Even when our grandmas get fancy, they still keep things relatively simple. Think about all those extra-special desserts they've made over the years for special occasions. They're always delicious, but they're also always easy. This collection of 87 of Grandma's favorite desserts to entertain highlights that with rich, delicious treats that are so simple to make. Try homemade Twix bites, Almond Joy bites, chocolate chip M&M cookies, and so many more.
Better Than Sex Cake (Slow Cooker)

This recipe for Better Than Sex Cake is, rich, delicious, and made entirely in the slow cooker. It’s the ultimate indulgent dessert that is perfect anytime.
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Easy Strawberry Candy

This Strawberry Candy is easy to make for a special occasion or anytime. It has a sweet and chewy strawberry-flavored center coated in melted almond bark
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No Bake Cherry Cheesecake Icebox Cake

This no bake cherry cheesecake icebox cake is as simple as it is tasty. It's filled with delicious, creamy goodness that everyone loves.
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Easy Chocolate Cool Whip Candy

This easy Cool Whip Candy recipe is a quick and easy treat anyone can make. Each piece features a rich and creamy center covered in melted chocolate.
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Cranberry Pretzel Salad

This Cranberry Pretzel Salad has wonderfully balanced flavors and textures. It has a crispy pretzel crust and luscious filling, and is finished with Jello.
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Pistachio Fluff

This is the best recipe for Pistachio Fluff! It's a tasty dessert that’s not overly sweet with a delightful combination of pineapple and pistachio pudding.
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Grandma's Oreo Cookie Cake

Grandma's Oreo Cookie Cake recipe combines all the flavor of a tender bundt cake with Oreos cookies! This cookies and cream cake is perfect for all occasions and you're not going to believe how easy it is to make.
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The Best Dairy Free Chocolate Cake

The Best Dairy Free Chocolate Cake got its start during the depression, when dairy wasn't always available. This cake recipe is an oldie but a goodie!
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Orange Creamsicle Cheesecake

This creamy no-bake Orange Creamsicle Cheesecake is an easy orange dessert. It has the right amount of citrus flavor and sweetness from all three layers.
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Blueberry Cobbler With Cake Mix

Blueberry cobbler with cake mix is super easy to make and absolutely delicious. This easy blueberry cobbler dump cake is ready in just minutes
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Eggnog Cookie Bars

Eggnog Cookie Bars are the ultimate creamy, eggnog lovers dessert bar. The perfect cookie bottom covered with the best creamy eggnog icing!
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Blueberry Sheet Cake

This Lemon Blueberry Sheet Cake perfectly balances sweet and tart. The cake is moist, bursting with fresh blueberries, and then is finished with lemon frosting.
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The Best Strawberry Banana Cake

The Best Strawberry Banana Cake recipe is an easy, super moist cake with strawberries, bananas, walnuts or pecans and the best cream cheese frosting!
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The Best Old Fashioned Fresh Apple Cake

The Best Old Fashioned Fresh Apple Cake recipe is so easy, moist, full of fresh apples, nuts, raisins, cinnamon and is the best recipe ever!
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Old-Fashioned Banana Pudding Cake Recipe

This banana pudding cake recipe is filled with tender cake, tasty pudding, and rich frosting. It's a banana and cake lover's dream!
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Grandma's Rhubarb Custard Bars

Grandma's recipe for rhubarb custard bars are melt in your mouth delicious especially warm, right out of the oven. These are the best custard rhubarb bars around!
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No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake

A no bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie with luscious layers of creamy pumpkin pie and cheesecake! This no-bake pumpkin cheesecake recipe is ready in under 15 minutes.
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Lazy Cookie Bars

Soft, chewy lazy cookie bars or cake mix cookie bars make a delightful dessert when you have no time to bake from scratch!
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Apple Upside Down 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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Knickerbocker Glory

Knickerbocker Glory, an iconic British treat, made with ice cream, cranberry juice, and fresh fruit to create a satisfying dessert that people of all ages will love.
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Red Velvet Cookie Bars

Red Velvet Cookie Bars are easy and quick to make. Perfect when you need an amazing, decadent, chocolate dessert in a hurry, covered in cream cheese icing!
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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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Chocolate Covered Blueberries

These Chocolate Covered Blueberries are made with fresh blueberries covered in rich chocolate and shaped into tasty clusters for the perfect snack or dessert topping!
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Homemade Twix Bites

These Twix Bites taste just like the candy bar you know and love! The crispy cookie is topped with caramel and then enrobed in chocolate for a decadent treat.
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Chocolate Covered Ritz Crackers

These Chocolate-Covered Ritz Crackers are the ultimate sweet and salty treat. The rich dulce de leche makes the perfect filling for these cracker sandwiches.
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Snickerdoodle Bars

These Snickerdoodle Bars are sweet and chewy with just the right amount of cinnamon flavor. They’re topped with a luscious frosting that balances the dessert!
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Almond Joy Bites

