12 Potluck Desserts for Super Bowl Sunday

By Jenn Segal

Nothing is sweeter than victory, but these easy-to-make and easy-to-take potluck desserts are the next best thing.

Lemon Bars

With a buttery shortbread crust, luscious lemon filling, and dusting of powdered sugar, these lemon squares are as pretty as they are delicious. They also freeze beautifully, so you can make them ahead of time and defrost as needed.
Cheesecake Bars

Dense and creamy with a hint of lemon and a crisp brown sugar-graham cracker crust, these bars are not only a cinch to make, they rival the very best NY cheesecake out there. They also have a high crust-to-cheesecake ratio so if you’re a crust-lover like me, you’ll ?them.
Blobbs

Blobbs are mounded cookies/brownies with pecans, walnuts, chocolate chips and two kinds of chocolate. My family goes crazy for these!
Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Topped with swirls of cream cheese icing, this pumpkin cake is a dessert version of my favorite pumpkin bread. Not only does the cake keep well, but it’s also easy to make, easy to transport, and 100% kid-approved.
Baileys Chocolate Truffles

Rich, creamy, and bittersweet, truffles are mouthfuls of pure, all-encompassing chocolate bliss. Here, a swig of Bailey’s Irish Cream takes them up a notch.
Honey’s Coconut Cupcakes

From my great-grandmother Honey, these cupcakes are extra “coconut-y,” thanks to a good amount of coconut milk and shredded coconut in both the cake and the frosting.
Double Chocolate Mint Cookies

If you’re a chocolate and mint person, you’ll love these double chocolate mint cookies. They have the flavor of Thin Mints® but the texture of chunky chocolate chip cookies.
Chewy, Gooey Golden Rice Krispie Treats

Thought Rice Krispies Treats couldn’t get any better? Wrong! These are made with browned butter, extra salt, and a secret ingredient that makes them taste toasty and caramel-y. I’ll give you a clue: it starts with “golden” and ends with “grahams.”
Chocolate Chip Pecan Blondie Recipe

Part cookie, part brownie — who doesn’t love blondies? And the best part is that they’re ridiculously easy to make: fewer ingredients than cookies and easier than brownies because there’s no chocolate to melt. This version, made with chocolate chips and pecans, is a crowd favorite.
Carrot Cake

Carrot cakes can be heavy and dense, but this one is light with a fine texture. The secret is finely chopping the carrots in a food processor rather than grating them.
The Best Brownie Recipe

If you’ve been searching for the perfect brownie recipe, look no further. I promise you: this is it! The recipe comes from Nick Malgieri’s Chocolate cookbook, an excellent resource for all things chocolate.
Marble Cake

This marble cake may look fancy, but its flavor is pure old-fashioned goodness.