16 Easy Dessert Recipes
Whether you’re adding a sweet treat to your child’s lunchbox or craving a quick snack to satisfy your sweet tooth, these easy desserts like my Classic Banana Bread and Easy Fudge Brownies use pantry-staple ingredients and are simple enough to make even on your busiest weekday!
TOP RATED EASY DESSERT RECIPES
BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is your new go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe! It’s no chill, mixed by hand, and these cookies are ready in 30 minutes. These chocolate chip cookies turn out soft and gooey on the inside and crisp and chewy on the outside.
Classic Banana Bread
This classic banana bread is incredibly moist, soft, and full of rich banana flavor. Made with ripe bananas, melted butter, Greek yogurt, and a hint of cinnamon, it bakes into the perfect loaf with a tender crumb and golden sticky top.
Easy Fudge Brownies
Influenced by the rising cost of chocolate, this easy brownie recipe gets its chocolate richness from just cocoa powder. Along with a few pantry-staple ingredients, you likely already have everything you need to bake these!
Brown Sugar Berry Crumble Bars
These berry crumble bars have the most delicious and jammy triple berry filling with a sweet and buttery brown sugar crumble! They’re so quick and easy to make and are the perfect way to celebrate berry season.
EASY COOKIE RECIPES
The BEST Snickerdoodles
We’re talking rich European-style butter that’s half browned, adding a light toffee flavor without overpowering the signature snickerdoodle flavor. They also spread evenly but remain SUPER rich and buttery with every bite.
Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies
These soft frosted sugar cookies are WAY better than Lofthouse! Made with a combination of butter and oil, the cookies are super tender and soft throughout. They’re then topped with a smooth vanilla butter cream and, of course, sprinkles!
Monster Cookies
These monster cookies definitely live up to the name! They’re thick, soft, and loaded with M&M’s and chocolate chips. This recipe is so easy to make and it even includes a secret ingredient to enhance the flavor and texture.
Salted Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
These oatmeal raisin cookies check all the boxes as they’re full of flavor, easy to make, and incorporate a few baker-secrets to take these to the next level. You’re going to love these perfectly chewy oatmeal raisin cookies!
EASY BARS AND BROWNIES
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These brown butter chocolate chip cookie bars are dense, soft, chewy, and loaded with melty chocolate chips! The brown butter gives them a rich toffee-like flavor and a sprinkle of sea salt on top helps bring out the chocolate even more.
Wild Blueberry Crumble Bars
These wild blueberry crumble bars have perfectly thin layers of buttery crumble and jammy lemon blueberry filling! They’re so quick, easy, and since they’re so thin, they cool quickly and are ready to slice in under 2 hours!
Healthy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Bars
These banana bread bars are the perfect way to use up ripe bananas – made with simple ingredients and are completely vegan, gluten free, and naturally sweetened. These banana bread bars make the perfect lunchbox dessert!
Healthier Scotcheroos
These healthier scotcheroos are refined sugar free, gluten free, and made without corn syrup. Using organic honey, coconut sugar, and brown rice cereal, this scotcheroo recipe is a modern twist on a classic dessert.
EASY NO BAKE DESSERTS
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
These homemade peanut butter cups taste just like a Reese’s, but without any processed ingredients. These cups are healthy, gluten free, vegan, and refined sugar free. You won’t go back to store-bought Reese’s after trying these!
Chocolate Mug Cake
This chocolate mug cake is rich, soft, and incredibly fudgy with deep chocolate flavor in every bite. Made in one mug with simple pantry ingredients, it’s the perfect quick dessert for when you need a chocolate dessert fast.
Lemon Puppy Chow
Crispy cereal is coated in creamy white chocolate and fresh lemon zest, then tossed with crushed lemon cookies and dry lemon pudding mix for the ultimate sweet summer snack mix. It tastes like lemon cookies and muddy buddies in one easy no-bake treat.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Treats
These easy no bake marshmallow treats are like extra gooey rice krispie treats with chocolate and peanut butter melted in! They’re so quick to make but yield a thick and rich marshmallow treat that tastes way better than any basic version.
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Meet Jenna
I’m the creator, baker, and photographer behind Butternut Bakery. Here I share desserts for every diet because I believe everyone should have a chance to indulge!
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