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If there’s one thing you come to Something Swanky for, it’s dessert.
Since this site launched what seems like forever ago, dessert has been at its core. You can find bread recipes, breakfast ideas, and more — yes. But desserts have always been the sugary heart of this food blog.
We keep a close eye on what recipes you love most, because it tells us what else you might enjoy from us in the future! And we realized that you might like knowing what’s trending too, so that you can be sure to try all of our readers’ favorite treats.
Also before you get mad, yes, we know many people wouldn’t consider banana bread to be dessert. As our all-time top recipe and given that it features a bunch of chocolate chips, we’re including it! We’re confident that if you try it, this recipe will satisfy your sweet tooth.
Here are the 10 most popular dessert recipes on Swanky so far this year! All of them have been beloved for quite some time, and while the exact configuration may change, this list looks very similar to how it would’ve appeared a year ago today as well.
Which one of our most popular dessert recipes are you going to try first??
Our 10 Most Popular Dessert Recipes This Year
Explore the dessert recipes our readers just can’t stop making, coming back to over and over again.
Many of these are all-time classics for Something Swanky — especially the first one!
Mom’s chocolate chip banana bread recipe is full of chocolate chips and is SUPER soft and moist thanks to 4 whole bananas and a little bit of oil.
There are a lot of peach cobbler recipes out there. In fact, it seems like every Southern cook has their own special version of this classic dessert. But when it comes to the best peach cobbler recipe, Paula Deen’s Peach Cobbler takes the cake
Ina Garten’s Lemon Bars are so good! Imagine a buttery, delicious crust underneath a creamy lemon filling and a crispy sugary top.
This Easy Chocolate Mousse is the best! It comes together so quickly with just three ingredients: pudding mix, milk, and Cool Whip. You can change it up in so many ways by adding mix-ins or using different pudding mix flavors
This rich lemon cake recipe tastes incredible with my favorite cream cheese frosting and raspberries!
This Lemon Jell-o Cake recipe is ridiculously moist and bursting with a sweet lemon flavor. A perfect spring and summer recipe!
Have you ever needed a last-minute birthday cake? Check out this Microwave Cake Recipe — it’s not a tiny, little mug cake. This is a full-size, 8-inch cake made completely from scratch!
Oatmeal cookie crust, creamy white chocolate and lemon filling, and more streusel cookie crumble on top stands out from other lemon bar recipes.
The Best Doctored Up Cake Mix Cake is the BEST CAKE OF ALL TIME EVER. Moist, fluffy, and topped with a supremely fudgy chocolate frosting.
Paula Deen’s Apple Pie is a deliciously classic recipe with a buttery homemade lattice top crust and brown sugar apples.
Also a special shout-out to Ina Garten and Paula Deen, whose recipes made this list twice!
