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Easy Dessert Recipes

Bring your sweet tooth – it’s time for dessert! We love making quick and easy weeknight desserts or creating something really special for a holiday meal or Sunday dinner. 

Attention chocolate lovers: it’s time for Dr. Pepper Cake with Fudge Frosting, a decadent delight that uses a familiar soda. If you love those big soft bakery cookies from Costco or Sam’s, then you have to try these Better Than Costco Chocolate Chip Cookies. Wander through these sweet desserts and pick out one to try this weekend –  you’re going to love it!

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Frosted Dr. Pepper cake in a dark pan with two slices on white plates and a silver serving spoon resting in the dish.
platter of homemade Valentine treats next to a bowl of conversation hearts.

Heart Jam Cookies (Thumbprint Hearts)
Christmas M&M Cookies on a wooden board and a small bowl with M&Ms on it.

Christmas M&M Cookies Recipe
Stack of sweet baked treats on a white plate.

Chocolate Chip Cookies made without Brown Sugar
A jar of Christmas Chex Mix with golden scoop.

Christmas Chex Mix
pressing the m and ms into cookies.

Mint Christmas Cookies
six cups of pumpkin custard and with whipped cream and nuts on top.

Pumpkin Custard
two jars of Chex mix with M&Ms, the other one has a golden scoop, and a striped kitchen towel in the background.

Chex Party Mix Recipe with M&Ms
a large copper bowl of M and M halloween snack mix with a gold scoop inside and a gold and white napkin in the background.

Halloween Snack Mix
a white plate with Bisquick funnel cake and a red striped cloth and a cinnamon powder bottle at the back.

How to Make Funnel Cake With Pancake Mix
a hand holding a spoon scooping the apple strawberry crisp with vanilla ice cream on top placed in a ramekin on top of a plate with parchment paper with gray cloth, bowl of oats and rhubarb in the background.

Apple Strawberry Crisp
Mummy hand pie beside a glass of milk on top of a parchment paper in a baking sheet with another hand pies, spider toy, pumpkin toy, and a bowl of berry jam in the background.

Halloween Hand Pies
cheesecake 4th of July salad in a large serving bowl next to a 4th of July table cloth.

Red White Blue Cheesecake Salad
Plated stack of white chocolate raspberry cookies with a bottle of milk in the background.

White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies
a white casserole dish of baked strawberry blueberry cobbler ready to serve with a gold serving spoon.

Strawberry Blueberry Cobbler
sourdough banana muffins in a wicker basket with a striped tea towel.

Sourdough Banana Muffins
a blue plate of cinnamon rolls ready to serve.

Easy Cinnamon Rolls from Frozen Bread Dough
a plate of Monkey Bread Cinnamon Pull-Apart with a box of Bridgford frozen Monkey in the background.

How to Make Bridgford Monkey Bread
Large bowl of sweet and colorful cereal next to a smaller glass bowls of sprinkles on a white surface.

Christmas Puppy Chow
Pumpkin Spice Twist image.

Tasty Pumpkin Spice Twist
a cast iron skillet with peach cobbler.

Bisquick Peach Cobbler
a round casserole dish of blueberry cobbler with a red and white napkin.

Bisquick Blueberry Cobbler
a wooden platter of drop biscuits made with Bisquick.

Bisquick Drop Biscuits
a white casserole dish of blackberry cobbler ready to serve.

Bisquick Blackberry Cobbler
a white casserole dish of Bisquick cherry cobbler with cherry pie filling.

Easy Bisquick Cherry Cobbler
10+ frozen dough recipes.

Easy Recipes Using Frozen Bread Dough
M&M Cookies on a cooling rack and bunny plate.

Sugar Cookies with M&Ms
braided lemon bread on a white serving plate with a yellow and white striped towel.

Braided Bread with Lemon Curd
M&M Cookies on a baking sheet.

Original M&M Cookie Recipe
an image of Valentine's Day Pop Tarts.

Heart Shaped Pastries
Apple kuchen on a table next to a gingham check linen kitchen towel and a gold serving spoon.

German Apple Cake (Kuchen)
an image of Cranberry Almond Scones.

Almond Scones with Dried Cranberries
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Thanksgiving Dinner – Top 5 Recipes
a platter of cellophane wrapped corn pop treats tied with black and white ribbon and a box of Corn Pops cereal in the background.

Corn Pops Treats
Bisquick strawberry cobbler in a cast iron skillet.

Bisquick Strawberry Cobbler
an image of Oatmeal cookies.

Oatmeal Cookies Like Your Mom Made
Apple Crisp - Everyone's Fall Favorite.

Apple Crisp – Everyone’s Fall Favorite
peach crisp in a casserole dish with a golden spoon scooping it.

Peach Crisp