These ideas and inspiration for easy dessert recipes pave the way to enjoy amazing desserts that are a breeze to prepare. Everyone loves desserts, but they often come with time-consuming prep and difficult recipes. Well, that doesn’t always have to be the case!
Take a look at these ideas and enjoy some amazing dessert.
Dessert Easy Recipe Ideas To Love
1. These Traditional Style Macarons
Who said macarons have to be difficult to prepare! This recipe uses oat flour instead of almond flour, so you get gluten-free and nut-free macarons. The filling is made from marshmallows! These plain white macaroons look so sumptuous and precious!
The oat flour and marshmallow combination is fantastic and gives these macaroons vibes similar to Oatmeal Cream Pie. And that’s another likable aspect for these macaroons.
For this recipe, oat flour is a very compatible substitute to the traditional almond flour. It gives macarons a similar chewy texture and it also grows “feet” during baking macarons. For reference, the feet are the textured rings of flour you see beneath the smooth macaron tops.
2. Chocolate Chip and Toffee Blondies
As inspiration goes, this one is brilliant! These blondies have a wonderful mix of chocolate chips and toffee, making them desirable for anyone who loves these ingredients, plus those who love cookies and blondies! As an additional garnish, it’s got Fleur de sel to give it that wonderful finish and flavor.
Start to finish, the recipe should take about 30 minutes, which is pretty quick for a nice dessert like this one.
It delves well into the butterscotch flavor, which is helped along by chocolate chips and toffee bits. The recipe prefers using fleur de sel as the salt in the batter and the topping, but using any flaked sea salt should be okay and keep the intended flavors intact.
3. Red Wine And Chocolate Cake
This wonderful cake has an intelligent and thoughtful combination at its heart. If red wine and chocolate can pair well together as you enjoy them, then how about bringing them together in a recipe! This creative recipe doesn’t use any flour and combines chocolate and red wine into a wonderfully decadent combination.
Another interesting thing about this dense and fudgy cake – it’s flourless! It’s the other ingredients of this recipe that come together to give it structure and texture. The key ingredients here are unsweetened cocoa powder, chocolate chips, eggs, butter, sugar, a bit of salt, and of course, red wine.
4. The “Burnt” Basque Cheesecake
As you can very well guess, this burnt “Basque” cheesecake isn’t really burnt. It’s that wonderfully colored and textured crust that this cheesecake gets that earns it the name. The bronzed top has a caramelized butter taste, while the center is quite custardy and delicious.
There is no crust for this cheesecake and it also keeps the use of flour to a bare minimum. The focus here is on keeping the cheesecake dense, satiny smooth, and custardy. And that it handles pretty well.
For the most part, the cheesecake is set in the fridge. However, it goes into the oven later to get that brilliant bronzed top. Bake the cheesecake at a very high temperature and let it sit in the oven until you see the caramelized top forming. Once you have the top, you can remove the cheesecake from the oven.
5. Caramel Pudding
Who thought caramel pudding could be so photogenic! Well, props to the cook and photographer on this one. I’m pretty sure this would be as delicious as it looks. Additionally, the caramel sauce adds a nice touch, taking this pudding a step further.
This is a classic pudding recipe. For the pudding, it makes use of condensed milk, milk, eggs, sugar, and a little bit of vanilla extract for the flavor. The caramel sauce is made with sugar and a bit of water. Getting the caramel sauce right forms the heart of this recipe.
For the pudding, it’s better to use steam cooking to ensure even cooking. It also avoids curdling. And finally, use a refrigerator to set the pudding.
6. The Jelly That Is A Cheesecake
There is no baking involved for this cheesecake, because it’s not a cheesecake! This cheesecake lookalike is made from a combination of three types of jelly, giving it a colorful and vibrant look. It also includes some cream cheese and condensed milk to get that texture and style right.
The recipe uses three types of jelly. The ingredients include apple jelly, watermelon jelly crystals, and strawberry jelly crystals. The apple jelly forms the top of the dessert, while the crystals go into the cream cheese mixture.
This combination gives it the unique colors and texture we see in the cream cheese. The jelly crystals are quite the highlight in this sense.
7. The Classic Tiramisu
This classic tiramisu recipe presents a wonderfully deep flavor and has a great texture. It gets that depth of flavor by using coffee-soaked ladyfingers. To clarify, the ladyfinger here shouldn’t be confused with the vegetable called okra. Instead, these are savoiardi, also known as sponge fingers, which are biscuits that are great at absorbing syrups and flavor.
The biscuits don’t get soggy despite absorbing the syrups, adding to the overall texture and taste of the recipe. In fact, these biscuits are pretty good for many no-bake recipes.
8. Berry Fruit Trifle
This refreshingly simple no-bake dessert recipe creatively puts ingredients together for a wonderful look and flavor. You have fresh fruit accompanied blueberry pie filling and strawberry pie filling to get that layered style and look. Add some instant custard for that texture and depth of flavor.
One of the cool things about layered desserts like this is that you can choose the colors to represent the occasion. This particular recipe tries to bring red, white, and blue colors together as a reference to the American flag. That’s quite a way to get patriotic with recipes!
9. These Cream Cookies
When you’ve got love for dessert and a creative mind, you can whip up some amazing recipes. These wonderful cookies are made with cake and instant pudding mix, giving them a wonderful flavor and mouthfeel. But, there’s more goodness here. They’re stuffed with Oreo cookies for that familiar flavor and welcome taste!
Interestingly, the recipe uses a cake mix to bake the cookies. The list of ingredients includes a cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, eggs, crushed Oreos, vanilla baking chips, and mini chocolate chips.
That’s quite an interesting set of ingredients, especially with the cake mix and pudding mix taking centerstage. This approach leads to an excellent texture for the cookies and they look and taste amazing right out the oven!
10. No-Bake Cheesecake
Cheesecake is a wonderful dessert that everyone loves. But it does take some serious preparation and can be difficult to handle for novice cooks. It has only a small list of ingredients and the process itself is simple enough. You’ll need to refrigerate it for several hours to get it right, but it’s time well spent!
I like how this “easy” recipe actually manages to stay easy. The ingredients are easily available and the process is straightforward as can be.
The crust is made from graham crackers, while the other ingredients include cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, cherry pie filling, and a little bit of vanilla essence for that extra flavor boost.
11. Gingerbread Bundt Cake The Easy Way
This recipe is mindblowing in many ways. Getting gingerbread right can be difficult enough but it goes a step further and makes a gingerbread bundt cake. The texture and styling all look wonderful, making this a great pick for indulging your sweet tooth.
The amazing vegan recipe checks several boxes. This one is gluten-free, dairy-free, and can be made without refined sugar. Sweetening for the recipe is handled by honey. Any type of honey can work, but the recipe uses gingerbread honey, which is honey along with some gingerbread spices to keep the flavors going.
12. The Easy Lemon Cream Pie
Look at how great that lemon cream pie looks! This recipe is from an experienced chef, but uses simple ingredients and a straightforward method to deliver a lovely and delicious pie. I like this recipe and the idea because there’s nothing pretentious going on here. The ingredients and the recipe are quite straightforward and laid out in a wonderfully easy way to follow.
The ingredients are sweetened condensed milk, egg yolks, heavy cream, unsalted butter, graham cracker crumbs, fresh lemon juice, and vanilla for a flavor boost.