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Our crowd-pleasing game daydesserts can be made ahead, are easy to transport, and don't require forks or refrigeration.
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Team Spirit Cupcakes
Team Spirit Cupcakes
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Team Spirit Cupcakes Tout
Showing your team spirit on game day has never been easier with these tailgating desserts. Just buy vanilla-frosted cupcakes from the bakery and decorate with coarse sugar and lollipops in your school's colors. For easier transport, pack the frosted goodies in a cupcake keeper, like this one from Bakers Sto 'N Go. The holder seals in the flavor and has a convenient grab-and-go handle.
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Ginger Chocolate-Chip Bars
Ginger Chocolate-Chip Bars
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Ginger Chocolate-Chip Bars Recipe
Give traditional chocolate chip bars a game-winning twist by kicking up the flavor with spices like ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. To keep the bars moist and chewy, store them in a plastic container for up to 3 days before the game.
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Fresh Lemon Bars
Fresh Lemon Bars
Fresh Lemon Bars Recipe
The fresh lemon flavor of these sweet, fruity bars are a fan favorite. Dust them with powdered sugar just before serving.
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Peanut Butter-Caramel Candy Bites with Colorful Candies
Peanut Butter-Caramel Candy Bites With Colorful Candies
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Peanut Butter-Caramel Candy Bites with Colorful Candies Recipe
Use your team's colors to decorate these peanut butter cookie cups. These colorful treats are sure to elicit cheers from even the youngest of fans.
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Pecan Tassies
Pecan Tassies
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Pecan Tassies Recipe
These mini pecan pies are just the right size to pick up with your fingers—no forks or plates required.
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Peanut Butter Candy Bar Brownies
Peanut Butter Candy Bar Brownies
Peanut Butter Candy Bar Brownies Recipe
What's a football game without peanuts? When you make these 5-star-rated brownies, stir in crushed peanut-shaped peanut butter cookies, two kinds of chocolate-peanut butter candy, creamy peanut butter, and honey-roasted peanuts.
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Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Ultimate football rivalries deserve ultimate cookies–so plan to take these along for your next tailgating extravaganza. They are everything chocolate chip cookies should be.
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Peppered Peanut Brittle
Peppered Peanut Brittle
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Peppered Peanut Brittle Recipe
Since peanut brittle is already in pieces, this is one dessert you don't have to worry about staying intact for the drive to the campus. And, it's nice to have some sweets in small pieces for game-day nibbling.
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Bourbon Fudge Brownies
Bourbon Fudge Brownies
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Bourbon Fudge Brownies Recipe
Bourbon and vanilla enhance the rich chocolate flavor of these moist brownies. If you don't want to use bourbon, use hot milk in its place.
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Oatmeal-Pecan Snack Cookies
Oatmeal-Pecan Snack Cookies
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Oatmeal-Pecan Snack Cookies Recipe
Chock-full of nuts, dried fruit and nuts, these rich treats are like a cookie version of granola. If you're getting the tailgate set up in the morning, have a couple for breakfast.
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Pecan Toffee
Pecan Toffee Recipe
Break this toffee into small pieces so there will be plenty of candy to go around. We guarantee it will go fast.
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Sour Cream Pound Cake
Sour Cream Pound Cake
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Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe
Pound cake is perfect for tailgating because you don't really have to have a fork to eat it. The thicker the slice, the better! You can make pound cake ahead of time and freeze it, and, if there are any leftover pieces, you can freeze those, too.
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Football Cake Pops
Football Cake Pops
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Football Cake Pops Recipe
What could be better for a tailgating dessert than a cake ball shaped like a football that's served on a stick? Make a batch now and you'll be the most popular person at your tailgate party.
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Love Purple and Live Gold Cupcakes
Over the Moon Cupcakes
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Love Purple and Live Gold Cupcakes Recipe
Calling all LSU fans. These purple-and-gold cupcakes are a party waiting to happen and can be served to any fans with a team sporting the purple and gold.
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Crimson Tide Cupcakes
Crimson Tide Cupcakes
Crimson Tide Cupcakes Recipe
Score an extra timeout for yourself and order cupcakes ahead from your favorite bakery. Hand crafted pennants with cheer worthy sayings are just as effective at icing the competition.
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How to Make Mocha Balls
Whip together these bite-sized treats as a sweet gift or a simple dessert. The best part? No baking required!
