35 Potluck Desserts That Have Everyone Coming Back for More

Desserts are just as popular as savory dishes at potlucks. In fact, they might even be more popular. With their sweet flavors and textures, everyone always comes back for more. That's especially true with these 35 potluck desserts. Sweet and delicious, these recipes include fantastic flavors like peanut butter cookie dough bars, rainbow cake roll, caramel brownie trifle, and more.

Grandma's Old Fashioned Fruit Salad

A bowl of fruit salad with apples, grapes, and chocolate chips, garnished with celery slices on a wooden cocktail table. — Grandma's Old Fashioned Fruit Salad. Photo credit Kitchen Divas.

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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Best Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Parfait

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Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Dessert Parfait is a jello parfait with cream cheese. No bake cheesecake parfait with sweet & salty crust!
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Easy No Bake Banana Pudding Cups

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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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How To Make Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

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This cupcake cone recipe teaches you how to make cupcake cones and make your ice cream cone cupcakes look and taste their absolute best!
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How To Make Cake Roll With Box Cake Mix

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We're talking about how to make cake roll with box cake mix. This vanilla swiss roll recipe is so simple. it's a great vanilla cake roll!
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Decadent Caramel Brownie Trifle

A close-up of a dessert featuring chocolate brownies with caramel sauce, partially eaten with a spoon. — Decadent Caramel Brownie Trifle. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

This Brownie Trifle recipe is a rich and creamy dessert with layers of chocolate brownie, caramel, cheesecake pudding, and more, perfect for any occasion.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies

Close-up of a hand holding a cookie with white chocolate chips and pieces of dried strawberries, hinting at a touch of cream cheese for an extra layer of decadence. — Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies. Photo Credit: Kitchen Divas.

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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Easy Peach Cobbler Dumplings

Three dumplings on a white plate with whipped cream. — Easy Peach Cobbler Dumplings. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

Easy peach cobbler dumplings with crescent rolls is an easy peach dumpling recipe that's ready in a snap and so delicious. A big-time winner!
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Triple Berry Trifle With Cheesecake Layer

A trifle dessert with layers of sponge cake, vanilla custard, whipped cream, and mixed berries (strawberries in abundance, raspberries, and blueberries) in a glass bowl. — Triple Berry Trifle With Cheesecake Layer. Photo Credit: Kitchen Divas.

This Triple Berry Trifle recipe is a show-stopping dessert made with layers of angel food cake, creamy cheesecake pudding, whipped topping, and a trio of fresh berries.
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Upside Down Fruit Cocktail Cake With Coconut

Close-up of a serving of peach cobbler on a plate, showing the fresh fruit topping and crumbly biscuit base. — Upside Down Fruit Cocktail Cake With Coconut. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

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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Swiss Roll Lush Cake

This Swiss Roll lush cake is one of the easiest, tastiest icebox cake recipes you'll ever make. It's always a hit, so give it a try!
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No Bake Cherry Cheesecake Icebox Cake

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This no bake cherry cheesecake icebox cake is filled with all the flavors we love in cherry cheesecake and none of the work!
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Angel Food Cake Trifle (Red, White, And Blue Trifle)

A trifle dessert layered with sponge cake, strawberries, whipped cream, and topped with a mix of strawberries and blackberries. — Angel Food Cake Trifle (Red, White, And Blue Trifle). Photo Credit: Kitchen Divas.

This red, white and blue trifle is very patriotic. While it may be the perfect 4th of July trifle, this delicious dessert is perfect for anytime.
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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 quickly,
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No Bake Pretzel Cookies

Close-up of a hand holding an easy cookie recipe featuring a peanut butter pretzel cluster sprinkled with sea salt. — No Bake Pretzel Cookies. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

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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Chocolate Peanut Butter Trifle With Brownies

Close-up of chocolate peanut butter ice cream topped with crushed cookies, pretzels, and chocolate chunks. — Chocolate Peanut Butter Trifle With Brownies. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

There’s nothing trivial about this Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownie Trifle. Cool and creamy, it’s a chocolate, peanut butter lover’s dream come true! This decadent trifle with brownies and pretzels is a treat you will not soon forget.
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Mini Key Lime Pie Bites

