11 Delicious Reese Witherspoon Recipes We'll Never Stop Making (with Southern Vibes!)

Wed, April 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC

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Slice of sour cream cake on plate.

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Reese Witherspoon is known for her award-winning acting in classic films such as Legally Blonde and Walk the Line, but she also loves to throw down in the kitchen. The Hollywood star came out with a cookbook in 2018 titled Whiskey in a Teacup, featuring recipes passed down from her grandmother Dorothea as well as life lessons she learned while growing up in Tennessee.

From Southern classics like buttermilk biscuits to comforting go-to weeknight meals like Reese’s hearty cornbread chili pie, we’ve cooked through many of her delicious savory recipes. And her desserts are pretty spectacular, too. From her Grandma’s sour cream cake to mud pie trifles that are deceptively easy to make, here are 11 of our favorite Reese Witherspoon recipes.

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Sour Cream Cake

Reese’s sour cream cake is a solid choice for dessert, with its beautiful layers, flavors, and textures. We quite literally couldn’t get enough of the delicious brown sugar praline frosting.

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Mud Pie Trifle

Reese is totally onto something with this stunning dessert that looks super elegant but is actually incredibly easy to make. She starts with a boxed mix for the chocolate cake, then layers it with chocolate pudding, Cool Whip, and Oreo crumbles. Think of it as a potluck favorite dressed up for a dinner party.

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Grandma Dorothea’s Corn Salad

Reese’s grandma Dororthea “was against two things: picking corn more than a day before you eat it and refrigerating a tomato.” So this salad shines with fresh, in-season corn and tomatoes. The sweet crunch of the kernels combined with ripe, juicy tomatoes, zippy dressing, and fragrant herbs is the kind of dish that defines summer.

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Applesauce Cake

The star of this applesauce cake is the caramel icing that takes it from just plain good to 100% delicious. It’s deliciously moist and reminiscent of coffee cake, so we think its perfectly acceptable to enjoy a slice with your morning coffee.

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Green Smoothie

Reese revealed she drinks this green smoothie everyday on her Instagram, after getting inspo from other famous actress, Kerry Washington. It’s packed with your daily dose of fruits and veggies — apple, pear, banana, spinach, lettuce, lemon, and coconut water — but you can tailor it to your liking.

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