Dessert recipes for a crowd — the crowd-favorite cobblers, dump cakes, cookie bars, and sheet cakes big enough to feed the whole gathering.
If You’ve Got Five Minutes, You’ve Got Dessert If you’ve got five minutes, you can get this lemon blueberry dump cake in the oven — and then the oven does all the work. It’s just three ingredients: two cans of blueberry pie filling, one box of lemon cake mix, and a stick of butter cut…
Can We Agree Dessert for a Crowd Shouldn’t Take All Day? This white Texas sheet cake was my very first time making a brand-new recipe, and it instantly earned a permanent spot in my dessert rotation. It’s a soft, buttery sheet cake with the dreamiest almond frosting, and it feeds a whole crowd — I…
You Just Have to Make Sure You Get Your Bite First Cookies and cream dessert lasagna is the no-bake treat one of my girls asks for on repeat all summer long — and the one I never mind making, because it gives me a perfectly good excuse to beat the daylights out of a package…
I Couldn’t Wait Until Fall to Make These These soft chewy molasses cookies taste just like something your grandma would pull out of the oven on a rainy day — warm, spiced, and impossible to stop at one. I usually save them for fall when the cinnamon and cloves feel just right, but the truth…
I Am Not a Delicate Southern Lady — But I Can Make This Cake This Southern butter pecan pound cake might just be my favorite dessert I make — because I am butter pecan everything. The coffee creamer, the ice cream, pecan pie, pecan bars: if it’s butter pecan, I’m in. So I took all…
The Dessert I Make So Often I Thought It Was Already Here This easy peach cobbler is the dessert I have made so many times that I genuinely assumed it was already here on the site — turns out it wasn’t, and that needed fixing today. It is melted butter in the bottom of a…
Call It Salad. Call It Dessert. Just Make Sure You Bring Some Home. Strawberry pretzel salad is the layered, salty-sweet, jello-on-top dessert my grandma always called salad — and if you grew up going to church potlucks anywhere in the Midwest or the South, you already know exactly what I’m talking about. Buttery pretzel crust…
The Birthday Cake I Make Every Year — Box Mix and All Pineapple upside down cake is Jason’s favorite, and it has been his birthday cake almost every year of our marriage. I make it from a box, and I will not apologize for it. A pineapple supreme cake mix, a stick of butter, a…
When Dessert Has to Feed a Crowd and Cost Nothing Rice Krispie treats are my go-to when I need to feed a crowd and the budget is already stretched thin. Three ingredients — butter, marshmallows, crisp rice cereal — turn into eighteen big, sprinkled bars in about ten minutes, and the whole pan costs me…
A Family Recipe I’ve Kept Quiet About for 33 Years Grandma Memaw’s Lemon Bars are the most requested recipe I make, and until today, I have only ever shared them by hand. My mother-in-law taught me to make these in her kitchen when I was a brand-new bride, side by side with her grown daughters,…
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