“What can I carry?” is usually our automated response to a vacation dinner invitation. Round Thanksgiving, the reply is incessantly, “Are you able to carry a dessert?” It’s an incredible task—everybody loves dessert, and even when you arrive a bit of late, you haven’t ruined dinner.

What’s not so nice is worrying whether or not the dessert you fastidiously made will nonetheless look nearly as good when it arrives because it did when it left your kitchen. These 10 desserts journey effectively, holding up superbly on the dessert desk—a minimum of till somebody digs in and says, “That is sooooo scrumptious!”