17 Retro Desserts That’ll Have You Feeling Nostalgic
There’s nothing like the comforting taste of retro desserts to take you back to your childhood. Imagine enjoying a slice of homemade apple pie or a warm chocolate chip cookie—these classic sweets are all about savoring those joyful memories and indulging in flavors that never go out of style.
Rosette Cookies
Light, crispy and subtly sweet, these Scandinavian rosette cookies are the perfect holiday treat.
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Million Dollar Pie
This easy to make Million Dollar Pie recipe is one that belongs in everyone’s recipe box. A classic diner pie great for any occasion, especially the holidays.
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Old Fashioned Honeybun Cake
This homemade honeybun cake recipe simulates the pastry: moist yellow cake with a brown sugar cinnamon swirl and honey-laced vanilla icing. It whips up with just 25 minutes of hands-on prep time with no cake mix needed!
Get the recipe: Old Fashioned Honeybun Cake
Mini Boston Cream Pie
An American classic dessert, Boston Cream Pie is a moist and tender vanilla cake filled with a thick layer of rich pastry cream and draped with a glossy dark chocolate ganache. This decadent 6-inch mini Boston Cream Pie perfect for small gatherings!
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Southern Banana Pudding
A 100% homemade, from-scratch, Southern Vegan Banana Pudding! This gluten-free, allergy-free, sugar-free twist on the old-fashioned classic dessert is too easy not to make! A no-bake recipe with layers of vanilla wafers, banana slices, vanilla pudding, and sweet creamy fluff!
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Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Balls
Old-fashioned peanut butter balls are an easy recipe that is a holiday tradition at my house. It only takes 4 ingredients to make this no-bake recipe.
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Blackberry Cobbler
Easy blackberry cobbler filled with perfectly sweet and tart blackberry filling and topped with buttery melt-in-your-mouth crumbles. So easy to make!
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Watergate Salad
This Watergate Salad Recipe, also known as “Pistachio Delight,” is a delicious dessert salad recipe made from a mixture of pistachio pudding, crushed pineapple, whipped topping, chopped pecans, and mini marshmallows. Sweet, creamy, and so easy to make, it takes just 5 minutes to make!
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Orange Blossom Cake
This small bundt cake is sweet, tangy and perfectly moist. Topped with orange blossom water glaze.
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Pineapple Bread Pudding with Brown Sugar Butter Sauce
This delectable pineapple bread pudding combines the rich flavors of caramelized pineapple with the comforting goodness of brioche bread, all topped off with a luscious pineapple brown sugar butter sauce. Trust me; this dessert is an absolute game-changer!
Get the recipe: Pineapple Bread Pudding with Brown Sugar Butter Sauce
Sock It to Me Cake
Sock It to Me Cake is a doctored up cake recipe that starts with a box of cake mix and ends up as a delicious cinnamon sugar bundt cake packed with pecans and brown sugar.
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Biscuit Base Lemon Meringue Pie
This no-bake crust will save you from the drama of mixing, chilling and blind-baking a shortcrust pastry base. Instead, this is a quick and easy kickoff to a beautiful dessert.
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Sour Cream Cookies
You will fall in love with these yummy sour cream cookies‘ melt-in-your-mouth, almost cake-like texture! Fluffy, super soft, and topped with a rich buttercream frosting, they can be decorated to match any occasion. So get ready to delight your taste buds and impress your loved ones with this classic old-fashioned sour cream cookie recipe!
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Pumpkin Bread With Cream Cheese Frosting
This wonderful, moist, and easy pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting is the perfect cake to enjoy during the pumpkin season. Fluffy Pumpkin Loaf infused with aromatic spices you love and frosted with an easy, 3 ingredients cream cheese icing that is very well balanced in sweetness (also made without butter!).
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Apple Turnovers
Flaky puff pastry with warm apple pie filling inside? Sign me up. Apple turnovers are a fruity puff pastry recipe that anyone can make. Create your own personal apple pie with puff pastry that you can serve on its own or with whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon.
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Sugar Donuts
Sweet, crunchy, and hard to resist, these homemade sugar donuts are the perfect mid-day treat alongside coffee or tea or as a post-dinner dessert. This easy sugar donuts recipe is a breeze, requiring only eight ingredients and 30 minutes of your time. You’ll be craving another the very moment you sink your teeth into one of them!
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Pie Crust Cookies
Baked to golden brown perfection, these delicious buttery pie crust cookies are the best thing to happen to leftover pie dough! In this easy 4 ingredient recipe, I am sharing two different ways to use leftover pie dough. It’s the perfect recipe to make super tasty flaky cookies out of something that we normally just toss out!
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