bits stuck to the white cardboard, and always – always – a big scoop of Cool Whip on top.

From Scratch Biscuits for Strawberry Shortcake

These days, unlike the little packaged angel food cakes, we make our shortcakes with from scratch flaky, buttery biscuits as a nod to BurgerVille (a PNW classic).  But the berries? Still done the way Mom taught us: 

How to Make Fresh Strawberries for Strawberry Shortcake

What’s the secret to Mom’s extra sweet berries?

Smash a few, slice the rest, sprinkle on a little sugar, and let them sit! That’s the secret to extra-juicy, syrupy strawberries – and trust me, they are heavenly.

Tips for Perfectly Flaky Biscuits

  • Use a food processor or pastry cutter to cut in extra cold butter, jus like you would for a pie crust.  
  • Use unsalted butter to control the salt of the biscuit. 
  • Don’t over mix as this will lead to a tough bis

One Layer Strawberry Shortcake Cake

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One Layer Strawberry Shortcake Cake

a photo of a single piece of moist white cake on a small dessert plate topped with whipped cream cream cheese frosting and juicy red strawberries

Dive into summer with our one layer strawberry shortcake cake! This single layer, 9×13″ white cake uses a simple boxed cake mix that’s been doctored up for the most moist white cake recipe. Top it all off with a dreamy cream cheese whipped cream frosting and plenty of juicy strawberries. The classic flavors of strawberry shortcake in a 1 layer cake!

Watch How This Strawberry Shortcake Cake Recipe is Made…

I’ve found that when we get invited to a summer potluck, BBQ or picnic I struggle to figure out the perfect summer dessert to bring. I want something light and comforting, but it must scream summer too. That to me is always strawberry shortcake, but let’s be honest, individual desserts are kind of a hassle to drag out to a park or friend’s backyard. That’s where my favorite strawberry shortcake cake comes in!!!

It’s a simple, extra moist white cake that uses a doctored up cake mix, a dreamy, creamy whipped cream and cream cheese frosting and a fresh strawberry sauce on top. 

Bonus! This cake is best made a whole day ahead! 

Ingredients for Strawberry Shortcake Cake

  • For the Cake: White Cake Mix, Jello Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix, Sour Cream, Canola Oil, Eggs, Milk and Vanilla Extract
    • PRO TIP: Use just the pudding powder for the recipe! Don’t make the actual pudding. Also…don’t use French vanilla pudding mix or your cake will turn out yellow.
  • For the Strawberry Topping: Water, Strawberry Junket and Strawberries
    • PRO TIP: You can find strawberry junket by the Jello. It is a packet for making a strawberry glaze. You can also just buy strawberry glaze or skip the glaze altogether and just macerate the strawberries in some sugar. They will be a little less saucy but still heavenly!
  • For the Frosting: Heavy Cream, Powdered Sugar and Cream Cheese

Keep scrolling to the end of the post for all the details and measurements you need.

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Lemon Cucumber Strawberry Feta Salad with Basil & Mint

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Lemon Cucumber Strawberry Feta Salad with Basil & Mint

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An easy summer salad recipe is here! Learn how to make a Cucumber Strawberry Feta Salad with basil and mint! It is the ultimate side dish and you only need 8 ingredients to make it! BONUS…it’s ready in 15 minutes!

Watch How to Make a Cucumber Strawberry Feta Salad

A zesty symphony of summer, this Lemon Cucumber Strawberry Feta Salad with Basil & Mint bursts with refreshing flavor. Juicy strawberries, crisp cucumbers, and tangy feta come alive with a touch of lemon, fragrant basil, and cool mint topped with a honey balsamic vinaigrette—perfectly balancing sweet, savory, and herbaceous in every vibrant bite.

If your garden is bursting with strawberries or you just picked up a flat of strawberries from the farmer’s market, take 15 minutes and make this quick and easy summer salad!

What Ingredients You Need to Make Cucumber Strawberry Feta Salad

You’ll need a couple of ingredients for the dressing, and then a quick stop at the produce section, and you’ll have everything you need:

  • Balsamic Vinegar
  • Honey
  • Strawberries
  • Lemon
  • Cucumbers
  • Feta Cheese
  • Mint
  • Basil

The measurements and details for each ingredient can be found in the recipe at the end of the post.

How to Make Lemon Basil Strawberry Cucumber Herb Salad

  1. Make the Simple Dressing: Whisk the balsamic vinegar and honey together in a small bowl and set aside.
  2. Prep the Feta and Herbs: Add the feta cheese, lemon zest and juice as well as the fresh herbs and stir to combine.
  3. Combine Salad Components: Add the strawberries, cucumbers and the feta mixture into a large salad bowl.
  4. Toss with Dressing: Drizzle the salad dressing over the top and toss everything to combine.

Keep scrolling to the end of the post for the complete recipe card with all the instructions and ingredients needed.

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