45+ Delicious Mini Desserts That Are Bite-Size, And You Don´t Need To Share

The best mini desserts to bake when size matters. Whether you're looking for petit fours to serve after dinner or putting together a dessert table of bite-sized treats, perhaps looking for easy bite size desserts for parties, I have all the mini dessert recipes you need.

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• Best Mini Dessert Recipes
• 1. Apple Roses
• 2. Pecan Snowball Cookies
• 3. No Bake Cheesecake Bites
• 4. Edible Cookie Dough
• 5. Beignets
• 6. Lemon Ricotta Cookies
• 7. No Bake Cookies
• 8. Chouquettes
• 9. Choux Au Craquelin
• 10. Eclairs
• 11. How To Make Macarons
• 12. Mini carrot cakes
• 13. Mini Tart Shells
• 14. Classic Madeleines
• 15. Mini Blueberry Muffins
• 16. Mini Pie Crust
• 17. Mini Brownie Bites
• 18. Banana Mini Muffins
• 19. Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tarts
• 20. Mini Bundt Cakes
• 21. Pie Crust Cookies
• 22. Pumpkin Hand Pies
• 23. White Chocolate Covered Strawberries
• 24. Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cake
• 25.  Mini Tiramisu Cups
• 26. Financiers
• 27. Chocolate Bonbon With Hazelnut
• 28. Mini Pavlova
• 29. Mini Cranberry Tarts
• 30. Mini Caramel S'mores Cakes
• 31. Peach Pie Pops
• 24. Mini Key Lime Pies
• 32. Mini Caramel Apple Pies
• 33. Mini Chocolate Tarts
• 34. Mini Red Velvet Cakes
• 35. Mini Strawberry and Vanilla Ice Cream Cakes
• 36. Mini Cheesecake Brûlée
• 37. Mini Chocolate Peanut Butter Pies
• 38. Two-Bite Lemon Meringue Pies
• 39. Mini Pavlovas with Blood Orange Curd
• 40. Blueberry Pie Cookies
• 41. Soft Mini Funfetti Cookies
• 42. Dark Chocolate Financiers
• 43. Chocolate Hazelnut Friands
• 44. Lavender Earl Grey Madeleines
• 45. Rocky Road Bites
• 46. Lemon Curd Tartlets
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• 45+ Delicious Mini Desserts That Are Bite-Size, And You Don´t Need To Share

They might be tiny, but bite-sized desserts, cocktail party sweet canapes, and mini cakes can still pack a flavorful punch. After all, the best things come in small packages. These easy recipes for mini desserts are all reliable and trustworthy, as well as cute and delicious. And in my view, making smaller desserts means you can eat more of them, which is always a plus!

Best Mini Dessert Recipes

1. Apple Roses

These dainty apple puff pastry roses must surely be one of the prettiest mini desserts you've ever seen. What's more, they are so easy to make. Follow my step-by-step tutorial to get perfectly sweet and juicy mini desserts that look like you bought them in a fancy patisserie.

2. Pecan Snowball Cookies

Serve these dainty treats at parties or wrap them up as gifts; they are so versatile. Also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cookies, snowball cookies only use 6 simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry.

3. No Bake Cheesecake Bites

Now, I seriously love cheesecake. But if you need something small and bite-sized, it doesn't always work. Enter cheesecake bites! Individual, tiny cheesecakes that have all the rich cream cheese flavor, fruity burst and crunchy crust, but in miniature form.

4. Edible Cookie Dough

What can be better than cookies? Cookie dough! You don't even have to bake this recipe, yet you get all the benefits. Cookie dough that is soft, chewy and delicious is studded with chocolate chips to make a super addictive mini dessert.

5. Beignets

Fry small pillows of brioche dough and dust them with powdered sugar, and you will make beignets. A classic French treat that is worth a little bit of extra effort! Each bite is super soft and sweet, yet perfectly balanced, and the texture is out of this world.

6. Lemon Ricotta Cookies

If you have never baked with ricotta, this is your sign to do it. The moisture it gives to baked goods is really amazing, and this lemon ricotta cookie recipe is a mini dessert you should definitely try next.

7. No Bake Cookies

This mini dessert recipe does not require an oven or peanut butter. Tasty, no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies are the perfect dessert or snack to make, or leftovers can even be served as a grab-and-go breakfast. I can never keep these in the house long enough, though.