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Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cake
Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cake
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Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cake Recipe
If you've never known the glory of a mayonnaise cake, you're in for a treat! The staple ingredient yields an ultra-moist crumb and keeps the sugar from taking over your taste buds.
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slu*tty Brownies
slu*tty Brownies
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slu*tty Brownies Recipe
These decadent brownies are made with layers of brownie, cookie dough, and Oreos. What more could your tailgating guest want?
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Giant Cookie-in-a-Pan
Giant Cookie-in-a-Pan
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Giant Cookie-in-a-Pan Recipe
This cookie cake is easy to transport and will serve lots of guests. Use M&M’s your team’s colors to make it even more festive.
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Mississippi Mud Brownies
Mississippi Mud Brownies
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Mississippi Mud Brownies Recipe
Even if you’re not rooting for a Mississippi team — from the fluffy marshmallows to the chocolate frosting — you’ll love these brownies.
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Popcorn-Marshmallow Pops
Popcorn-Marshmallow Pops
Popcorn-Marshmallow Pops Recipe
Use M&M’s your team’s colors to make these fun popcorn pops that make for tasty treats as well as a fun tailgate decoration.
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Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Fudge
Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Fudge
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Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Fudge Recipe
Make the combination of peanut butter and chocolate even better by stirring in instant coffee granules and topping the fudge with chopped peanuts. You can easily make these treats the night before your tailgate.
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Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
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Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Decorate these fruit-flavored cupcakes with sprinkles of your team’s colors.
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Fudge Brownie Pops
Fudge Brownie Pops
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Fudge Brownie Pops Recipe
These brownies are incredibly rich and moist, and impossibly easy to make: just roll 'em, dip 'em, and stick 'em! For easier handling, push the finished pops, standing upright, into Styrofoamand place in the refrigerator to chill.
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Tiger's Eye Brownies
Tiger's Eye Brownies
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Tiger's Eye Brownies Recipe
Nothing goes together better than peanut butter and chocolate. Serve these at your tailgate for a moist and delicious dessert.
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How to Make Rum Cake
This moist, rich rum cake is great to make ahead for tailgates. It tastes even better the next day.
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Red Velvet Cake Balls
Red Velvet Cake Balls
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Red Velvet Cake Balls Recipe
Red Velvet Cake balls are the perfect bite size dessert. They are incredibly easy to make and an easy-to-pick up tailgate treat.
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How to Make Buckeye Balls
See how easy it is to make these delicious chocolate and peanut butter candy balls.
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Sheet Pan Oatmeal Toffee-Orange Cream Bars
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Sheet Pan Oatmeal Toffee-Orange Cream Bars Recipe
These toasty-sweet, sheet pan sandwich cookies are fantastic for potlucks or tailgates—heck, whip a batch up on the weekend and enjoy for after-school snacks or dessert throughout the week. Toffee bits and cinnamon kick up the flavor of a traditional oatmeal cookie, while adding fresh orange zest to the filling adds a special touch or bright flavor to these tasty bars. Be sure the cookie is completely cool (out of the pan) before cutting it, or it will crumble. And to ensure a smooth cut, you’ll want to chill the filled cookie really well before slicing into bars.
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Miso-Caramel-Tamari Popcorn Mix
Miso-Caramel-Tamari Popcorn Mix
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Miso-Caramel-Tamari Popcorn Mix Recipe
A slightly thicker caramel and the addition of whole roasted almonds turn traditional caramel popcorn into gift-worthy popcorn mix. We use less sugar in the glaze and cut the sweetness with mild white miso (fermented soybean paste) and tamari (a richer, wheat-free soy sauce) for a salty-savory note that makes the snack incredibly addictive.
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Keto Salted Almond-Butter Brownies
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Keto Salted Almond-Butter Brownies Recipe
Anyone on the keto diet looking to indulgeneeds to make these brownies, stat. These keto brownies are sugar-free yet decadent.The interior is fudgy and chocolatey, and the salted almond butter topping adds a toastytwist.
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PB&J S’mores
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New York City pastry chef Clarice Lam, who owns door-to-door bakeryThe Baking Bean, puts a nostalgic spin on a classic campfire recipe. These peanut butter and jelly s'mores are sure to satisfy your most intense comfort food cravings.
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All-Time Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies
All Time Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies
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All-Time Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
When it comes to making cookies from scratch, thesecrispy-chewy chocolate chip cookies represent the best of the best. Simple ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions make this a recipe you'll come back to again and again.Whip up a batch of theseall-time favorite cookies and they won't last long. Pro tip:Bake 10 minutes for a softer cookie or up to 14 minutes for a crispier cookie.
