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What's better than a delicious dessert? A dessert that's also eye-catching and these pink desserts are sure to impress. Whether you're looking for a pink dessert recipe to serve for a special occasion or just want to serve a fun dessert after dinner, there's sure to be a recipe on this list that fits your needs. Plus, we don't use food coloring to color most of these desserts, just pretty ingredients like strawberries, raspberries, and even rhubarb. This list of pink desserts includes cakes, pies, cupcakes, cookies, and more so there are desserts to fit every occasion.
Strawberry-Rosé Snack Cake
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Antonis Achilleos; Prop Stylist: Kay E. Clarke; Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall
Freeze-dried strawberries give both the cake and icing for this cake a pretty pink color. Raspberries would also work in this recipe.
Sugar Cookie Bars
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Caitlin Bensel, Food Stylist: Torie Cox
The food coloring and sprinkles in this cookie bar recipe are totally optional, but we think they definitely taste better when they have a pretty pink hue.
Strawberry Cake
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Fred Hardy, Food Stylist: Margaret Monroe Dickey, Prop Stylist: Shell Royster
Both fresh strawberries and strawberry-flavored gelatin give this cake plenty of color and flavor. The buttercream frosting continues the strawberry flavor by adding strawberry reduction made from simmering strawberry puree. Garnish the layer cake with strawberries before serving.
Millionaire Pie
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Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
This no-bake pie comes together with just 20 minutes of hands-on time. It gets its pink coloring from maraschino cherries.
Strawberry Patch Cake
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Victor Protasio; Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Stylist: Mary Clayton Carl Jones
If you don't want to deal with layering, you can still serve up a strawberry cake in just one layer. And it's just as pretty.
Strawberry-Pretzel Icebox Pie
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Jennifer Davick
We love a strawberry-pretzel combination, and this twist on the retro strawberry-pretzel Jell-O salad is a pretty-in-pink dessert that is sure to please.
Strawberry-Lemonade Cake
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The flavors of strawberry and lemonade are perfectly married in this layer cake. Strawberry-lemonade jam is sandwiched between lemon cake layers that are then topped with strawberry frosting.
Key Lime Slab Pie with Strawberry Whipped Cream
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Strawberry whipped cream is a welcome addition to the Key lime filling of this slab pie. Slab pies are easy to make and feed more of a crowd than a regular circle-shaped pie.
Pink Champagne Cake
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This showstopping cake actually starts with a box of cake mix so it comes together with less than 10 ingredients.
Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Cheesecake
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This impressive cheesecake takes just 25 minutes of hands-on time to prepare.
Strawberry Pound Cake
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Jen Causey; Food Stylist: Margaret Dickey; Prop Stylist: Hannah Greenwood
While this pretty pound cake makes a great dessert, we wouldn't blame you if you enjoyed a slice for breakfast.
Strawberries-and-Cream Sheet Cake
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Cakes made on sheet pans are easy to transport and this strawberry one will be the star of any potluck you bring it to.
Strawberry Milkshake
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Jessica Furniss
Whip up this refreshing pink dessert in just 5 minutes Once you realize how easy it is to make, it may become a weekly tradition.
Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream
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Enjoy the flavors of strawberry shortcake while also cooling down with a refreshing bowl of ice cream with this recipe.
White Cake With Berry-Italian Meringue Buttercream Frosting
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Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Mary Clayton Carl Jones
Freeze-dried raspberries give the meringue buttercream on this layer cake a rosy pink finish without any food coloring. In addition to the color, piping the frosting in arches around the cake makes it look like a flower as well.
Chocolate Strawberry Cake
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Think of this cake and an inside-out chocolate-covered strawberry as the cake layers on the inside are filled with semisweet chocolate and the icing is filled with strawberries.
Rhubarb Custard Pie
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Antonis Achilleos Prop Stylist: Christine Keely; Food Stylist: Chelsea Zimmer
You can use fresh or frozen rhubarb to give this pie its bright color. It comes together with just 15 minutes of hands-on time.
Raspberry-White Chocolate Meringue Sandwich Cookies
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White chocolate ganache is the perfect filling for meringue cookies that are almost too pretty to eat.
Cheerwine Cherry Cupcakes
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A combination of Cheerwine and cherry-flavored gelatin turns white cake mix pink.
Gingerbread Cake With Cranberry-Vanilla Frosting
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Antonis Achilleos; Food Stylist: Ruth Blackburn; Prop Stylist: Lydia Pursell
Fresh cranberries give the icing for this gingerbread layer cake a pink hue. Plus, sugared cranberries are the ideal finishing touch.
Strawberry-Lemonade Cupcakes
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Lemon zest and juice add flavor to the white cake mix that serves as the ideal base for homemade strawberry frosting.
Grapefruit Pavlova
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Antonis Achilleos; Prop Stylist: Audrey Davis; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
This dessert has a little bit of everything: sweetness from the meringue, bitterness from the grapefruit, and tartness from the sour cream. Pavlovas are best eaten shortly after assembled but the meringue can be prepped in ahead of time.
Peppermint Pie
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Swap your pecan and apple pie for peppermint pie this holiday season. The filling calls for only six ingredients and the whipped cream that is folded in creates an extra fluffy texture.
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