40min145 calVegetarian
Dessert Recipes: Easy Cookies, Brownies, Cakes and Pies
Baking is less forgiving than cooking, so these recipes give weights alongside cups and explain the steps that matter, like how long to cream butter or when to pull cookies from the oven.
- Recipes
- 12
- Quickest
- 40 min
- Avg. hands-on
- 22 min
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12 recipes
- 40min
65min235 calVegetarianChewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
80min340 calVegetarianApple Crisp with Oat Topping
95min185 calVegetarianFudgy Brownies with Cocoa Powder
102min365 calVegetarianPineapple Upside-Down Cake from Scratch
102min560 calVegetarianSour Cream Coffee Cake
147min695 calVegetarianVanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream
147min595 calVegetarianChocolate Cake from Scratch
177min735 calVegetarianRed Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
180min405 calVegetarianPound Cake with Sour Cream
187min780 calVegetarianCarrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
242min185 calVegetarianLemon Bars with Shortbread Crust
How we cook desserts on a weeknight
Every dessert lists its active time separately from baking and cooling, so you can see at a glance whether it fits tonight or needs to wait for the weekend.
Short on time? Soft Peanut Butter Cookies is the quickest here at 40 min, with 15 min of hands-on work.
Hands-onHands-off
- Soft Peanut Butter Cookies40 min
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies1 hr 5 min
- Apple Crisp with Oat Topping1 hr 20 min
- Fudgy Brownies with Cocoa Powder1 hr 35 min
- Pineapple Upside-Down Cake from Scratch1 hr 42 min
- Sour Cream Coffee Cake1 hr 42 min
- Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream2 hr 27 min
- Chocolate Cake from Scratch2 hr 27 min
- Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting2 hr 57 min
- Pound Cake with Sour Cream3 hr
- Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting3 hr 7 min
- Lemon Bars with Shortbread Crust4 hr 2 min