45 Easy Dessert Recipes For When You Need A Quick Sugar Fix (2024)

This easy recipe makes a rich and creamy vanilla cheesecake for one, topped with fresh raspberries. The best part? No need for a water bath!

Recipe:5-Minute Microwave Cheesecake

Use store-bought pie crust sprinkled with butter, cinnamon, and sugar to make these adorable mini desserts. Serve with a simple powdered sugar glaze for dipping.

Recipe:Mini Cinnamon Roll Bites

This single-serve marshmallow treat takes just 30 seconds to make in the microwave for a nostalgic taste of your childhood. Sweet!

Recipe:Microwave Marshmallow Treats

For the ultimate dessert for chocolate lovers, layer cookie dough, chocolate sandwich cookies, and brownie batter in a pan, then bake to gooey, fudgy perfection.

Recipe: Triple Decker Brownies

Party for one! Celebrate any day of the year with this easy single-serve mug cake that bakes up in the microwave in under two minutes.

Recipe: Birthday Cake Mug Cake

Who says easy can't be fancy? This rich chocolate mousse comes together in a snap with just a few ingredients. Spoon into pretty bowls or glasses for a classy touch.

Recipe: Chocolate Mousse

This three-ingredient dessert couldn't be easier or more decadent. Stack mini peanut butter cups and marshmallows in a skillet, bake until toasted and melty, then dig in with graham crackers.

Recipe: Peanut Butter S'mores Dip

Craving something warm and chocolatey? This lava cake takes just about a minute to bake up in the microwave.

Recipe: Microwave Chocolate Lava Cake

The secret to easy cookies? Use a box of cake mix for the dry ingredients, then adjust the wet ingredients for the proper texture.

Recipe: Red Velvet Box Cookies

Here, a single tablespoon of gelatin ensures that this cheesecake can hold on its own and not collapse into a mushy mess, even at room temperature.

Recipe:No-Bake Cookies and Cream Cheesecake

If we're going to suggest a chocolate chip cookie recipe, we're going to recommend you the best. This one opts for chocolate chunks for an even gooier ooze with every bite.

Recipe:The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you're making your own peanut butter cups, you may as well personalize them. For example, try using crunchy peanut butter instead of smooth, or even Nutella. Or, for a bit of crunch, add some crushed graham crackers into the peanut butter mix.

Recipe:3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cups

With the right recipe, even a multi-part dessert like macarons can be achieved beautifully and without a hitch.

Recipe:Classic Macarons

One cup of peanut butter, an egg, and 100 grams of sugar is all it takes to make this batch of scrumptious peanut butter cookies.

Recipe:3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

You never forget the intensely sweet, velvety, and mildly tart flavor of a lemon bar — at least not with this recipe.

Recipe:Lemon Meringue Bars

Oreos or any other chocolate sandwich cookies with a creme center make a great base for these truffles.

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If you've never made a pie from scratch, then this is a great beginner recipe that anyone can nail. If you're feeling creative, you can even try different designs for a decorative top crust.

Recipe:Apple Pie from Scratch

The humble mug is the gateway to so many easy dessert recipes, just like this chocolate cake. Just dump flour, sugar, milk, cocoa and baking powder, and vegetable oil into a mug and microwave.

Recipe:Chocolate Mug Cake

When you have overripe bananas, what do you do but make banana bread? Here, you don't need more than a couple of household ingredients to finish out the recipe.

Recipe:Banana Bread

You know the saying, "The journey is the destination." Well, turns out the saying also applies to desserts, and especially to cookie dough.

Recipe:Edible Cookie Dough 4 Ways

These sugar cookies are great for kids, for people who don't have the patience for a bake time longer than eight minutes, and everyone who agrees that sugar cookies are one of the best comfort foods out there.

Recipe:The Softest Sugar Cookies Ever

The trifecta of hand-grated carrots, raisins, and canned crushed pineapple work together to give this cake its distinctive moist texture.