These homemade Almond Joy Bites are a delightful version of the classic candy bar. With the sweet coconut and crunchy almonds, it’s as good as the real thing!
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Butter Toffee Pretzels

These homemade Butter Toffee Pretzels make an amazing holiday treat. They have perfectly balanced sweet and salty flavors with crunchy and chewy textures.
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Magic Cookie Bars

This recipe for Magic Cookie Bars is so easy and tasty! It’s layered with graham crackers, crunchy pecans, flaky coconut, and other yummy flavors and textures.
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Star Crunch Cookies

These Homemade Star Crunch Cookies are the perfect copycat recipe! They are chewy and bursting with rich chocolate flavor. You are going to love this no-bake treat.
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Mini Peanut Butter Cheesecakes

These chocolatey, creamy, and delightful mini peanut butter cheesecakes are the perfect bite-sized treat to make and serve at a house-party you're hosting.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie

This soft and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie is the ultimate dessert! It has all the flavor and texture of a traditional chocolate chip cookie in pie form.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

: 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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Chocolate Chip Pizza Cookie

This easy-to-make chocolate chip pizza cookie is a chewy, chocolatey, and decadent sweet treat that’s sure to be a total crowd-pleaser at your next house party.
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Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies

Chocolaty Macadamia Nut Cookies are easy and fantastic! Chewy and thick cookies with macadamia nuts and chocolate in every bite!
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Best Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Parfait

Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Dessert Parfait is a jello parfait with cream cheese. No bake cheesecake parfait with sweet & salty crust!
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How To Make Broken Glass Jello

This easy broken glass Jello recipe is simple, delicious, and beautiful. Sea glass Jello is the perfect broken glass dessert for any occasion
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Chewy Cream Cheese Brownies

Treat yourself to the most sinfully delicious and decadent cream cheese brownies ever! They're rich, indulgent, and so easy to make and absolutely addictive.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies

These Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies are bursting with fresh strawberry flavor. The sweet and luscious cream cheese filling perfectly balances the other flavors.
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Orange Fluff Salad

Orange Fluff Salad tastes like a creamsicle in a bowl! It has a dreamy, creamy orange-vanilla flavor that is super addicting!
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My Grandma's Apple Crumble

This apple crumble without oats is a favorite from my grandma's recipe box. Tender, sweet apples are topped with a tasty crumble. SO good!
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Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls

These Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls are the perfect blend of sweet apple filling and soft cinnamon rolls. They're easy to make with or without icing.
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Rice Krispie Hay Bales

This Rice Krispie hay bales recipe is a fun, fall take on the classic treat, with a melted peanut butter coating and licorice hay bale ties.
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The Best Peanut Butter Cookie Bars

The cookie bars are soft, chewy and thick with a chocolate layer on top covered with a sprinkling of M & M's.
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Caramel Cookie Bars

These Caramel Cookie Bars are a deliciously soft and chewy cookie with a gooey chocolate and caramel center. They are the perfect treat for caramel and chocolate lovers!
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Lemon Bar Cheesecake

This Lemon Bar Cheesecake is the perfect combination of sweet and tangy. You'll love the creamy texture and added lemon zest!
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Easy Blueberry Pie Bars

These Blueberry Pie Bars are a delicious combination of sweet blueberry filling nestled between a buttery crust and crumble topping.
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No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie With Oreos

This No bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie recipe is the best. The flavors of chocolate, peanut butter, and Oreos make this one pie you'll love
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Grandma's Old Fashioned Fruit Salad

Grandma's old fashioned fruit salad with mayonnaise is easily my favorite holiday fruit salad. This creamy fruit salad recipe comes together quickly with just some fresh fruit, chocolate chips for added sweetness, and a 2-ingredient dressing.
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Easy No-Bake Nutella Pie Recipe

Easy No-Bake Nutella Pie Recipe with cream cheese pie is super easy to make and loaded with flavor using only 5 ingredients for a dessert sure to impress!
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Easy No Bake Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie

This no-bake old fashioned chocolate pie recipe is rich, creamy, and so chocolatey. It has all the flavor and texture of chocolate mousse with far less effort.
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Grandma's Old Fashioned Caramel Sticky Buns

Old fashioned sticky buns are caramel pecan rolls, with or without nuts. These cinnamon caramel sticky buns are perfect for any occasion!
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Easy Chocolate Fudge Brownies

Easy Chocolate Fudge Brownies are simple, moist and tasty! Add your favorite nuts or treats and your chocolate cravings will be satisfied, every time!
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The Best Grasshopper Brownies

The Best Grasshopper Brownies are decadent, fudgy, chocolate mint brownies with a minty cream cheese buttercream frosting! Just like a grasshopper cocktail!
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Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars are easy, no bake, eggless, with edible peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate chip ganache.
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Upside Down Fruit Cocktail Cake With Coconut

