Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, you're going to love our sinfully delicious brown sugar dessert recipes! These recipes feature a variety of flavors and will satisfy any sweet tooth.
Brown sugar is a versatile ingredient that can be used in both sweet and savory dishes. Today, however, we'll be focusing on the sweet side of things, highlighting some of our favorite desserts.
What is the difference between brown sugar and white sugar?
Brown sugar is made by adding molasses to white sugar. This gives it a richer flavor and darker color. It's also moister than white sugar, which means it will dissolve faster in liquids.
It can be used as a substitute for white sugar in recipes, or you can use it specifically to give your baking a distinct flavor.
Why Use Brown Sugar in Your Baking
Brown sugar adds flavor, texture, and color to your recipes. Plus, it's great for adding a subtle sweetness to dishes like baked beans or oatmeal. It can also help create the perfect caramelization on things like cookies and cakes.
Do you use the same amount of brown sugar in a recipe?
No, the amount of brown sugar needed in a recipe will depend on the type of recipe you are making. Generally speaking, use about ½ cup less than what is called for in the recipe if it calls for white sugar.
In addition, when baking with brown sugar, make sure to pack it down firmly into the measuring cup so that you get an accurate measure.
What are some other tips for baking with brown sugar?
When baking with brown sugar, it's important to use the freshest ingredients you can find. Brown sugar tends to harden as it ages, so make sure you buy it in smaller amounts and store it in a cool, dry place.
Also, be sure to give it a good stir before using it as this will help break down any lumps. Finally, when baking with brown sugar, it's best to use recipes that call for melted butter or oil instead of creaming the butter and sugar together.
Why You'll Love These Brown Sugar Dessert Recipes
These recipes are easy to make and use simple ingredients that you may already have on hand, and they all call for dark or light brown sugar, which adds a delicious flavor to the finished product.
From cakes, cookies, and pies to puddings and cobblers, we've got something for everyone. So grab your mixing bowl and let's get cooking!
Brown Sugar Dessert Recipes:
Now let's take a look at some brown sugar dessert recipes you can create for your sweet tooth. Our family loves dessert (doesn't everyone?) and these are some of our favorite recipes.
Cinnamon Roll Peach Cobbler
These cinnamon roll peach cobbler dumplings combine two classic treats into one ultimate dish. Get ready for your sweet tooth to be happy!
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Easy Homemade Caramel Popcorn
Making homemade caramel popcorn is easier than you think! This sweet popcorn recipe shows you how to make the best sweet, salty, soft, crunchy, gourmet caramel corn!
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Butter Crunch Cookies
This butter crunch cookies recipe is loaded with the sweet goodness of sugar and toffee bits and the flavor of almonds. So good and so easy.
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Caramel Chex Mix
Caramel Chex Mix is the perfect sweet and salty snack mix that the entire family will love. This crispy dessert will disappear in a blink of an eye.
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Our Favorite Caramel Apple Crisp
Our Favorite Caramel Apple Crisp is full of flavor and tender apples, caramel, pecans and raisins! With or without ice cream, absolutely delicious!
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Grandma's Old Fashioned Caramel Sticky Buns
Grandma's Caramel Sticky Buns are old fashioned caramel pecan rolls, with or without nuts, these cinnamon flavored sticky buns are perfect for any occasion!
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The Best Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake
The Best Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake recipe is so easy, super moist, and the most flavorful caramel apple cake, with or without ice cream!
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Easy Peach Coffee Cake
Easy Peach Coffee Cake is the perfect dessert! Fresh or frozen peaches in a delightfully moist and flavorful coffee cake, fit for any occasion.
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Homemade Sticky Cinnamon Buns
Homemade Sticky Cinnamon Buns are grandma's, old fashioned, sticky buns with caramel and it is the best, soft, moist and gooey cinnamon buns recipe around!
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Apple Pie Muffins
Apple Pie Muffins are super moist, full of fresh apples, cinnamon and an amazing apple crisp or crumble topping, just like an apple strudel in muffin form!
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Caramel Peach Upside Down Cake
Caramel Peach Upside Down Cake uses fresh, juicy peaches, sliced, covered in a caramel glaze. Served with whipped or ice cream, this dessert is fantastic!
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Air Fryer Baked Apples
Air Fryer Baked Apples are an easy fall dessert that tastes delicious and cooks up in just 15 minutes in your air fryer. Kid friendly also.
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Best Sticky Toffee Pudding Ever
Best Sticky Toffee Pudding Ever is a rich, moist, cake with an amazing buttery toffee sauce, baked as bites or in a pan, this easy recipe won't disappoint!
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Apple Wraps
These delicious apple wraps are loaded with classic apple pie flavor all wrapped up in a unique package - tortillas! They're so delicious!
