Retro Treats Alert! These 40 Nostalgic Desserts Will Warm Your Heart
Craving some comfort food that reminds you of the old days? I am. I love trying to recreate what my grandma used to make. She was the best cook. Her banana pudding was to die for. What are your favorite nostalgic dessert recipes? Let’s bake some of those this weekend with our own families.
Banana Pudding Pie with Homemade Vanilla Pudding
This banana pudding pie recipe is a comforting dessert that perfectly captures the flavor of ripe bananas and the creamy goodness of homemade vanilla pudding. This pie elevates the classic southern banana pudding (minus the meringue), incorporating a Nilla wafer and shortbread cookie crust, luscious layers of vanilla pudding, sliced bananas and a tantalizing cream cheese whipped cream topping.
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Baked Cinnamon Sugar Donuts
These are the best baked cinnamon sugar doughnuts to make when you want light and fluffy doughnuts but without the hassle of deep frying. Whether you enjoy donuts with coffee, for breakfast, or as a delicious dessert, this is the recipe for you. Even though this is a baked donut recipe, they still have that light, fluffy texture and delicious flavor. Every bite is loaded with delicate cinnamon spice, but all the flavors are perfectly balanced.
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Pumpkin Blondies
Super gooey and chewy pumpkin blondies loaded with warm pumpkin flavor and spices are the perfect sweet snack for Fall or Thanksgiving! I love pumpkin season, and these easy pumpkin blondies with chocolate chips are a must-try for any pumpkin lovers out there. With pumpkin pie spice, chocolate chips, and hints of caramel butterscotch undertones, they might just be your favorite easy Thanksgiving snack this season!
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Peach Cobbler
Peach cobbler with pie crust is a classic dessert that combines juicy peaches with a flaky, buttery pie crust. This homemade peach cobbler recipe is the perfect way to make the most of peach season when the fruit is extra ripe and flavorful.
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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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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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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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Old Fashioned Chocolate Pound Cake
Old Fashioned Chocolate Pound Cake is easy to make and about as rich and decadent a chocolate cake that you’ll find anywhere. It’s impressive and is delicious to serve plain or with fresh fruit and or ice cream.
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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!
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Pound Cake
Southern pound cake is dense, yet soft, buttery, full of incredible flavor and just like grandma’s recipe. This pound cake recipe uses basic pantry ingredients, the perfect easy to make dessert and ready in about an hour!
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Drumstick Pie
A sugar cone crust piled high with layers of chocolate syrup, vanilla ice cream and caramel, topped with peanuts and tastes just like the iconic originial.
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Impossible Pie
Impossible Pie is the easiest pie you will ever bake! It magically forms its own crust plus two delicious layers while baking.
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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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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!
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Vintage Prune Cake
This Vintage Prune Cake Recipe will remind you of days gone by. It’s a spiced cake topped with a caramel buttermilk glaze that’s absolutely delicious!
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Pecan Upside Down Cake
This exceptional pecan upside down cake is a perfect dessert for Fall or Thanksgiving. It’s an excellent harmony of moist yogurt cake as the base and caramelized pecan topping! The cake can be made in any pan you have, even in a Bundt pan, to turn it into a festive Pecan Upside-down Bundt cake for Thanksgiving!
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Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
This oatmeal craisin cookie recipe is the ultimate soft and chewy cookie treat to make over the holidays and beyond! Making these healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies is super easy, yet provides a luxurious cookie experience loaded with craisin, cinnamon, and brown sugar making the cookies wonderfully rich yet very well balanced in sweetness.
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Ambrosia Fruit Salad
Ambrosia Salad is a 15-minute side dish or dessert that combines shredded coconut, canned fruit, mini-marshmallows, and chopped walnuts!
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Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Recipe
This Molasses Cookies recipe belongs in every recipe box! It is one of the most treasured of old fashioned Christmas cookies.
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The Best Double Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding Recipe
Indulge in the perfect comfort food with our double chocolate chip bread pudding recipe. It’s a sweet twist on a classic favorite!
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Classic Gooey Butter Cake
This classic gooey butter cake recipe is a dessert that has ingredients of a cake but is served up like a brownie. With it’s buttery crust and flaky, gooey, cream cheese-based top, it’s one of the best dessert recipes out there!
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Chocolate Depression Cake
Chocolate Depression Cake, or Wacky Cake is a unique retro cake recipe that uses basic pantry ingredients, but no eggs! This chocolate cake recipe was made to use what you had on hand. It is a simply delicious chocolate cake!
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Easy Cornflake Tart
Are you looking for a quick and easy dessert that will impress your family and friends? Look no further than this delicious cornflake tart! Made with shop-bought shortcrust pastry, sweet strawberry jam, and golden syrup, this golden brown beauty is topped with crunchy cornflakes – the ultimate breakfast cereal turned into a mouthwatering dessert.
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Blueberry Buckle
Blueberry buckle is a classic, and with good reason: it’s tender, easy to make and packed full of delicious blueberry goodness topped with a sweet, buttery streusel.
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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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Rosette Cookies
Light, crispy and subtly sweet, these Scandinavian rosette cookies are the perfect holiday treat.
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Vintage Strawberry Cake
Vintage Strawberry Cake is rich, dense, and packed full of fresh strawberries from top to bottom. However, the strawberry cream cheese icing steals the show!
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Peach Dump Cake
This is one of the easiest desserts with two shortcuts: canned peaches and cake mix. A layer of juicy fruit with a cobbler-like topping that bakes to a golden brown and is fantastic! It’s effortless to put together and is out of the oven in under an hour. If you never made a dump cake before, you’re in for a sweet surprise.
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Pumpkin Custard Pie
Pumpkin custard pie is a scrumptious treat with warm pumpkin flavors in an egg custard pie. This recipe makes a great Thanksgiving dessert!
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Pineapple Cream Cheese Pie
Meet the mouthwatering pineapple cheesecake pie – a dessert that’s as easy to make as it is to devour. It’s incredibly delicious. The cookie crust encases a 5-ingredient, no-bake filling in minutes. It can be made ahead and kept refrigerated or frozen.
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Old-Fashioned Butter Cookies
These soft butter cookies are full of rich-buttery goodness. They have a delightful crumbly texture that just melts in your mouth. This easy one-bowl recipe is made with only 6 ingredients.
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Date Pinwheel Cookies
These vintage Date Pinwheel Cookies are a nostalgic choice for your holiday cookie trays. Cookie dough is rolled with a sweet date filling to create these delicious treats.
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Southern Peach Cake Cobbler
Add sweet peaches to a buttery cake and create a scrumptious peach cobbler cake. A thin layer of butter on the bottom transforms a simple batter into a peach dessert you’ll be making over and over again.
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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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Cinnamon Rolls
These delicious Cinnamon Rolls are perfect for any holiday gathering or a weeknight! They are extra soft and tender, layered with rich cinnamon and brown sugar, then topped with a delicious sweet cream cheese glaze. They are absolutely perfect when served warm and fresh out of the oven. Way better than the ones in the can!
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Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Banana Bread
This chocolate chip oatmeal banana bread is one of the best ever ways to make banana bread. Boasting not only that distinctive banana flavor and moist texture but also the appeal of chocolate chips and tasty oats, this snack is sure to make your taste buds happy.
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