There’s something truly special about individual desserts. They are perfectly portioned, beautifully presented, and full of flavor in every bite. This collection of 50 individual desserts brings together everything you love about decadent desserts, but in a charming, single-serving size.
Picture silky pots de crème, airy cream puffs, and fluffy mousse domes melting on your mouth. Try chocolate cups filled with luscious ganache, mini cheesecakes topped with fresh fruit, or creamy panna cotta with a hint of vanilla. If comfort is what you seek, indulge in warm soufflés, cozy puddings, or cookie cups bursting with decadent fillings. For something unique, try the Portuguese pasteis de nata or French caneles de Bordeaux or mini eclairs. Let’s not forget the amazing Italian cannoli Siciliani or the decadent lava cakes. And of course, no collection would be complete without perfectly frosted cupcakes.
Thhese 50 delightful recipes will make every occasion feel extra special. With easy-to-follow instructions everybody can create show-stopping desserts that are as beautiful as they are delicious.
Caramel Panna Cotta
This Caramel Panna Cotta is a sophisticated and delicate , eggless and gluten-free Italian dessert that combines the creamy elegance of panna cotta with the rich, deep flavor of caramel. It is a delectable finish to any meal, whether it’s a casual dinner or a special occasion.
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Red Velvet Lava Cake
Red Lava Cakes are one of the most decadent cakes you can prepare for your loved ones. They are easy to prepare and they are always a good choice for the times you want single serving desserts. They can be simply served dusted with some powdered sugar or topped with cream cheese topping and fresh berries for a more sophisticated presentation.
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Raspberry Chocolate Cups
These raspberry chocolate cups are a chocolate lover dream come true. They are rich, creamy and chocolaty, the hardened chocolate shell pairing so well with the raspberry creamy mousse.
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Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes
These mini chocolate cheesecakes are delicious treats packed with a lot of flavor. These cheesecakes are featuring a delectable Oreo cookie crust paired with a creamy blend of cream cheese, cocoa, and rich chocolate filling. These bite-sized treats are perfect for Valentine's Day or for any moment worth celebrating.
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Chocolate Cupcakes with Irish Cream Frosting
The perfect recipe for chocolate cupcakes – they are rich, chocolaty and with a divine moist interior. The cream cheese frosting with a hint of Irish cream tastes amazing and is perfect for St. Patrick's Day
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Blueberry Cream Cheese Buns
These Blueberry Cream Cheese Buns are a delightful treat that combines soft, fluffy dough with sweet blueberries and creamy cheese filling. They are perfect for breakfast, a snack, or even dessert. They pair wonderfully with a cup of coffee or tea, making them an ideal choice for a cozy morning or a special afternoon treat.
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Double Chocolate Cream Puffs
These irresistible Double Chocolate Cream Puffs are the ultimate chocolatey delight. They start with a chocolate choux pastry, giving them a deep, indulgent cocoa flavor. Inside, you'll find a heavenly filling made from rich chocolate, creamy cream cheese, and fluffy whipping cream.
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Strawberry Souffle
This Strawberry Souffle is a heavenly dessert with a delicate texture, that's as light as a cloud and bursting with strawberry flavor. Made from fresh strawberries, eggs, sugar, and a touch of magic, this sweet sensation is a symphony of flavors and textures.
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Chocolate Panna Cotta
Panna Cotta is an eggless dessert that is easy to prepare and totally irresistible. This version with chocolate is by far my favorite way of making panna cotta. It is a smooth, silky, creamy chocolaty dessert, perfect to end any meal.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
Cookie cups are an incredible idea for making single-serving desserts for any occasion. They look and taste amazing not to mention they are quite easy to prepare. The chocolate chewy soft cookie crust filled with the smooth and creamy peanut butter filling is simply heavenly.
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Vanilla and Raspberry Panna Cotta
This vanilla and raspberry panna cotta is a decadent dessert that is sure to impress your guests. This elegant dessert features two layers of smooth and creamy panna cotta: a delicate vanilla layer and a tangy raspberry layer. It is not only visually appealing but also a delicious and refreshing treat perfect for spring and summer. This dessert is made using cannele silicone molds, which gives it a unique and elegant shape.
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Flower Tarts with White Chocolate Lemon Filling
Savor the taste of spring with our Flower Tarts, filled with creamy white chocolate and zesty lemon ganache. These sweet treats are perfect for gatherings or any springtime celebration.
