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    Brown Sugar Dessert Recipes

    Published: Jan 18, 2023 · Modified: Jan 18, 2023 by Karin and Ken · This post may contain affiliate links. Leave a Comment

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    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.

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    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. Peach cobbler with cinnamon rolls will make your sweet tooth happy!
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    A plate with three peach rolls. The rolls are topped with white colored homemade whipping cream.
    Fiddle Faddle Recipe
    This Fiddle Faddle Recipe is an easy, sweet, and salty treat. If you love caramel popcorn, you have to try this crunchy snack for your next sweet craving.
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    A hand picking up some fiddle faddle.
    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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    Caramel Chex Mix.
    Best Caramel Apple Crisp
    This delicious caramel apple crisp with pecans and raisins is warm and comforting. Made with perfectly cooked tender apples, pecans, raisins, and a crunchy oat topping covered in caramel sauce.  And it's absolutely delicious with or without ice cream!
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    A bowl of caramel apple crisp on the table topped with ice cream and more caramel sauce.
    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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    Grandma's Caramel Sticky Buns
    Upside Down Apple Cake
    Tender apples, rich caramel, and warm spices come together in this soft, moist, and luxurious apple upside down cake recipe that's a great fall dessert to try!
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    A slice of caramel apple upside down cake topped with a scoop of melting vanilla ice cream.
    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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    Easy Peach Coffee Cake
    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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    Homemade Sticky Cinnamon Buns
    Apple Crisp Muffins
    Apple Crisp Muffins are super moist, full of fresh apples, and cinnamon with an amazing crumble topping! They're full of cinnamon apple flavor like an apple pie or apple crisp in muffin form!
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    Two apple crisp muffins stacked on top of each other with green apples in the background.
    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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    Caramel Peach Upside Down Cake
    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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    Six sticky toffee puddings on a pan covered in toffee sauce.
    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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    Layered Carrot Cake from Scratch
    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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    A slice of Air Fryer Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cake on spatula held in air.
    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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    Chocolate Chip Brownies
    Chocolate Chip Brownies are super soft, extremely chewy chocolatey brownies and are definitely worth a try! Meet your new favorite treat.
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    Squares of Chocolate Chip Brownies on rack.
    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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    A plate of three peach cobbler dumplings on a plate with whipped cream.
    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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    A slice of air fryer pumpkin cake on plate.
    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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    Cinnamon butterscotch pie slice on a plate with a glass of milk and whipped cream.
    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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    A muffin tin apple pie on the counter with whipped cream missing a bite.
    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 with Chocolate Chips
    Chocolate cinnamon rolls are rich, decadent and easy to create. Try this tasty, chocolate chip cinnamon rolls 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 (with Oats)
    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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    Strawberry crisp in white bowl with ice cream beside individual serving.
    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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    Air fryer pineapple spears on brown paper with spoon full of brown sugar.
    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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    Copycat Chick-Fil-A cookies on a plate ready to eat.
    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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    A slice of naked chocolate cake.
    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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    Blueberry Cornbread Muffins drizzled with syrup.
    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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    Air fryer apple crisp in white bowl with ice cream on board with apple crisp behind it.
    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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    A Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake on a table.
    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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    A forkful of rhubarb coffee cake up over a plate with a slice of cake.
    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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    Best 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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    A rhubarb cookie held up by a hand to show the front of it.
    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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    Closeup shot of grandma old fashioned sweet potato pie with bite taken out on white plate.
    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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    Baked Brazilian Pineapple on parchment.
    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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    closeup slice of cake on white plate
    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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    A plate of cinnamon toast crunch cheesecake in a cinnamon roll bowl.
    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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    Stack of butter pecan cookie ice cream sandwiches.
    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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    Stack of cookies on a plate.
    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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    Closeup photo of Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Cream Cheese Filling served in a black plate. One muffin is cut in half revealing the filling. A bowl full of pecans next to the plate.
    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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    A slice of praline pumpkin pie on a small white plate with a fork.
    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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    Two Banana dessert egg rolls on a plate with the top one cut open to expose the banana inside.
    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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    Icing being drizzled on a stack of fruity pebble cookies.
    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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    Pina colada upside down cake.
    Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Cheesecake Filling
    These chocolate chip cookie cups are next-level delicious. They're a fun upgrade to your classic chocolate chip cookie and have a yummy cheesecake filling too!
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    A hand holding a Chocolate Chip Cookie Cup with white filling and chocolate drizzle with more cookie cups in the background on a plate.
    Caramel Pull-Apart Cinnamon Rolls
    Pull-Apart Cinnamon Rolls are soft and full of warm flavors and these caramelize wonderfully in the oven to make the ultimate biscuit treat. They’re easy, too!
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    A hand reaching into pull off a piece of pull apart cinnamon rolls.
    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.
    A loaf of blueberry monkey bread on the table on some parchment paper.

    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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