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Looking for Southern dessert recipes? Allrecipes has more than 190 recipes for pecan pie, peach cobbler, bread pudding, sweet potato pie, and pralines complete with ratings, reviews and cooking tips.

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French Quarter Bread Pudding Recipe - Very yummy addition to any brunch buffet. This is an old family heirloom from my French auntie. Serve with a lemon or bourbon sauce. Enjoy!

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French Quarter Bread Pudding

Very yummy addition to any brunch buffet. This is an old family heirloom from my French auntie. Serve with a lemon or bourbon sauce. Enjoy!

By SANTACRUZ

Mississippi Mud Cake I Recipe - This very rich cake with coffee, rum, and chocolate is sure to become one of your favorite recipes once you taste it.

Mississippi Mud Cake I

This very rich cake with coffee, rum, and chocolate is sure to become one of your favorite recipes once you taste it.

By Amy

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Banana Pudding with Meringue Recipe - The rich pudding is made on the stovetop, poured over the bananas and wafers, topped with meringue, and then baked in the oven. Passed down from my grandmother, it is a unique take on a Southern favorite.

Banana Pudding with Meringue

The rich pudding is made on the stovetop, poured over the bananas and wafers, topped with meringue, and then baked in the oven. Passed down from my grandmother, it is a unique take on a Southern favorite.

By Laura M.

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Southern Pecan Pie I Recipe and Video - Lots of sugar, dark corn syrup and pecans come together with other delicious ingredients to create the quintessential pecan pie. Everything is stirred together in one bowl, poured into a prepared crust, and baked until this sweet pie is brown and slightly puffed.

Southern Pecan Pie I

Lots of sugar, dark corn syrup and pecans come together with other delicious ingredients to create the quintessential pecan pie. Everything is stirred together in one bowl, poured into a prepared crust, and baked until this sweet pie is brown and slightly puffed.

By Nikki

Apple Stack Cake Recipe - Thin layers of yellow cake are layered with a spiced dried-apple filling in this old-fashioned Southern favorite.

Apple Stack Cake

Thin layers of yellow cake are layered with a spiced dried-apple filling in this old-fashioned Southern favorite.

By MELISSAPARCEL

Best Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce Recipe and Video - A beloved recipe for bread pudding, rich with milk and eggs, and chock-full of raisins, was found tucked away in a family Bible for safekeeping. It has a smooth vanilla sauce for serving warm over the pudding, too.

Best Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce

A beloved recipe for bread pudding, rich with milk and eggs, and chock-full of raisins, was found tucked away in a family Bible for safekeeping. It has a smooth vanilla sauce for serving warm over the pudding, too.

By Gail Cobile

Margaret's Southern Chocolate Pie Recipe - This rich, creamy pie has a cooked filling that's like chocolate velvet. It's covered with meringue and baked until the tiny peaks of meringue are golden.

Margaret's Southern Chocolate Pie

This rich, creamy pie has a cooked filling that's like chocolate velvet. It's covered with meringue and baked until the tiny peaks of meringue are golden.

By Becky

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Georgia Peach Homemade Ice Cream Recipe - Made in a gallon ice cream freezer, this eggless ice cream is fruity and creamy, and can be made in about an hour.

Georgia Peach Homemade Ice Cream

Made in a gallon ice cream freezer, this eggless ice cream is fruity and creamy, and can be made in about an hour.

By Nancy Drummond Ransom

Buttermilk Chess Pie Recipe - This simple buttermilk custard pie is an American classic.

Buttermilk Chess Pie

This simple buttermilk custard pie is an American classic.

By Krystina

Fresh Southern Peach Cobbler Recipe and Video - Sweet Georgia peaches are topped with homemade biscuits creating a bubbling Southern-style peach cobbler perfect for summer nights.

Fresh Southern Peach Cobbler

Sweet Georgia peaches are topped with homemade biscuits creating a bubbling Southern-style peach cobbler perfect for summer nights.

By aeposey

Sweet Potato Pie I Recipe and Video - For this lovely pie, sweet potatoes are boiled, peeled and mashed together with butter, sugar, milk and eggs, then seasoned with nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.

Sweet Potato Pie I

For this lovely pie, sweet potatoes are boiled, peeled and mashed together with butter, sugar, milk and eggs, then seasoned with nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.

By COUGAAR

Kentucky Butter Cake Recipe and Video - Moist and buttery cake made from readily available ingredients with a luscious butter sauce.

Kentucky Butter Cake

Moist and buttery cake made from readily available ingredients with a luscious butter sauce.

