Texas Dessert
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 Dessert
Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
The supplies required are a cookie sheet, measuring cups and spoons, a medium cookie scooper, a wire cooling rack, a saucepan pan and a wire whisk.
It requires 10 minutes of prep time and 35 minutes of cooking time. Preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 10 minutes.
The ingredients include milk chocolate cake mix, whole milk, cocoa powder, eggs, powdered sugar, and pecans.
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 mix of cocoa powder, sugar, milk, and butter you can make the frosting.
With a combination of butter, baking soda, all-purpose flour, sour cream, unsweetened cocoa powder, and vanilla extract you can make this lovely cake.
Texas Tornado Cake
This is one of the most budget-friendly cake recipes but it is simply delicious. The recipe requires 15 minutes of prpe time and 45 minutes of cooking time.
You need a 9×13 baking dish, a nut chopper, a wooden spoon, mixing bowl, and a saucepan. 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.
Texas Flood Pie
This tastes much better than Mississippi mud pie. It takes around half an hour to make, including 15 minutes of prep time and 10 minutes of cooking time.
To make it, you need to preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 15 minutes. With a combination of ritz crackers, bittersweet chocolate chips, heavy cream, peanut butter, marshmallows, and white corn syrup, you can make this lovely dessert.
For toppings, you require a mix of mini marshmallows, chocolate chips and chopped pecans. The dessert freezes well for up to 6 months.
Texas Ranger Cookies
This is one of my favorite Texas desserts. To make it, you need to preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 10-12 minutes.
You need a baking sheet, a stand mixer and parchment paper. For the recipe, you can either use rice cereal or corn flakes.
The ingredients needed are baking powder, crisp rice cereal, flour, milk chocolate chips, vanilla, rice cereal, baking soda, sweetened shredded coconut and rolled oats.
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. The rich and buttery topping makes it extra special. You require a 9×13 baking dish.
You can either use fresh or frozen blueberries. It takes an hour to make this dessert, including 20 minutes of prep time and 40 minutes of cooking time. 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. It is best served with a dollop of vanilla bean ice cream.
Laura Bush’s Cowboy Cookies
This is one of the most popular desserts in Texas. It is made popular by Laura Bush, the former First Lady of the US.
To make it, you need to preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 20 minutes. The ingredients include all-purpose flour, butter, baking powder, semi-sweet chocolate chips, baking soda, sugar, sweetened flaked coocnut, vanilla extract, and pecans.
Keep the leftovers in a ziplock bag at room temperature for 5 days. It freezes well for 3 months.
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.
Mom’s Texas Delight
I simply love this Texas dessert. This looks elegant and tastes awesome. The recipe requires 15 minutes of prep time and 15 minutes of cooking time.
To make it you need to preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 15 minutes. You require a 9×13 baking dish.
With a combination of all-purpose flour, cream cheese, butter, chopped pecans, package cream cheese, frozen whipped topping, and sugar you can make this dessert.
Texas Cowboy Cookies
It is one of the easiest Texas desserts to make. The recipe takes half an hour to make, including 20 minutes of prep time and 13 minutes of cooking time.
You need to preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 13 minutes. The ingredients include all-purpose flour, baking soda, pecans, vanilla extract, sugar, eggs, brown sugar, peanut butter chips, raisins, oats, chocolate chips, oats, and raisins.
It freezes well for 2 months. The recipe is one of the most loved Texas desserts in our home. We enjoy it with a cup of coffee for breakfast.
Texas Brownies
I love brownies, and this is one of the easiest brownie recipes. This cake recipe takes 35 minutes to make. You need to preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 20 minutes.
The ingredients needed are butter, vanilla, flour, baking soda, flour, sugar, brewed coffee, vanilla, buttermilk, eggs, and cocoa.
For frosting, you need a mix of cocoa, butter, vanilla, sugar,and milk. Instead of milk, you can use margarine too.
Big Texas Cinnamon Rolls
It is one of the most popular Texas cinnamon roll recipes. You require two 9×13 baking dishes and two baking sheets. To make these rolls, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for half an hour.
It requires 30 minutes of prep time 30 minutes of cooking time and 2 hours 10 minutes of rising time. Serve these rolls with a cup of coffee and that will be a perfect breakfast.
The ingredients needed are active dry yeast, bread flour, milk, sugar, salt, cinnamon, eggs, all-purpose flour, and unsalted butter.
For frosting, you need cream cheese, vanilla extract, heavy whipping cream, and sugar.
Upgraded German Chocolate Cake
The hero of the recipe is the 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.
Texas Banana Pudding
My family loves pudding for breakfast, so I love to make this Texan dessert quite often. For the topping, mix heavy whipping cream and sugar.
The recipe takes around 45 minutes to make. To make pudding, the ingredients needed are all-purpose flour, bananas, egg yolks, unsalted butter, wafer cookies, and half and half.
Served it chilled. I prefer it to be chilled for at least 4 hours before I serve it. You can keep the leftovers in the fridge for 3 days.