This Upside Down Fruit Cocktail Cake with Coconut Topping recipe makes a light, fluffy cake that is filled with tender fruit.
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Grandma's Old-Fashioned Hummingbird Cake

Indulge in the most incredibly moist, delicate, and crunchy Grandma’s old-fashioned Hummingbird cake. Try this easy and fail-proof recipe that you'll love.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake

This chocolate peanut butter poke cake combines tender chocolate cake with chocolate pudding, peanut butter frosting, and peanut butter candy.
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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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Easy No Bake Peanut Butter Bars Recipe

My grandma's Easy No Bake Peanut Butter Bars recipe is amazing with a peanut butter base topped with melted chocolate chips and more!
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Ozark Pudding Recipe

This Ozark pudding recipe is a delicious slice of Americana. This dry custard dish is filled with apples, nuts, and so much flavor.
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Easy Cake Mix Cookie Bars

This Easy Cake Mix Cookie Bars recipe makes melt in your mouth, soft, fluffy cookie bars that are full of chocolate chips.
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Kit Kat Cookie Bars

Kit Kat Cookie Bars are mouth-watering, soft, chewy, easy to make treats, perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth and impressing your friends and family.
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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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Old Fashioned Apple Turnover Recipe

This old fashioned apple turnover recipe is easy to make and it includes crispy puff pastry and sweet apple middle.
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Brownies With Sprinkles

Brownies with Sprinkles are a festive spin on the classic brownie recipe! They combine the rich, chocolatey taste of classic brownies with the fun and vibrant touch of colored sprinkles.
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Lemon Brownies

These rich and chewy Lemon Brownies are an easy and tasty lemon dessert idea. They have the texture of a fudgy brownie but with a fresh and tart lemon flavor.
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Easy Layered S'mores Brownies

Easy Layered S'mores Brownies are a homemade dessert, made from scratch, with marshmallows, chocolate, graham crackers, and more on a rich brownie base.
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M&M Rice Krispie Treats

M&M Rice Krispie Treats are a gooey, crunchy no-bake treat. The recipe combines two classics, M&M's and Rice Krispies, for a treat everyone will love.
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Ozark Pudding Recipe

This Ozark pudding recipe is a delicious slice of Americana. This dry custard dish is filled with apples, nuts, and so much flavor.
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Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake

This buttermilk blueberry breakfast cake is the best way to start the day. It's sweet, loaded with blueberries, and so easy to make!
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Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats

These peanut butter cup Rice Krispies treats are so good! These Reese's Rice Krispies treats combine two of our favorite sweets into one.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats

If you love chocolate, peanut butter and Rice Krispies you will love this easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats recipe. This NO marshmallow recipe is sweetened with honey.
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Cast Iron Peach Cobbler

Sweet, juicy peaches get topped with a buttery crumble and baked to perfection in this cast iron peach cobbler recipe that will definitely be a family favorite!
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No Bake Peanut Butter Fudge

This easy no bake chocolate peanut butter fudge recipe is full of rich peanut butter and chocolate flavors, NOT a lot of work!
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No Bake Pretzel Cookies

No bake pretzel cookies are a sweet and salty treat you'll love. These butterscotch pretzel haystack cookies are so easy to make!
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Easy Sugar Cookie Bars

The combo of butter and cream cheese makes this easy sugar cookie bars recipe so soft. Make these easy bar cookies as Christmas cookie bars!
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No Bake Layered Mint Cheesecake

No Bake Layered Mint Cheesecake with Oreos, After Eights, Andes Mints or Aero is the best peppermint no bake cheesecake dessert recipe around!
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Easy No Bake Banana Pudding Cups

This easy no bake banana pudding cheesecake dessert is so easy and so good. Essentially a mini banana pudding trifle in each dish.
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Grandma's Old Fashioned Fudge Recipe

Grandma's old fashioned fudge recipe combines delicious flavors, nostalgia, and ease in equal measure. Get all the flavor without all the work
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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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Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake

Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake is rich chocolate cake that is filled with caramel sauce and then topped chocolate frosting. Rich and delicious.
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Banana Pudding Lasagna

This banana pudding lasagna is a quick and easy dessert combining classic banana pudding flavor with a fun new twist.
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Caramel Pecan Cake

Caramel Pecan Cake includes homemade caramel syrup, caramel frosting and a caramel cake! Covered in pecans or toffee bits this dessert will not disappoint!
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Gingerbread Cake With Caramel Sauce

Gingerbread Cake with Caramel Sauce is the best dessert to satisfy cravings and impress guests. Warm spices and rich caramel create a treat hard to resist.
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Easy Carrot Cake Bars

Easy Carrot Cake Bars are moist and covered in a wonderful cream cheese buttercream frosting. These cake bars are just like the full cake!
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Easy Fruit Cocktail Dump Cake

This canned fruit cocktail dump cake recipe is so easy to make. This fruit cocktail cake without coconut is simple and delicious.
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