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Strawberry Shortcake Bars

I couldn’t decide whether or not I wanted to make a regular strawberry cheesecake or strawberry shortcake, so I went with a combination for what you see here. It has a cheesecake filling with a little dry yellow cake mix and puréed strawberries. Along with that I threw in a surprising ingredient, a banana, which I discovered helps create a super creamy cheesecake filling. Then I sprinkled the filling with some strawberries and finished it with a streusel topping

Last week was real light on the posting since I was busy taking care of a kid who came home sick and feverish. Honestly, he never complains and since he had intermittent spurts of energy, I really thought he was faking it to get out of going to school for the next day.

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Strawberry Icebox Cake

Strawberry Icebox Cake ~ Easy, casual elegance comes together in just thirty minutes for this three-ingredient, no-bake cake.

Rounding out this week’s 4th of July dessert group is this simple and delicious dessert that you can throw together in less than thirty minutes. Icebox cakes are about as easy as it gets; sculpt, chill, serve and enjoy the compliments. Continue reading Strawberry Icebox Cake

Mixed Berry Summer Smoothie

Mixed Berry Summer Smoothie ~ From Bikini Killer Cookies to Belt Bust’n Chocolate Bars, I’m kicking the week off with a healthy summer smoothie that’s packed with antioxidant-packed super foods.

Mixed Berry Smoothie — Mixed Berry Summer Smoothie

I’m not intentionally doing a 180 here, but boysenberry season has just begun here in California. Every year I go crazy stocking up on them. The season is so brief, lasting for less than ninety days I have to get them while I can. Similar in appearance to a blackberry, the boysenberry is distinctly different in taste but packs a similar antioxidant punch.

When you can find them, buy a lot. If someone had sold these to me as Mother Nature’s candy instead of raisins (eww) when I was kid, I would probably have gone the way of Violet Beauregarde—color stained, bloated and floating away from a lack of self control. But instead, the boxes of raisins that mom brown-bagged for school, ended up sprinkled over the playground grass. Continue reading Mixed Berry Summer Smoothie