For toppings use a mix of sugar and heavy whipping cream.
Texas Yum Yum
This is an easy Texas dessert. You need to preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for 20 minutes. The edges will be brown and once done let it cool for half an hour.
You require a mixing bowl, an electric mixer, a casserole dish, and aluminium foil.
The ingredients include cream cheese, flour, milk, instant butterscotch pudding mix, pecans, margarine, powdered sugar, milk, instant chocolate pudding mix, and cool whip.
Peanut Butter Texas Cake
This peanut butter-flavored sheet cake is moist and light. This recipe is perfect for feeding a large crowd so you can make this for gatherings or birthdays. It is easy to make and takes only 40 minutes of your time, including 20 minutes of prep time and 20 minutes of cooking 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. You require microwave-safe bowls, measuring cups and 9 inch cake pan.
For the icing, you need a mix of peanut butter, buttermilk, vanilla extract, and butter. The recipe freezes well.
Texas Pecan Baklava
I had tried this in a Texan restaurant and simply loved it. For the syrup, you require a mix of honey, cinnamon sticks, water and sugar.
To make it, you need to preheat the oven to 350°F and bake for half an hour. The filling includes unsalted butter, pecans, phyllo dough, cinnamon, ground allspice and sugar.
Texas Turtle Cake
The turtle cake takes half an hour to make, including 5 minutes of prep time and 25 minutes of cooking time. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
To make the cake, the ingredients needed are sugar, butter, unsweetened cocoa powder, coffee, and eggs. 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. You can replace buttermilk with sour cream.
Texas Sheet Cake Bundt Cake
This looks quite impressive. You need a bundt pan. Preheat the oven to 350°F. The recipe takes around an hour to make including 10 minutes of prep time and 45 minutes of cooking time.
To make the cake you need a mix of eggs, chocolate cake mix, butter, and milk. You require a handheld mixer.
For chocolate pecan frosting, you need butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and pecans. Keep the cake in plastic wrap in the fridge and it will be good for up to 4 days. It will also be good for 3 days at room temperature.
Classic Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
It is one of my favorite Texas desserts. The recipe requires 5 minutes of prep time and 30 minutes of cooking time. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
The ingredients include a box chocolate cake mix, butter, eggs, milk, cocoa and oil. Make sure you don’t overbake them, bake for 7-8 minutes not more than that.
Keep them in the fridge in an airtight container and these will be good for up to 4 days. These cookies freezes well for 3 months.
Texas Big Red Ice-Cream
It is one of the most popular ice-creams in Texas. It takes only 45 minutes to make, including 5 minutes of prep time.
With a combination of big red soda, an ice-cream maker, sweetened condensed milk, rock salt, and strawberries, you can make this lovely dessert.
Sopapillas
It is one of the most popular Tex-Mex recipes and is easy to make. You can make these restaurant-quality sopapillas with pantry staples.
It tastes best when served hot and pairs best with Mexican food. The recipe requires 30 minutes of prep time and 20 minutes of cooking time.
The ingredients include all-purpose flour, salt, honey, oil, baking powder, coconut oil, honey, sea salt, coconut oil and cinnamon sugar.
Texas Sheet Cake Bites
It is one of the most loved Texas desserts. To make it, you need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 12 minutes. You can also make it ahead of time.
You can make it in just 30 minutes, including 15 minutes of prep time and 15 minutes of cooking time. To make frosting, you need a mix of powdered sugar, butter, vanilla extract, unsweetened cocoa powder, and buttermilk.
With a combination of all-purpose flour, buttermilk, baking soda, unsweetened cocoa powder, salt, sugar and butter, you can make this lovely dessert. Instead of buttermilk, you can also use regular milk.
Keep the leftovers in an airtight container and they will be good for up to 3 days at room temperature.
Samoas Texas Sheet Cake
This big, chocolatey dessert is perfect for parties and birthdays. You require a 15.5×10.5-inch baking dish. This recipe can be made gluten-free and dairy-free too.
These chocolate cakes are a hit with the crowd. It takes almost 50 minutes to make, including 20 minutes of prep time and 30 minutes of cooking time. You need to preheat the oven to 350°F.
The ingredients include mini chocolate chips, dark cocoa powder, instant coffee granules, baking powder, all-purpose flour, vanilla extract, and sweetened condensed milk.
For topping, you need a mix of sweetened shredded coconut, mini chocolate chips, caramel squares and sweetened condensed milk. You can keep the dessert on the countertop for up to 3 days and in the fridge for up to 10 days. Make sure it’s covered.
Pecan Sandies
These shortbread cookies are a treat, also called snowball cookies or tea cookies. These are perfect for holidays. Preheat the oven to 325°F and bake for 25 minutes.
It requires 10 minutes of prep time and 30 minutes of cooking time. The ingredients include butter, sugar, pecans, vanilla extract, and all-purpose flour. These cookies go well with hot coffee, tea, or hot chocolate.
You can keep them in an airtight container on your kitchen counter and they will taste perfect for up to 7 days. It freezes well for 3 months.
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