Easy Dessert Recipes

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Looking for simple, hassle-free dessert recipes? These easy cakes, pies, fudge, donuts, and more recipes are perfect for busy days and nights when you don’t want to be soured on the idea of making a sweet treat. They’re also a great option for potlucks or parties. Made with only a few common ingredients, they’re a great option for seasoned and beginner cooks alike. Even the kids can help!

Collage of four desserts; Store bought cookies into smores, funetti cake dip with animal cookies and teddy grahams, oreo fluff, and smores cake mix cookies.

Everybody loves dessert! Especially my kids. Okay, and me. It’s just the perfect end to a great meal. But sometimes, making dessert in addition to a whole dinner can be tough and, well, kind of a hassle. That’s why I love these easy dessert recipes found below. They’re quick, simple, and hassle-free. And, of course, they’re all delicious!

Some of them even require only 2 ingredients! Perfect for potlucks, holiday meals, or just because you deserve a little something sweet after a hard day. Some of them are so easy that you can just get the kids themselves to make them while you sit back and watch.

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In this post, I’ve gathered some of my favorite simple and delicious dessert recipes together here to share with you. We’ve got everything from cookies, cakes, and pies to donuts, brownies, fudge, and more. Serve them as a special finish to a simple weeknight meal, or make them for parties or potlucks. Everyone always brings a dip to potlucks.

Chocolate frosting next to peanut butter

2 Ingredient Dessert Recipes

Sure this whole post is about easy recipes. But there are none easier than these 2-ingredient dessert recipes. That’s right, 2 ingredients! And you won’t believe how delicious they are. And most of them, the kids can make themselves! (With some supervision, of course.)

Check out my other post for even more amazing 2-ingredient dessert recipes.

Can of pumpkin and brownie mix on a table

Peanut Butter Dessert Recipes

Sure, chocolate is probably number 1 in popular desserts, but for me, peanut butter is the premier dessert choice. Especially when paired with chocolate! Cookies, pies, or cups, these easy peanut butter dessert recipes will have you coming back for more.

Speaking of more, there are loads more delicious peanut butter dessert recipes in my Peanut Butter Desserts post. For now, here are a few simple ones for you to go nuts over.

Fudgey Peanut Butter Cocoa No Bakes

These No Bakes Fudgey Peanut Butter Cocoa are a huge treat in the house year-round! I love I don't have to heat the house to make them!!

Check out this recipe

No bake Chocolate Oatmeal cookies stacked on a white plate

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Homemade Peanut Butter Cup is a huge hit in our house!! These are going to be great in the summer as no oven is needed and its amazing served cold!!

Check out this recipe

Homemade peanut butter cups with a bite out of it with moer behind it

Easy Peanut Butter Pie

Easy peanut butter pie is the perfect no bake dessert to make for holiday dinners or any other time of year. Plus as a frozen pie, it's easy to prep early. Also perfect for summer bbqs!!

Check out this recipe

Peanut Butter Pie Served on a plate drizzled with chocolate syrup

Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

These Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls are the perfect no-bake dessert to make ahead any time of the year! Plus they make a great gift to give to loved ones as well!

Check out this recipe

Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls sliced open on a cutting board

2 Ingredient Fudge a Simple Dessert

This 2 Ingredient Fudge is a quick and easy dessert to make!!! A frugal easy no bake dessert that is perfect to give as a gift or to make at home for a sweet treat as well.

Check out this recipe

2 Ingredient Peanut Butter Fudge made with frosting and peanut butter cut into squares on a cutting board

Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe

This Chocolate Peanut Butter frosting recipe is sure to be a hit with Peanut Butter or chocolate fanatics in your house! Perfect for any cake or brownies!

Check out this recipe

Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter frosting being mixed in a mixing bowl with a electric hand mixer.

Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Ritz

These Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Ritz are perfect to make. They make great gifts for friends and neighbors, plus they are perfect at potlucks!

Check out this recipe

chocolate peanut butter ritz crackers on wasx paper

Delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipes

This Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Recipe is full of amazing peanut butter cookie flavor and a peanut butter cup! Made with muffin tins they are amazing!

Check out this recipe

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Cut open on a plate

Potluck Dessert Recipes

Potlucks are a great option to showcase these simple desserts. Wow, the crowd with these delicious potluck desserts while you shock them with how easy they were to make. I always like to make a double batch of these recipes whenever I’m bringing them to a gathering so nobody misses out.

You can find even more delicious dessert recipes for potlucks in my post Best Potluck Dessert Recipes.

Can of crushed pineapple next to a box of angel food cake mix

Angel Food Cake Desserts

There is no cake quite like Angel Food Cake. So light and airy, but homemade angel food cake is not exactly the easiest cake to make from scratch. Thank heaven there are easy box cake versions available at most grocery stores.

These divine 2-ingredient recipes each use angel food cake box mix as half the recipe. It’s almost a sin how easy they are.

Check here for more devilishly delicious angel food cake recipes.

Oreo Fluff served in a large bowl with whole oreos as garnish

Oreo Dessert Recipes

Everyone loves Oreos. And sure, the classic cream-filled cookie is excellent on its own, but you might be surprised just how versatile it can be in different desserts. I’ve listed a couple of my favorites below, but you can also check out this post with a wide variety of great desserts made with Oreos.

Cake Mix Cookies

Cake mix cookies are the best! They’re simpler to make than regular cookies with easy cleanup and even easier measuring. I love making these with my kids. They’re practically foolproof, so they’re great for beginner bakers of all ages.

Click for even more simple cake mix cookie recipes.

Funfettii Cake batter cookie with a bite out in front of a stack of cookies

Holiday Desserts

Holidays call for all pumpkin desserts and all the nice desserts to serve with the big dinner! These recipes will be a hit with the family and all your friends!