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Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Swirl
This pumpkin cake recipe starts with a cake mix. A chocolate swirl and cinnamon chips make this chocolate pumpkin bundt cake unique. Feel free to substitute chocolate chips for the cinnamon chips in this pumpkin cake recipe.

Pumpkin Tiramisu Recipe
This tiramisu recipe is made with pumpkin, mascarpone cheese, ladyfingers and frozen whipped topping. This pumpkin tiramisu recipe is far easier than it looks. And it's one of our favorite pumpkin desserts.

Carrot Bars
Carrot bars are an easy, portable alternative to carrot cake. Indeed, these carrot cake bars make great picnic, bake sale or potluck treats. Serve these carrot pumpkin bars with orange icing at your next party or potluck, and watch them disappear!

Kentucky Chocolate Chip Pie Recipe
Classic Kentucky Derby pie is made with chocolate chips, pecans and a butter, sugar and corn syrup mixture. Like a classic Kentucky Derby pie, this chocolate chip pie recipe forms a thin crust on top and is gooey in the middle. For best flavor, serve this Kentucky Derby pie warm.

Peanut Butter Cookies with Mini Peanut Butter Cups
This peanut butter cookies recipe is ideal for people who love the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. Mini peanut butter cups dot these peanut butter cookies.

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
Peanut butter blossoms are a soft peanut butter cookie topped with Hershey kiss. A crowd-pleasing cookie recipe, peanut blossoms are perfect for everything from picnics to bake sales. Kids love peanut butter blossom cookies.

Blueberry Cream Cheese Tart Recipe
This blueberry tart recipe has a sweetened cream cheese filling topped by fresh blueberries. The combination of blueberry and cream cheese is lovely, especially when fresh blueberries are at their peak. You can use either a store-bought or homemade pie crust for this blueberry tart.

Smores
Smores are classic campfire food -- and for good reason: s'mores taste great. You'll only need three ingredients for this smores recipe.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Recipe
This chocolate peanut butter pie recipe is creamy and rich -- the perfect fix for a chocolate craving. Make this peanut butter chocolate pie several hours in advance, so it has time to chill.

Brownie Sundae
Brownie sundaes make a delicious dessert for parties and special occasions. This hot fudge brownie sundae is made with homemade hot fudge, brownies and vanilla ice cream. Strawberries make the perfect garnish for this brownie sundae.

Strawberry Chocolate Chip Frozen Yogurt Recipe
This frozen yogurt recipe is made with fresh strawberries, Greek yogurt and sugar. Chocolate chunks add a punch of pizzazz to this recipe for frozen yogurt.

Strawberry Ice Cream
This strawberry ice cream recipe is made without eggs, so you don't have to cook it before you freeze it. If fresh strawberries are in season, use those. They'll make this strawberry ice cream recipe even better. If not, use frozen strawberries for this homemade strawberry ice cream.

No Bake Brownies Recipe
This no bake brownies recipe can be made in minutes. All you need is sweetened condensed milk, unsweetened chocolate, nuts and graham cracker crumbs for this easy no bake brownies recipe.

Chocolate Beet Cake Recipe
This chocolate beet cake recipe is a great way to use fresh beets for people who don't like beets. As with a carrot cake, you don't really taste the beets in this chocolate beet cake recipe.

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Healthy chocolate chip cookies are often loaded with sugar to compensate for less fat. Not these. These cookies are full of healthy oats, bran flakes and nuts for a uniquely healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
This chocolate chip cookie recipe is soft and buttery. A little corn syrup is the secret. These cookies travel well, making this an excellent recipe for chocolate chip cookies for bake sales, picnics, and potlucks.

Blueberry Pie Recipe
Blueberry pie is one of our family's favorite summertime desserts. This blueberry pie recipe is made with fresh or frozen blueberries, sugar and lemon juice for a fresh-tasting blueberry pie.

Raspberry Cool Whip Jello Recipe
Serve this layered Cool Whip Jello mold for dessert or a side dish at your next holiday gathering.

Orange Chocolate Chip Frozen Yogurt Recipe
This frozen yogurt recipe is made with Greek yogurt, sugar and vanilla extract. Chocolate bits and orange marmalade add incredible flavor to this frozen yogurt recipe.

Watermelon Ice Cream Bomb
An ice cream bombe makes an attractive, festive dessert for special occasions. There is no cooking or baking involved in making this ice cream bombe recipe. Just follow the directions carefully, and you will end up with a perfect watermelon ice cream bombe.

Rocky Road Bars
These rocky road bars are a cross between a brownie and smores. These rocky road bars are chock full of good things: marshmallows, coconut, chocolate and hazelnuts.

Chocolate Cupcakes
These chocolate cupcakes are rich, moist and delicious. Sour cream adds tenderness to this chocolate cupcake recipe.

Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pretzels
This chocolate chip cookies recipe is soft and chewy. Crushed pretzels in the dough make this a winning chocolate chip cookies recipe.

Lemon Bars Recipe
Lemon bars are a wonderful marraige of sweet and tart flavors. Made with freshly-squeezed lemon juice, sugar, butter, flour and eggs, this lemon bars recipe is refreshing.

Dirt Dessert Recipe
This dirt dessert recipe is made with chocolate pudding, frozen whipped topping, crushed oreos and gummy worms. These pudding dirt cups make a great cooking activity for kids. And everyone loves eating this oreo dirt dessert recipe.

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