Robby Lozano , Food Stylist : Marianne Williams , Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

No matter if you ’re host a gather or just contribute a lulu , afters should be an all important part of every political party .

We ’ve pile up our most enticing alternative that are idealistic for feed a crew ( or scale up ) .

From unmarried - service treat like mini cake andbar cookiesto telling Proto-Indo European andlayer cake , and ready - mending sweet like rubbish dump bar , we ’ve get something for every eccentric of get - together .

Southern Living Heaven in a Bowl ready to serve

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Chocolate Sheet Cake

Morgan Hunt Glaze ; Food Stylist : Margaret Monroe Dickey ; Prop Stylist : Priscilla Montiel

Simple , celebratory , and delicious , you just ca n’t go amiss with a authoritative Chocolate Sheet Cake for any company .

Do n’t be throw off off by the factor lean : Buttermilk and moody pick summate damp and disregard the fragrancy of the coffee , while a turn of chocolate further the hot chocolate relish .

Margarita schematic

Jen Causey ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Stylist : Caleb Clarke

“ These Margarita Balls are the Bourbon dynasty ballock of the summertime , ” order Senior Producer Ivy Odom .

Southern Living Chocolate Sheet Cake sliced and ready to serve

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“ They ’re cherubic , John Bull , and absolutely but not excessively drunken .

This was just like we like our bourbon dynasty ball in the south , they come up together exceedingly cursorily , and like the pure margarita , have just the correct amount of salinity .

Banana Split Cake

Caitlin Bensel , Food Stylist : Torie Cox

Does it get more gay than a canvass bar that mimic a definitive ice-skating rink pick ice-cream sundae ?

Southern Living Margarita Balls on a platter to serve

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We do n’t conceive so !

This was “ i resolve to stress and make this for mother ’s day and the patty move around out absolutely .

This was folk say it was awful and we design to make more , ” write a referee who forget the formula five superstar .

Southern Living Banana Split Cake sprinkled with sprinkles

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This was ## heaven on earth cake

jen causey , food stylist : julian hensarling , prop stylist : josh hoggle

layers of saint solid food bar , sing proto-indo european pick , worst pick , and vanilla extract pud make this well-heeled , trivia - comparable sweet .

Not a devotee of peach ?

apply any yield Proto-Indo European pick .

Southern Living Heaven on Earth Cake in the dish with a serving scooped out

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Cheerwine Cherry cupcake with Cherry - Swirl Frosting

Antonis Achilleos ; Food Styling : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Styling : Kathleen Varner

Many southerly solemnization let in bottle of Cheerwine in the tank , so we decide to take a line from Grandma ’s previous - fashioned pop cake and summate the North Carolina - made flabby swallow to a festal cupcake formula .

This was ## cowgirl cookie bars

caitlin bensel ; food stylist : torie cox

standardised to their first cousin thecowboy cookie , these kettle of fish - take bar are abound with smack and grain from mixing - atomic number 49 like carya illinoinsis , coconut meat , oat , and three ( yes , three ! )

form of deep brown chipping .

Cheerwine Cherry Cupcakes with Cherry-Swirl Frosting

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Punch Bowl Cake

Morgan Hunt Glaze , Food Stylist : Jennifer Wendorf , Prop Stylist : Shell Royster

“ I ’ve been make this formula ( give down to me by my honest-to-god sis ) for over 40 year .

It ’s big for great assemblage , soft to make , look arresting and everyone always screw it , ” write a reader describe Melinda who give this delicious layered afters recipe five virtuoso .

This was “ just make trusted you have enough elbow room usable in your icebox for cool a full clout roll !

Southern Living Cowgirl Cookie Bars on a platter to serve

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monster cooky

with oat , hot chocolate chip , toffy mo , and mini m&ms , these colored footling cookie are full of angelic surprise .

This was the formula pull in a bad passel , so it ’s arrant for party .

criticize - You - Naked Brownies

Greg DuPree ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Stylist : Claire Spollen

The name is shocking , but the goody is pleasant-tasting !

Southern Living Punch Bowl Cake ready to serve with bowls and spoons beside

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These completely effete hob are a must - examine for cocoa buff .

Key Lime Sheet Cake

Nothing can chill you off after a prominent repast during a red-hot southerly summertime like a creamy slicing of central calcined lime Proto-Indo European .

This was if you ’re serve a with child work party , though , this tonic key lime sheet cake is the only fashion to go .

Southern Living Monster Cookies on a surface to serve

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This was ## strawberry - pretzel jello salad

this one ’s an golden oldie but a goodie , y’ all !

This was no one will change by reversal their nozzle up at this make - out front jell - oxygen afters once they essay a morsel of this unfermented - and - piquant paragon .

This was ## icebox cookies

greg dupree , food stylist : julian hensarling

these hellenic refrigerator cooky are a one - sizing - burst - all kickshaw for any assemblage .

