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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 deep dish pie pan has pie crust draped over the side and a mound of sliced apples coated in cinnamon and butter.

King Arthur's Most Popular Apple Pie Filling: A Review

A photo collage shows some of the ways to use homemade caramel sauce.

20 Ways to Use Salted Caramel Sauce

Easy Cheesecake Toppings for Delicious Desserts

Easy Cheesecake Toppings for Delicious Desserts

A slice of cheesecake topped with chopped apples and caramel sauce.

No-Bake Caramel Apple Cheesecake

Roasted cherries in a baking dish.

Roasted Cherries {Sweet OR Savory!}

A large serving bowl of pistachio fluff has chopped pecans sprinkled over the top and a blue napkin on the side.

Pistachio Fluff Fruit Salad

A tree shaped sugar cookie has a green royal icing border that was piped on. The piping bag rests next to it.

How to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing

A blue mug filled with hot cocoa has mini marshmallows on top and chocolate pieces and marshmallows scattered around it.

Ultimate Crockpot Hot Chocolate Bar

Two Heart Cookies with Blue Frosting are decorated with sprinkles on half of the cookie.

Easy Frosting Recipes for Sugar Cookies

A hand is dunking a graham cracker into a creamy gingerbread dip.

Easy Gingerbread Dip {For Kids!}

Vanilla cupcakes have been topped with a swirl of cream cheese frosting and sit on a cake plate. There's a frosting piping bag on the counter in front.

Easy Cream Cheese Frosting

The baked peach bread with almond glaze and toasted almond slivers has been sliced so you can see the fresh peaches inside.

Peach Bread

Easy Panettone Bread Pudding

Easy Panettone Bread Pudding

A small pitcher is filled with creamy amaretto sauce. It is on the counter in front of a panettone bread pudding.

Sweet Amaretto Creamer

The finished lemon meringue tart is on a cake plate with a ceramic lemon decoration next to it.

Lemon Meringue Tart

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.

20 Best Easy Apple Recipes

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