Evelyn Marcella Rivera

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Moist Gluten-Free Coffee Cake That Nobody Believes Is GF

Before You Preheat — Read This So Nothing Goes Sideways I'm going to be honest with you. Gluten-free baking used to make me nervous. Dry crumbs, weird aftertaste, that sad little cake sitting in the pan looking like it gave up halfway through. But this moist gluten-free coffee cake with…

Vanilla Cream Crumb Bars: Buttery, Dreamy, and Dangerously Easy

The Kind of Bar That Makes People Ask for the Recipe Before They Finish Chewing There are recipes you make once, and there are recipes that quietly rearrange your entire dessert priorities. These Vanilla Cream Crumb Bars are the second kind. A buttery shortbread crust, a silky vanilla cream filling…

Easter Dirt Cake Casserole Kids and Adults Fight Over

You know a dessert has truly made it when the adults are sneaking seconds while the kids aren't looking. This Easter dirt cake casserole is that dessert — layers of crushed Oreos, a ridiculously creamy pudding filling, and a scattering of pastel candies on top that makes the whole thing…

Double Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies Worth Every Crumb

If you believe — like I do — that peanut butter and chocolate is the single greatest flavor combination humans have ever invented, then these Double Reese's peanut butter cookies are about to become your entire personality. Chunky Reese's cups, peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, and Reese's Pieces candies packed…

Lemon Meringue Cheesecake That Belongs in a Bakery Window

Let me be honest with you. The first time I pulled a lemon meringue cheesecake out of my oven — golden meringue billowing on top, the faintest scent of toasted sugar and citrus hanging in the air — I just stood there staring at it like I'd made something I…

Seafood Pasta with Shrimp & Crab You’ll Crave All Summer

Some dishes try too hard. This one doesn't have to. This seafood pasta with shrimp and crab is cool, creamy, bright with lemon and dill, and loaded with tender shrimp and sweet crab in every forkful. It takes about 25 minutes of actual work, chills in the fridge while you…

Easter Bunny Poke Cake So Pretty You’ll Hesitate to Cut It

Every spring, I make exactly one dessert that stops the whole table mid-conversation. This Easter bunny poke cake is that dessert. Pastel pink and blue gelatin soaking into soft white cake, topped with a cloud of vanilla pudding whipped topping and a shower of sprinkles — it's the kind of…

Peanut Butter Fluff That Disappears Before You Sit Down

Fair warning: this peanut butter fluff is dangerous. Not in a "oh, it's pretty good" kind of way. In a "you made a giant bowl and somehow there's nothing left and everyone's looking at each other" kind of way. It's creamy, dreamy, ridiculously rich, and loaded with peanut butter cups…