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Our 17 Best Super Bowl Desserts

By Maria Yagoda
Updated December 15, 2016
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Super Bowl parties are all about salty snacks, sweet treats and plenty of beer. To make hosting a party as easy as possible, stick with big-batch desserts that everyone will love—we're thinking chocolaty trifles, easy cookies and no-bake treats. These desserts also travel well, so if you're not hosting this year's viewing party, bring one along as a gift.
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S'mores Brownies

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These fudgy, gluten-free brownies are baked in a graham cracker crust, then topped with marshmallows and broiled. Whether you're tailgating, barbecuing, or watching the game from inside, get a taste of the campfire with these gooey brownies.

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Rosemary-Cornmeal Sugar Cookies

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Chef Tim Byres of Smoke in Dallas mixes fresh rosemary into cornmeal cookies, giving them a fabulous savory note. The recipe can be made two ways: as drop cookies or the slice-and-bake kind for a crisper texture.

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Manuka Honey Ice Cream

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"If there could ever be such a thing as healing ice cream, this would be it," says blogger Anya Kassof. Manuka honey is made exclusively by bees in New Zealand and Australia from the nectar of the native manuka tree. The honey has a very subtle taste, along with a beautiful color and texture. It's also known to be one of the most nutritious types of honey, especially when combined with bee pollen.

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Take 5 Carrot Cupcakes

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Chef Bryan Vietmeier makes these terrifically moist and carroty cupcakes for Seattle's Take 5 Urban Market. He suggests freezing the cupcakes before frosting to firm them up, preventing crumbs.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Bars

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Break-and-bake cookies, which come packaged in eight-inch squares, are the secret to these incredible ice cream sandwich bars. Simply roll out all the dough to create one giant cookie, then bake, slice and layer it with store-bought ice cream and hot fudge sauce. The best part: dipping the bars into crushed chocolate toffee candy to form a supercrunchy shell.

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Pear-and-Cranberry Slab Pie

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Instead of making a traditional two-crust pie in a pie plate, Food & Wine's Justin Chapple makes this free-form, fruit-filled, ginger-laced pie on a baking sheet.

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Dulce de Leche, Coconut and Chocolate Chip Magic Bars

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This is Grace Parisi's sophisticated version of magic bars, that chocolate-coconut bake-sale favorite. Browning the butter gives the crust a nutty flavor; cooking it in a metal baking dish makes it extra crisp. In a touch inspired by pastry chefs' favorite new ingredient, Grace adds bacon to the filling.

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Icebox Chocolate Cheesecake

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Grace Parisi brilliantly layers chocolate cookies with a quick mix of cream cheese, chocolate syrup and a little water. The cookies soften as the cake chills overnight for a perfectly moist, chocolaty "cheater's" cheesecake.

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Apple Crisp with Sweet Ginger and Macadamia Nuts

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To make chopping macadamia nuts easy, Greg Patent suggests, put them in a resealable plastic bag and breaking them up with a rolling pin.

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Ganache-Stuffed Chocolate-Chip Cookies

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A stuffed cookie is like a sandwich cookie, only with more cream on the inside--it's fatter, fuller and (if you're the kind of person who twists apart the cookies to get to the cream) better. Jessica Sullivan, the pastry chef at Boulevard restaurant in San Francisco, makes hers with nutty chocolate-chip cookies and silky chocolate ganache.

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Chocolate-Cookie Crunch Trifle

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Any kind of cookie works as a layer in this decadent and super-chocolaty trifle from Washington, DC, pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac.

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Salty-Sweet Chocolate Pretzel Bars


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There are only a handful of ingredients in these simple but outrageously decadent and fun dessert bars from Food & Wine's Justin Chapple. If hard pretzels aren't your thing, feel free to swap in thinner pretzels.

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Jumbo Brownies

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"Like all great desserts," says Anne Quatrano, "these brownies have only three pertinent flavors: chocolate, butter and walnuts."

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Chocolate-Chip-Pecan Cookie Bars

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Feel free to swap walnuts or almonds for the pecans, or use half nuts and half dried cranberries for tart, chewy bars.

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Banana Snacking Cake

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A snacking cake—a simple dessert meant to be eaten unadorned—may seem like an odd between-meals treat, but this version, perfectly balanced between sweet and savory, fits in just right.

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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These made-from-scratch chocolate chip cookies take less than half an hour, start to finish.

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Matcha Mochi Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Pastry chef Jen Yee of Lafayette Grand Café & Bakery in Manhattan makes these fun and pretty sandwiches with a simple Japanese dough that combines sweet glutinous rice flour, sugar, water and the green-tea powder matcha.

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1 of 17 S'mores Brownies
2 of 17 Rosemary-Cornmeal Sugar Cookies
3 of 17 Manuka Honey Ice Cream
4 of 17 Take 5 Carrot Cupcakes
5 of 17 Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Bars
6 of 17 Pear-and-Cranberry Slab Pie
7 of 17 Dulce de Leche, Coconut and Chocolate Chip Magic Bars
8 of 17 Icebox Chocolate Cheesecake
9 of 17 Apple Crisp with Sweet Ginger and Macadamia Nuts
10 of 17 Ganache-Stuffed Chocolate-Chip Cookies
11 of 17 Chocolate-Cookie Crunch Trifle
12 of 17 Salty-Sweet Chocolate Pretzel Bars

13 of 17 Jumbo Brownies
14 of 17 Chocolate-Chip-Pecan Cookie Bars
15 of 17 Banana Snacking Cake
16 of 17 Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
17 of 17 Matcha Mochi Ice Cream Sandwiches

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