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Cast-Iron Skillet Desserts

Updated February 24, 2012
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Use your cast-iron skillet for more than cornbread and start making home-style desserts such as cobblers, upside down cakes, and tarts. 

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Caramel Apple Blondie Pie

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Caramel Apple Blondie Pie Recipe

Buttery rich layers of tender cake and caramelized apples add up to one sweet combo. The secret to the crisp, flaky crust? Baking in a cast-iron skillet on a lower oven rack.

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Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

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Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie Recipe

A gooey skillet brownie topped with scoops of vanilla ice cream and drizzled with melted peanut butter and rich chocolate syrup– what could be better?

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Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie

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Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie Recipe

Once you’ve made this decadent pecan pie in a cast-iron skillet, you may never go back to a pie plate. Simply press a refrigerated pie crust into the skillet, sprinkle with sugar, top with the pecan mixture, and bake. Serving it in the skillet is also easy makes the dish even more Southern.

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Blackberry-and-Bourbon Cobbler

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Blackberry-and-Bourbon Cobbler Recipe

Every weekend, especially during summer, the Fields family would make their version of cobbler, a cake-y mix of milk, sugar, and self-rising flour poured over fruit. Kelly says sometimes her mom would get "feisty" and add in amaretto. Here, Kelly plays to her own preferences with a bit of bourbon.

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Blackberry-Almond Cobbler

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Blackberry-Almond Cobbler Recipe

Use the darkest, juiciest blackberries you can find to make this gluten-free cobbler. The cornstarch mixed into the fresh fruit acts as a thickener, preventing the filling from becoming too runny.

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Cranberry Apple Pie

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Cranberry Apple Pie Recipe

This old-fashioned apple pie with its old-fashioned pie crust and sweet, tart fruit filling is a great choice for a Thanksgiving dessert. This pie recipe appears in the new Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook published by Oxmoor House.

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Rustic Spiced Peach Tart with Almond Pastry

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Rustic Spiced Peach Tart with Almond Pastry Recipe

When peaches are ripe and juicy, this divine tart from Christy Rost, cookbook author and public television host, goes together quickly and looks fabulous in a cast iron skillet.

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Blueberry Dutch Baby with Lemon Curd

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Blueberry Dutch Baby with Lemon Curd Recipe

This showstopping breakfast "pancake" will amply reward you for making the trip to Laurette Feit's cafe. Or make it at home. Either way, you'll be amazed at the treat's puff.

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Blueberry-Peach Skillet Pie

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Blueberry-Peach Skillet Pie Recipe

Cookbook author and baking expert Julie Hasson loves using her cast iron skillet to bake pie—there's something satisfyingly old-fashioned about it. This pie has no bottom crust, which makes it quick to prepare, perfect for a last-minute dessert.

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Simple Berry Skillet Cobbler

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Simple Berry Skillet Cobbler Recipe

This juicy berry cobbler recipe features fresh or frozen raspberries, but you can make the cobbler with any berries you have on hand, or with peaches.

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Cherry Clafouti

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Cherry Clafouti Recipe

The batter for this traditional French dessert is somewhere between that of a cake and a custard; it most resembles a thick crepe, and it takes no more than 10 minutes to prepare it in the blender.

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Giant Cookie-In-A-Pan

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Giant Cookie-In-A-Pan Recipe

Irresistible to both children and grownups alike, this super-size cookie is filled with chocolate chips and M&Ms and served in wedges. Baking it in a cast-iron skillet is great way to keep the cookie perfectly round.

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Mini Berry Cobblers

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Mini Berry Cobblers Recipe

Use a mixture of blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries in these charming individual desserts.

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie with Salted Caramel

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie with Salted Caramel Recipe

Start with a delicious warm oatmeal chocolate chunk cookie base and take it over the top with fun toppings like caramel or chocolate syrup, sea salt, and vanilla ice cream.

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Fudgy Skillet Cookie

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Fudgy Skillet Cookie Recipe

It doesn't get much better than a giant cookie! While still hot, top with cold scoops of ice cream and invite everyone at the table to dig in.

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Skillet Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Skillet Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Recipe

This old-fashioned upside down cake recipe features pineapple slices that are browned in butter in the bottom of the skillet and then topped with a rich cake batter. This recipe also offers an “express” version that uses cake mix.

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Easy Skillet Apple Pie

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Easy Skillet Apple Pie Recipe

Making an apple pie has never been so easy. Simply toss apples, cinnamon, and brown sugar, and spoon over a refrigerated pie crust in the cast-iron skillet. Top with the other crust and bake.

