Hello, dessert! Who doesn’t love a sweet treat to finish off a great meal with family and friends? The smell of freshly baked cakes, doughnuts, or brownies is tough to resist.
If you’re like us, you’re always looking for new baking ideas and easy baking recipes for dessert, from carrot cake and oatmeal cookies to chocolate cake and apple pie. Instead of just heading to the nearest bakery, you can save money, improve your baking skills, and impress everybody when you bake something special in your own kitchen.
Let’s check out 10 easy baking recipes for dessert. Fire up that oven and get baking today!
Carrot Cake Recipes You’ve Got to Taste
1. Carrot Cake Poke Cake
The origins of carrot cake are murky, dating back to medieval Europe. Yet it’s absolutely clear that you’ll love this delicious carrot cake. It boasts a creamy pudding filling and decadent cream cheese icing topped with pecans. Pure Vanilla Extract, Ground Cinnamon, and Ground Nutmeg are part of the festival of flavours.
2. Carrot Cake Swirled Cream Cheese Bars
If cheesecake bars and carrot cake both get you drooling, you’ve come to the right place. This heavenly hybrid dessert – including a teaspoon of Pure Lemon Extract – is one of the best baking recipes you can make for dessert, a wedding reception, or a party.
3. Coconut Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
Craving a fun and colourful alternative to oatmeal raisin cookies? You’ve got to taste our coconut cherry oatmeal cookies. White chocolate chips add to the chunky goodness. This easy baking recipe makes 24 cookies.
4. Banana Bread Oatmeal Cookies
Banana bread never goes out of style, and neither do these mouthwatering banana bread oatmeal cookies. They take just half an hour to prep and bake. Savor their cakey texture during your next coffee break. Yum!
Recipes for Cakes and Pies? Yes, Please!
5. Ultimate Chocolate Cake
Sometimes you just need to indulge yourself, and what says indulgence better than chocolate fudge frosting with Pure Vanilla Extract and Ground Cinnamon? This magnificent chocolate cake recipe is as irresistible as it’s photogenic.
6. Easier Than Apple Pie
Tight on time? If you’re hungry for apple pie but are too busy to bake a classic apple pie, that’s where Easier Than Apple Pie comes in. Using a refrigerated pie crust, this tart-like delicacy requires just 20 minutes of baking time in your pizza pan. And you can always jazz this recipe up by adding dried cranberries or raisins or subbing in Apple Pie Spice or Pumpkin Pie Spice in place of cinnamon.
7. Cinnamon Sugar Grilled Donuts
Nibble on these delectably buttery, sugary donuts as is, or take them up a notch by serving them with blueberries, strawberries, and whipped cream. Homemade donuts are great for sharing in the backyard on a warm summer day.
8. Chili-Spiced Vegan Brownies
Whether you’re a vegan, vegetarian, or omnivore, you’ll go wild for these oh-so-chewy brownies, featuring the sweet zing of our premium Cocoa Chili Blend. This easy baking recipe uses ground chia or flax seed in lieu of eggs.
9. Easy Chocolate Almond Brownies
This is one of those easy baking ideas you’ll return to over and over again. With Pure Almond Extract and a package of fudge brownie mix, you too can become a brownie-making wizard. Get a load of that frosting!
10. Pecan Pie Bites
Ever been tempted to devour a whole pecan pie in one sitting? As an alternative, you can always live your best pecan pie life with these mini-sized treats. Just put out a platter of pecan pie bites at your next party and watch them get snapped up.