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Super Bowl food is all about salty snacks, sweet treats, and plenty of beer. To make your spread as low-fuss as possible, stick with simple desserts that everyone will love — we're thinking easy cookies, single-bite snacks, and no-bake treats. Here are crowd-pleasing, low-lift Super Bowl desserts to make for any watch party.
Giant Chocolate Cookie with Cacao Nibs and Flaky Salt
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The only thing better than a chocolate cookie with a hint of chewiness and a generous sprinkle of flaky salt is an impressively oversized one that’s designed to feed a crowd — and ready in under an hour.
Banana–Chocolate Chip Snack Cake with Salted Peanut Butter Frosting
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Peanut butter and banana have beautiful chemistry here with chocolate in a supporting role. The fruity banana batter is bolstered by browned butter for caramel-like richness that’s echoed by the butterscotch notes of brown sugar.
Brown-Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Melting butter in a skillet until golden brown and nutty first is a simple step that requires a bit of extra time (mainly for chilling the butter), but the result is an intensely toasty butterscotch note that makes these thin, chewy cookies irresistible.
Pecan Pie Bars
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Julia Hartbeck
Pecan pie bars have all the virtues of pecan pie without the need to roll out a crust. They're a great option for feeding a crowd, cut into single-serve squares, and can be made ahead.
Skillet Brownies on the Grill
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These brownies take on a deliciously smoky flavor on the grill, but you can bake them in an oven for 35 minutes, too. Cut into wedges and serve with ice cream, if desired.
Salted Tahini-Chocolate Shortbread
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These buttery, nutty, salty shortbread cookies have enough structure to hold together when you pick them up, but when you take a bite, they are meltingly tender. They can be made ahead and only take 15 minutes of active time.
Brown Butter Blondies
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These buttery baked treats get a boost from browned butter, with a crisp crust and a fudge-like texture inside.
Triple-Ginger Rye Cookies
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Hearty rye flour paired with three types of ginger — powdered, candied, and fresh — lends an earthy, lightly spicy flavor to these delicious wintry cookies. Plan ahead to chill the dough overnight.
Chocolate and Hazelnut Nanaimo Bars
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For these bite-sized beauties, Gail Simmons layers a chocolate and coconut crust with buttercream frosting, hazelnuts, and chocolate ganache with swirls of tahini. The result is an impossibly crave-worthy treat that's easy to share.
Chocolate Brownie Cookies
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Julia Hartbeck
Dana Cowin, a cookie connoisseur and former F&W editor in chief, declares these double-chocolate ones the most delicious she’s ever had. They’re like crispy-chewy brownies in cookie form.
Cinnamon-Sugar Churros with Cajeta
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Claudette Zepeda has pro tips to pull off something fun to dip for 14 in an hour and a half.
Boozy Bourbon-Pecan Tassies
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These pecan pie poppers, with a higher crust-to-filling ratio, offer the perfect bite, spiked with bourbon to both cut through and complement the sweetness.
Salty-Sweet Chocolate Pretzel Bars
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There are only a handful of ingredients in these simple but outrageously rich and fun dessert bars from Food & Wine's Justin Chapple. If hard pretzels aren't your thing, feel free to swap in thinner pretzels.
Icebox Chocolate Cheesecake
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This ingenious recipe 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 cheesecake.
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.
Creamy Peanut Butter Pie
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This delicious whipped cream-topped peanut butter pie offers the perfect balance of sweet and salty flavors with a contrasting crunch of chopped roasted peanuts. Minus its toppings, the pie can be prepared and refrigerated up to three days ahead.
Funfetti Cookies
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Chewy and absolutely jam-packed with rainbow sprinkles, these funfetti cookies add a festive touch to almost any occasion.
Apple Pie à la Mode Ice Cream Sandwiches
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Fold spiced apple pie filling into vanilla ice cream, then sandwich it between chewy snickerdoodle cookies.
Maude's Vanilla Fudge
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Have 2 pounds of Curtis Stone's family recipe fudge ready in an hour.
Spiced Cashew Brittle and Chocolate Crunch Bark
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Serve snackable cayenne-spiked cashew brittle alongside crunchy chocolate bark.
Matcha Tea Marshmallow Crispy Treats
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Pair the natural crunch and butteriness of traditional Rice Krispies treats with tannic, floral green tea and subtly sweet white chocolate for a fun while familiar snack.
Mini Chocolate-Hazelnut Cheesecakes
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© Fredrika Stjärne
Have a dozen delectable little cheesecakes ready in 40 minutes.
Brazilian Brigadeiros
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These chewy, sprinkles-coated balls resemble rich chocolate truffles or caramels. They're great for a party and can be rolled in shredded coconut, sliced almonds, chopped pistachios, or rainbow sprinkles for more variety.
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