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Texas Sheet Cake in a large baking sheet cut into 25 square pieces.

Texas Sheet Cake

The Best S'more Fudge on brown parchment paper partially cut with two pieces of fudge stacked on top.

The Best S’more Fudge

6-photo picture collage of carrot cake, chocolate zucchini muffins, Samoa Rice Krispie treats, raspberry cheesecake brownies, tres leches cake, and magnolia bakery blueberry jamboree with the text of the title overlayed on the collage.

2023 Readers’ Favorite Dessert Recipes

A diagonally placed 9x13 glass baking dish of an Earthquake Cake showing half of the cake.

Earthquake Cake

A stack of three marshmallow brownies sitting on three small white plates. Faded in the background is a glass 9x13 baking dish of brownies.

Crazy Good Marshmallow Boxed Brownies

Banana chocolate bread sliced and sitting on a plate with chocolate chips scattered around the bread.

The Best Chocolate Banana Bread

12 triple chocolate cookies on a wire cooling rack.

Triple Chocolate Cookies

Two white plates stacked on each other with a slice of Easy Black Forest Cake on top topped with a dollop of whip cream, chocolate shavings and one cherry. A 9x13 glass pan of chocolate cake faded in the background.

Easy Black Forest Cake

No-bake Birds Nest Cookies sitting on a Silpat mat on top of a cookie sheet.

No-bake Birds Nest Cookies

A small white plate with two stacked brownies. The top brownie is titled on the bottom brownie with a bite taken out of it. In the background are two fork heads stacked on each other sitting on a kitchen towel and the corner of a glass dish of brownies.

Best Homemade Brownies Recipe

A small white plate with 5 slices of caramel shortbread with chocolate chips and coconut scattered around the plate

Chocolate Caramel Slice

Two white dessert plates stacked on each other with a slice of no-bake peanut butter pie on top. On the right of the plate are two fork heads. In the background is a pie serving utensil, another piece of pie on a small white plate, and the pie with a couple of slices cut out.

No-Bake Reese’s Peanut Butter Pie

fudgy zucchini brownie

Fudgy Zucchini Brownies

A square piece of brown ice cream cake on top of a dessert plate drizzled with Hershey's syrup. Scattered around the plate are Oreos with two servings of cake faded in the upper corners.

Brownie Oreo Ice Cream Cake

A slice of mint chip ice cream cake on top of a white dessert plate with grated chocolate and chocolate syrup drizzled on top and the plate. A bite of cake is taken out of the corner of the cake. In the faded background are two more pieces of cake on small white plates. Chocolate chips are scattered around the plates.

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake

A piece of marshmallow crunch brownie sitting on a white dessert plate with small marshmallows and milk chocolate chips scattered around the plate. In the background, there's two small white plates with a brownie on top and a corner of a metal cookie sheet.

Marshmallow Peanut Butter Crunch Brownies

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