Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts

Although this Fall may look a little different with a few stylish face coverings as you go to carry on about your Fall activities, one thing remains the same: the craving for autumnal flavors and hearty meals. On a recent trip to Cashiers NC, we indulged in a few cinnamon spice donuts at Mountain Fresh

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Rustic Peach Tart Recipe

This rustic peach tart recipe combines familiar spices with super-ripe Georgia peaches and pre-made pie crust for an incredibly easy and flavorful dessert. This recipe is inspired by the delicious flavors of summer in the South and creating easy, wholesome desserts the whole family will love. 

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Peach Sweet Tea Float

This post is sponsored by Milo’s Tea Company. Thanks for supporting the companies that continue to help us bring you top notch content!  It’s the most humid time of year. The time when the weather is screaming for you to grab a cool glass of iced tea. Here in the south, that means you’re probably

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Peach Ice Cream with Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookie Crumble

FINALLY, my exhaustive ice cream trials have yielded the smoothest, creamiest, homemade ice cream. Okay, maybe exhaustive is a little bit of a stretch but after 4 rounds of grainy, large ice crystal ice cream production, I was starting to get a little discouraged. How come I couldn’t make super creamy ice cream? Was my

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Doesn’t Taste Like Dairy Free Blueberry Muffins

I didn’t intend for these muffins to be dairy-free. Honest. I have whole milk and unsalted butter in my fridge right now. I also had almond-milk based yogurt and light oat milk in the fridge and figured, heck, if anyone were to make a flavorful and chewy-almost-good-for-you-blueberry-muffin, it might as well be me. So, thus

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Perfect Frozen Peach Bellini’s

This is summer. A frozen cocktail that doesn’t taste like a cocktail in a short glass, with a paper straw and 85°F weather looming on the horizon. It’s just begging you to kick your shoes off and sit with it all afternoon long. Or at least for the next hour because that’s how long it will

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5 Ingredient Vegan No Sugar Added Popsicles

Thank you to the Sola Company for sponsoring this post. Although this post has a sponsored element to it, all opinions, recipes, and images are our own. Thanks for supporting the brands that help keep Darling Down South running.  Look, this isn’t your run of the mill vegan recipe trying to taste like something else

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Sumac Lemon Roasted Chicken

Roast chicken, you either love it or you overcook it. It can go so right and it can go so wrong. I’m on the side of absolutely love it. Typically I like dressing it up with interesting spices and bright savory flavors. This sumac lemon roasted chicken is light enough for summer and hearty enough

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Carb Free Smash Burgers

If you haven’t heard of a smash burger it’s because it’s the griddle burger rebranded. Gone are the days of dry hockey pucks coming off the grill your dad used to man in the summer and enter the perfectly griddled smash burger made on a flat surface. Whether you have a griddle, a cast iron,

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The Classic Birthday Cake for our 5 Year Bloggiversary

Hello from another year older and wiser. The blog has turned 5 as of Cinco de Mayo! It’s a darn shame we’re all stuck indoors because I wanted to have a reader thank you party called the Cinco de Darling, but since we can’t gather I figured I would share this classic birthday cake with

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