American summer bake recipes with 300 or fewer calories

Peanut Butter Cookies

Easy, delicious peanut butter cookies. The kids love them and can make them on their own, they're so easy.

Whole Wheat Sandwich Thins (with bread machine dough option)

Whole wheat, bran and honey - a perfect threesome! Regular hamburger buns and even bread slices at times have…

Watermelon Smoothie

Inspired from the National Watermelon Promotion Board!

Vanilla Cupcakes

This cupcakes recipe is on my blog http://bakingdecorations.com/recipes/vanilla-cupcakes/.

Molasses Cookies

A modernized version of my grandmother's (Eva M. Koehler) molasses cookies--without the pearl ash. One of the great cookie treats of all time.…

Honey Whole Wheat Bread

This recipe makes 3 large loaves of sweet soft whole wheat bread, good for sandwiches, french toast or with butter and jelly. Adapted from…

Loganberry Lemon Bars

We recently went berry picking and I found this great recipe for loganberries but I think since loganberries taste much like raspberries you could…

Mango Macadamia Muffin

Mango Macadamia Muffin is my tribute to my trip to Kauai. These are so light, fluffy, and tropical, healthy and delicious that there were gone in…

Applesauce Raisin Cookies

Apricot-Pesto Chicken

If you have a container of pesto in your refrigerator that you like, use it instead of the basil leaves, dried apricots, pecans, parmesan cheese,…

Caramelized Banana Cupcakes

These moist, dense cupcakes feature bananas caramelized with spiced rum.

Eric's Peach Cobbler

This is a simple, caky cobbler that can be made with any seasonal fruit. I happen to think it goes best with peaches. In a pinch, you can even…

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe was given to me by a friend.

Chocolate Dreams

Tropical Snowdrops

The dried fruit can be anything you'd like, that's "Tropical". Cashews are also good to use....