October 14 celebrates my favorite part of a meal….it is National Dessert Day, and who doesn’t love dessert (well most of us do anyway)? For just one day, forget about the calories and high fat content, tomorrow you can go back to your healthy ways. And if you’re one of those people who leaves some food on the plate, because you need to save room for dessert, then today is your holiday!
In honor of this yummy day, here are a few of my favorite recipes from where else…Pinterest (yes I am a Pinterest addict). I’ve only tried making a few of these, but they all look delicious!
Salted Caramel Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars, recipe here.
Mini Cannoli Cream Cups, recipe here.
Strawberry Ricotta Popsicle, recipe here.
Key Lime Pie Bars, recipe here.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Shots, recipe here.
Mason Jar Strawberry Shortcake, recipe here.
Alfajores, recipe here.
Frozen Pink Lemonade Pie, recipe here.
Chocolate Chip Cookies, recipe here.
Guava and Cheese Flan, recipe here.
Cookies and Cream Cake, recipe here.
Mini Key Lime Cheesecakes, recipe here.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars, recipe here.
And in case you’re not much of a baker don’t worry, here are some of my favorite store-bought desserts:
Cheesecake Factory “Original” cheesecake
My favorite ice creams!
Sara Lee All Butter Pound Cake
La Lechera Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk in a squeezable bottle! Great to pour on almost anything!
What are some of your favorite desserts? Will you be having any of them today?
I want one of everything you have pictured here. I am a BIG cupcake fan, so I could eat those all day long.
Yum, those Chocolate Chip Cookie Shots are so cute. There are several here I would not mind making.
Wow I love these ideas. Especially the cannoli cups (my favorite) and the cookie shots.
Chocolate Chip cookie shots! OMG those look yummy! Add a little Baileys omnomnom! Thanks for all the great ideas! I don’t make dessert often but will have to celebrate National Dessert Day for sure!
National Dessert Day?! Awww yea, I’m sure my husband will be excited to hear that!
National Dessert Day?! My husband will be so excited to hear about this, we had no idea!
Oh my heavens. This whole post is my favorite. Those cannoli desserts. YUM. must try.
Those looks amazing, I would love any of them right now as I have a sweet tooth today.
Terri R Beavers
Well today’s the day to go for it…LOL!
Great idea for the Chocolate Cookie shot glasses! I’m going to be making these for Thanksgiving and serving them with a cool treat.
I love desserts. I think I can eat more dessert than main course if I wanted to. All of the desserts looks really tasty.
I didn’t know today was National Dessert Day. They all look really good, now I have to figure out what I want to make.
Strawberry Ricotta Popsicle.. I can’t get that out of my head now. I can’t decide if I think that sounds yummy or gross lol But I’m leaning towards I really wanna try it!
You have me with “salted” and sealed the deal with “caramel”. Thank you.
These all look and sound so yummy! Especially the strawberry pops.
Can you say YUM! Wowza that is an incredible line up of treats! I love the idea of cookie shots! I like panna cottas these days and butterscotch pudding and anything salted caramel!
I LOVE panna cotta too and also anything with salted caramel!
Oh man, I am really hungry now. Those chocolate chip cookie shots look to die for! Great way to get the kids to drink their milk too.
Oh wow, I had no idea it was National Dessert day.
Those cookie cups with milk are the best idea ever! And those key lime pie bars look really tasty.
The chocolate chip cookie shots are genius! Pure genius.
Wow that’s a lot of yummy. Know I want to make cookies for a snack.
I need the chocolate chip cookie shots right now. They would totally cure my nasty cold, I am sure.
All these recipes look amazing. I cant wait to try the Salted Caramel Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars. I also want to make the chocolate chip cookie shot glasses.
I agree the Salted Caramel Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars is the first recipe i want to try to make.
OMG! Did you made all of those?! I love everything you posted! I bake too, just so you know. 🙂
Heavens no! Only a few, but it was hard to decide which!
You had me at National Dessert Day. I must go share this wonderful piece of information with my family. Perhaps a visit to Cold Stones Creamery is in order tonight. 🙂
Oh yum I would most definitely like to have all those cakes and eat them all! x
Ok now I have to go get something to eat. lol. That made me hungry!
Those cream cups look divine! Omg don’t they?
I didn’t even know it was National Dessert Day. I’d love to eat those Chocolate Chip cookies. They look delicious!
Sakes alive!!! Each one looked better than the last!!!
All of these desserts look so good. I love that they come in small portions which makes it almost okay to eat all of them.
All those desserts looked really delicious. The presentation drives me craving to eat them! I especially want to taste the Chocolate Chip Cookie Shots.
OMG yes please to each and every one of them. I have such a bad sweet tooth.
The dulce de leche cheescake bar looks sinful. I’m going to make a batch right away!
I need all of these desserts in my life. Like you, I’m also a Pinterest dessert addict, and I follow every known food blog there is. Cheesecakes are a must for me.
Oh My Goodness! This is such a delicious post! I want it all and everything!
Everything featured looks so yummy, especially the Strawberry Ricotta Popsicle. My favorite dessert is a good slice of cheesecake.
I just clicked through a bunch of these and I’ll be making some. Everything looks divine!
That Mason Jar Strawberry Shortcake looks absolute delicious.
This made me think about baking some goodies.
The Salted Caramel Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Bars looks simply devine! I need to try them!
Wow! This post had my mouth watering! What great pictures! You already had me hooked when I saw the salted caramel decadence at the top!
OMG the cookie shots look amazing. i need to try these.
I am drooling over every photo! What a delicious post.
Chocolate chip cookies are definitely my thing. Those key lime cakes are adorable.
Such lovely amazing pictures, that looks so yummy and delicious! Thanks a lot for sharing these receipes. Strawberry is my most favorite one. I love Mason Jar Strawberry shortcake and Cookies and Cream cake.
Those Key Lime Pie bars look so good. I didn’t know it was Nat’l Dessert Day. I really missed the boat on that one. 🙂
Over the summer I finally tried salted chocolate. Since then I have been trying out all things salted and delicious. It changed my world.
These are all great dessert recipes. I am going to try the cookies and cream cake first. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my………YUMTASTIC!! Those look absolutely amazing….not sure that I needed to see that! Fabulous!
Whoa I can’t even pick just one of these, they all look amazing! 🙂