This post was written by Megan Porta, writer, recipe developer and photographer behind the food blog pipandebby.com, where you can find healthy salads, easy dinners, layer cakes, and everything in between. Her debut cookbook, Cookie Remix [paid link], includes 75 cookie recipes inspired by your favorite treats such as donuts, cakes, drinks and more!

There is something so satisfying and yummy about the combination of raspberries and lemons. The mixture of tart and sweet, with the lovely reds and yellows, is an appealing marriage.

They won’t get you drunk, but these boozy cupcakes burst with flavor thanks to homemade tequila lime frosting.

Why You’ll Love these Boozy Cupcakes

Readers, friends, and family alike adore these Margarita Cupcakes! I’ve made them for friends’ weddings and some of my friends have started making them themselves if I don’t make them often enough.

How to Make Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

If you are new to making cupcakes, read my post all about cupcakes before getting started.

Ingredients

I find that the best peaches for this dish are very ripe fresh peaches. The better they are, the more their flavor will shine.

You’ll also need heavy cream, sugar, brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon.

Why You’ll Love this Homemade Taffy Candy

Working with homemade taffy is sticky, messy, and super stretchy – sort of like the slime that people buy for kids to play with. But, when you are all done pulling and stretching, your effort is rewarded with melt-in-your-mouth goodness!

Making this is a project, but not one that will take all day. With help from my mom and “help” from my toddler, we made and wrapped 50 pieces of taffy in an hour.

Start with my key lime ice cream! It’s smooth, tangy, and refreshing! You can have it on its own, sprinkle some graham cracker crumbs on top to turn it into key lime pie ice cream, or press it into a pie crust to make a full-on key lime ice cream pie!

In an act of absolute insanity, I gave away almost of all of my finished mojito bars to my neighbor. I had played with recipe development and photography for so long that I was ready to move on. (Does anyone else get that way after baking for a long time?)

By the next morning, I was no longer tired of looking at the mojito bars. In fact, I craved one. At first bite, I realized my mistake. My mojito bars were crazy good, like lime bars for grown ups – I wanted every single one of them back!

Tart, tangy, sweet, cold, and eye-catching – this drink has it all.

Why You’ll Love this Limoncello Ice Cream Float

I’ve always been a fan of ice cream floats. The many decisions involved (ice cream first, soda first, or everything together; use the spoon or the straw; mix the ice cream up to make it melt or let big chunks float on top) make ice cream floats an event, not just another liquid in a glass.

I baked up my standard chocolate cupcake recipe inside of sausage casings and ended up with chocolate cupcake dessert sausage – Cupcakewurst.

Since I couldn’t leave well enough alone, I threw them on the grill. I heated them for a few minutes on each side.