23 Super Bowl Desserts That Are All Flavor and No Fuss
Keep snacking simple from kickoff to final score with these crowd-pleasing sweets for casual parties.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Morgan Hunt Glaze / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey / Prop Styling by Caleb Clark
These buttery baked treats get a boost from browned butter, with a crisp crust and a fudge-like texture inside.
Triple-Ginger Rye Cookies
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
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
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
Claudette Zepeda has pro tips to pull off something fun to dip for 14 in an hour and a half.
Boozy Bourbon-Pecan Tassies
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
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
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
These fudgy, gluten-free brownies are baked in a graham-cracker crust, then topped with marshmallows and broiled.
Creamy Peanut Butter Pie
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
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
Fold spiced apple pie filling into vanilla ice cream, then sandwich it between chewy snickerdoodle cookies.
Maude's Vanilla Fudge
Have 2 pounds of Curtis Stone's family recipe fudge ready in an hour.
Spiced Cashew Brittle and Chocolate Crunch Bark
Serve snackable cayenne-spiked cashew brittle alongside crunchy chocolate bark.
Matcha Tea Marshmallow Crispy Treats
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
© Fredrika Stjärne
Have a dozen delectable little cheesecakes ready in 40 minutes.
Brazilian Brigadeiros
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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