The Best Dessert Recipes of 2013: 100 Reader Favorite Recipes
Here at TheBestDessertRecipes.com, we're all about finding and delivering the very best desserts that we can. 2013 was a wonderful year for us and we've shared so many easy dessert recipes with our readers. We've tallied the votes and compiled all of the best desserts of the year in our collection, The Best Dessert Recipes of 2013: 100 Reader Favorite Recipes. From chocolate dessert recipes to homemade candy recipes, easy cookie recipes to no bake dessert recipes, you'll find all of the most popular recipes of the year right here.
The Best Dessert Recipes of 2013:
100 Reader Favorite Recipes
Table of Contents
Dessert Bar Recipes
Easy Cake Recipes
Easy Cookie Recipes
Easy Pie Recipes
Fall Dessert Recipes
Fun Cupcake Recipes
Great No Bake Dessert Recipes
Holiday Dessert Recipes
Homemade Candy Recipes
Poke Cake Recipes
Quick and Easy Microwave Mug Cake Recipes
The Best of the Rest
Dessert Bar Recipes
These simple dessert bar recipes make for the perfect anytime dessert. From holidays to just a relaxing night in, make these treats your go-to's.
1. Chubby Hubby Cookie Bars (pictured above)
2. 2 Ingredient Fat Free Lemon Bars
3. Copycat Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars
4. Classic Vintage Banana Cake Bars
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Easy Cake Recipes
There are few things better than an easy recipe for cake. These are truly the best of the best. We especially recommend that you check out the decadent chocolate cakes because you can never go wrong with chocolate.
5. Granny's Lemon Buttermilk Pound Cake
6. Grandma's Best Lazy Daisy Oatmeal Cake
8. Two Ingredient Chocolate Coke Cake
9. Better-Than-Portillo's Chocolate Cake (pictured above)
Easy Cookie Recipes
Good things truly do come in small packages. Cookies are quite possibly one of the best desserts ever created. You'll love these cookie recipes because they're easy to make and taste great all year long.
10. Happy Birthday Cupcake Cookies
12. White Chocolate Pina Colada Cookies
13. Four Ingredient Thin Mints (pictured above)
16. Unforgettable White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
17. Italian Waffle Cookies (Pizelle)
Easy Pie Recipes
Cream pie recipes definitely dominated 2013. Check out all of the reader-favorite cream pies (including our extremely popular Best-Ever Chocolate Cream Pie), as well as a few other tasty pies.
22. Best Ever Chocolate Cream Pie
24. Cloud Nine Banana Cream Pie (pictured above)
25. Sinfully Smooth Strawberry Cream Pie
28. Impossibly Fluffy Marshmallow Pumpkin Pie
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Fall Dessert Recipes
Pumpkin desserts and apple desserts were quite popular among our readers in 2013. Here are a few of the most clicked treats that featured perfectly spiced fall flavors.
29. Nana's Favorite Dutch Apple Pie
30. 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Cake Cookies
31. Addictive Pumpkin Crumb Cake
32. Warm Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake
33. Lazy Day Cake Mix Apple Cobbler
34. Grandma's Favorite Baked Apples
35. Awesome Autumn Apple Pie Bars (pictured above)
37. Unbelievable Frosted Pumpkin Bars
42. Smooth Pumpkin Spice Milkshake
43. Wholesome Cinnamon Apple Squares
44. Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls
Fun Cupcake Recipes
Fun and wacky cupcakes are the perfect treats for holidays, birthdays, and other special events. You'll love these decorative cakes.
45. Pull-Apart Monkey Bread Cupcakes
46. Awesome Atomic Fireball Cupcakes
48. Chocolate Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting (pictured above)
Great No Bake Dessert Recipes
No bake desserts are some of the easiest treats you could ever make. Give your oven a break and make these sweet treats instead.
51. Super Easy Chocolate Fudge
52. Tantalizing 4-Ingredient Chocolate Lasagna (pictured above)
54. Perfect Pink Lemonade Freezer Bars
Holiday Dessert Recipes
What's a holiday without a fun and festive dessert to match? Celebrate your favorite holiday with a few of these popular sweets.
55. Spooky Swirly Halloween Cookies
56. Colorful Candy Corn Poke Cake
58. Delicious Pumpkin Pie Cake
59. Best Ever Gingerbread Cookies
60. Christmas Eggnog Meltaways
62. North Pole Snowball Cookies (pictured above)
63. M&M and Mike and Ike Christmas Lights
64. Classic Christmas Spritz Cookies
65. Giftable Hot Chocolate in a Jar
66. Gingerbread Marshmallow Fluff
70. Magic Layered Christmas Bars
Homemade Candy Recipes
Why buy overpriced candy bars at the grocery store when you can make one of these delicious homemade candy recipes right in your very own kitchen? You're sure to love each one of these sweets.
71. Kit Kat Bites
72. Mini Homemade Mounds Candy Bars
74. Old Fashioned Cinnamon Rock Candy
75. Heavenly Homemade Snickers Bars (pictured above)
76. 3-Ingredient Butterfinger Bars
Poke Cake Recipes
With a box of cake mix and a few extra ingredients, you can make one of these reader-favorite, moist and delicious poke cakes. They definitely won't disappoint.
77. Classic Chocolate Poke Cake
79. Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake (pictured above)
80. Seductive Double Pumpkin Poke Cake
83. Better-Than-Sex Coconut Cream Pie Poke Cake
84. Adults-Only Mudslide Poke Cake
85. Pleasing Pumpkin Poke Cake
86. Pleasing Peppermint Poke Cake
Quick and Easy Microwave Mug Cake Recipes
Dessert for one? Yes please! You'll love each and every one of these easy mug cake recipes. They're so simple to make and you don't even have to share them with anyone else!
87. 2-Minute Pumpkin Caramel Mug Cake
89. 4-Minute Cake Batter Mug Cake
90. 2-Minute Coffee Cake in a Mug
93. One Minute Microwave Blueberry Cobbler
The Best of the Rest
2013 was such a wonderful year for desserts. While these treats may not fall under one of the above categories, they're definitely some of the best sweets that we have on our site.
94. Sex in a Pan (pictured above) - The #1 recipe of the year!
95. Farmstand Buttermilk Doughnuts
96. Homemade Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
98. Easy Amish Friendship Bread Starter
99. Quick and Easy Crescent Cinnamon Rolls
100. Guilty Pleasure Oreo Cheesecake
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