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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!
Chocolate Coconut Cookies
Chocolate Coconut Cookies are rich and fudgy cocoa cookies, packed with chewy flaked coconut, and studded with semisweet and white chocolate chips. These delicious cookies don’t require a mixer and are ready in just 30 minutes!
S’mores Cookies
S’mores Cookies are loaded with chocolate chips and graham cracker crumbs, topped with mini marshmallows and Hershey’s chocolate. All the classic campfire treat flavors are packed into this quick and easy cookie recipe!
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.
Snickerdoodle Recipe
This Snickerdoodle Recipe produces thick, soft, chewy cookies with perfectly crisp edges and the most wonderful classic cinnamon sugar flavor. You need less than 30 minutes to make these melt-in-your-mouth cookies!
Black and White Chippers
Soft, rich, and slightly chewy, these Black & White Chippers cookies 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!
Thin & Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
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!
Soft & Chewy M&M Cookies
You are going to adore these Soft and Chewy M&M Cookies! 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.
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies are soft and chewy in the middle yet crisp at the edges, studded with white chocolate chips and crunchy macadamia nuts. So delicious and super easy to make, these are the perfect cookies for white chocolate lovers everywhere! You can be enjoying these babies in under 20 minutes!
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 + Cupcakes
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!
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Red Velvet Cupcakes are the epitome of moist, buttery, and tender perfection, with a red velvet flavor that can’t be beat. Topped with a quick and luscious cream cheese frosting, these cupcakes are ideal for Valentine’s Day or any celebration!
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.
Funfetti Sheet Cake
Okay, this one is sort of cheating, because this Funfetti Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is ready in 40 minutes – but it’s still super quick and easy, promise! No one will be able to resist this scrumptious, adorable, sprinkle-filled sheet cake!
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.
Caramel Sauce
Learn How to Make Caramel Sauce WITHOUT a candy thermometer! Takes just 15 minutes and is SO much better than store-bought. Step-by-step instructions so you can make the perfect homemade caramel recipe, perfect for topping ice cream, brownies, or adding to your coffee.
Gooey Chocolate Chunk Blondies
Ultra-flavored 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 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!
Brown Butter Rice Crispy Treats
Brown Butter Rice Crispy Treats are crispy, sticky, and gooey. The Brown Butter gives these classic treats a fun, updated twist, bringing a delicious nuttiness to the sticky deliciousness! These babies are super quick and easy to make – but they do require a little cooling time, so they will take a little longer than 35 minutes from start to serving.
Which quick, easy dessert recipe will you try next? Let me know in the comments below!
