5 Craveable Comfort Food Mash-Ups

Why indulge in one classic dish when you can enjoy two of your favorite foods at once? We fused 10 iconic comfort foods into five over-the-top recipes.

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Icebox Doughnut Birthday Cake

This fabulous funfetti cake –– which fuses two celebratory desserts –– is made using only six ingredients (including sprinkles and sugar). Simply layer a springform pan with your favorite store-bought doughnuts and a cream-cheese-cream-vanilla mixture, then let your fridge work its layer-melding, cake-making magic.

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Four-Cheese Lasagna Meatloaf

What makes this meaty lasagna different than your typical beef-and-cheese pasta dish? It contains dense layers of herbed meatloaf slices, enhancing the dish's throwback-to-Mom's-kitchen feel. And what's even better? The medley of four cheeses surrounds every meatloaf chunk, preventing them from drying out like so many of your childhood dinners.

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French Onion Soup Mac 'n' Cheese

This soupy, crouton-topped casserole at once solves a common cooking quandary (mac and cheese too dry?) and fulfills our greatest comfort food wishes by combining the cheesy pasta with the indulgent cheese-and-bread-covered, onion broth-filled crocks.

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Caesar Salad with Pizza Croutons

Caesar salad and cheesy pies are often served side by side at Italian-American pizza joints. This salad merges the two popular foods in the form of a classically creamy salad topped with miniature pizza-flavored croutons. The doughy triangles are dusted with our magical sun-dried tomato-Parmesan-spice mixture, which perfectly captures pizza's complex combination of flavors.

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Carrot Cheesecake Whoopie Pies

Sandwich a rich cream cheese filling –– instead of the expected frothy whipped center –– between carrot cake-like sandwich halves to ascend to new levels of dessert consumption. Roll the carrot-flecked whoopie pies in chopped pecans to mirror the nut-topped classic cake.

Get the Recipe: Carrot-Cheesecake Whoopie Pies