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Desserts

Dinner isn’t complete without dessert! Impress your guests and satisfy their sweet tooth with this collection of nostalgic desserts.

Chocolate Eclair Cake or Peanut Butter Pie are always a hit. Around the holidays, Grandma’s Rum Balls and Grandma’s Cocoa Drops will garner adoration from old-fashioned cookie lovers.

And don’t miss the reader favorites: Punch Bowl Cake, Ding Dong Cake, Pistachio Cake, and Chocolate Wacky Cake are some of the most popular desserts here!

slice of strawberry crunch cake on a white plate.

Strawberry Crunch Cake

special k bars on a green glass serving platter

Special K Bars

peach cobbler topped with ice cream and a mint sprig.

Bisquick Peach Cobbler

slice of lemonade pie with graham cracker crust.

Lemonade Pie

three oatmeal caramelitas stacked on a white plate.

Caramelitas

strawberry rhubarb cobbler topped with biscuits in a baking dish.

Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler

slice of rhubarb upside down cake with white cake on the bottom and a pink rhubarb topping, topped with whipped cream.

Easy Rhubarb Upside Down Cake

round yellow pineapple upside down cake topped with pineapple rings and maraschino cherries.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

slice of rhubarb cake on a white plate topped with whipped cream.

Rhubarb Coconut Cake

rhubarb bar on a wooden board.

Rhubarb Bars

slice of chocolate wacky cake on a white plate, topped with whipped cream.

Wacky Cake

square piece of creamy mango jello salad on a white plate topped with slices of fresh mango.

Mango Jello Salad

slice of buttermilk chocolate sheet cake.

Buttermilk Texas Sheet Cake

rice pudding in a decorative blue and white bowl, topped with a slice of orange.

Easy Rice Pudding (with Cooked Rice)

slice of old fashioned banana cake on a white plate.

Old Fashioned Banana Cake

slice of lemon poke cake with cool whip frosting.

Lemon Poke Cake

slice of dr pepper cake on a white plate.

Dr. Pepper Cake

slice of old fashioned oatmeal cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

Lazy Daisy Oatmeal Cake

slice of carrot cake with a thick white cream cheese frosting with coconut inside on top.

Coconut Carrot Cake

slice of lemon pie with a yellow lemon layer topped with fluffy meringue.

Ann Landers’ Lemon Meringue Pie

slice of layered chocolate eclair cake on a white plate, topped with chocolate frosting.

Chocolate Eclair Cake

slice of yellow cake topped with toasted coconut on a white plate.

Coconut Pineapple Poke Cake

no cook banana pudding in a white baking dish.

Banana Pudding with Sour Cream

four different slices of cake, including chocolate cake, ding dong cake, a bundt cake, and a slice of cake with strawberry jello filling and whipped cream.

25 Cakes That Start with a Box of Cake Mix

four layer lemon dessert on a white plate.

Lemon Lush Dessert

slice of lemon cake with a yellow crust and yellow filling, topped with a dollop of whipped cream and a wedge of lemon.

Lemon Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

slice of raisin bread pudding on a white plate, topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Raisin Bread Pudding

slice of chocolate gooey butter cake with two layers of chocolate, with a dollop of whipped cream on top.

Double Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake

slice of chocolate cherry cake with chocolate frosting on a white plate.

Chocolate Cherry Cake (with Cake Mix)

yellow cake with strawberry jello poking through, topped with whipped topping, graham cracker crumbs, and a strawberry.

Strawberry Graham Poke Cake

bread pudding on a purple patterned plate, topped with whipped cream and blueberries.

Bread Pudding For Two

stack of three blondies with pecans inside on a white plate.

Really Good Classic Blondies

slice of a layered dessert with a ritz cracker crust, an ice cream pistachio pudding center, whipped topping and crushed Heath bars on top.

Pistachio Delight

drop sugar cookie on a wire rack, topped with white frosting and red and green sprinkles.

Grandma’s Drop Sugar Cookies

round peanut butter cookie with a chocolate star in the middle.

Peanut Butter Blossoms

stack of bourbon balls coated in powdered sugar in a wooden bowl.

Bourbon Balls

slice of brown gingerbread cake on a plate, topped with whipped cream.

Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cake

chocolate cookie with powdered sugar on the outside, on a wire rack.

Chocolate Crinkles

slice of a fluffy gelatin salad with pieces of mandarin oranges inside and on top.

Orange Jell-O Salad with Cottage Cheese

church window cookies rolled in coconut on a wooden board.

Cathedral Window Cookies

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