When you’re rooting for the home team, enjoying a picnic in the park, or getting together with friends and family for a potluck, a delicious dessert makes any occasion sweeter. If you’re looking for ideas for desserts that travel well, the following ideas will be sure to tempt everyone’s sweet tooth.
Bars and Cookies
You can’t go wrong with bars and cookies for the perfect portable desserts.
Brownies and blondies hold up well during transport and can easily feed a crowd. They’re also easy to cut into individual portions for serving and sharing. Berry crumble bars or fruit-based bars also make delicious ideas for slice-and-serve desserts or snacks.
Classic cookies like chocolate chip, peanut butter, and sugar cookies are great choices for easy-to-transport desserts. Their sturdy texture can stand up to handling and transportation.
Cupcakes and Muffins
Individually sized treats are always a hit at picnics and potlucks, and they’re ideal desserts that travel well. Baked goods like cupcakes and muffins are great handheld desserts to enjoy late in the third quarter of a big game or after a leisurely stroll through the woods on a crisp autumn day.
Cupcakes can be customized with flavors and frostings to suit the occasion. For example, during the fall, you can serve carrot cake cupcakes topped with a cream cheese frosting and garnished with a candy pumpkin. For cupcakes with a rich buttercream frosting, you’ll want to make sure to chill the cupcakes for a few hours before your event, then place them in a cooler to keep the frosting cold until you’re ready to serve.
Hand Pies
Hand pies are the ultimate easy-to-transport desserts. These delicious bites of pastry and filling make excellent handheld treats that anyone will love. You can adapt your favorite pie recipe to create hand pies that will appeal to your guests’ tastes. Try making apple-and-cinnamon-sugar hand pies or flavorful mixed berry hand pies.
After baking, let them cool, then wrap them in parchment or waxed paper to seal in the freshness.
Cake Truffles
Cake truffles are little balls of cake covered in chocolate or frosting and decorated with sprinkles, chopped nuts, toasted coconut, or other fun garnishes. The options for customizing these desserts are limitless, and you can tailor the flavors or garnishes to your desired taste or occasion.
Cake truffles are ideal for packing to take with you on a picnic or a long road trip. Keep them chilled until you’re ready to transport them, then place them in airtight containers.
Find Portable Desserts at Frost Artisan Bakery
When you want to sweeten your next party, picnic, potluck, or tailgate with portable desserts, turn to Frost Artisan Bakery. Our dessert menu offers plenty of easy-to-transport desserts, from mini dessert bars and cupcakes to cake truffles and more. Call or stop in today to place your order.