Recipe:Classic Carrot Cake

Soft, fudgy, and extremely dense, this classic Swedish cake is great with fresh whipped cream, ice cream, or even a handful of ripe berries on top.

Recipe:Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake (Kladdkaka)

Don't have a piping bag handy? You can easily make one using a piece of parchment paper or Ziploc bag.

Recipe:Baked Churro Bites

There's something about recreating your usual breakfast of Greek yogurt and berries in a cupcake liner that somehow makes it feel way more indulgent.

Recipe:Froyo Fruit Cups

If you're the self-declared sweet tooth of the group, then look no further than these buckeyes. They're rich, chocolatey, and perfect for polishing off a meal with.

Recipe:No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls (Buckeyes)

Refreshing, simple, and the best pick-me-up on a warm afternoon.

Recipe:Strawberry 2-Ingredient Sorbet

Learn to make your favorite Starbucks treat, and you'll never leave your house again.

Recipe:Lemon Loaf Cake

Greek yogurt, whole wheat flour, and light cream cheese make this a lighter variation of the original recipe. But not to worry — the cake is 100% the same rich, moist, and sweet flavor you know and love.

Recipe:Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins

Working with sprinkles, all the colors you love, and an easy recipe means you'll honestly feel more like you're making art than cookies.

Recipe:Sugar Swirl Cookies

Lemon-flavored desserts deserve a whole dessert roundup of their own, but for now, here's this lemon bundt cake. It's aesthetically beautiful, easy to make, and made abundantly moist with a double layer of glaze and icing.

Recipe:Lemon Bundt Cake

Sometimes, the greatest things in life are the simplest. Just like these birthday cake mix cookies, which enjoy a little upgrade from white chocolate chunks.

Recipe:Birthday Cake Mix Cookies

Make sure to fry these doughnuts in moderately hot oil or you'll risk burning their outsides before the insides are cooked.

Recipe:Classic Glazed Donuts

Add a bit of Stevia and reduce the amount of cream cheese if you want to sweeten these strawberry cream cheese bites while keeping them low-carb.

Recipe:Strawberry Cream Cheese Bites

Heavy cream, condensed milk, and crushed chocolate sandwich cookies are all it takes to make your very own cookies 'n' cream ice cream.

Recipe:Cookies ‘n’ Cream Ice Cream

If you're looking for a crowd-pleasing dessert to bring to your office or classroom, then this no-bake cheesecake that uses Nutella as its base will do the trick. It requires zero baking and can be made with just a few pantry staples.

Recipe:No-Bake Nutella Cheesecake

This is also a great way to finally try out your broiler. And quick tip: Leave the oven door slightly ajar so that the body of the dessert doesn't actually cook.

Recipe:Homemade Crème Brûlée

Fudgy, chewy, sweet, and rich, these brownies will quickly become your go-to dessert for those impromptu sugar cravings.

Recipe:The Best Fudgy Brownies

This recipe might take a little extra time than other desserts, but it's actually pretty easy and totally worth the three-layered result.

Recipe:Peaches 'N' Cream Cheesecake

With a sheet of puff pastry, some butter, and a bit of sugar, anyone can make these French treats that look more complicated than they actually are to make.

Recipe:Palmier Cookies

As one person who tried the recipe recommends: Double the amount of graham crust you make so you have enough to cover the entire baking pan.

Recipe:Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

If you love peanut butter, then this no-bake cheesecake will taste like a dessert fantasy come true.

Recipe:No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Everyone knows frying is a very delicate process where dough can burn in the blink of an eye. Instead of trying to time how long you should fry these beignets for, simply flip them and take them out when both sides are a light golden brown.

Recipe:Beignets

If you have a tray of blueberries that are a day away from going bad, then this recipe is for you. Depending on how ripe those berries are, you may even consider reducing the amount of extra sugar you add to this recipe.

Recipe:Blueberry Blondies

Flatten these cookies before you place them in the oven, as the dough won't spread too much otherwise.

Recipe:The Best Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies