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    Home » Recipes » Dessert

    Dessert Recipes

    Everyone loves dessert, and we have so many to choose from here at Food, Fun & Faraway Places!

    Whether it's chocolate you're after, like this decadent Sacher Torte recipe created in Vienna, Austria, to this amazing Key Lime Pie from right here in Florida, desserts make the perfect ending to a meal.

    Desserts are also a great way to celebrate, like with these boozy red velvet cake balls for Valentine's Day or Christmas!

    And don't forget the cookies! These oatmeal raisin cookies with pecans are heavenly, and believe it or not, these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are Weight Watchers friendly! 

    Who wants a Christmas cupcake? I’ve told you before that cupcakes are one of my favorite desserts for parties and celebrations, especially when kids are involved. This is an easy dessert recipe, but the result is just beautiful! As I always say, don’t buy cupcakes when you can DIY! Want to be able to produce a beautiful topping of frosting like you see here? My secret is the Wilton Frosting gun! You won’t believe how easy it is to produce professional looking desserts!

    Candy Cane Cupcakes

    cranberry cupcakes

    Festive Cranberry Cupcakes

    Collage of chocolate Christmas desserts.

    Best Chocolate Desserts for Christmas

    Everyone loves a snowman, and these snowman cupcakes are the perfect winter dessert for a holiday party! Need to whip up something quick? It's such an easy dessert recipe! You can’t go wrong combining chocolate, marshmallows, and cake, right? Head to the kitchen with the kids. Even the little ones can build these snowman cupcakes!

    Easy Snowman Cupcakes Recipe

    Christmas Cookie Exchanges are so much fun, and I’ve put together a round up of some of my favorite Christmas recipes. Cookies are always a perfect dessert idea and make a great gift idea, too! Need a hostess gift? Put a dozen cookies in a gift bag along with the recipe! Let your hostess know they can be frozen for a treat after the holidays, too!

    Christmas Cookie Recipes Everyone Will Love

    cookies with a pumpkin spice kiss in the middle

    Pumpkin Spice Cookies

    These Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies are such and easy dessert recipe, and you won’t find anyone else bringing them to the cookie exchange! So full chocolate with bits of peppermint, this is one of my favorite recipes for Christmas and the winter holidays!

    Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies

    These Red Velvet Cupcakes are so festive, and the perfect dessert to take to a Christmas party! The recipe is easy, so you won't spend hours in the kitchen. You're welcome! This will end up being your go-to holiday dessert recipe!

    Red Velvet Holly Cupcake Recipe

    Cranberry Cookies with white chocolate drizzle on cutting board.

    Cranberry Cookies with White Chocolate

    These Polar Bear Nutter Butter Cookies are so cute and would be a great dessert for a party. The kids will have fun decorating the cookies and the recipe is so easy, it won't keep you in the kitchen all day.

    Polar Bear Nutter Butter Cookies

    Cookies decorated like Santa Mickey Mouse

    Santa Mickey Sugar Cookies

    Looking for amazing Christmas sugar cookies to make this year? I'm sharing some of the best holiday sugar cookies I’ve found so far!

    Hidden Mickey Candy Cane Cookies

    This Kentucky Butter Cookie recipe is easy and such a great grown-up treat for your Christmas party! I love having desserts on hand for guests, and this is one everyone will love! Have friends each bring an appetizer and you can serve dessert, for a ready-made holiday party! Who says you need to slave in the kitchen making food?

    Kentucky Butter Cookies with Bourbon Glaze

    These Ladybug cupcakes are the perfect dessert for a Ladybug Picnic! This is such an easy recipe, and using Airheads for the decoration made this a DIY project anyone can do! You will never buy cupcakes again! And remember, picnics aren’t just for summer! Throw a blanket on the floor and grab some food for a snack! Kids crafts or printables will add to the fun on a rainy or snowy day.

    Ladybug Picnic Cupcakes

    As soon as I get out my Christmas decorations I want to start baking Christmas desserts. Cookies and cupcakes are my favorites, and this recipe for Peppermint Mocha cookies is so easy and so delicious!