By Suzanne Stull

Bananas Foster II Recipe and Video - Bananas are cooked in a bubbling pan of dark brown sugar, butter, rum and cinnamon and served over ice cream with walnuts in this elegant, quick dessert.

Bananas Foster II

Bananas are cooked in a bubbling pan of dark brown sugar, butter, rum and cinnamon and served over ice cream with walnuts in this elegant, quick dessert.

By BUTTERMEBREAD

Blackberry Cobbler II Recipe and Video - Throw together this cobbler in minutes using fresh berries from the yard!

Blackberry Cobbler II

Throw together this cobbler in minutes using fresh berries from the yard!

By Amanda Johnson-Lindsey

Texas Sheet Cake V Recipe and Video - A moist and delicious chocolate cake made in a jellyroll pan, covered with chocolate frosting and walnuts.

Texas Sheet Cake V

A moist and delicious chocolate cake made in a jellyroll pan, covered with chocolate frosting and walnuts.

By Carolyn Herbert

Irresistible Pecan Pie Recipe and Video - This is the most amazing pecan pie. Once you start eating it you can't stop.

Irresistible Pecan Pie

This is the most amazing pecan pie. Once you start eating it you can't stop.

By IHART44

Pecan Pie Recipe and Video - This is a wonderfully rich Southern pie recipe that is the best I've tried!

Pecan Pie

This is a wonderfully rich Southern pie recipe that is the best I've tried!

By Linda Seay

GA Peach Pound Cake Recipe and Video - This Georgia peach pound cake can also be made with other fruits such as apple or cherry.

GA Peach Pound Cake

This Georgia peach pound cake can also be made with other fruits such as apple or cherry.

By Dent norton

Peach Cobbler VI Recipe - This is a wonderful Southern recipe... very easy and tastes great!

Peach Cobbler VI

This is a wonderful Southern recipe... very easy and tastes great!

By karen

Peach Cobbler II Recipe - Peaches spiced with cinnamon are poured on top of a homemade biscuit dough and baked until bubbly in this classic cobbler.

Peach Cobbler II

Peaches spiced with cinnamon are poured on top of a homemade biscuit dough and baked until bubbly in this classic cobbler.

By JAN RECIPES

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Grandma's Iron Skillet Apple Pie Recipe and Video - A modern version of an old-time favorite uses premade pie crusts to make this three-layer apple pie, baked in a cast iron skillet.

Grandma's Iron Skillet Apple Pie

A modern version of an old-time favorite uses premade pie crusts to make this three-layer apple pie, baked in a cast iron skillet.

By T L Dixon

Sweet Potato Pie II Recipe - My brother loved this pie so much that he learned to make it.

Sweet Potato Pie II

My brother loved this pie so much that he learned to make it.

By Cathy Brisco

Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe and Video - Mardi Gras isn't complete without a sweet and colorful king cake, filled with cinnamon, sugar, pecans, and maybe even a plastic baby.

Mardi Gras King Cake

Mardi Gras isn't complete without a sweet and colorful king cake, filled with cinnamon, sugar, pecans, and maybe even a plastic baby.

By Jo

Southern Peach Cobbler Recipe - The crust rises to the top in this easy cobbler made with canned peaches and a simple batter of self rising flour and milk.

Southern Peach Cobbler

The crust rises to the top in this easy cobbler made with canned peaches and a simple batter of self rising flour and milk.

By SLOANF

Southern Praline Pecan Cake Recipe - This is an easy but wonderful recipe, all my friends love It, and I sell it to Tea Rooms.

Southern Praline Pecan Cake

This is an easy but wonderful recipe, all my friends love It, and I sell it to Tea Rooms.

By Debbie Halford

Honey Crunch Pecan Pie Recipe - This pecan pie filling is made with a honey custard, flavored with vanilla and bourbon.

Honey Crunch Pecan Pie

This pecan pie filling is made with a honey custard, flavored with vanilla and bourbon.

By Sarah Spaugh

Sweet Potato Pound Cake Recipe - A light-tasting, fine-textured cake with an orange glaze.

Sweet Potato Pound Cake

A light-tasting, fine-textured cake with an orange glaze.

By ANNE MCCULLOUGH

Mountain Apple Cobbler Recipe and Video - Refrigerated crescent roll dough is rolled around apple slices, drizzled with butter and sugar, then topped with the surprise ingredient--a can of Mountain Dew®.

Mountain Apple Cobbler

Refrigerated crescent roll dough is rolled around apple slices, drizzled with butter and sugar, then topped with the surprise ingredient--a can of Mountain Dew®.

By Leslie Asquith