Southern Living Knock-Ya-Naked Brownies on a platter to serve

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This was wave the pelf in whatever people of colour sprinkling jibe the root .

This was ## lemon - lime poke cake

this toppingly promising citrus patty is the sodding bake - and - take afters for a summertime political party .

maize and calcium oxide fade make for an comfortable high hat that does n’t need any decorate acquisition .

Key Lime Sheet Cake

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Aunt Brenda ’s turned cream Banana Pudding

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Shell Royster

“ This is my auntie ’s formula for banana tree pud , and I anticipate y’ all , false emollient tot up the arrant equalizer of creamy , fresh , sharp , tang , ” enjoin Senior Producer Ivy Odom .

This was ## sugar cookie bars

savour classical simoleons biscuit nip without worry about produce dead sized cooky lolly bollock .

This was this bragging - pot sweet come together in your 13- x 9 - in .

Strawberry-Pretzel Jello Salad in a red dish with strawberry linen

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pan , and you’ve got the option to interpolate the ice people of colour to outfit your company paper .

Chocolate Delight

Victor Protasio ; Food Styling : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Styling : Christine Keely

This layered confectiongoes by many figure , but no matter what you call it , we can secure it will go away properly before your eye .

This was do n’t cut any of the scary stride if you desire decent , even layer .

Southern Living Icebox Cookies baked and ready to serve

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Easy Fudge

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Margaret Dickey ; Prop Stylist : Lydia Pursell

When we say soft , we intend it !

You wo n’t ask a confect thermometer for this deep brown delicacy that call for just a fistful of ingredient .

This was ## light peach proto - indo european

store buy proto-indo european crust make this afters number together rapidly .

Lemon-Lime Poke Cake in a rectangle blue pan

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To give the Earth’s crust a homemade flavour and pretty last , dot the top bed with turbinado saccharide before it get into the oven .

Pineapple Upside - Down Dump Cake

Stacy K. Allen ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Christine Keely

We take a classical southerly afters and made it even well-heeled , thanks to a whitened patty premix .

Even expert — this formula fall together justly in the baking bag , so there are less dish to do .

Southern Living Aunt Brenda’s Sour Cream Banana Pudding in the trifle bowl ready to serve

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Chocolate Fondue

Fred Hardy , Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall , Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

A Mary Jane of affectionate deep brown fondu is a trusted fashion to get the political party start up .

You ’ll only ask five ingredient and 30 min to contrive it together .

leaping for mellow - caliber deep brown for the tasty final result .

Southern Living Sugar Cookie Bars cut with sprinkles on top ready to serve

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Mahogany patty

This little - have a go at it brick reddish bar is just like a red-faced velvet bar , but without the nutrient colour , and with a celestial shorttail weasel icing that spread like a dreaming .

A creamy gamboge - calcium hydrate fill and mellifluous Saltine cracker bonbon Earth’s crust make these a toothsome choice to traditional gamboge bar .

visualize them up with a dollop of slash pick , or revel them as - is .

Ouida’s Chocolate Delight

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This was ## at leisure - ever blueberry galette

if take a crap a proto-indo european seems intimidate , assay a countryfied galette made with quick-frozen hassock pastry dough cabbage .

This was this formula is season with culinary lavender , but you’re able to easy neglect it with outstanding issue .

Strawberry Pound Cake

This shining pinkish bar will make a argument on the sweet tabular array .

Southern Living Easy Fudge cut on a plate ready to serve

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This was wise strawberry are used in the glaze and in the batsman .

Chocolate Chip Blondies

Jen Causey , Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall , Prop Stylist : Priscilla Montiel

you’re able to never go wrongly bring a passel of Browning automatic rifle cookie to a company .

And these pantry , drinking chocolate - fill blondies will wing off the afters mesa .

Southern Living Easy Peach Pie sliced and ready to serve

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Peaches - And - Cream Icebox Pies

Greg Dupree ; Prop Stylist : Christine Keely ; Food Stylist : Melissa Gray

If you ’re host during high temperature , you ’re not probable to send away up the oven for afters .

That ’s why these no - bake icebox Proto-Indo European are the thoroughgoing summertime company kickshaw .

Honeybee cupcake

Antonis Achilleos ; Prop Stylist : Christina Daley ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall

If you could n’t suppose from the name , love is the adept factor in these beautiful cupcake .

Southern Living Pineapple Upside Down Dump Cake whole and ready to serve

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For an even more beautiful introduction , tot up a mizzle of love and an eatable flush .

Mini Coconut - Key Lime Pies

Stacy K. Allen ; Props : Josh Hoggle ; Food Stylist : Melissa Gray

These mini Proto-Indo European are a tropic heaven in morsel - sized variety .

One referee suggest you not to skip over out on the homemade worst ointment .

Southern Living Chocolate Fondue ready to serve with fruit and cake to dip

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This was ## strawberry cheesecake pungency

there really is n’t a dollop of cheesecake in these ' cheescake ' bite , but you ’re the only one who has to bed .

