Chocolate-Swirled Peanut Butter Banana Bread. That’s everything you need in life, right there.

Glazed Root Beer Float Bundt Cake. A pants-expanding celebration of chocolate and soda pop.

Chocolate Chip-Espresso Scones. No dreary, dry, substandard coffee shop scones here. Promise.

Pear-Vanilla Brown Butter Bars. The dreamiest way to transport yourself out of the dreary mid-winter doldrums.

Peanut Butter Crunch Truffles. Good grief.

Champagne Panna Cotta with Sugared Grapes. Perfect for a jazzy New Year dessert and dead simple.

Coconut sugar cookies. Enough to send you to the islands in the dead of winter, I’m telling you.

Cherry Shortbread Cake Squares. Tender, buttery cake with pie filling from a can. Don’t hate, participate!

My Ultimate Chocolate Cupcake. Or, For Which I Might Convert to Chocoholism.

Sweet Cherry Crostadas. Oh, cherry, baby. So delicious, so perfect right now.

White Chocolate Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream–a white chocolate love fest!

Strawberry Angel Pavlovas. Meringue, bright lemon cream and whipped cream AND in-season strawberries? Perfection.

Peanut Butter. Pound Cake. What could go wrong? Plenty, friends.

Raspberry-Pistachio Brown Butter Cake. Make one for every mother you know this weekend.

Oats. Chocolate chips. Peanut butter. And…wait for it…REESE’S PIECES.

It’s Pie Season, people! And just in time, I’ve found pie crust nirvana.

Salted Peanut Cookie Brittle. Sweet, salty, caramely peanut brittle in cookie form. I think that’s all we need to say about that.

Zippy Little Lime Cupcakes. Perfect for Spring, tequila shots optional.

Bursting with health and virtuous ingredients, but these don’t taste like anything other than dang good cookies.

Toasted Coconut-Chip Gelato. A light, not-too-sweet ice cream that you can shovel into your face from a cereal bowl with a serving spoon.

Triple Chocolate-Pecan Biscotti. I ask you, can one be OWNED by biscotti?

Will you banish me to a windowless cell festooned with Sandra Lee-designed tablescapes when I tell you the secret to my favorite cheesecake?

Baked? Doughnuts? Yes!

These fudgy cocoa brownies taste more like chocolate than chocolate itself without actually having any solid chocolate in them. Seriously!