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19 Slow-Cooker Dessert Recipes That Are Perfectly Hands-Off

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This handy countertop appliance creates the ideal cooking environment for juicy fruit cobblers, tender upside-down cakes, creamy cheesecakes—and even more.

Desserts You Can Make in the Slow Cooker

Desserts can be finicky; if you don’t have the temperature and moisture content perfectly correct the texture will suffer. That’s why we love making desserts in the slow cooker. The low, moist heat of a slow cooker helps create tender desserts that are creamy and not too dense. Whether you’re craving fruit cobbler or a creamy cheesecake, your slow cooker is the key to making easy desserts. It offers hands-off convenience that’s not typically associated with making desserts, which normally get cooked up in the oven or stovetop.

One of our favorites? This simple cake that’s sweet and fruity with hints of toasty cinnamon flavor. Be sure to line inner pot with two layers of foil to prevent any burning around the edges.

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15 Tried-And-True Recipes from Vintage Cookbooks

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Here at Allrecipes, we love a good tried-and-true recipe passed down through the generations. And what better place to find good, old-fashioned recipes than in a retro cookbook? From church and junior league treasures to classics tucked away on grandma’s bookshelf, we’ve compiled 15 of the very best recipes that community members found in vintage cookbooks.

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The 5 Costco Prepared Foods to Avoid, According to Customers

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The prepared foods section at Costco is diverse, affordable and delicious—the perfect solution for picking up a quick dinner on a busy night or a ready-to-eat dish for a potluck. In fact, the prepared mealsare quite popular with customers and there is a wide variety to choose from.

However, a couple of items seem to be less satisfying and not worth the purchase, according to Costco fans and customers on Reddit. Actually, several users had a lot to say in a Reddit thread discussing the worst Costco prepared foods available based on personal experience and preference. (Plus, for the most part, users agreed on which ones to avoid, creating a general consensus.) 

Here are the top suggestions from Redditors on which prepared foods to skip the next time you go to Costco.

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59 Summery Labor Day Appetizers and Snacks

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One of the best things about summer celebrations is the food. And while we love char-grilled mains and slow cooker recipes that let us spend less time cooking, they’ve got nothing on snacks and apps! This list of Labor Day appetizers and snacks makes the most of summer produce with watermelon cups, fresh artichoke and pickled veggies. And it doesn’t forget the classics like guacamole, pinwheels, Buffalo dip and much more.

Mix and match these apps with a few potluck salads and side dishes for a spread so good you might just skip the mains. But make sure you save room for one of these gorgeous Labor Day desserts!

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The Stupid Simple Trick for Better French Toast

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There are so many great uses for stale bread. Panzanella, the rustic Italian bread salad, is a versatile way to use it up. Another great use for stale bread is to make it the base of a savory or a sweet breakfast casserole. The stale bread works well in these recipes because the moisture in the wet ingredients rehydrates the stale bread. 

One of the quickest, most satisfying, make-you-feel-like-a-kid-again ways to use stale bread is to make French toast. Bread dipped in an egg-milk mixture and fried on a griddle in butter is a delicious breakfast or brunch and an excellent vehicle for maple syrup, cinnamon and sugar, blueberry compote, or whipped cream. 

If you want French toast, but all your bread is fresh, there’s a hack on TikTok that claims to turn fresh bread into a better vehicle for dipping into the egg-milk mixture (also called custard), and you almost certainly have what you need in your kitchen for this simple trick.

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