28 Tempting Potluck Desserts
Take these treats to neighborhood potlucks, family reunions, summer cabin get-togethers -- or just your next backyard dinner.
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Co's Candy-Bar Brownies
Combine packaged sweets with homemade frosting for this easy dessert. Top with your favorite chocolate-covered candy bar, chopped, or small chocolate candies.
Peach Upside-Down Cake
The family behind Illinois' Rendleman Orchards has amassed some great peach recipes in 135 years of growing peaches. This cake is no exception. Peach slices and brown sugar form a moist base for the tender, square cake--and when flipped over, that base becomes the topping. We like the cake warm with ice cream.
Danish Pastry Apple Bars
One of the most popular recipes on our website, these bars taste like apple pie in a baking pan. "You can't go wrong with these," writes one of our website reviewers "I've taken them to all kinds of events and they are always the first dessert to go!"
Chocolate Cherry Mini Cheesecakes
Vanilla wafers make instant crusts for these individual cheesecakes. Top with chocolate shavings or small whole or sliced strawberries, if you like.
Caramel and Chocolate Kettle-Corn Crispie Bars
This recipe from Judy Reynolds of Bloomington, Indiana, was the $10,000 winner in our first Best of the Midwest cook-off. Start with a Hoosier staple -- popcorn -- and stir together these sweet-salty snack bars. Homemade caramel sauce helps makes them a standout.
Regal Marble Chiffon Cake
This showstopping cake is our version of a special-occasion dessert that's a favorite at Amish gatherings.
Awesome Chocolate-Peanut Blowout Cookies
What makes these cookies so awesome? "Special ingredients," says the Marion, Ohio, reader who contributed the recipe, which includes chocolate and peanut butter. "I like them because they're decadent yet so easy to make."
White Chocolate Brownies
White chocolate and macadamia nuts give traditional brownies a flavor and color makeover.
Tiny Chocolate-Cherry Bombs
Cherry stems form the "fuse" on these brownie-covered maraschino cherries.
Blackberry-Pecan Streusel Pie
Precook the juicy, tart blackberry filling before pouring it in the crust. The streusel topping becomes a crunchy sugar-pecan crown.
Caramel Blonde Brownies
Caramels, oats and milk chocolate pieces blend in these gooey sweets from a West Des Moines, Iowa, reader.
Berry Easy Cobbler
This warm, crunch-topped cobbler calls for 3 cups of blueberries, but if you'd like a version with extra color and flavor, reduce the blueberries to 2 cups and add 2 cups fresh or frozen tart cherries.
Strawberry-Coconut Thumbprints
Linda Roberts of Rapid City, South Dakota, tops her buttery cream cheese, coconut coated cookie with fruit jam. This recipe was a finalist in our first Best of the Midwest cook-off.
Buster Brown Cake with Delicious Icing
A Canton, Ohio, reader contributed this recipe for a favorite brown sugar cake that is often served at family gatherings.
Peanut Butter-Fudge Pie
This make-ahead dessert is an ice cream/peanut butter/fudge delight created by a Waukesha, Wisconsin, reader, who likes to take it to potlucks. You can double the recipe to fill a 13x9 pan; cut it into squares to feed a crowd.
Buttermilk Banana Bars
These moist snack bars with creamy frosting taste a lot like banana bread. The recipe is from a Wyoming, Michigan, reader.
Hunka Chocolate Cookies
This recipe will satisfy chocolate lovers' cravings with semisweet chocolate pieces, unsweetened chocolate, melted white chocolate and melted semisweet chocolate. Just a half a cup of flour goes into this fudgy delight.
Summer's Best Peach Pie
Just-picked fruit from your farmers market will taste great in this pie, but you can use frozen peach slices if needed.
Prairie State Oatmeal Cake
Rolled oats keep this old-fashioned cake moist. You'll love the gooey coconut-walnut topping.
Double-Cherry Supreme Pie
Dried tart cherries add extra flavor to this classic pie, which was pictured on a cover of Midwest Living®.
Krista's Kitchen Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
These big cookies -- loaded with chocolate chips and nuts -- are a customer favorite at Krista's Kitchen Bakery/Cafe in Portage, Wisconsin. The cookie bakes crisp on the outside, cakey inside.
Berry Trifle
Mix buttery pound cake, creamy vanilla pudding, soft cream cheese, and fresh strawberries or blueberries for a rich comfort-food dessert. To trim calories, try making it with angel food cake, fat-free pudding, and low-fat or fat-free cream cheese.
Luscious Lemon Bars
Anyone who loves lemon chess pie will enjoy these bite-size bars from Palmer's Deli & Market in Urbandale, Iowa. The moist bars are topped with powdered sugar.
Pretzel Sparklers
The sweet coating complements salty, crunchy pretzel rods. Stand your edible sparklers in a container filled with coarse brown sugar or candy-coated milk chocolate candies (M&Ms). Change the color of the sprinkles and candies to suit the occasion!
Candy Bar Cookies
These bite-size treats feature a creamy mixture of chocolate pieces, butterscotch pieces and peanut butter over a cooked oatmeal-brown sugar layer. The recipe is from a Madison, Wisconsin, reader, who takes the bar cookies to potluck gatherings.
Cherry-Brickle Coffee Cake
This coffee cake recipe, one of the winners in a Midwest Living® potluck recipe contest, comes from a Robinson, Illinois, reader. Cherry pie filling stars in the cake.
Kansas Sunflower Cookies
Seeds from the Sunflower State star in this crunchy favorite, along with rolled oats and shredded coconut. "I've made these many times and they always get compliments," a reader commented on our website. "Sunflower seeds are an unexpected surprise."
Firecracker-Red Cupcakes with Coconut Filling
A red, white and blue dessert stars at any summer potluck. Red velvet cake mix makes our moist and gooey Firecracker-Red Cupcakes extra easy to prepare.
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