11 Super-Sweet Extreme Dessert Combos

One way to improve a dessert is to put another dessert inside it. We've all enjoyed ice cream cakes at one time or another, and cakes were richly improved when cooks began to add pudding mix to the recipe a few decades ago. But the culture of the internet encourages one-upmanship, and with that comes truly extreme combinations in which people put their favorite candy, cookies, cakes, and even breakfast cereal into other desserts. Get your insulin ready before you even read these recipes.

1. Snickers Cupcakes

Snickers Cupcakes are rich chocolate cupcakes with a filling of caramel and peanuts. Top with peanut butter-marshmallow frosting, a drizzle of chocolate, more peanuts, and a piece of a real Snickers bar. That will stop your mid-afternoon hunger! Recipes for the cake, filling, and frosting are at SugerHero!

2. Nutella Cream Pie with Oreo Crust

Oreo cookies, Nutella spread, and pie. Doesn't that sound heavenly? Amy Brown assures you that the pie tastes much better than the picture looks. That only shows how competitive food photography really is, since it looks delicious to me. This is a real cream pie, so you'll need heavy cream and lots of eggs. Find the recipe at The Project Princess.

3. Chocolate Mint Oreo Cookie Trifle

Donna Elick whipped up a trifle that contains both candy and cookies. Simply layer crushed mint Oreo cookies, chocolate pudding, Andes mint candy, and mint whipped cream to make a fancy and tasty dessert! The directions can be found at The Slow Roasted Italian.

4. Lucky Charms Cheesecake

Pre-sweetened breakfast cereals are used for late-night sugar cravings almost as much as they are for breakfast. So why not incorporate your favorites into a dessert? Dan baked Lucky Charms into a cheesecake for a friend's birthday. This is not a simple dessert. It begins with separating the marshmallow charms from the rest of the cereal. The oat cereal is used both for the crust and to infuse flavor into the cream for the cheesecake. The marshmallows are stirred into the cheesecake batter before baking. Learn how you can do all this at Food in My Beard.

5. Chocolate-Dipped Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Oreos

And here's where we stuff candy inside a cookie, then dress it up even more. Slice open your Oreo cookies, using only the side with the cream. Sandwich a peanut butter cup between two of those. Then the whole thing gets dipped in chocolate to make it a complete unit. Sprinkles on top make it festive! The instructions are at Recipeboy.

6. Churro Apple Pie Waffles

Jasmine gave us Churro Waffles in January and made a splash with the breakfast-dessert combo. Her experiments continue, resulting in Churro Apple Pie Waffles which combine the cinnamon crisp of a churro with the volume and porosity of a waffle, then adds delicious baked apples stuffed between. Yes, a scoop of ice cream on top is appropriate here. Chica Chocolatina is where you'll find the recipe. 

7. Froot Loop Donuts

Froot Loop Donuts sounds like a breakfast food, but the combination of sweetness means it fits in with other extreme desserts. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it. The donuts themselves are made from scratch, with Froot Loops as an ingredient. The complete recipe is at the YouTube page.

8. Reese's Overload Cake

Okay, you have three cake layers, two of them peanut butter flavor, and one chocolate cheesecake layer stuffed with chocolate frosting. Then the whole cake is smothered in peanut butter frosting, and garnished with chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and pieces of Reese's Cups on top. All those parts except for the garnishes are made from scratch. You can make your own, because the complete recipe is it Hugs & CookiesXOXO.

9. Peanut Butter Cup S’moreo Bars

The classic melted s'mores we had at Girl Scout campfires (itself an extreme dessert combination) has been updated to include many other ingredients. The recipe for Peanut Butter Cup S’moreo Bars adds Oreo cookies, peanut butter, and Reese's Cups. Talk about an extreme combination! However, you can brag about a smidgeon of restraint here because the graham crackers have been removed. Get the complete recipe at Top With Cinnamon.

10. Double Mint Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

What's better than a homemade chocolate mint cookie? A homemade chocolate mint cookie with a Peppermint Patty inside! It's just a matter of wrapping the cookie dough around the candy. The hard part is keeping the finished product from disappearing immediately. You'll find the recipe at The Kitchen Magpie.

11. Cherpumple

Most of the combination recipes here are fairly recent, but this list would not be complete without at least a mention of the granddaddy of combination desserts: Charles Phoenix's Cherpumple. Make three pies, traditionally apple, cherry, and pumpkin, and then bake each pie into a cake layer. Stack the layers, frost, and serve to unsuspecting guests. Watch a video of this creation.

Now if you will excuse me, I need to go make a ham and cheese on rye for lunch. Coffee, no sugar.