Starting in baking can feel intimidating when every recipe seems to assume you already know what you're doing. The good news is that many delicious desserts require nothing more than basic mixing, minimal ingredients, and no special skills. These recipes skip the complicated techniques and confusing terminology while still delivering treats that taste homemade and impressive.
Chocolate Poke Cake
This 100% from-scratch decadent chocolate poke cake is rich, moist, and packed with real chocolate flavor in every bite! Made with a soft chocolate sponge, silky chocolate ganache filling, and chocolate whipped cream frosting on top, it's an easy, crowd-pleasing dessert that's great for any occasion.
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Pear Galette
This incredibly delicious Fall Pear Galette is the perfect dessert to welcome the colder weather. Easier to make than pie, it's a super rich and buttery rustic crust that is layered with perfectly spiced tender poached pears that melt in your mouth and some crunchy roasted walnuts to finish with!
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Coffee Cookies
These rich and chocolatey coffee cookies are a bold and decadent dessert filled with delicious flavor in every bite. This chewy and indulgent treat pairs wonderfully with a cup of coffee to help you double down on the dreamy flavors that will keep you coming back for more!
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Cinnamon Apple Cake
This easy, no-butter cinnamon apple cake is just what you need to bring your dessert table to life this fall! It has a moist cinnamon cake layer topped with fresh apples and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar for the perfect finishing touch. Serve it with a bowl of vanilla ice cream or a hot cup of coffee or tea as a sweet breakfast dessert!
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Nutella Puff Pastry Twists
Filled with rich, creamy chocolate hazelnut, these crisp, flakey Nutella Puff Pastry Twists are scrumptious! It's a quick and easy 2-ingredient recipe using store-bought puff pastry that takes just 30 minutes to make! Perfect for breakfast or dessert, this Nutella pastry is also a fantastic kid-approved afternoon snack or sweet appetizer at any party!
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Pie Crust Cookies
Baked to golden brown perfection, these delicious buttery pie crust cookies are the best thing that can happen to leftover pie dough! In this easy four-ingredient recipe, I am sharing two different options to use leftover pie dough. It's the perfect recipe to make super-tasty, flaky cookies.
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Puff Pastry Cinnamon Twists
These super flaky, sweet Puff Pastry Cinnamon Twists are incredibly simple to make and absolutely delicious! Made with 6 simple ingredients, it's a super-easy recipe. You only need a package of store-bought puff pastry, and the cinnamon twist pastry takes just minutes to make and bake.
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Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
These easy chocolate chip walnut cookies are a delicious way to give the nut lovers in your family a sweet treat. Semi-sweet dark chocolate chips, chopped walnuts, and a sprinkle of bright sea salt help balance the flavors, making this an indulgent cookie to enjoy during those darker evenings as we transition into fall and winter.
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Tiramisu Cupcakes
These easy tiramisu cupcakes are a must-try for coffee and tiramisu lovers! They are coffee-soaked, melt-in-your-mouth cupcakes with creamy mascarpone frosting on top and dusted with cocoa powder! If you love tiramisu as much as I do, you must try this easy cupcake version.
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Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake
A chocolate orange bundt cake, featuring a super-moist and flavourful orange cake, and a delicious, silky chocolate glaze, can be the star of any dinner party. This easy cake features a melt-in-your-mouth orange bundt loaded with candied orange zest, topped with a super easy chocolate glaze, and decorated with homemade candied orange slices.
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Tiramisu Cookies
These delicious, coffee-flavored tiramisu cookies are the perfect after-dinner treat, dessert table addition. A delightful twist on the classic Italian dessert, this easy tiramisu cookies recipe combines espresso powder and sweet mascarpone frosting topped with cocoa powder.
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Coffee Cupcakes
If you love enjoying cupcakes with coffee, you will love these delectable, super-moist coffee cupcakes! This easy recipe takes moist vanilla cupcakes, adds a hint of natural coffee flavor, and finishes with a creamy coffee buttercream.
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Swedish Cardamom Cake
This easy Swedish Cardamom Cake with delicious coffee glaze is an unforgettable flavor and texture combination. This cake is a super-moist, yogurt-based pound cake with cardamom and vanilla.
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Espresso Brownies
Why go to Starbucks for your brownie fix when you can make these gooey, chocolatey espresso brownies from your kitchen in no time? Ready in under an hour, these easy espresso brownies combine dark chocolate, cocoa powder, espresso powder, and two types of sugar to create a decadent chocolate dessert with a rich coffee flavor.
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Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
These irresistible soft cream cheese chocolate chip cookies are so chocolatey, moist, and flavorful that it’ll be hard to resist. Made with just a few essential pantry ingredients, this easy cookie recipe is the perfect dessert to serve on special occasions and a casual treat to keep in the kitchen cookie jar.
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Mini Brownie Bites
With crackly tops and super fudgy centers, these Mini Brownie Bites are the perfect delectable sweet treat that pops right into your mouth! Baked in a mini muffin pan, it's a super-easy recipe that comes together in just a matter of minutes.
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German Chocolate Cake
This German chocolate cake recipe is the most delicious, moist, and flavourful cake ever! It features a super-moist chocolate cake with butterscotch frosting, loaded with pecans and coconut. Beyond how beautifully the flavors blend together, it is also a remarkably easy recipe to make without any special equipment.
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Palmiers
These deliciously sweet and buttery Palmiers cookies are perfectly light, crispy, and crunchy perfection with each bite! Made with just a package of store-bought puff pastry and a bit of sugar, this 2-ingredient easy recipe comes together in no time! Your family is sure to be impressed when you present them with these famous fancy bakery-style puff pastry sweets!
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White Chocolate Brownies
These delicious white chocolate brownies blend rich, creamy white chocolate into a perfectly soft and fudgy baked good! Whether you’re a lover of white chocolate or looking to try a new twist on traditional brownies, this decadent sweet treat is easy to make and sure to leave you craving more!
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Chocolate Marble Loaf Cake
This wonderful, moist chocolate marble loaf cake (pound cake) is the perfect elegant yet easy teacake to serve for breakfast, or as a dessert! My "better than Starbucks marble cake" consists of a fluffy and delicious swirl of vanilla and chocolate cake covered with a three-ingredient crunchy chocolate hazelnut glaze!
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Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Making Brown Butter Pecan Chocolate chip cookies is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to celebrate the Fall flavors we all love! These cookies are chewy on the outside and gooey on the inside with deep chocolate and nutty flavors, a must-try during Fall or even Thanksgiving!
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Chocolate Puff Pastry
If you love chocolate as much as I do, you will certainly want to try this easy chocolate puff pastry recipe! With just two main ingredients, this simple recipe takes store-bought puff pastry to the next level by rolling in decadent chocolate chips. The result is a soft, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate pastry with a flaky outer shell and a creamy chocolate interior.
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3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut butter blossoms are a peanut butter cookie that has a Hershey's kiss smooshed into the center of the cookie. This recipe only uses three ingredients for an easy peanut butter blossom that takes almost no time to make!
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Mini S'mores Pies
This mini s'mores pie recipe is my go-to dessert for the summer. Nothing quite says summertime like an ooey gooey s'more made from marshmallows roasted over a campfire, right?
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Monster Cookie Bars
These Monster Cookie Bars are soft, chewy, and easy-to-make oatmeal cookie bars loaded with rolled oats, creamy peanut butter, chocolate chips, and M&M’s. A one-bowl recipe that is perfect for parties, gatherings, and more!
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Cake Mix Red Velvet Cookies
With only four ingredients, these cookies could not be easier to make. That said, don't let the simple ingredients fool you - these cookies are divine!
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