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Rustic Peach Galette
A rustic Peach Galette is the perfect summertime treat. Don't let the fancy French name or beautiful presentation intimidate you, this freeform peach pastry is much simpler to make than a pie.
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Layered Carrot Cake from Scratch - Best EVER!!
Layered Carrot Cake from Scratch is simply amazing. You're going to love the flavor, texture, and taste of this super moist, homemade carrot cake!
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Air Fryer Peanut Butter Swirl Bundt Cake
Air Fryer Peanut Butter Bundt Cake is moist and delicious bundt cake that cooks right in your air fryer.
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Air Fryer Bananas
Air fryer bananas are rich, sweet, and so easy to make. They're a great snack or fresh dessert that everyone will love.
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Grilled Pears
Grilled pears are sweet, tender, and loaded with flavor. Pears on the grill make a delicious, healthy snack that everyone loves.
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Peanut Butter Cup Brownies
Peanut butter cup brownies with peanut butter frosting for brownies are delicious. This peanut butter brownie recipe is so rich and decadent.
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White Chocolate Brownie Cookies
White Chocolate Brownie Cookies are truly the best of both worlds! These cookies taste like soft, chewy, chocolaty brownies and are definitely worth a try!
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Easy Peach Cobbler Dumplings
Peach cobbler dumplings are perfectly sweet and peach-y!! They make an easy dessert using crescent rolls to make dumplings instead of homemade pastry. Peach cobbler with crescent rolls bakes up in the oven for a peach dessert that's crusty and golden on the top while soft and ooey gooey on the inside.
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Old Fashioned Crunchy Apple Bake
Baked apple slices and raisins with a crunchy oatmeal and pecan streusel topping. This recipe for Crunchy Apple Bake is incredibly delicious.
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Butterscotch Caramel Cashew Bars
These butterscotch caramel cashew bars are loaded with sweet and salty goodness. Everyone always loves them!
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Pumpkin Cake in Air Fryer
This air fryer pumpkin cake is moist and delicious every single time. It's an easy recipe that comes together quickly.
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Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie
This butterscotch cinnamon pie recipe is so rich and sweet. It might look complicated, but it's actually very simple, so get baking!
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Air Fryer Pizookies
This Air Fryer Pizookie is the perfect combination of cookie flavor with a pizza look. Each bite is perfectly portioned with loads of chocolate flavor!
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Muffin Tin Apple Pies
Muffin Tin Apple Pies are the perfect handheld dessert, are soft baked and stuffed with flavorful apple pie filling cooked in less than 30 minutes.
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Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake Recipe
This pumpkin spice coffee cake recipe is heaven for any pumpkin lover. A rich flavor and texture is topped with sweet streusel. Yum!
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Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls
Chocolate cinnamon rolls are rich, decadent and easy to create. Try this tasty, chocolate chip filled snack recipe covered with the best chocolate icing today.
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Subway Double Chocolate Chip Cookies Copycat
These copycat Subway double chocolate chip cookies are rich, chocolaty, and delicious. They're even better than the original!
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Air Fryer Apple Danish - Good and Easy!
Air fryer apple danish is so good and easy. This Air fryer danish is filled with flavor and a nice, crispy layer. Air fried danish for the win!
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Strawberry Crisp
Strawberry Crisp is fresh strawberries topped with a crispy sweet oats topping. The oats make this Strawberry Crisp recipe the perfect blend of sweet, and crispy.
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Air Fryer Monster Cookies
These air fryer monster cookies are packed with mix-ins, and so good! Try these air fryer chocolate chip cookies today and get ready to be wowed!
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Andes Mint Cupcakes with Irish Buttercream Frosting
These Andes Mint cupcakes with Baileys Irish cream buttercream are always a hit. Andes Mint chocolate and Baileys buttercream frosting. Yum!
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Air Fryer Pineapple
Air fryer pineapple is one of the easiest and tastiest ways to cook this fruit. It's caramelized and golden and, so sweet!
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Copycat Chick-Fil-A Cookies
A delicious copycat version of the Chick-Fil-A cookie recipe made with both semi-sweet dark chunks and milk chocolate chunks. This easy cookie recipe bakes up into chocolate chunk cookies the family is sure to love.
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Naked Chocolate Cake
This naked chocolate cake recipe has the perfect amount of cake and frosting. Enjoy both without either overpowering the other.
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Easy Cinnamon or Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake
This easy cinnamon or pumpkin spice Bundt cake with cream cheese glaze recipe is the absolute best spiced Bundt. Either cinnamon or pumpkin pie, take your pick. They’re both great!