After you've made these craveworthy cookies, don't forget to try our fun variations.All sorts of goodies—fromcrushed white-chocolate pretzels to toffee candy—can be added to the batter to create other signature cookies.
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Instant Pot Peanut Brittle
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Instant Pot Peanut Brittle Recipe
This Instant Pot candy recipe delivers a classic candy shop treat with no intimidation factor. In fact, you don’t even need a candy thermometer to make this perfectly porous and crisp brittle. While it makes a scrumptious treat any time of year, our Instant Pot Peanut Brittle is especially awesome to make during the holiday season. Being that the recipe produces a generous yield of candy, it’s an excellent goody for gifting. A key factor in candy cooking is making sure you sugar granules are completely dissolved. If you want to give your brittle a little test as it cooks, take your wooden spoon or rubber spatula (whatever you’re using to stir the mixture) to scoop a small amount of the melted sugar mixture and spread a thin layer onto a paper plate. This allows you to see any sugar crystals that may still be in the mixture, as well as observe how the mixture hardens as it cools. If the mixture hardens like glass and cracks easily, you know it’s ready.
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Cappuccino Swirl Bars
Cappuccino Swirl Bars
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Cappuccino Swirl Bars Recipe
Don’t be fooled: These bar cookies may look fancy, but store-bought wafer cookies are the secret to the chocolate crust. Make these coffee-flavored beauties in advance and refrigerate them up to three days.
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Buckeye Brownie Cups
Buckeye Brownie Cups
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Buckeye Brownie Cups Recipe
Everything you love in the popular candy bar cups comes together in a decadent cookie. Keep leftover ganache in the refrigerator and use as a topping for ice cream or cake.
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Tangy Lemon Cheesecake Bars
Tangy Lemon Cheesecake Bars
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Tangy Lemon Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Classic lemon squares can contain 36g sugar per piece. We put a puckery cheesecake spin on ours--cutting sugar to just 6g per bar--which allows the bright citrus to shine.
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Best Fudgy Brownies
Best Fudgy Brownie
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Best Fudgy Brownies Recipe
Meet your new go-to recipe for homemade brownies. These decadenttreats are extra rich and fudgy, thanksto a double hit of baking chocolate and bittersweet chocolate morsels. They’re incredibly easy to make, plus you probably have most of the ingredients in your pantry already. And while we’re definitely not above boxed brownie mixes, these homemade brownies would certainly steal the show at any party or get-together.
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Copycat Little Debbie Oatmeal Crème Pies
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Copycat Little Debbie Oatmeal Crème Pies Recipe
Is this recipe an exact replica of Little Debbie Oatmeal Crème Pies? No.These are better. Rather than thin cakes, we went for oatmeal cookies that pack an almost peanut-butter-like flavor without any nuts. The crème filling completely nails what we love about the prepackaged pies, but takes things further with an almost airy, marshmallow-based consistency. If that doesn’t convince you, preparing these at home is just as quick (if not faster) than a grocery run.
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Hello Dolly Bars
Hello Dolly Bars
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Hello Dolly Bars Recipe
These bar cookies are also known as seven-layer bars. They take less than 30 minutes to make and call for just 8 ingredients, making Hello Dolly Bars the perfect dessert for taking along, well, just about anywhere!
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Sesamillionaire’s Shortbread
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Sesamillionaire’s Shortbread Recipe
A toasty twist on the traditional Millionaire’s Shortbread, these decadent layered cookie bars feature toasted sesame seeds in the shortbread, a luscious tahini caramel, and more sesame seeds sprinkled over top for good measure.
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Pumpkin Fudge
Pumpkin Fudge
Pumpkin Fudge Recipe
These sweet little pumpkin fudge squares feature canned pumpkin, white chocolate, and marshmallow creme.
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Junk Food Cookie Bars
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Junk Food Cookie Bars Recipe
The next time you're at the end of an exceptionally rough week, we'd definitely recommend whipping up a batch of these kitchen sink cookie bars.The perfect decadent balance of salty and sweet, these chewy treatsare here to satisfy all junk food cravings. We loaded them up with peanut butter, chocolate chips, pretzels, Oreos, potato chips, and M&M’s, but feel free to experiment with swapping in some of your favorite snacks and flavors.
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White Chocolate OREO Cookie Balls
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White Chocolate OREO Cookie Balls Recipe