23 Best Texas Desserts

The Texas desserts are so popular that people from different corners of the US come to Texas to try these desserts. Now you don’t have to go all the way to Texas just to try these lovely desserts.

In fact, you can make these delicious desserts in the comfort of your home.

Let’s find the

Best Texas Desserts

1. Texas Sheet Cake

It is one of the easiest and quickest dessert recipes.

You need a sheet pan of size 18×13 inches. By using this type of pan you will get a thinner cake and that’s what I prefer.

The recipe takes half an hour to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

With a combination of butter, baking soda, all-purpose flour, sour cream, unsweetened cocoa powder, and vanilla extract you can make this lovely cake.

With a mix of cocoa powder, sugar, milk, and butter you can make the frosting.

2. Texas Tornado Cake

This is one of the most budget-friendly cake recipes but it is simply delicious.

The recipe takes 45 minutes to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

The ingredients include baking soda, all-purpose flour, nuts, eggs, and fruit cocktail with syrup.

For coconut icing, you need a mix of evaporated milk, butter, coconut, and sugar.

3. Texas Flood Pie

This tastes much better than Mississippi mud pie.

It takes around half an hour to make.

To make it you need to preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

With a combination of ritz crackers, bittersweet chocolate chips, heavy cream, peanut butter, marshmallows, and white corn syrup you can make this lovely dessert.

4. Texas Ranger Cookies

This is one of my favorite Texas desserts.

To make it you need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

You need a baking sheet and parchment paper.

The ingredients needed are baking powder, crisp rice cereal, flour, milk chocolate chips, and rolled oats.

5. Texas-Style Blueberry Cobbler

This is one of the most popular desserts in my family.

I love to have it warm with ice cream. The combination is just perfect.

It takes an hour to make this dessert.

To make it you need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

With a combination of butter, baking powder, blueberries, flour, and sugar you can make this lovely dessert.

6. Laura Bush’s Cowboy Cookies

This is one of the most popular desserts in Texas.

To make it you need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

The ingredients include all-purpose flour, butter, baking powder, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and pecans.

7. White Texas Sheet Cake

To make this white Texas sheet cake you need a rimmed cookie sheet.

You can either use vanilla extract or almond extract depending on the availability.

You can keep it in the refrigerator and it will be good for up to 7 days.

The recipe takes half an hour to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 375°F.

To make the cake you need almond extract, baking soda, butter, sour cream, and flour.

For frosting, you need milk, almond extract, butter, and powdered sugar.

8. Mom’s Texas Delight

I simply love this Texas dessert.

To make it you need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

With a combination of all-purpose flour, cream cheese, butter, and sugar.

9. Texas Cowboy Cookies

It is one of the easiest Texas desserts to make.

The recipe takes half an hour to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

The ingredients include all-purpose flour, baking soda, pecans, chocolate chips, oats, and raisins.

10. Texas Brownies

This cake recipe takes 35 minutes to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

The ingredients needed are butter, vanilla, flour, baking soda, and cocoa.

For frosting, you need a mix of cocoa, butter, vanilla, and milk.

11. Big Texas Cinnamon Rolls

To make these rolls preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

The ingredients needed are active dry yeast, bread flour, cinnamon, eggs, and unsalted butter.

For frosting, you need cream cheese, vanilla extract, heavy whipping cream, and sugar.

12. Upgraded German Chocolate Cake

The hero of the recipe is coconut pecan filling.

You need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

You can make this with a mix of egg yolks, pecans, butter, coconut, evaporated milk, and vanilla.

To make the cake the ingredients needed are all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, sour cream, baking powder, and eggs.

For frosting, you need chocolate buttercream and sweetened shredded coconut.

13. Texas Banana Pudding

My family loves pudding for breakfast so I love to make this Texan dessert quite often.

The recipe takes around 45 minutes to make.

To make pudding the ingredients needed are all-purpose flour, bananas, wafer cookies, and half and half.

For toppings use a mix of sugar and heavy whipping cream.

14. Texas Yum Yum

You need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

The ingredients include cream cheese, flour, milk, instant butterscotch pudding mix, pecans, and chocolate pudding mix.

15. Peanut Butter Texas Cake

It is easy to make and takes only 40 minutes of your time.

You need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

To make the cake you need a mix of peanut butter, baking soda, buttermilk, vanilla extract, and all-purpose flour.

For the icing, you need a mix of peanut butter, buttermilk, vanilla extract, and butter.

16. Texas Pecan Baklava

I had tried this in a Texan restaurant and simply loved it.

To make it you need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

With a combination of ground cinnamon, honey, phyllo dough, pecans, and sugar.

17. Texas Turtle Cake

The turtle cake takes half an hour to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

For the turtle topping, you need a mix of pecans, caramel sauce, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

To make the chocolate frosting you need unsweetened cocoa, butter, sugar, and buttermilk.

To make the cake the ingredients needed are sugar, butter, unsweetened cocoa powder, butter, and eggs.

18. Texas Sheet Cake Bundt Cake

You need a bundt pan.

You need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

The recipe takes around an hour to make.

To make the cake you need a mix of eggs, chocolate cake mix, butter, and milk.

For chocolate pecan frosting you need butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and pecans.

19. Texas Pecan Sandies

These are one of the most special crunchy cookies and taste superb.

The recipe takes only half an hour to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

The ingredients include vanilla extract, flour, butter, pecans, and sugar.

20. Texas Big Red Ice-Cream

It is one of the most popular ice-creams in Texas.

It takes only 45 minutes to make.

With a combination of big red soda, an ice-cream maker, sweetened condensed milk, rock salt, and strawberries you can make this lovely dessert.

21. Sopapillas

It is one of the most popular Tex-Mex recipes and is easy to make.

It tastes best when served hot.

The ingredients include all-purpose flour, salt, honey, oil, baking powder, and cinnamon sugar.

22. Texas Sheet Cake Bites

To make it you need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

You can make it in just 30 minutes.

With a combination of all-purpose flour, buttermilk, baking soda, unsweetened cocoa powder, and butter you can make this lovely dessert.

23. Samoas Texas Sheet Cake

These chocolate cakes are a hit with the crowd.

It takes almost 50 minutes to make.

You need to preheat the oven to 350°F.

The ingredients include mini chocolate chips, dark cocoa powder, instant coffee granules, baking powder, and sweetened condensed milk.