8. Chouquettes

Try making these tiny French delicacies, and you'll never go back. Small, bite-sized choux pastry puffs are baked with a pearl sugar coating on top and often served by the dozen in paper bags in French patisseries. Once you've baked my homemade version, you'll be hooked.

9. Choux Au Craquelin

Once you have mastered choux pastry, there are so many mini desserts you can make. As choux buns bake, the water inside them turns to steam and acts as a rising agent, leaving a pocket behind that can be piped full of all sorts of delicious things like vanilla bean pastry cream. And adding a layer of craquelin turns them into utterly irresistible crispy cream puffs.

I love putting a spin on these classic French pastries and making tiny treats like Tiramisu choux au craquelin and Creme brulee choux au craquelin. Because why not elevate something even further if you can?

10. Eclairs

Eclairs are another sweet finger food recipe you have to try. Long and elegant, eclairs are also made from classic choux pastry baked until golden brown and ready to be filled. I love them with creamy mascarpone frosting inside or whipped chocolate ganache. And for a final flourish, dip them in melted chocolate afterward.

11. How To Make Macarons

The ultimate dainty bite-sized dessert. Almond meringue cookies are sandwiched together with filling and there's simply nothing prettier. If you looking for pretty mini desserts for a baby shower or special event, look no further!

You can make macarons in so many flavors like Creme brulee macarons, Chocolate hazelnut macarons, Earl Grey macarons, or Pistachio Macarons. And if you're still feeling daunted, take my online macaron class.

12. Mini carrot cakes

Carrot cake has the best texture, I'm sure you'll agree. Crazy moist with cream cheese filling and topped with soft, silky cream cheese frosting, it's one of my favorites. This mini dessert version of carrot cake is the perfect individual-size portion for the dessert table, you'll love it!

13. Mini Tart Shells

This Pâte Sablée aka Sweet shortcrust pastry makes the perfect French tart shells to use for your favorite tartlets, be it chocolate tart, lemon tart, or any fruit tart! Pâte Sablée is a delicious, buttery shortcrust that is sweet but not too sweet, a melt-in-the-mouth pastry dough that can turn any dessert into fancy French patisserie-like goodness!

Making French shortcrust pastry - whether it is full-sized tart cases or mini tartlets like this recipe - is one of the baking basics definitely worth mastering as a home baker!

Check my tart recipes for plenty of delicious filling optons from chocolate to strawbery cream or coffee.

14. Classic Madeleines

Surely the best mini dessert to serve with coffee, French Madelines are dainty, sweet, and super tasty. These soft mini cakes are also really easy to make, and what's more, they are super versatile and can be flavored in many ways. All you'll need is a madeleine pan to make these classic shell-shaped cakes and no fancy ingredients.

15. Mini Blueberry Muffins

Moist mini muffins are the ultimate cute small dessert or perfect portable breakfast, the best blueberry desserts in my view. Furthermore, this easy mini muffins recipe is made from only a few easy-to-find ingredients, and a full batch takes less than 15 minutes to bake. The only issue is how many of them you'll want to eat.

16. Mini Pie Crust

Once you try this incredibly quick, easy, and super flaky homemade Mini Pie Crust recipe, you will never want to buy those sad-looking supermarket mini pie shells ever again! This all butter individual pie shell recipe is based on my 3 ingredients pie crust that is absolutely delicious and requires no fancy tools. There is also no need to blind bake these mini crusts and they work perfectly for tartlets, mini pies, and mini quiche!

17. Mini Brownie Bites

There can't be many people in the world who don't love brownies. Certainly, baking brownies is one of my favorite things to do, and brownie bites are the perfect mini-chocolate desserts to make for parties, snacks, and more.

18. Banana Mini Muffins

What better way to use over-ripe bananas than super moist banana mini muffins? What's more, this easy mini dessert recipe has less than 10 ingredients and takes under 30 minutes to make. I love to throw in some chopped walnuts or pecans before baking for some added crunch.

19. Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tarts

Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tarts are the ultimate rich and creamy Japanese desserts with crunchy shortcrust tart base and distinct sweet and savory cheesy filling. Pâte Sablée aka Sweet shortcrust pastry tar filled with a combination of creamy, sweet, and savory dairy and cheese products such as heavy cream, Philadephia cream cheese, and parmesan cheese. You will love it, one of the best finger desserts for summer!