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Raspberry Soufflé
This Raspberry Souffle is light and airy with a great raspberry flavor. The sweetness is very well balanced by the tart raspberry sauce .
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Choux au Craquelin – Crispy Cream Puffs
Choux au Craquelin are mini cream puffs topped with a sweet crispy topping, called craquelin, that are simply hard to resist.
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Chocolate Pots de Crème
Satisfy your sweet tooth with these delightful Chocolate Pots de Crème, a creamy, heavenly dessert that's pure chocolate bliss. They're made with the best chocolate, milk, smooth whipping cream, a hint of coffee and a touch of sweetness, all mixed into a super-soft custard.
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Mini Size Crème Caramel
This Mini Size Creme Caramel is a creamy dessert that's both easy to make and wonderfully indulgent. Originating from France, it's a timeless treat. It delights with its smooth, creamy texture and delicate caramel sauce. You can bake it in a big dish for sharing or in smaller portions for a special touch.
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Pistachio Raspberry Mini Eclairs
These Pistachio Raspberry Mini Eclairs are delightful pastries that combine the irresistible flavors of pistachios and tangy raspberry into a bite-sized treat. These fancy treats feature delicate pastry shells filled with creamy pistachio cream and homemade raspberry jam. They are finished with a drizzle of melted white chocolate and topped with chopped pistachios and fresh raspberry halves.
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Carrot Cake Bites
For anyone who loves carrot cake, these mini carrot cake bites are an absolute must-try! These little treats are light, airy and bursting with flavor, topped off with a smooth and creamy vanilla cream cheese frosting that you can customize to your liking.
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Twisted Cinnamon Rolls
Treat yourself to a heavenly delight with these twisted cinnamon rolls. Picture warm, fluffy rolls, each swirled with fragrant cinnamon and kissed with a touch of buttery goodness. They're twisted into beautiful, small knots and baked in a muffin tin, adding an extra touch of elegance and charm.
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Pistachio Pudding
Pistachio pudding is a delightful and indulgent dessert that combines the rich and nutty flavor of pistachios with a smooth and creamy texture. This luscious treat is a favorite among dessert enthusiasts and is sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.
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Canelés (Cannelés) de Bordeaux
Canelés (Cannelés) de Bordeaux are delicious French pastries that have a crispy caramelized crust and a soft custard interior. Not everybody is familiar with them and they are not as popular as macarons but still very impressive and once you’ve discovered them you keep wanting for more. Even though they are made using simple basic ingredients caneles are simply out of this world.
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Pastéis de Nata – Portuguese Custard Tarts
Pastéis de Nata – Portuguese Custard Tarts are a popular Portuguese dessert loved worldwide. It consists of a crispy flaky buttery crust filled with a smooth creamy custard filling dusted with cinnamon and powdered sugar as a final touch. It is an incredible and amazing experience for your taste buds and you can hardly stop from eating only one tart.
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Lemon Custard Rose Sweet Rolls
These Lemon Custard Rose Sweet Rolls are a mouthwatering pastry treat that combines the flavor of lemon with the sweet creaminess of custard, all wrapped up in a soft, fluffy, rose-shaped bun. These sweet rolls are perfect for breakfast, brunch, or any time you're craving something sweet and indulgent.
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Chocolate Magic Custard Cake
This Chocolate Magic Custard cake is a delectable dessert that is sure to impress your guests. This cake is known for its magical ability to separate into three distinct layers while baking, creating a creamy custard layer sandwiched between a dense cake layer and a light and fluffy sponge layer on top.
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Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Domes
These Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Domes are a decadent dessert that is sure to impress. The combination of creamy white chocolate and smooth and airy raspberry mousse creates a delicate balance of sweet and sour that is sure to delight your taste buds.
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Strawberry Lemon Layer Cake
With strawberries in season I am glad to share with you this delightful and delicate dessert, Strawberry Lemon Layer Cake. The cake consists of four thin layers of vanilla lemon sponge cake filled with a generous amount of freshly made strawberry jam and with Mascarpone lemon frosting. The cake is so light and refreshing and is simply bursting with summer flavor.
