Sweet Dreams Are Made of These 27 Over-the-Top Desserts
Sometimes, you need a dessert that’s as extravagant as it is delicious. These over-the-top splurge desserts are packed with rich flavors, indulgent ingredients, and jaw-dropping presentation. Perfect for special occasions or when you’re ready to treat yourself, these recipes redefine the art of dessert!
Chocolate Tart
Gluten free and full of chocolate flavor this Chocolate Tart is perfect for holiday entertaining. Serve it with whipped cream and lots of pomegranate arils.
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Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
These carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting look like they’ve stepped right out of a bakery. Super similar to your favorite carrot cake, they are soft, fluffy, and perfectly spiced.
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Salted Butterscotch Fudge
This salted butterscotch fudge with pecans is a decadent treat that combines caramelized butterscotch flavor with toasted pecans. These give the fudge a delicious crunch!
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Tiramisu Brownies
If you love chocolate, especially brownie recipes, these Tiramisu Brownies are going to rock your world! They offer everything you love about brownies along with all those amazing tiramisu flavors. This is such a heavenly dessert.
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Low Fodmap Mixed Berry Slab Pavlova
Our Low FODMAP Mixed Berry Slab Pavlova combines sweet meringue, tangy whipped yogurt cream, a berry sauce and fresh fruit! This is a showstopper dessert!
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Giant Strawberry Poptart Recipe
Give your kids a BIG treat with our giant strawberry poptart recipe. PLUS check out these other fun poptart flavors to make!
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Nutella Cake
This Nutella cake is three layers of chocolate cake with Nutella buttercream, a ganache drizzle and garnished with hazelnut chocolates.
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Buckeye Cheesecake (No Bake)
Easy creamy Buckeye Cheesecake with peanut butter and chocolate flavors is the best dessert ever!
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No Bake Chocolate Lasagna
This easy No Bake Chocolate Lasagna is made with four delicious layers of chocolate pudding, cheesecake and Oreo crust.
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Chocolate Cheesecake With a Peanut Butter Cake Crust
Sometimes, all we need is a decadent dessert. Like this chocolate cheesecake with a peanut butter cake crust.
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Baked Alaska
Experience the epitome of dessert elegance with Baked Alaska, a show-stopping treat that combines fire and ice in a culinary spectacle.
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French Silk Brownies
French silk brownies are chewy brownies topped with a rich and creamy chocolate silk layer and then all topped with whipped cream.
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Pistachio Cream (Light Pastry Cream Recipe)
Pistachio cream is dreamy, pastry cream filling flavored with pistachio. Use it for zeppole di San Giuseppe, donuts, in meringues and more.
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White Chocolate Candy Cane Thumbprint Cookies
These cookies are small bites of white chocolatey goodness that are indented and filled with a chocolate peppermint, candy cane ganache.
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Towering Low Fodmap Fruit Pavlova
This Towering Low FODMAP Fruit Pavlova is worthy of your most special holidays & events. Chewy sweet meringue, whipped cream & whiskey soaked fruit! GF, too
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Easy and Gooey Good S’mores Brownies Recipe
These gooey good brownies are piled high with chocolate and marshmallows. Here is how to make this decadent s’mores brownies recipe.
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Chocolate Champagne Cake
This decadent Chocolate Champagne Cake has champagne buttercream & chocolate ganache! Champagne cake is the perfect celebration/birthday cake!
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Peanut Butter Crunch Brownies
Peanut Butter Crunch Brownies are an impressive treat that’s made with homemade brownies, hot fudge, and a peanut butter crunch topping!
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Creamy Tiramisu Cheesecake Recipe (No Water Bath)
This creamy Tiramisu Cheesecake is 100% homemade with a buttery ladyfinger crust, espresso-soaked ladyfingers, creamy espresso cheesecake, and a whipped mascarpone topping.
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The Celeste Strawberry Pie Recipe
The Celeste Strawberry Pie recipe is both a beautiful and delicious homemade dessert for pie lovers! A summer dessert to enjoy with your best friends!
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Millionaire Brownies
Millionaire Brownies, fudge brownies with a layers of caramel, ganache and chopped pecans. They are a rich and delicious!
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3-Layer S Mores Birthday Cake
This Smores Cake is an over the top decadent dessert with layers of moist chocolate cake, graham cracker crust, and marshmallow filling!
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Homemade Baked Alaska
Impress your friends with an iconic Baked Alaska piled with toasted meringue topping over your favorite ice cream flavors and moist cake.
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No Bake Peanut Butter Pie With Graham Cracker Crust
No Bake Peanut Butter pie is a rich and decadent dessert masterpiece, especially when topped with peanut butter cups, chopped peanuts and chocolate chips!
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The Best Nutter Butter Bars
Nutter Butter Bars are decadent peanut butter bars with layers of Nutter Butters, peanut butter, peanut butter chips, peanuts, and Reese’s Pieces.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Bundt Cake
A showstopper rich chocolate cake with hazelnuts. Glazed with ganache and cream cheese icing, it’s moist and perfect for any occasion.
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Peanut Butter Oreo Heavenly Dessert
Heavenly dessert with peanut butter and Oreos is an easy icebox dessert with peanut butter, cream cheese, chocolate pudding, and Cool Whip.
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