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Thanks for stopping by to check out our game day desserts! Here’s an epic list of game day dessert recipes with sweets perfect for football food season—TV parties, tailgating, and cookouts or just hanging out on the couch together!
Easy OREO Dip
Oreo dip is a no-bake, sweet dessert dip made from cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla, and Cool Whip, with roughly crushed Oreos folded in. It is creamy, it is sweet, it has crushed Double Stuff OREOs folded all the way through it, and it takes about 10 minutes to throw together.
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Apple Pie Dip with Cinnamon Sugar Chips
It’s warm, gooey, cinnamon-spiced magic—basically the inside of an apple pie, just made for dipping. And those crispy cinnamon sugar tortilla chips make the best sweet snack sidekick.
Lemon Cookie Recipe With Cake Mix
A handful of ingredients, plus fresh lemon zest and juice make this a bright, soft cookie that is irresistible and comes together in a snap. (Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy, as they say!)
Try another lemon cookie variation that calls for Cool Whip in the mix!
Easy Cherry Pie Bars
We use a can of cherry pie filling for these, but you can substitute any fruit filling. These are so good and tasty like a combination of pie and cobbler.
Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Chewy, chocolatey goodness, homemade and lookin’ tasty! I think these are some righteously good cookies for game day or any time!
Dinosaur Cookie Chocolate Bark
For the kids (or the boy-mom in you), grab a bag of Mother’s Mighty Dynamite Dinosaurs Frosted Cookies, some dino sprinkles and a few other fun mix-ins, and you have a fun bark that is fun to snack on or send home bagged up as football party favors!
Fantasy Fudge
A simple chocolate fudge recipe that is so customizable with your favorite toppings or mix-ins. Marshmallows, chocolate chips and evaporated milk will get you started, just have a kitchen thermometer on hand to get you going.
No Bake Avalanche Cookies
These avalanche cookies are made with melty white chocolate, peanut butter, crispy rice cereal, marshmallows, and mini chocolate chips.
Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake
Guests can cut themselves a big helping of this decadent vanilla cake downright deluged with sweetened condensed milk, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Topped with our whipped cream cheese frosting, this dessert recipe is a keeper for home or away.
Boston Cream Pie Cookie Cups
These Boston Cream Pie Cookie Cups are soft, creamy, and topped with ganache. An easy cake mix dessert that look great on the dessert table and easy to grab on the way to the TV!
Banana Pudding Cups
Banana pudding has a tried-and-true following in the south, with its easy vanilla wafer “crust”, fresh banana slices, and whipped cream. Portioned out into individual cups, this recipe makes cleanup easier without sacrificing the scrumptiousness of authentic banana pudding.
Strawberry Blueberry Pretzel “Salad”
Salad is an outrageous lie! But let’s go with it when you tell people you are having the most delicious salad at your football party. This is a midwest special, layered berries with fluff and crushed pretzels, it’s hard to beat.
Apple Dapple Cake
An easy snacking cake with a luscious caramel-like frosting that enhances all that great fall flavor of apples and cinnamon.
Cherry Cheesecake Cups
These cherry cheesecake cups are creamy, slightly tangy, and packed with that perfect graham cracker crunch. These are served as individual desserts in their own little cup.
Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
They come out of the pan soft, golden, and loaded with rich chocolate chips. An easy win for any gathering or sweet craving.
Sheet Pan Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
What if you could skip the scooping and make a whole batch in one go? These bars are soft, chewy, and packed with a rich peanut butter flavor that’s perfectly complemented by the melty chocolate chips.
Oreo Rice Krispy Treats
These no-bake Oreo Rice Krispy Treats are gooey, chewy, and loaded with cookie chunks! It’s ridiculously easy, requires no oven, and comes together in a flash.
Rocky Road Brownies
Rocky road brownies are brownies topped with a gooey layer of chocolate chips, coconut, mini marshmallows, and chopped pecans.
Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies
These Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies are a magical fusion of flavors, delivering the perfect balance of fudgy chocolate and swirled ribbons of peanut butter. Whether you’re baking for a party, a game night, or a bake sale, this recipe is a crowd-pleasing winner.
Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
The warm cookies meet a stovetop chocolate frosting that loosens over heat, then tightens into a glossy, thin shell as it cools. That quick pour-over finish mimics the classic Texas sheet cake, but in a tender southern dessert cookie.
Heath Bar Poke Cake
Start with a baked devil’s food chocolate cake in a 9×13, poke some holes with the handle of a mixing spoon, and pour over sundae caramel topping and sweetened condensed milk while it’s still warm. Once cool, slather with plenty of Cool Whip and scatter bits of crushed Heath bars.
Honey Bun Cake
This cake takes delicious to the next level with buttery layers, a rich cinnamon sugar swirl, and an oh-so-creamy frosting. This cake is easy to make and a perfect dessert for the family.
White Chocolate Popcorn
Put very simply; white chocolate popcorn is a sweet popcorn snack that has been flavored and coated with melted white chocolate, butter, and a few other tasty and delicious ingredients. The white chocolate popcorn recipe we’re going to look at today should be at the top of your to-do list before your next movie night.
Fruit Dip with Cream Cheese
We have a recipe for you that is so easy to make. It is cream cheese-based so it is extra creamy and delicious.
Strawberry Shortcake Puppy Chow
This Strawberry Shortcake Puppy Chow is the no-bake snack of your pink party dreams. It’s a 10-minute dessert recipe that’s ridiculously easy, and kinda hard to share.
Classic No-Bake Cookies
Who remembers the scrumptious taste of classic no-bake cookies with peanut butter, oats, and cocoa powder? These cookies are chewy, fudgy, peanut buttery, and so satisfying!
Oven Baked S’mores
One of the great things about these Oven Baked S’mores is that you don’t have to heat them over a firepit one at a time. One big baking sheet and you’re feeding the whole crowd.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These chocolate crinkle cookies are rich, chewy, and covered in powdered sugar. These Cool Whip cookies are perfect for party desserts or even a quick dessert on Tuesday evening.
Cake Mix Snickerdoodles
These Cake Mix Snickerdoodles are one of those cookies you can put in front of your treat lovers in just a few minutes.
Almond Joy Cookies
Soft & ultra-chewy bites loaded with almonds and shredded coconut are going to be everyone’s love—a source of joy equally for kids and moms. One of the lovely things about these almond joy cookies recipe is that they only require 5 ingredients.
The bottom line
Game day football food leans savory, but something sweet always rounds things out. These desserts are simple to make, easy to share, and just right for passing around between plays. These quick, no-bake dips, cookies and bars are good ideas that balance out the salty snacks and keep everyone satisfied.
