Last Days of Summertime Favorite 30 Recipes

I can’t believe summer is winding down and fall is just around the corner. In Southern California, it’s usually warmer in September and October than it is in May and June, so summer isn’t over anytime soon here.

I plan to milk the gorgeous weather – my favorite weather of the year – as long as the sunny, 78F days with no humidity and crystal clear blue skies want to stick around.

I wanted to reflect on 30 of my favorite recipes I made this summer, spanning mid-May until now.

Some are seasonal, some aren’t, but all are worth being made. I truly love each of them. They’re all easy, straightforward, and nothing complicated. Just solid recipes that taste great that you and your family will love.

I’m thinking Labor Day party food with some of them.

1. Peanut Butter Caramel Twix Bars

2. Soft and Chewy Cinnamon Chip Snickerdoodle Cookies

3. Strawberries and Cream Coffee Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze

4. Creamy Boozy Iced Coffee

5. Soft and Chewy Snickers Chocolate Chip Cookies

6. Six-Banana Banana Bread

7. Bourbon Maple Slow Cooker Baked Beans (vegan, GF)

8. Cinnamon Sugar Mini Donut Muffins

9. No-Ice-Cream-Maker Funfetti Cake Batter Golden Oreo Ice Cream

10.Chocolate Buttermilk Pancakes with Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

11. Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting

12. Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

13. Chewy Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cereal Bars (no-bake, vegan, GF)

14. Blueberry Muffin and Buttermilk Pancakes Cake

16. No-Ice-Cream-Maker Salted Caramel, Bourbon, Nutter Butter, and Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream

17. Soft and Chewy Smores Cookies

18. Easy Homemade Cinnamon Raisin Bagels (vegan)

19. The Best Vegan Blueberry Muffins

20. Softbatch Funfetti Sugar Cookies

21. Triple Peanut Butter Monster Cookie Bars

22. Soft and Chewy Seven Layer Magic Bar Cookies

23. Cream Cheese-Swirled Cherries and Mixed Berries Cake

24. Two-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars (GF)

25. Peanut Butter-Swirled Strawberry Cake

26. Malibu Sunset

27. Nutella-Swirled Peanut Butter Chip Blondies

28. No-Bake Peanut Butter Marshmallow Cereal Bars

29. Reese’s Pieces Peanut Butter Fluffernutter Cookies with Peanut Butter Buttercream

30. Peanut Butter-Swirled Cheesecake Bars with Brown Sugar-Graham Cracker Crust

What did you make this summer that you loved?