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I love desserts. I love easy recipes. Put those together for easy dessert recipes, and I’m in heaven.
I have compiled some of the easiest dessert recipes on the site in one convenient spot. All these easy dessert recipes come together in 35 minutes or less. Plus, most of these recipes also call for ingredients you may already have in your pantry!
These recipes are super simple to whip up for any potluck, party, or get-together.
Your friends and family will seriously LOVE any of these recipes, and they’ll have no idea how easy the dessert actually was for you to bake.
So, which easy dessert are you going to try first?!
Easy Dessert Recipes: Cookies
Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies
My go-to recipe, these Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies are perfectly tender and soft with just the right amount of chewiness. They only take 15 minutes of prep time! Perfect for any potlucks or family gatherings.
Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Get ready to find your new favorite cookie ever! Ultra-thick Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies feature golden brown edges, ooey and gooey centers, and loads of chocolate chips. This easy recipe can be made in 30 minutes.
Glazed Lemon Cookies
My Glazed Lemon Cookies feature buttery, citrusy, soft, and perfectly sweet cookies topped with a lemon glaze. These are the best lemon cookies that come together quickly, contain simple ingredients, and don’t even require chilling. So sunshine-y and bright that they’ll put a smile on your face, no matter the temperature outside!
Peanut Butter Cookies
These Peanut Butter Cookies are my favorite peanut butter cookie recipe! No dough chilling required for these easy cookies, and they’re sure to satisfy any peanut butter craving.
Black and White Chippers
Soft, rich, and slightly chewy, these are the ultimate chocolaty treat with bits of white chocolate morsels sprinkled throughout. You’ll love this Paradise Bakery copycat cookie.
Crispy Gingersnaps
Classic Crispy Gingersnaps are the perfect easy cookie! Thin and crunchy with the perfect taste of molasses and spice, this easy homemade recipe takes only 30 minutes to make!
Quick and easy Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfect for when you’re craving that satisfying crunch in a cookie. Deliciously crisp with the perfect amount of chocolate chips, just like Tate’s!
You are going to adore these ! They’re nice and big like your favorite bakery cookies, with tons of flavor and packed full of M&Ms – and you can’t beat that soft, chewy texture. Plus, they’re SO quick and easy to make.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are big, thick, chewy, and soft and loaded with peanut butter and chocolate chips. They are outrageously good! No stand mixer required.
Chai Sugar Cookies
Easy Chai Sugar Cookies are thick, soft, loaded with sweet warm spices like cinnamon and ginger, and topped with a drizzle of simple espresso glaze. Perfect 30-minute recipe!
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Thick, chewy, and soft, these Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are bursting with ooey gooey chocolate goodness that everyone will love. You could also use raisins instead of chocolate chips, if you prefer. So good, and so quick to put together and bake!
Soft Batch Double Chocolate Cookies
Soft Batch Double Chocolate Cookies are sinfully thick, rich, gooey, and loaded with an almost obscene amount of chocolate! The perfect easy dessert recipe to satisfy any chocolate craving.
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy, and a little gooey and take just minutes to make from scratch! Such a fun peanut butter cookie recipe.
Giant Reese’s Pieces Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bakery-quality Giant Reese’s Pieces Chocolate Chip Cookies are thick, chewy, soft, and deliciously chunky. An incredible combination of peanut butter and chocolate! No chill time required, so you can enjoy warm cookies straight from the oven in 30 minutes.
Soft Batch Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
These Soft Batch Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies are incredibly tender and loaded with fresh lemon flavor from both lemon juice and lemon zest. Such a refreshing, easy dessert recipe!
Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies
This copycat homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies recipe brings back the best childhood memories of biting into an ultra-chewy cookie with a rich creamy filling. They’re surprisingly easy and satisfying to make from scratch!
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies are ultra ooey-gooey, with two secret ingredients (cornstarch and cream cheese!) to keep them ultra soft and tender. You won’t be able to resist these delicious treats.
Easy Dessert Recipes: Cakes
Easy Chocolate Sheet Cake
Easy Chocolate Sheet Cake with simple fudge frosting takes just minutes to prepare and doesn’t even require an electric mixer. This chocolate cake has the best texture and flavor. You can get as creative as you’d like with your toppings, from sprinkles to candies to shredded coconut to marshmallows – you name it!
Salted Caramel Apple Sheet Cake
Salted Caramel Apple Sheet Cake features an ultra-tender, slightly spongey cinnamon apple cake, topped with a thick and shiny salted caramel glaze. The perfect easy dessert recipe for serving a crowd!
Chocolate Lava Cakes
Chocolate Lava Cakes are made with just 7 ingredients and have rich molten chocolate centers. So easy to make, and the cake batter can be made ahead of time! Serve with fresh strawberries or raspberries and whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, for the ultimate easy yet impressive dessert recipe.
More Easy Dessert Recipes
Fudge Stuffed Blondies
Fudge Stuffed Blondies are insanely rich and gooey, with a hidden layer of easy chocolate fudge inside every bite! Simple 35-minute easy dessert recipe.
Gooey Chocolate Chunk Blondies
Ultra flavorful Gooey Chocolate Chunk Blondies are ridiculously chewy, gooey, and absolutely loaded with chunks of chocolate. 35 minutes, no mixer required. One of my absolute favorite easy dessert recipes!
Homemade Toffee Bits
Just 3 ingredients + 15 minutes and you have Homemade Toffee Bits from scratch! They’re absolutely amazing in cookie dough, brownies, sprinkled over vanilla ice cream, or just enjoyed as a sweet snack. Seriously so good.
Homemade Scones
How to Make Perfect Scones better than your favorite coffee shop, ready in just 35 minutes! Easy scone recipe that is ultra buttery, flaky, and flavorful. Easier than you might expect, and so tasty.
Nutella Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Treats
Nutella Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Treats are an indulgent spin on the classic American dessert. A super easy no-bake dessert recipe using just a few ingredients!
Which quick, easy dessert recipe will you try next?
Let me know in the comments below!
