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Take a favorite cereal for snacking, and dress it up with a hint of apple, laced with strings of melted vanilla, and you get a perfect appetizer to munch on while waiting for the big meal. Chex Mix recipes are a godsend when it comes to year-round, quick and tasty appetizers. You can easily leave these out in a dish throughout your home, while festivities of all sorts, take place. Cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg are all complementary components, to this super easy dish.

You can use either dried or freeze-dried apples for this recipe. The freeze-dried are crispier and lighter because they contain less moisture than your regular dried apples. Also, if you’re not a fan of walnut, simply choose any of your favorite nuts for this. You could try almonds or hazelnuts; whatever tickles your fancy!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Betty Crocker

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Quick tip: Spoon the melted white vanilla baking chips into a small food-storage bag, then snip off a tiny corner and squeeze to drizzle over the mixture.

Now, These Are Some Festively Delicious Muffins!

My sister cannot stand pumpkin. For her, fall is such an awful recipe season – everything you see online and in the magazines seem to be pumpkin this, pumpkin that.

So during fall I won’t even try to make her taste anything with pumpkin in it! I know she would hate it, just thinking about it – even if she liked the taste. But I like to save some of my pumpkin harvest to keep trying new recipes later on in the winter. And this is one of the recipes I used to completely surprise my sister. She loved the muffins so much she almost didn’t believe there was pumpkin involved!

These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins come with a delicious Walnut Streusel and will do nicely for most any occasion. Change things up by trying different frostings or glazes. These bite-sized sweet treats can be prepped and baked in just 45 minutes! How’s that for a perfect dessert for your next special dinner!

Recipe and photo courtesy of Oh Sweet Day

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Quick tip: Instead of the streusel topping, you could use your favorite frosting.

Carrot cake is, simply put, a classic dessert well-suited for all ages and all occasions. It is simple enough to make for quiet enjoyment with the family, but it serves 12-16 and is sure to be a big hit at any party. The smooth carrot flavor and sensual cream cheese frosting are plenty sweet enough to satisfy even the most candy-craving of kids but well-balanced enough to keep even the more mature adults coming back for more.

When I think of carrot cake, two very different memories come to mind. The first is the usual summer visit to Chappy’s restaurant on the Gulf Coast. The entrees were decent there, though a bit up and down, but Chappy rarely failed to hit the desserts out of the park. No matter how big the meal I had just eaten, it was hard to resist that slice of carrot cake when that dessert cart rolled around (they always made a big spectacle out of that). The other memory is of Christmas. Though Mother didn’t exactly bake all the time (I think that she got a bit over-saturated with baking when she was young–her mother had started her baking cakes for bridge parties when she was only about nine years old), she often would make a carrot cake for the holidays, and it was the perfect treat with a strong cup of coffee when the Christmas visit at my grandmother Lolly’s house was dragging on just a bit too long for me to keep my eyes open easily.

The great thing about this cake is, you don’t have to be a champion baker to put one together. And though you do have to invest a little time, it isn’t exactly an all-day event, either. It is gourmet and large enough to make a great party dessert, yet it is simple enough to make at home for whatever private occasion you like.

Recipe courtesy of Simply Recipes

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Quick Tip: You can make this cake in a bundt pan.

Hands up, everyone, if you like Snickers! Two hands up right here, because I could not imagine my life without it. When I was a kid I used to hate Snickers. I’m not exactly sure why; I did love all kinds of chocolate but Snickers just was something I couldn’t stand. But you know when you grow up, your taste buds kind of grow up, too! These days I grab a Snickers 9 times out of 10, if I’m going to get a chocolate bar in the first place.

So trying this recipe was an absolute must for me. How can you go wrong with Snickers ice-cream bars made into a cake! You can’t, honestly. This is also surprisingly easy for such a complex looking and tasting dessert. It presents itself really well for your next summer party or backyard family BBQ. Your guests wont believe you made it! Especially if you eat it all before they even arrive…

Original Recipe SugarDishMe

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Quick Tip: Use a hot knife to slice the cake!