Diet: Quick (30 min or less)

A smooth, buttery caramel sauce cooked by color from sugar, water, butter and cream.

Frozen pineapple and coconut milk blended into a thick, creamy soft serve and piped into cold cups.

Crisp cucumber rounds filled with ranch and dill cream cheese and topped with cherry tomato halves.

Wide egg noodles tossed with cabbage cooked in butter until soft, sweet and golden.

Soft, buttery muffins with cream of tartar and a crackly cinnamon-sugar top.

Halved hot dogs on skewers, dipped in a corn muffin mix batter and fried golden.

Golden buttermilk cornbread baked in a hot, buttered cast-iron skillet for crisp edges.

Biscuit dough stuffed with pepperoni, sauce and mozzarella, baked golden and brushed with garlic butter.

Homemade funnel cake bites: spoonfuls of spiced batter fried golden and dusted with powdered sugar.

Soft, spiced pumpkin muffins made with only a box of spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin puree.