    Peppermint Mocha Cookies

    Pumpkin cookies white white icing and a pumpkin design on a white plate with pumpkins in background.

    Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies

    Collage of Halloween desserts.

    60+ Festive & Spooky Halloween Desserts

    cupcakes decorated with Mickey Mouse mummy on grass

    Mickey Mouse Mummy Cupcakes

    Brownies with gravestone and pumpkins for Halloween.

    Halloween Brownie Bites

    Easy Homemade Apple Pie Recipe

    Chocolate peanut butter bars on a white plate on a red checked tablecloth.

    Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

    This list of 27 Homemade Pumpkin Desserts is all you'll need for a fall of deliciousness! The next time you have to bring food to a gathering, just choose from this list of pumpkin recipes! From Pumpkin Pudding Poke Cake to Pumpkin pie brownies, everyone will love these yummy recipes!

    5 Minute Maple Pumpkin Pie Parfait

    List of pumpkin desserts.

    25 Homemade Pumpkin Desserts

    This homemade apple rings recipe will be the hit of your fall party or school event! Apples are such a popular food in the fall, but we love them all year long! You will want to add this to your list of favorite recipes!

    Homemade Funnel Cake Recipe with Caramel Sauce

    Crown Royal Cupcakes

    Blueberries are my favorite berry, and these delicious recipes will give you plenty to choose from. Easy recipes are my favorite kind, and most of these desserts are very easy to make. These are perfect for your next party. Who wants to be in the kitchen when you can be enjoying your family and friends instead?

    21 Delicious Blueberry Desserts Recipes

    Summer is the perfect time for ice cream, and I've got 21 delicious recipes for you to try! We love to have parties, and making your own sundae is always a hit! We've got berry recipes, chocolate recipes, a melon recipe, and even a jelly donut ice cream recipe! Forget the food, let's just have dessert!

    Easy Ice Cream Recipes

    What's better than a chocolate chip cookie? A chocolate chip cookie cup with chocolate mouse in it! This recipe is easy, and you will be a rock star when serving these at your next party!

    Mousse Filled Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

    This Shark Week Cupcake dessert recipe is pretty popular right now with the event right around the corner. Did you know Shark Week is the most watched show in the 26-year history of the Discovery Channel? Make this easy dessert and surprise the kids with a special treat! Also great for summer pool parties and birthdays!

    Shark Cupcakes

    Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes

    Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and peanut butter inside.

    Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

    Why buy cupcakes when you can DIY and they will be so much better?This is one of my favorite recipes for summer. Cupcakes are always my first choice for desserts!

    Lemon Lime Cupcakes

    In the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, they serve up a delicious drink called Butter Beer. If you've tasted Butter Beer, you know how wonderful that flavor will be in a cupcake!

    Harry Potter Butterbeer Cupcakes

    These Chunky Monkey Cupcakes were made in celebration of the new Disneynature film, Monkey Kingdom. Everyone loves Disney, and Just about everyone loves fruit, right? This cupcake recipe has both apples and bananas in it! It's a moist and delicious dessert, perfect for snacking on before or after seeing Monkey Kingdom.

    Chunky Monkey Cupcakes Recipe

    These cupcakes are the perfect recipe for a Disney Pixar Inside Out celebration! The full recipe is included here!

    Disney Pixar Inside Out Cupcakes!

    These pineapple mojito cupcakes are the perfect dessert for your next party! Can you imagine walking in to a party with this dessert? Everyone will forget the rest of the food!

    Pineapple Mojito Cupcakes

    Collage of strawberry desserts.

    Delightful Strawberry Recipes

    Easter is a fun time to make special treats for the kids (and adults!) Who doesn't love cupcakes? Think how pretty these would look on your Easter table! Making food for a class party? Need recipes? The kids would love these Easter desserts! Don't they just look like spring with all the bright colors? Enjoy!

    10 Easter Cupcake Recipes

    Irish cupcakes and cakes.

    30+ Dessert Recipes for St. Patrick's Day!

    Need a great recipe to bring to that Big Game party? Why not make these Snickers Snaps Cookies? I love desserts that don’t need utensils, too, and you can grab these cookies and get back to the game!

    Game Day Snickers Cookies

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