Dessert Recipes

Everyone loves dessert! You’re sure to find new ideas for dessert recipes from among my collection of over dessert recipe ideas. You’ll find quick and easy desserts perfect for a potluck or family gathering, traditional recipes like grandma used to make, holiday recipes, pie recipes, cake recipes and even recipes for homemade ice cream.

 

My favorite dessert:

I’ve been making this pie recipe for my husband’s birthday for over 20 years! With a track record like that, you know it has to be good.

Top five desserts:

Take a tip from other readers like yourself and check out my top five recipes that have received the most traffic within the last year.

  1. How to Make Beignets
  2. Eudora Welty’s White Fruitcake
  3. Homemade Moon Pies
  4. Amalgamation Cake
  5. Orange Sherbet Push Up Pops

Watch and learn:

All dessert recipes:

overhead shot of glazed Louisiana crunch cake on a glass cake pedestal with floral napkin, plates and dish of toasted coconut to the side

Louisiana Crunch Cake

Last updated on May 13th, 2023 If you’ve never tried Louisiana Crunch Cake, it just might become your new favorite dessert. Yellow butter cake is baked with a crunchy sugar coating and topped with a creamy vanilla glaze and toasted coconut. This post may contain affiliate links. Click here to […]

overhead shot of sliced red velvet cake with three slices of cake on plates and bottles of milk to the side

Southern Red Velvet Cake from Scratch

Last updated on April 2nd, 2023 You are definitely going to want to cut yourself a big slice of this delicious red velvet cake made from scratch. Layers of moist red chocolate cake are sandwiched between creamy decadent cream cheese icing. This post may contain affiliate links. Click here to […]

slice of fig cake being served on a blue and white floral plate

Upside Down Fig Cake with Vanilla Glaze

Last updated on April 2nd, 2023 Upside down fig cake is a great way to use up a bounty of fresh figs. Halved figs and pecans mixed with butter and brown sugar adorn the top of a light and fluffy cake drizzled with vanilla glaze. I’m fortunate that my parents […]

overhead shot of two bowls of blueberry peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Pan of cobbler, two forks, ice cream scoop and fresh peach to the side.

Blueberry Peach Cobbler

Last updated on June 30th, 2023 Tart blueberries add a whole new flavor to traditional peach cobbler. Serve your blueberry peach cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. This post may contain affiliate links. Click here to learn more about how affiliate links are used on this site. During […]

baked butter pecan cookies on a baking rack with two glasses of milk to the side

Butter Pecan Cookies

Last updated on September 20th, 2022 Unexpected guests? Keep the dough for these slice-and-bake butter pecan cookies in the freezer! This post may contain affiliate links. Click here to learn more about how affiliate links are used on this site. When I was a little girl, there was an elderly […]