These mini Key Lime Pie Bites are truly fabulous for a light mini dessert. Refreshing and light, these little bites satisfy every time.
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Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

A stack of homemade cookies from easy cookie recipes, with chunks of chocolate and oreo pieces on a white plate, accompanied by a glass of milk in the background. — Oreo Cheesecake Cookies. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

Oreo Cheesecake Cookies are a delightful treat that combines the best of both worlds. These cookies are perfect for any level cook!
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Close-up of a creamy mini cheesecake topped with a dollop of whipped cream and fresh raspberries and blueberries, set against a backdrop of more cheesecakes.

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These Sugar Cookie Cheesecake Cookie Cups are little mini cheesecake desserts. Every single cheesecake bite is filled with creamy cheesecake!
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A stack of easy cookie recipes for chocolate and peanut butter bars with sprinkles on a decorative plate, set against a blurred Christmas tree background. — Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

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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Ultimate Easy Baked Homemade Cheesecake

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Ultimate Easy Baked Homemade Cheesecake recipe no sour cream uses 7 ingredients, is light, creamy and the best cheesecake in the world!
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Ambrosia Custard Recipe (Devon Custard)

A spoonful of vanilla pudding topped with fresh blackberries, a raspberry, and a blueberry, part of a delightful English trifle with more fruit and pudding layered in the background. — Ambrosia Custard Recipe (Devon Custard). Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

Devon Custard (Ambrosia Custard Recipe) is a British dessert known for its thick and creamy texture, served with so many things like berries and canned is best.
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Easy Cream Puff Recipe

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This scrumptious homemade cream puff recipe makes light and airy pastry puffs filled with sweet pastry cream. Cream puffs made easy!
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Chocolate Mint Poke Cake

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This Chocolate Mint Poke Cake recipe is so easy, with or without mint, this Jello instant pudding cake is full of chocolate, caramel or whatever you desire!
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Easy Fruit Cocktail Dump Cake

A slice of apple crumble topped with a dollop of whipped cream, served on a white plate with a fork, showcasing the fruit nutrition of apples. — Easy Fruit Cocktail Dump Cake. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

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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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

A slice of cheesecake with a chocolate peanut butter crust, drizzled with caramel sauce and topped with whipped cream, served on a white plate. — Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake. Photo credit: Kitchen Divas.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake is Reese's Peanut Butter Cheesecake perfection in a rich, creamy cheesecake with an Oreo chocolate base!
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Best Strawberry Cheesecake Fudge

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Best Strawberry Cheesecake Fudge recipe uses vanilla, white chocolate, condensed milk, cream cheese, graham crackers and strawberry sauce!
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Lemon Fudge

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This super easy lemon fudge recipe only uses a handful of ingerdietns to deliver sweet, zingy fudge that everyone will love.
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Jello Sugar Cookies

Jello Sugar cookies are soft and chewy cookies that are bursting with a sweet strawberry flavor. Delicious Pink Sugar Cookies.
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Easy Vanilla Bundt Cake

Easy Vanilla Bundt Cake is a unique recipe, super moist, can be festive or not, includes the best chocolate cake glaze. It's worth a try!
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No Bake Layered Mint Cheesecake

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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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Mini Easter Cheesecakes (Perfect For Any Time Of Year)

Mini cheesecakes topped with shredded coconut and colorful candy eggs sit on a wooden board, resembling a fleet of delectable treats as compact and delightful as a Mini in the foreground with one cheesecake having a bite taken out of it. — Mini Easter Cheesecakes (Perfect For Any Time Of Year). Photo Credit: Kitchen Divas.

Mini Easter Cheesecakes or Philadelphia Bites are an easy, classic, versatile recipe and so cute with Easter egg nests and toasted coconut!
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Easy Pumpkin Trifle

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This pumpkin trifle recipe makes a delicious pumpkin dessert that's perfect for Thanksgiving. A no-bake dessert that has an amazing presentation!
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No-Bake Strawberry Jello Cheesecake

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This no bake strawberry jello cheesecake is easy to make and packed with flavor. There are no worries about cracked cheesecake here!
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