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Mini Donuts
What sweet trends were served up this year? Click through to find after-dinner inspiration for a formal event, a casual gathering, and everything in between.
Cinnamon-sugar mini donuts with caramel dipping sauce and hot apple cider with cinnamon stir sticks were perfect for an autumn wedding.
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Cronuts!
The unofficial dessert craze of 2013, these flaky, buttery confections are half croissant, half doughnut, and 100 percent delicious.
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Creme Brulee Tower
Rows and columns of créme brulee pots offered every guest a chance to experience this couple's favorite dessert.
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Mini Pie Bar
Flavors, which were identified via mini flags, included apple, sour cherry, peach, blueberry, and strawberry rhubarb.
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Cupcake Tower
A sweet spread of homemade red velvet, carrot cheesecake, and chocolate cream cheese cupcakes was topped with a small strawberry and cheesecake cake.
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Marshmallow Triplets
Homemade marshmallows were dressed in a pastel palette, then stacked three high and speared with a cute toothpick.
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Sporty Macarons
In honor of the 2013 US Open, Epicerie Boulud's pastry chef Mymi Eberhardt created tennis-themed lemon macarons with lemon-marshmallow and fresh raspberry filling.
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Personal-Size Shortcakes
The traditional desset sandwiched fresh berries with rose-water cream.
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S'mores Bars
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds offered multiple dessert options, including s'mores bars by Bakehouse Charleston (complete with pretty wrappers).
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Mousse Pots
Coffee beans topped dark chocolate mousse as part of the delicious dessert spread by Patisserie Flindt.