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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 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)

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

sour cream cookies topped with frosting and gold sprinkles on a wire rack.

Sour Cream Drop Cookies

pieces of butterscotch fudge on a green platter.

Butterscotch Fudge

slice of pumpkin pie topped with a dollop of whipped cream.

Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie

toasted meringue on top of banana pudding in a casserole dish.

Old Fashioned Southern Banana Pudding

four pieces of peanut butter fudge stacked on top of each other on a wooden serving tray.

Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Fudge

pineapple cookies with vanilla frosting on a wire rack.

Old Fashioned Pineapple Cookies

colorful marshmallow popcorn balls stacked into a low white bowl.

Marshmallow Popcorn Balls

the top of several thumbprint cookies with icing on a wooden cutting board.

Old Fashioned Thumbprint Cookies

slice of cake with a pumpkin layer on the bottom, a cake layer in the middle, and pecans and whipped cream on top.

Grandma’s Pumpkin Dump Cake

stack of four chocolate chip cookies with more cookies on a cooling rack in the background.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

hand holding a graham cracker and dipping it into a bowl of chocolate chip dip.

Chocolate Chip Dip

chocolate drop cookies with chocolate frosting on a wire rack.

Chocolate Drop Cookies (Cocoa Drops)

rum balls stacked in a white dish on top of a red tablecloth.

Grandma’s Rum Balls

piece of chocolate delight layered dessert on a white plate on top of a blue napkin.

Chocolate Delight

a slice of sour cream raisin pie on a small white plate.

Sour Cream Raisin Pie

unbaked crisco pie crust filled with a pecan filling.

Flaky Crisco Pie Crust Recipe

slice of three layer jam cake with caramel icing.

Kentucky Jam Cake

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

Classic Heath Bar Cake

slice of old fashioned apple pie with a double crust topped with ice cream.

Old Fashioned Apple Pie

Taffy apple salad in a small white dish with a large glass serving dish in the background

Taffy Apple Salad

lightly browned pie crust with a crimped edge.

Never Fail Pie Crust

slice of old fashioned pecan pie on a white plate.

Old Fashioned Pecan Pie

slice of sock it to me cake on a white plate in front of a whole cake with slices cut out.

Sock It To Me Cake

slice of sweet potato pie topped with whipped cream and cinnamon on a white plate.

Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie

cherry salad topped with a cherry and chopped pecans in a mini glass parfait dish.

Easy Cherry Salad

old fashioned date cake topped with walnuts in a white casserole dish.

Old Fashioned Date Cake

slice of pound cake poking out of a whole pound cake.

Old Fashioned Pound Cake

trifle dish filled with layers of cake, pudding, pie filling, and whipped cream.

Easy Punch Bowl Cake

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