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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!

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

slice of yellor/orange bundt cake with a bottle of galliano behind it.

Harvey Wallbanger Cake

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

slice of mississippi mud cake on a white plate.

Easy Mississippi Mud Cake

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

Easy Punch Bowl Cake

slice of bright pink strawberry cake with a lighter pink strawberry icing.

Strawberry Jell-O Cake

slice of pumpkin bar with cream cheese frosting, with a bite taken out.

Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

slice of apple cake with cream cheese frosting on top.

Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

slice of old fashioned apple cake.

Old Fashioned Apple Bundt Cake

Top view of a baked Pear Crumble in a white baking dish.

Pear Crumble

turtle cake slice topped with whipped cream on a white plate.

German Chocolate Turtle Cake

slice of applesauce cake on a white plate.

Old Fashioned Applesauce Cake

slice of chocolate chip zucchini cake with a bite taken out on a white plate.

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake

chocolate fudge frosting being spread onto a chocolate cake.

Classic Chocolate Fudge Frosting

4 sweet salads including a green pistachio salad and an orange dreamsicle salad.

12 Sweet Salads from the 60s and 70s

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