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Apple Crumble Cheesecake

This apple crumble cheesecake features an oat-based crumble crust and topping and a creamy brown sugar cheesecake filling. You can make it traditionally, whole grain…

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top view photo showing a pumpkin swirl cheesecake which is dusty orange and cream in color with piped whipped cream rosettes around the edge of the cheesecake on a white platter

Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake

This pumpkin swirl cheesecake has an easy graham cracker crust, and you don’t have to make two separate cheesecake batters. It can be made traditionally…

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Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars

These chocolate pecan pie bars have an easy shortbread crust and a corn syrup-free filling that’s sweetened with maple syrup and brown sugar. You can…

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close up image showing a spider cupcake decorated with an Oreo cookie as the body of a spider with piped legs on cheesecake icing and cute candy eyes

Spider Cupcakes for Halloween

These spider cupcakes are easy to make with a chocolate cupcake base and cream cheese frosting. For the spiders, you need Oreos, melted chocolate for…

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image of a glass of rum punch for Halloween garnished with eyeballs made with melon and blueberries and dry ice giving it a smokey effect on a dark black background

Rum Punch for Halloween

This rum punch for Halloween is an easy party drink to put together for adult guests. It’s made with white rum, pineapple, apple mango juice,…

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top view photo of a Jack Skellington cake that looks like a skeleton face using black cocoa to get a stark black eye and mouth details on top of a multi-layered chocolate cake with white vanilla cheesecake frosting in between.

Jack Skellington Cake Recipe

This Jack Skellington cake has an ultra-moist chocolate cake base with vanilla cream cheese and black cocoa cream cheese frosting. The stripes are surprisingly easy…

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image of a spider pie showing a round 3-layer pumpkin and vanilla cheesecake decorated with a spider web with one big Oreo mama spider and 8 mini Oreo spider babies

Spider Pie for Halloween

This spider pie is an easy 3-layer no-bake pumpkin cheesecake decorated with a spiderweb, a spider mama and her 8 spider babies. It’s really much…

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close up photo of a black cocoa mummy cookie decorated with white piped frosting to look like bandages and two candy eyes with skeleton fingers lurking in the background

Mummy Cookies

These mummy cookies get their black color and Oreo flavor from black cocoa and not food coloring! You can use all-purpose, whole wheat, or gluten-free…

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photo of a Halloween martini with smoke from dry ice rising from the rim and melon and blueberry eyeballs floating in the glass

Halloween Martini

This Halloween martini is basically a blueberry martini with fun melon and blueberry eyeballs. It’s also naturally gluten-free and dairy-free. Here’s an easy cocktail for…

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Black Cookies

These black cookies get their black color and Oreo-flavor from black cocoa – not food coloring! They don’t have eggs or egg subs, making them…

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