Our 15 Favorite Potluck Desserts That Travel Well and Feed the Crowd
Potlucks are the perfect opportunity to share your favorite desserts with friends and family, but not all sweet treats are suited for the journey. If you’re looking for delicious desserts that travel well and can satisfy a crowd, you’re in the right place. These 15 crowd-pleasing desserts are not only easy to transport, but they’re also sure to be a hit at your next gathering.
Pie Crust Cookies
Baked to golden brown perfection, these delicious buttery pie crust cookies are the best thing that can happen to leftover pie dough! In this easy four-ingredient recipe, I am sharing two different options 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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Pecan Snowball Cookies
These sweet, crunchy, buttery pecan snowball cookies are a delicious way to decorate your dessert table this holiday season! Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cookies, these snowy treats use just a handful of basic pantry staples to create a fun-shaped and eye-catching dessert that all ages will love. These are perfect for holiday parties or as edible gifts.
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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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Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Making pecan chocolate chip cookies is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to celebrate the fall flavors we love! Luxurious chocolate chip cookies loaded with pecans, cinnamon, brown butter, and brown sugar make the cookies wonderfully rich yet very well-balanced in sweetness with added sea salt. These cookies are chewy on the outside and gooey on the inside, with deep chocolate and nutty flavors. They are a must-try during Fall or even Thanksgiving!
Go to the recipe: Brown Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Tiramisu Brownies
If you’ve ever struggled to choose between tiramisu or fudge brownies for dessert, these tiramisu brownies will make your life much easier! This mouthwatering treat offers the best of both worlds, combining decadent, homemade brownies topped with a smooth, elegant tiramisu layer. After one bite, you’ll never look at tiramisu or chocolate brownies the same way again!
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Chocolate Marble Loaf Cake
This wonderful moist chocolate marble loaf cake (Pound cake) is the perfect elegant yet easy teacake to serve for breakfast or as a dessert! My “Better than Starbucks Marble cake” consists of a fluffy and delicious swirl of Vanilla and Chocolate cake covered with a 3 ingredients crunchy chocolate hazelnut glaze!
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Coffee Cookies
These coffee cookies have a delectable taste that the addition of chocolate chips makes even better. They are a soft and chewy, indulgent treat for those who particularly enjoy gooey desserts. For these espresso chocolate chip cookies, brown sugar creates a deep, rich flavor that perfectly complements the coffee taste.
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Apple Crumb Cake
This moist and delicious apple crumb cake perfectly complements your breakfast or dessert table this season! Made with a cinnamon cake base and topped with a crunchy apple crumb topping and sweet apple glaze, it delivers a burst of warm fall flavor! Serve it with a cup of warm apple cider or hot chocolate.
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Beignets
Popular in French cuisine and a staple in the Louisiana city of New Orleans, these New Orleans-style homemade beignets are fun to make and hard to resist! Their light, sweet, and pillowy texture make them the perfect treat to enjoy any time of day: For breakfast, an afternoon snack, or dessert. Top them with sugar, fill them with cream, or dip them in your morning coffee.
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are hands down the best Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies that everyone needs in their baking repertoire! Crispy and chewy, gooey and buttery, sweet but very well balanced with some sea salt on top. My favorite chocolate chip cookies!
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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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Espresso Brownies
Why go to Starbucks for your brownie fix when you can make these gooey, chocolatey espresso brownies from the comfort of your own kitchen in no time? Ready in under an hour, these easy espresso brownies combine dark chocolate, cocoa powder, espresso powder, and two types of sugar to create a decadent chocolate dessert with a rich coffee flavor that tastes amazing and smells incredible!
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Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
These easy chocolate chip walnut cookies are a delicious way to give the nut lovers in your family a sweet treat. Semi-sweet dark chocolate chips, chopped walnuts, and a sprinkle of bright sea salt to balance the flavors make this an indulgent cookie to enjoy during those darker evenings as we move into fall and winter. Everyone will love the chewy texture and the gooey inside that is the hallmark of the best chocolate chip walnut cookies!
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Red Velvet Brownies
You have to try these perfectly moist, dense, and fudgy red velvet brownies with a rich marbled cream cheese crackly top! In this easy recipe, you will find the famous red velvet flavor in brownie format, the best of both!
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Coconut Cookies
If you love the tropical flavor of coconut, you will drool over these chewy, crunchy coconut cookies! Made with tasty coconut, dipped in rich chocolate, and sprinkled with even more flaked coconut, these mouthwatering, old-fashioned coconut cookies are soft and tender on the inside with the perfect amount of crunch on the outside.
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