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Serving hint: What goes best with coffee-flavored desserts? More coffee of course! Set up a coffee bar with all the mixers and extras to accompany and complement your caffeinated sweets.

8. Healthy Choice

If your idea of something sweet is nothing more than a bowl of fruit, you don't have to skip over the dessert course. For a fresh, healthy option, do strawberries and cream in the summertime, or apple slices with caramel dip in the fall.

Serving hint: Serve it family-style. Have your caterer create fruit plates with ramekins filled with dip so that guests can dig in after dinner.

9. Homemade Cookies

Order your favorites like old-fashioned oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, and chocolate chip. Then mix in a few exotic ones like pecan praline, maple snickerdoodles, and macadamia nut white chocolate. Mom has a secret cookie recipe? See if your caterer can make it.

Serving hint: You can't have cookies without milk. Get old-fashioned mini glass milk bottles for your guests to grab and chug.

10. Decadent Chocolate

It's hard to resist anything chocolate. Imagine double-chocolate cookies, rich truffles, and chocolate mousse cups. The key here is to vary the texture. So serve a chocolate dessert that's cake-like, another that's dense and chewy, and another that's rich and perfect for dipping.

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