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No party is complete without that little something sweet to finish off your meal. Whether you're celebrating a special occasion like a birthday or holiday, or you just want to make your family feel extra loved on a random Tuesday, all the delicious baked goodies you need in your recipe box are right here!

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A slice of banana pudding sits on a stack of white plates. You can see that there are no bananas in the layers.

Banana Pudding {No Bananas!}

Two churro cheesecake bars are stacked on a blue and white plate in front of the baking dish of treats.

Crescent Roll Cheesecake Bars

A slice of coconut cake with cream cheese frosting and shredded coconut has a layer of bright yellow pineapple filling.

Pineapple Filling

A round platter of a pile of chocolate brownies with a bite taken out of the one on top and a sprinkle of chocolate chips to the side.

The Best Homemade Brownies for Kids

A freezer-friendly metal pan holds an 8x8-inch apple crisp with crumble topping.

Freezer Friendly Apple Crisp

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Simple Desserts to Bake Today

An aqua cake plate has 5 soft frosted sugar cookies decorated with pink icing and sprinkles. One cookie has a bite taken out of it.

Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

A photo collage shows a platter of brownies, cupcakes, krispie treat bars, and peanut blossom cookies.

20 Easy Dessert Recipes for Kids to Bake

A cake plate has several squares of cereal bars in rainbow colors with mini marshmallows scattered about.

Mini Trix Rice Krispie Treats

A tray of peanut butter blossom cookies with hershey kisses on top.

Best Peanut Butter Blossoms Ever

A white bowl of fresh cherry crisp shows the juicy filling and golden brown crumble topping.

The Best Fresh Cherry Crisp

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The sliced pumpkin gooey butter cake bars are on a white plate. There's a dusting of powdered sugar over the top for garnish.

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake Bars

A photo collage shows a party desserts table alongside 3 photos of easy dessert recipes.

30 Easy Party Desserts

A square slice of tres leches cake is on a plate with a fork. You can see the three milks drizzling down the side of the vanilla cake and cinnamon is sprinkled on top of the whipped cream frosting.

Tres Leches Cake {Cake Mix OR From Scratch}

A layered cherry delight dessert slice on a white plate. You can see layers of graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling, and cherry pie filling on top with a dollop of whipped cream.

Cherry Delight Dessert

A slice of peanut butter pie on a blue plate. You can see the Oreo cookie crust and creamy filling.

No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie

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A small plate has a pile of coconut-rolled Swedish chocolate balls.

Swedish Chocolate Balls {Chokladbollar}

A blue bowl is filled with a 2-ingredient fruit dip on a platter of fresh strawberries.

Easy Fruit Dip

The photo collage shows a big bunch of daffodils next to 3 lemon desserts.

12 Lemon Desserts for Easter

A big blue bowl is filled with a creamy grape salad with cream cheese, covered in brown sugar and pecans.

Chicken Salad Chick Grape Salad {Copycat Recipe}

A parfait cup of creamy cranberry fluff has a spoon resting on the side.

Make-Ahead Cranberry Fluff

A photo collage shows several easy desserts to make for St. Patrick's Day with your kids.

12 Easy St. Patrick's Day Treats for Kids

A chocolate cake with green mint frosting and chopped Andes candies on top.

Grasshopper Poke Cake

A batch of blueberry muffins with a sparkly sugar topping are cooling on a baker's rack next to a blue and white striped towel.

Sourdough Discard Blueberry Muffins

A white platter has rich chocolate brownies piled high.

Sourdough Discard Brownies

A plate of lemon bars has one square in front that has a bite taken out of it.

Meyer Lemon Bars

A platter of puffy lemon doodle cookies has sliced fresh lemons on the side.

Lemon Doodles

The bowl of bright yellow lemon curd has a spoon for serving. It rests on a plate of waffled butter cookies with slices of fresh lemon off to the side.

Make-Ahead Lemon Curd

The lemon cookies are cooling on a baker's rack, they have a lemon icing drizzle over the top and fresh lemon slices on the side.

Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies

A mixing bowl filled with lemon glaze sits next to a rack of cookies. There's a fork on the side used to drizzle the glaze over the top.

Fresh Lemon Glaze

A white bowl is filled with whipped clotted cream and sits in front of a platter of scones.

Mock Clotted Cream

A platter of peppermint brownies has York candies next to it.

Easy Peppermint Patty Brownies

A white platter has 3 sugar cookie bars with white frosting and colorful sprinkles on top.

Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars

4 jars of the homemade spice mix have red and white bows for gifting. One jar is on its side with some spice spilling out.

Homemade Gingerbread Spice Finishing Sugar

A bowl full of Granny Smith apples sits on a table.

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A platter of golden brown apple turnovers.

Air Fryer Apple Turnovers

A bowl of creamy Snicker salad has apples, marshmallows, Snickers tossed together.

Authentic Snicker Salad

A photo collage shows a party desserts table alongside 3 photos of easy dessert recipes.

30 Easy Party Desserts

A slice of cherry cake is on a plate with a fork beside it. In the back is the metal cake pan the 9x13-inch cake was baked in. You can see the slice has been removed and there are maraschino cherries on top of the cake.

Cherry Cake with Almond Icing

A metal baking pan filled with a sheet cake topped with browned butter frosting and chopped pecans.

Brown Butter Frosting

A white platter has cookies topped with frosting, chopped apples, and a drizzle of caramel.

Caramel Apple Cookies

The photo collage shows 4 different easy Thanksgiving desserts including cheesecake, apple cake, pecan pie bars, and banana pudding.

20 Easy Thanksgiving Desserts

The photo collage shows slices of pumpkin pie, apple pie, a whole pecan pie, and a slice of Oreo cream pie.

15 Easy Thanksgiving Pies to Make Ahead

The photo collage shows several make ahead Thanksgiving desserts that travel well including a 9x13-in cake in a pan and easy dessert bars.

20 Make Ahead Thanksgiving Desserts that Travel Well

Pretzel nuggets have drizzled chocolate over them and orange and yellow candies.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites

A platter of puffy pumpkin butterscotch cookies with a sprinkle of butterscotch chips sits next to a denim napkin.

Easy Pumpkin Butterscotch Cookies

A mason jar filled with homemade caramel sauce with a spoon.

Salted Caramel Sauce

A brick of cream cheese has caramel and chopped pecans on top. Sliced apples are all around it on the platter.

Caramel Apple Spread

A Harry Potter "Monsters Book of Monsters" birthday cake has shaggy brown frosting like fur and a red tongue and googly eyes.

Monster Book of Monsters Cake

Bags of fresh peaches at the farmer's market stand.

30 Fresh Peach Recipes

A white dish has the blueberry cobbler with golden brown topping ready to eat. A spoon is about to dig in.

Old Fashioned Blueberry Cobbler

A dish of peach cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top and a spoon.

Southern Peach Cobbler

The white dish is filled with peach blueberry crisp and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Peaches and Blueberry Crisp

A white platter is filled with chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips scattered about.

Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

A blue bowl is filled with homemade Chex Mix with cereal, pretzels, M&Ms candies, and chocolate chip teddy grahams.

Sweet and Salty Chex Mix

A glazed donut decorated to look like a spider with a donut hole on top, googly eyes, and black frosting legs is in the hand of a kid.

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