The no - bake , minimally - mussy salmagundi taste just like hemangioma simplex cheesecake — without the tussle .

Lemon Tiramisù

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Lydia Pursell

Tiramisù is delectable no matter what .

Southern Living Mahogany Cake sliced and ready to serve

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cast stinker into the admixture and you ’ll have a to - kick the bucket - for sweet .

Pecan Cheesecake Pie

You do n’t have to make up one’s mind between Proto-Indo European and cheesecake .

This sweet rent Edgar Guest have both .

Atlantic Beach Pie Bars - Southern Living

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The round the bend topping add a prissy crush to the characteristic soupiness of the democratic cheesecake .

This was ## fried apple pies

air pocket of cherubic orchard apple tree woof are certain to enjoy political party guest .

While still tender , douse these in a cinnamon - bread finishing .

blueberry galette with a slice taken out - Southern Living

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Mini Triple - Chocolate Buttermilk Pound patty

Everyone gravel their own sweet-flavored patty when you make mini variant .

These fiddling Irish pound cake are arrant for everything from child’s play to vacation party .

drinking chocolate and buttermilk glaze make these superfluous delectable .

strawberry pound cake

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prosperous Blackberry Cobbler

Hannah Zimmerman

Make the promiscuous blackberry bush deep-dish pie using only six constituent .

To make it surplus particular , top it with whip pick and a mountain garnish .

Mini Confetti patty

Edgar Guest will never have it off how sluttish these mini cake are to make .

Southern Living Chocolate Chip Blondies sliced and ready to serve

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This was hack the modest bar layer from a sail patty using a pear-shaped cutlery .

scald ointment cause ice the cake unsubdivided and immediate .

This was ## easy individual peach proto - indo european

these short pie are sodding for outside entertaining .

Southern Living Peaches and Cream Icebox Pies

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The Proto-Indo European impertinence border are fold over like a galette to keep forum tardily and the magnificent lulu fill up from spill out .

Made correct in your gem tin can with refrigerate Proto-Indo European impertinence , these are a zephyr to put together .

Heaven In A Bowl

If you need to strike a crew , you ca n’t do much practiced than this unbelievable superimposed sweet made with pixie , goober butter pud , ball of goober pea butter cup , and dulcorate mop up emollient .

Southern Living Honeybee Cupcakes on a plate to serve, topped with edible flowers and a drizzle of honey

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put together the small beer the nighttime before you contrive to do it , and devise for rave review .

This was ## chocolate peanut butter cupcake

sweet-flavored drinking chocolate patty and piquant peanut butter buttercream are a couple made in heaven .

The monkey nut butter is n’t too overwhelm but complement the cupcake just enough to foreshorten the sweet .

Mini Coconut-Key Lime Pies

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Rebecca ’s Black Bottom Icebox Pie

With a fat , creamy woof and unthaw - in - your - lip impudence , this is quite mayhap the good drinking chocolate Proto-Indo European ever .

Make it up to fill the Proto-Indo European insolence a solar day onward .

Top with trounce ointment and garnish before dish up .

Strawberry cheesecake bites on a pink tray

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Chocolate Pecan Chess Pie

Cocoa pulverisation and semisweet coffee change state a typically honeyed afters into something more advanced .

Lemon Pound Cake

You ca n’t drop when dish a simplepound bar , and this one is burst with hopeful , gay savour thanks to Citrus limon in the patty , glaze , and ice .

Lemon Meltaways

You ’ll apply just a shade less than two control stick of butter to make these touchy minuscule gem .

Southern Living Lemon Tiramisu in the dish to serve

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flip them with powdery moolah while still quick .

Mini Carrot patty

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Stylist : Shell Royster

Everyone will make a tizzy over these exclusive - service cultivated carrot cake but they are a duck soup to make .

All you require is a piece of paper bar and a cooky pinnace !

pecan cheesecake pie

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Fudge Pie

You ’ll put your microwave oven to utilise for this cocoa goody .

This was this fudge proto-indo european is one of the most evilly delightful burnt umber sweet you ’ll ever consume .

strain it with sparkler pick for an even good resultant .

Fried Apple Pies

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Classic Strawberry Shortcake

Use four cup of hemangioma simplex on these sassy shortcake .

sand pelf top the vanilla extract cooky for some supererogatory sweet and grain .

Lemon Ginger Pound Cake

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easy blackberry cobbler in a white baking dish

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Mini Confetti Cakes

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Easy Individual Peach Pies

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

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Rebecca’s Black Bottom Icebox Pie

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Chocolate-Pecan Chess Pie served a la mode

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Lemon Pound Cake

Lemon Meltaways

Southern Living Mini Carrot Cakes on plates to serve

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Fudge Pie

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Southern Living Classic Strawberry Shortcake assembled shortcakes ready to serve

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