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Looking for some great dessert ideas? I love stumbling across unique, creative, and awesome dessert ideas that are actually do-able (it’s no fun if it’s too hard, right?). Check out all of these neat dessert ideas that are easy, fun, and totally worth saving!
Great Dessert Ideas
1. Fill plastic martini glasses with cotton candy
Get the plastic wine glass from the $1 store. Place them in a goodie bag, and tie ribbon at the top. Cute! Photography credit: Jen O’Sullivan.com
2. Colorful Candy Apples
How to make colorful candy apples for every occasion all year long! Saving this….
3. DIY Cupcake Holder
Use plastic cups to make covered cupcake holders – so smart!
4. Cupcakes in Champagne Glasses
Use plastic champagne glasses from the $1 store and fill them with candy to make cupcake stands! Great idea! (source unknown)
5. How to Make Glow in the Dark Frosting
Use tonic water and food coloring to make your cupcakes glow in the dark – must try!
6. Hawaiian Wedding Cake Recipe
With whipped cream cheese frosting! Doesn’t this sound and look delicious?
7. Chocolate Cherry Mice
Little chocolate mice – so cute! Made with chocolate dipped cherries, Hershey’s kisses, and sliced almonds.
8. Queen Elsa Cupcake Cake
Use cupcakes to create the look of a full cake. No cutting necessary and it’s much easier to do. Smart!
9. Rice Krispie Hay Barrels
Tractor carrying rice krispie treats. Cute idea! Here’s where you can get one of these cute toy tractors: CLICK HERE
10. Watermelon cupcakes
How creative (and healthy too). Fruit for dessert – saving this idea!
11. Fruit Loop Butterflies
Make butterfly treat bags using Froot Loops, a plastic baggie, and pipe cleaners. Great idea! (source unknown)
12. Oreo Sunflower Cupcakes
How to make sunflower cupcakes using an Oreo and yellow frosting. Must try!
13. Reese’s Pieces Basketball Cake
How to make a basketball cake using Reese’s Pieces – so smart!
14. Flower pot cupcakes
So cute! Place little chocolate cupcakes in small terra cotta pots and use frosting to make them look like flowers.
15. Sewing Machine Cake
Complete with fondant buttons, fabric, and sewing machine on top. Amazing! (source unknown)
16. Graduation dessert idea
Make little diplomas using swiss cake rolls wrapped with ribbon that matches the school’s colors. So cute and easy and delicious! Source unknown.
17. Banana Nilla Cakes
These look fun to make AND to eat! Simply slice bananas (as pictured) and the stickiness of the banana slices will hold the mini nilla wafters on. Must try! (via Flickr)
18. Homemade Pineapple Soft Serve Ice Cream
19. Seashell Pearl Cookies
20. Circus Animal Cookie Milkshake
21. Heart Hot Chocolate Sticks
22. Chocolate Covered Strawberries Made in an Ice Cube Tray
The glow-in-the-dark cupcake is my favorite dessert idea!!
I love the cake with the singer sewing machine on it . I would like to try to make it or have someone make it for me for my mom’s birthday. My mom has been sewing since I was a kid and she made my sisters wedding dress and she use to work in a sewing factors. .
Neat idea. I sell dome lids for that cup. It’s pretty and snaps on.