20. Mini Bundt Cakes

Whether you prefer fruity, nutty, tangy, or chocolatey desserts, you'll find a favorite amongst my 25 different flavor combinations of bundt cakes, made in mini! Cute and versatile and with a melt-in-your-mouth texture, what's not to love?

What's more, the mini bundt cake recipe comes together very easily, and it is totally doable from scratch. Even beginner bakers can do it!

21. Pie Crust Cookies

Ever wonder what to make with leftover pie dough? The scraps lying on your counter will never again be thrown away or languish in the fridge with no purpose. Instead, make these delectable little buttery cookies for the perfect mini treat.

Either use a cookie cutter to make fun shapes, or roll the dough into pinwheels and dust it with cinnamon sugar before baking to crunchy, sweet, and golden brown perfection.

22. Pumpkin Hand Pies

With creamy pumpkin filling and a buttery, flaky crust, these adorable pumpkin hand pies are a fun and easy dessert to add to your Thanksgiving dinner table. A portable alternative to the traditional pumpkin pie served during October and November, you won't want to stop at just one of these addictive mini pumpkin shape pies!

23. White Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Sometimes, simplicity is the key to success. White chocolate-dipped strawberries are ideal mini desserts for a date night, Valentine's Day, or an anniversary. They take minutes to make (learn how to melt chocolate perfectly) and taste utterly divine.

24. Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cake

Get the holiday season off to a flying start with perfectly spiced pumpkin mini cakes topped with the most divine buttery maple glaze. Whether you're making a Thanksgiving dessert table or just want some seasonal snacks, this is the mini dessert recipe for you.

25.  Mini Tiramisu Cups

This is one of my favorite mini desserts for the summer, an easy individual desserts for a crowd. Tiramisu is also one of the most famous Italian desserts and now you can enjoy it in bite-sized form! And what's more, it's a no-bake mini dessert you can make in under 20 minutes. Ladyfingers are topped with light mascarpone cream, and rich espresso coffee, and dusted with a touch of chocolate cocoa powder.

26. Financiers

Elegant French financiers are long finger cakes made with nut flour and browned butter, and you can have so much fun with flavor combinations.

Their cute and dainty rectangular shape is said to be reminiscent of bars of gold, hence their name. Serve these little tea cakes in the afternoon with a hot drink or as petit fours after dinner.

27. Chocolate Bonbon With Hazelnut

Homemade bonbons are somewhat of a well-kept secret. People just don't know how easy they are to make! But even beginner bakers can make these delicious mini desserts and trust me, once you start you won't be able to stop.

This bonbon recipe is one of my favorite mini chocolate desserts to make and works perfectly after dinner.

28. Mini Pavlova

My signature Pink Mini Pavlova dessert with raspberries has the most perfect crunchy texture on the outside and marshmallow texture inside! Pavlova is naturally gluten-free, in fact, the recipe uses only a few ingredients you probably already have at home. Making this mini pavlova recipe is not difficult, does not take much time, however similarly to most meringue-based recipes, it needs attention, accuracy, and a bit of practice.

29. Mini Cranberry Tarts

The perfect mini-dessert for the holiday season. Cute and dainty with delicious cranberry flavor, these mini tarts are surely bound to be popular. Plus, they're so pretty with classic sugared cranberries on top and sprigs of fragrant rosemary.

30. Mini Caramel S'mores Cakes

A cute bite-sized twist on everyone’s favorite summertime dessert, and no campfire required! Deeply chocolatey caramel-filled mini cakes are topped with an elegant swirl of toasted marshmallow meringue and finally, a decadent square of white chocolate. I'd certainly choose this over traditional s'mores any day.

31. Peach Pie Pops

I'm sure you'll agree that mini-pie pops are the cutest, lovely finger desserts for summer! Whilst you may have made cake pops before, pie pops are a pretty well-kept secret but they make excellent baked mini desserts for all seasons. This recipe is filled with delicious summer peaches, but you could make apple, plum, or even pumpkin versions.

24. Mini Key Lime Pies

Surprisingly, mini key lime pies only contain 7 ingredients and take 30 minutes to bake! There's a crunchy Graham Cracker crust, smooth and creamy filling, and finally, lightly toasted meringue to top it all off. Cute key lime pie bites are perfect for parties, potlucks, and celebrations and have the perfect mix of texture and taste.

