About Easy Southern Desserts

Homemade Southern desserts you can bake with confidence.

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

Easy Southern Desserts exists to help home bakers create homemade Southern desserts they can trust, and feel proud to share.

Whether you’re baking a classic pecan pie for Thanksgiving, bringing banana pudding to a neighborhood cookout, or making a peach cobbler just because it’s peach season, you’ll find recipes that are approachable, dependable, and designed to work in a real home kitchen.

Because Southern baking isn’t about perfection. It’s about creating something special with simple ingredients, sharing it with the people you love, and carrying traditions from one generation to the next.

What you’ll find here

Every recipe is created with one goal in mind: helping you bake with confidence.

That means you’ll find:

• Classic Southern desserts alongside fresh takes on familiar favorites.
• Thoroughly tested recipes that are clear, dependable, and easy to follow.
• Practical baking tips that remove the guesswork.
• Seasonal inspiration built around the ingredients and traditions that make Southern baking so special.
• Desserts that are made to be shared, at family dinners, potlucks, holidays, celebrations, and everyday moments alike.

Whether you’re an experienced baker or trying your first homemade pie crust, the goal is the same: to help you create desserts you’ll be excited to put on the table.

Why Southern baking?

Southern desserts have a way of turning simple ingredients into unforgettable memories.

Some of the most beloved recipes have been passed from kitchen to kitchen for generations. Not because they’re complicated, but because they’re dependable, generous, and made to be shared.

Easy Southern Desserts celebrates those traditions while making them approachable for today’s home baker, proving that homemade desserts don’t have to feel intimidating to become family favorites.

Meet Barbara

Easy Southern Desserts was created by Barbara Curry, lifelong Southern baker and creator of Butter & Baggage.

After years of developing trusted Southern recipes for home cooks, Barbara wanted to create a dedicated place celebrating the very best part of every meal—dessert.

Her philosophy is simple: recipes should be thoroughly tested, easy to follow, and worth making again and again.

→ Meet Barbara and learn more about her story.