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Caramel Nut Bundt Cake
This is an easy caramel Bundt cake recipe that's adjustable to be the best caramel apple or salted caramel Bundt cake, with or without nuts.
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Cracked Chocolate Fudge Cookies
These chocolate fudge crinkle cookies are full of dark cocoa flavor and sweetness. An easy cookie that's perfect any time of year.
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Easy Blueberry Cornbread Muffins
Sweet fresh blueberries are the perfect contrast to cornbread. These blueberry cornbread muffins are the perfect grab-and-go breakfast.
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Air Fryer Carrot Cake
This layered air fryer carrot cake is full of the rich flavor of carrot cake and cream cheese frosting and cooked perfectly in the air fryer.
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Air Fryer Apple Crisp
This air fryer apple crisp takes a classic dessert to another level. The sweet, tender apples work so well with the air fried topping.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake
This chocolate peanut butter mug cake only takes a few ingredients to make. It's a simple, single-serve cake that's so easy and so good.
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Rhubarb Coffee Cake
Rhubarb Coffee Cake is tender cake filled with fruity rhubarb flavor and topped with a cinnamon crumb topping.
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Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting features moist chocolate cake, rich cream cheese frosting, and sweet cream cheese filling.
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Chunky Monkey Bars
This chunky monkey bars recipe is loaded with the classic Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors we love like bananas, chocolate chunks, and walnuts.
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Rhubarb Cookies
This rhubarb cookie recipe is so easy and so delicious. Rhubarb cookies are sweet with a delicious added tang. A cookie everyone will love!
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Grandma Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
This grandma old fashioned sweet potato pie recipe really is just like grandma used to make. Every bite is sweet nostalgia!
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Baked Brazilian Pineapple
Our simple baked Brazilian pineapple recipe combines juicy fresh pineapple, cinnamon and sugar and then cooks it in the oven or on the grill until caramelized into a delicious dessert.
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Drake's Coffee Cake
Drake's Coffee Cake is the best cinnamon coffee cake made with sweet cinnamon flavored streusel and pecans, the perfect cake with coffee.
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cheesecake Bowls
Canned cinnamon rolls are used to form edible bowls for this easy Cinnamon Toast Crunch cheesecake. It's creamy, delicious and fun to eat.
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Butter Pecan Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Homemade butter pecan cookies are fresh baked and filled with a no-churn butter pecan ice cream creating a delicious ice cream cookie sandwich for a tasty treat everyone will love!
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McDonald’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
An easy copycat McDonald's cookie recipe to make soft chocolate chip cookies with lightly crisp edges.
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Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Cream Cheese Filling
Pumpkin spice muffins with a cream cheese filling and pecan topping are easily the best pumpkin muffins you'll ever make. These pumpkin cheesecake muffins are moist and full of fall flavors.
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Homemade Pumpkin Praline Pie
This homemade pumpkin praline pie recipe has the best of everything! It's a creamy spiced pumpkin pie with a sweet, crunchy pecan topping. No need to choose between pecan pie or pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, make this one instead! It's the best of both worlds.
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Green Cookies
These simple, green cookies are soft and tender and loaded with two kinds of chocolate chips and crushed Oreo cookies. Yummo!
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Banana Dessert Egg Rolls
Crispy and delicious banana egg rolls can be prepared in the air fryer, fried in a skillet or baked in the oven!! They offer tons of flexibility as a yummy dessert treat to serve up on a plate with ice cream and a drizzle of caramel or an easy finger food to dip into chocolate or strawberry sauce.
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Fruity Pebbles Cookies
Fruity pebbles infuse these sugar cookies with fruity flavor and lots of bright color in this easy cereal cookie recipe that are perfect for parties and holidays! Kids and adults are sure to love these soft and chewy cookies so bake up a batch and watch them disappear.
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Piña Colada Upside Down Cake
This Pina Colada Upside Down Cake is everything you could ever want in a cake. It's moist, sweet, tart, full of flavor and it has pineapple
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Cheesecake Filling
These Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Cheesecake Filling are soft, sweet and oh so delicious.
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Easy Caramel Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread
Easy Caramel Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread or cinnamon roll monkey bread recipe is full of gooey, sweet cinnamon caramel pieces covered in icing.
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Easy Maple Bacon Sticky Pull Apart Bread
Easy Maple Bacon Sticky Pull Apart Bread is super easy to make. The caramel and bacon work beautifully together to create the most addictive treat you'll love.
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Brown sugar is a great ingredient to keep in your pantry because of its versatility and flavor. Whether you are baking a cake, making cookies, or just want to add some sweetness to your savory dish, brown sugar has you covered.
Get out your baking equipment and give these brown sugar dessert recipes a try. We know you're going to love them.
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