32. Mini Caramel Apple Pies

A lovely individual desserts for a crowd during Fall time. Small apple pies with caramel are filled with the most incredible apple pie filling encased in buttery pastry and can be served warm or cold. I'd serve these mini pies topped with whipped cream during the holiday season too, they would be such cozy mini desserts for Thanksgiving.

33. Mini Chocolate Tarts

You won't be able to get enough of the smooth, rich chocolate ganache inside the crisp buttery tart shells of these chocolate mini tarts. They're perfect for a party drizzled in more chocolate and topped with fresh and freeze-dried raspberries. Perfecting chocolate pâte sablée (sweet pastry) can take some practice, but it's well worth it for the results of these mini chocolate desserts,

34. Mini Red Velvet Cakes

Everyone's favorite viral cake flavor is back but in tiny form. Cute mini layers of moist red velvet sponge are stacked with cream cheese frosting to form a pretty mini dessert that people will love.

Make my full-size red velvet cake for parties where you want a single showstopper!

35. Mini Strawberry and Vanilla Ice Cream Cakes

Pound cake, ice cream, jam, and chocolate. That's all you need to make these mini ice cream desserts! They are perfect mini desserts for summer and can be adapted in so many ways to suit you, like a mini ice cream sundae! You'll need ring molds to get the perfect clean lines, but it's well worth grabbing that extra piece of kit.

36. Mini Cheesecake Brûlée

Here are two desserts adored around the world, in one bite. Cheesecake and crème brûlée are universally popular and now you can serve them together as one dessert in delicious mini cheesecake bites. The burnt sugar caramelized top perfectly cuts through the rich tang of the cheesecake and provides the most amazing crunch. And I can't get over how cute they are!

37. Mini Chocolate Peanut Butter Pies

Unbelievably, these mini peanut butter chocolate desserts are a lot easier to make than you might think! And the toffee graham cracker crust topped with creamy peanut butter filling, and silky chocolate ganache topping is sure to satisfy any sweet craving.

They are also easy mini desserts you can make ahead and freeze, which makes life easier if you're party planning!

38. Two-Bite Lemon Meringue Pies

The only thing you need to consider before baking these adorably mini lemon meringue pies is how many you'll need to make. Because trust me, they will be popular. The crisp mini tart shell, lemon curd, and soft torched meringue make the perfect combination of flavor and texture in the cutest package.

39. Mini Pavlovas with Blood Orange Curd

Imagine a little mini cloud of meringue topped with tangy, sweet, and rich blood orange curd. This dessert is so simple yet so elegant and full of flavor. I always recommend making homemade curd as it always tastes so much better and is much easier to make than you might think!

40. Blueberry Pie Cookies

Well, surely this will send you straight to bite-sized heaven. Dainty blueberry pie cookies and miniature desserts oozing with fresh blueberries, buttery pie crust, and a sprinkle of sugar. It's pie and cookie combined, and that's a winner for me.

41. Soft Mini Funfetti Cookies

Kids and grown-ups will both love these cute funfetti mini desserts. The perfect soft and buttery texture but with an added pop of color and crunch. Put a few bowls of these out at parties and they'll vanish pretty fast.

Love funfetti? Try my funfetti cupcakes or funfetti frosting next.

42. Dark Chocolate Financiers

Now, these certainly are indulgent little treats. Mini chocolate desserts that explode with chocolate flavor and are dusted with powdered sugar for a typically French, and typically fabulous look.

43. Chocolate Hazelnut Friands

A friand is a close relative of the French financier, but more popular in Australia and New Zealand. This chocolate version has added hazelnut as well as the typical almond flour to give it a nuttier edge and delicious flavor.

44. Lavender Earl Grey Madeleines

I love baking with Earl Grey; it's such an elegant flavor profile. These madeleines are flavored with Earl Grey tea and lavender and then dipped in lavender icing. Use a drop of purple food coloring to complete the picture.

45. Rocky Road Bites

No one can resist rocky road. And mini rock road desserts are fast becoming one of my favorites. Every bite has all the chocolate flavor and mix of textures you could possibly want. I have seen these at dessert tables before, and they have ever lasted long.

46. Lemon Curd Tartlets

The mix of homemade lemon curd and buttery pastry is never one to miss. And these mini desserts are so easy! The curd's sharp yet sweet, rich taste is perfect against the pastry, and the cute, dainty flower shapes make them as pretty as they are delicious.

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