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Snickers Cupcakes with a caramel coated Snickers filling, rich caramel frosting, and topped with caramel drizzle and chopped Snickers. These cupcakes are what dreams are made of! I don’t usually eat candy bars, but if I do it will always be a Snickers.

Espresso Pound Cake with Cranberries and Pecans is the best way to start your day! This moist and flavorful pound cake is loaded with cranberries and pecans and a hint of coffee. There is something so immensely comforting about pound cake. If it is baked correctly, it is tremendously moist, dense and buttery. Just take a look at those toasted pecans and tart cranberries piled on top of this pound cake… and don’t get me started on that amazing drizzled coffee glaze sliding down the side of the pound cake. Doesn’t it just make you want to run into the kitchen right now?

Cowboy Cookies packed with chocolate chunks, rolled oats, and crushed pretzels.

New Orleans Style Bread Pudding drizzled with a delicious Coconut Praline Sauce. This dessert combines two of New Orleans' most beloved desserts - bread pudding and pralines.

Mardi Gras cupcakes to celebrate Fat Tuesday! These cupcakes are swirled with the Mardi Gras colors of purple representing justice, gold representing power, and green representing faith.

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Blondies are packed with roasted macadamia nuts, toasted coconut, and white chocolate chips.

Bananas Foster muffins topped with a crunchy pecan streusel and drizzled with an amazing rum sauce. These scrumptious muffins are an adaption of the famous New Orleans dessert, Bananas Foster. These rum soaked muffins are the perfect portable version of the incredible dessert. Bake up a few of these babies for your family and watch them disappear right before your eyes!

Orange Pound Cake made with freshly squeezed orange juice and orange zest.

King Cake is the preferred dessert in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. This round cinnamon roll cake is shaped into a ring, topped with an incredible lemon glaze and sprinkled with the colors of Mardi Gras, with purple representing justice, gold representing power, and green representing faith. A plastic baby is baked inside the King Cake, and the tradition is whoever receives the baby in their piece of cake must buy the next King Cake or throw the next party. No Mardi Gras party is complete without a delicious king cake!

[Editor's note: Christina's hosting a giveaway along with her recipe for King Cake so make sure to go enter over at Sweet Pea's Kitchen!]

Coffee Cake Muffins with a delicious crumbly cinnamon streusel topping and drizzled with a powdered sugar glaze.