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Bananas Foster Upside-Down Cake

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Bananas Foster Upside-Down Cake Recipe

Turn the classic Bananas Foster dessert into an upside down cake by placing a layer of bananas, brown sugar, pecans and rum in the bottom of the skillet and topping with a rich cake batter. After baking, you invert the cake so that you have a sweet and buttery banana topping for the cake.

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Cast-Iron Apple Cobbler

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Cast-Iron Apple Cobbler Recipe

This traditional cobbler recipe serves 12 and uses a cast-iron Dutch oven, but you can half the recipe and cook in a 12-inch skillet if you prefer.

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Pineapple-Coconut-Banana Upside-Down Cake

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Pineapple-Coconut-Banana Upside-Down Cake Recipe

Upside-down cakes are classically made in a cast-iron skillet because it gives the cake a crisp edge, cooks it evenly, and keeps it moist. Instead of a pineapple-only cake, this version features coconut and banana and give the cake a more tropical flavor.

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Chocolate Chip Dutch Baby

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Chocolate Chip Dutch Baby Recipe

A Dutch baby is a puffy, baked pancake. This dessert version is sprinkled with chocolate chips and served with a banana mixture flavored with coffee liqueur.

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Upside-Down Apple Tart

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Upside-Down Apple Tart Recipe

Make a simple, rustic apple tart with Granny Smith apples plus a few other ingredients you probably already have on hand: flour, butter, and salt.

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Raspberry-Rhubarb Tart

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Raspberry-Rhubarb Tart Recipe

This 5-ingredient skillet tart has a homemade pastry crust that you make in the food processor and a sweet, tangy filling of fresh raspberries and rhubarb.

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Pineapple Upside-Down Carrot Cake

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Pineapple Upside-Down Carrot Cake Recipe

Upgrade a classic Pineapple Upside-Down Cake by topping the pineapple layer with a carrot cake batter instead of the traditional yellow cake batter.

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Bananas Foster Upside-down Coffee Cake

Bananas Foster Upside-down Coffee Cake Recipe

This decadent coffee cake recipe is inspired by the classic New Orleans dessert and features sautéed bananas, pecans, and a splash of rum. It also has the added convenience of a baking mix (such as Bisquick) that’s enhanced with cinnamon, sugar, eggs, and sour cream.

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Birthday Cake Skillet Cookie

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Birthday Cake Skillet Cookie Recipe

It doesn't have to be your birthday to enjoy this brightly colored sugar cookie. 

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Tarte Tatin

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Tarte Tatin Recipe

In this classic French apple tart, the delicious syrup becomes the topping when the tarte tatin is inverted.

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Upside-Down Caramelized Apple Cake

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Upside-Down Caramelized Apple Cake Recipe

The brown sugar, apple, and pecan mixture that’s cooked in the skillet and then topped with a spiced cake batter become a gooey, rich topping for the cake when it’s inverted.

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More Cast-Iron Skillet Recipes

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For more classic desserts, breads, and main dishes cooked in versatile cast iron pans, see the Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook, Oxmoor House, 2012.

You’ll find treasured family recipes as well as invocative new dishes that are all guaranteed to satisfy.

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1 of 29 Caramel Apple Blondie Pie
2 of 29 Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie
3 of 29 Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie
4 of 29 Blackberry-and-Bourbon Cobbler
5 of 29 Blackberry-Almond Cobbler
6 of 29 Cranberry Apple Pie
7 of 29 Rustic Spiced Peach Tart with Almond Pastry
8 of 29 Blueberry Dutch Baby with Lemon Curd
9 of 29 Blueberry-Peach Skillet Pie
10 of 29 Simple Berry Skillet Cobbler
11 of 29 Cherry Clafouti
12 of 29 Giant Cookie-In-A-Pan
13 of 29 Mini Berry Cobblers
14 of 29 Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie with Salted Caramel
15 of 29 Fudgy Skillet Cookie
16 of 29 Skillet Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
17 of 29 Easy Skillet Apple Pie
18 of 29 Bananas Foster Upside-Down Cake
19 of 29 Cast-Iron Apple Cobbler
20 of 29 Pineapple-Coconut-Banana Upside-Down Cake
21 of 29 Chocolate Chip Dutch Baby
22 of 29 Upside-Down Apple Tart
23 of 29 Raspberry-Rhubarb Tart
24 of 29 Pineapple Upside-Down Carrot Cake
25 of 29 Bananas Foster Upside-down Coffee Cake
26 of 29 Birthday Cake Skillet Cookie
27 of 29 Tarte Tatin
28 of 29 Upside-Down Caramelized Apple Cake
29 of 29 More Cast-Iron Skillet Recipes

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