These 21 nostalgic desserts prove that some treats never go out of style. Each recipe has a timeless charm that delights generation after generation. You will find these desserts ideal for family gatherings and cozy evenings. These desserts bring a comforting sweetness that’s always in fashion. Enjoy these timeless treats that have been a favorite in every era.
Apple Crumble Pie
This mouthwatering apple crumble pie will knock the socks off of your guests this holiday season! Made with fresh apples, sweet apple crumble, and a flaky, buttery pie crust, it will be impossible not to return for seconds. Serve it with a bowl of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream for the ultimate dessert!
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Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
These easy chocolate chip walnut cookies are a delicious way to give the nut lovers in your family a sweet treat. Semi-sweet dark chocolate chips, chopped walnuts, and a sprinkle of bright sea salt to balance the flavors make this an indulgent cookie to enjoy any time of year. Everyone will love the chewy texture and the gooey inside that is the hallmark of the best chocolate chip walnut cookies!
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No Bake Peanut Butter Pie With Oreo Crust
This no-bake peanut butter pie with oreo crust is smooth, creamy, crunchy, and sweet all at once! It is a straightforward recipe with an amazing creamy texture, deep peanut butter, and Oreo flavors. What's more, it is so quick to make. This no-bake peanut butter pie with an Oreo crust is super light and tastes fantastic with just the right amount of sweetness!
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Cinnamon Apple Babka
This cinnamon apple babka features sweet apples and cinnamon filling twisted inside the rich and buttery yeasted dough. It is extra moist and crazy delicious. This is the best cinnamon babka recipe with apple filling. It is a wonderful, comforting dessert for fall but perfect all year round.
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Cinnamon Apple Cake
This easy cinnamon apple cake is just what you need to bring your dessert table to life this fall! It has a moist cinnamon cake layer topped with fresh apples and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar for the perfect finishing touch. Serve it with a bowl of vanilla ice cream or a hot cup of coffee or tea as a sweet breakfast dessert!
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Apple Crumb Cake
This moist and delicious apple crumb cake perfectly complements your breakfast or dessert table this season! Made with a cinnamon cake base and topped with a crunchy apple crumb topping and sweet apple glaze, it delivers a burst of warm fall flavor! Serve it with a cup of warm apple cider or hot chocolate.
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Peanut Butter Cake
If you have been searching for the ultimate peanut butter cake recipe that will be the talk of the town, look no further! This showstopper peanut butter cake is made with moist, fluffy sponge cakes and is topped with a smooth and creamy peanut butter cream cheese frosting. Equally old-fashioned and modern, this peanut butter cake is perfect for a special occasion or a casual afternoon snack.
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Sour Cream Cookies
You will fall in love with these yummy sour cream cookies with melt-in-your-mouth, almost cake-like texture! Fluffy, super soft, and topped with a rich buttercream frosting, they can be decorated to match any occasion. So get ready to delight your taste buds and impress your loved ones with this classic old-fashioned sour cream cookie recipe!
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Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
This oatmeal craisin cookies recipe is the ultimate soft and chewy cookie treat to make any time! Making these healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies is super easy yet provides a luxurious cookie experience. The cookies are loaded with craisin, cinnamon, and brown sugar, making them wonderfully rich yet very well-balanced in sweetness.
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Apple Turnovers
Flaky puff pastry with warm apple pie filling inside? Sign me up. Apple turnovers are a fruity puff pastry recipe that anyone can make. Create your own personal apple pie with puff pastry that you can serve on its own or with whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon.
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Pie Crust Cookies
Baked to golden brown perfection, these delicious buttery pie crust cookies are the best thing to happen to leftover pie dough! In this easy, 4-ingredient recipe, I am sharing two different ways to use leftover pie dough. It's the perfect recipe to make super tasty flaky cookies out of something that we normally toss out!
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Floating Island Dessert
Also known as île flottante in French, a floating island is a light, fluffy, and creamy classic French dessert that is, in fact, no-bake and super easy. Made with milk, sugar, egg, and vanilla, the floating island dessert isn't just simple to make but also gluten-free!
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Pecan Snowball Cookies
These sweet, crunchy, and buttery pecan snowball cookies are a delicious way to decorate your dessert table this holiday season! Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cookies, these snowy treats use just a handful of basic pantry staples to create a fun-shaped and eye-catching dessert that all ages will love.
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Pumpkin Bread With Cream Cheese Frosting
This wonderful, moist, and easy pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting is the perfect cake to enjoy during the pumpkin season. Fluffy Pumpkin Loaf infused with aromatic spices you love and frosted with an easy, 3 ingredients cream cheese icing that is very well balanced in sweetness (also made without butter!).
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Pecan Upside Down Cake
This exceptional pecan upside down cake is a perfect dessert. The excellent harmony of moist yogurt cake as the base and caramelized pecan topping! The cake can be made in any pan you have, even in a Bundt pan, to turn it into a festive Pecan Upside Down Bundt cake for any occasion!
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Vintage Strawberry Cake
Vintage Strawberry Cake is rich, dense, and packed full of fresh strawberries from top to bottom. However, the strawberry cream cheese icing steals the show!
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Clafoutis
Cherry Clafoutis, this classic French dessert, is the ultimate flan-like recipe that comes together really quickly and easily! It has a custard-like creamy texture and can be made with a great variety of fruits, e.g., berries, cherries, apples, etc. This is a rustic dessert with a homemade comfort food vibe and probably the easiest recipe on my blog!
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Old Fashioned Banana Cream Pie
Simple ingredients and a special method make this old fashioned banana cream pie easy to make at home. It’s a creamy, delicious, nostalgic dessert choice.
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Puff Pastry Pumpkin Turnover
Puff pastry pumpkin turnovers are a quick and easy dessert that everyone at your Thanksgiving Dinner table will love. Crunchy and flaky on the outside and sweet and creamy on the inside, these warm pumpkin treats are irresistible and super easy to make.
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Cosmic Brownies
These classic cosmic brownies are nostalgic, fun, rich, and decadent! This copycat recipe will remind you of your childhood. These brownies are quick and easy to make at home. You will love the dense, fudgy brownies, smooth chocolate frosting, and fun rainbow sprinkles!
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Fruit Cake
Dense and moist, and brimming with plump raisins, candied fruits, and nuts, fruit cake is a classic Christmas treat!
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