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Mini Cheesecakes
These Mini Cheesecakes are delightful bite-sized mini desserts, perfect for upcoming Valentine’s Day. They have an Oreo crust and a creamy, tangy cream cheese filling and are beautifully and simple decorated with whipped cream and fresh strawberry heart slices.
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Raspberry Yogurt Bars
These Raspberry Yogurt Bars are one of the most delightful summer desserts, so refreshing and full of raspberry and lemon flavor. The addition of Greek yogurt makes these crumble bars even more balanced as the creamy yogurt complements so well with the crust and crispy crumble on top.
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Chocolate Raspberry Whoopie Pies
These Chocolate Raspberry Whoopie Pies are fun to make and a perfect way to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day.
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Easy Australian Lamingtons
The Australian Lamingtons are nothing more than vanilla sponge cake squares, dipped in chocolate sauce and coated in desiccated coconut. So easy to prepare, but always so delightful.
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Crème Brûlée
You can hardly beat a classic Creme Brulee during the summer. It’s creamy, elegant, refreshing and the crispy caramelized crust on top is simply divine.
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Double Chocolate Brownie Muffins
These Double Chocolate Brownie Muffins are by far THE BEST chocolate muffins you can ever make. They are moist, and fudgy, with an intense chocolate flavor that all chocolate lovers will adore.
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Chocolate Milk Slice Cake – Kinder Chocolate Milk Slice
If you love the world-renowned Chocolate Milk Slice from Kinder you should definitely try this recipe at home. The cake consists of two thin layers of chocolate sponge filled with an airy and fluffy milk frosting that is enriched with a bit of honey. Everybody loves this chocolate sweet sandwich cake that simply melts in your mouth.
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Strawberry Lemon Cupcakes
Strawberry Lemon Cupcakes are one of the best summer cupcakes ever. Fruity and refreshing, with a moist crumb, a delicious homemade strawberry filling and a creamy lemon and strawberry swirl frosting.
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Chocolate Layer Cake
This Chocolate Layer Cake is an elegant and decadent chocolate dessert, by far one of the best chocolate cakes ever. It is moist and rich, with thin chocolate sponge cake layers, an irresistible chocolate and cream cheese frosting and topped with a silky chocolate ganache.
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No-bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pots de Crème
These Chocolate Peanut Butter Pots de Crème are an elegant no-bake dessert you can prepare for your loved ones, especially during the summer. Creamy, rich and decadent, a perfect marriage between chocolate and peanut butter served into individual portions.
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Easy Baked Chocolate Doughnuts (no yeast, no eggs, no butter)
Craving for doughnuts? Search no more…this easy recipe makes amazing chocolaty, soft doughnuts in just a few minutes. No yeast, no eggs, no butter required, and no special equipment as well. These doughnuts don’t require frying either, baking them makes a healthier option without reducing their taste and texture.
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Chocolate Cake Balls
Delicious, elegant chocolate cake balls recipe, coated in chocolate and with a smooth, fudge interior, perfect for various occasions. They can also make a wonderful gift idea on holidays.
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Vanilla Eclairs
Eclairs are a great French dessert, made from choux pastry, filled with cream and then topped usually with fondant icing. For topping there are many variations, but making a simple and quick chocolate ganache seemed just perfect for me.
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Oatmeal Lace Cookie Cups with Whipped Chocolate Ganache and Strawberry Jam
I simply love these delicate oatmeal lace cookies, with their delicious flavor and fancy look. Their lace appearance comes from the way the cookies spread while baking. As they cool they become crisp and very flavorful. They can be enjoyed all year round alongside coffee or tea or sandwiched with chocolate for special occasions.
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Vanilla Soufflé
These vanilla souffles are simply out of this world. So fluffy with a mousse like texture, almost melting in your mouth, light and airy and full of vanilla flavor. Such an amazing way of finishing your lunch or dinner. Enjoy!
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Cannoli Siciliani
Crispy pastry tubes filled with a flavorful ricotta filling and dipped in chopped crunchy pistachios… beautiful flavor and texture combination and hardly you can stop from eating just one.
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Nutella Banana Hand Pies
Hand Pies are amazing pastries made with pie crust with either sweet or savory filling, perfect for any time of the day. They are very easy to put together, you can prepare the dough in advance and have it ready for whenever you are craving some delicious snacks for the entire day.
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Peach Cookies
Peach Cookies are an impressive dessert perfect for summer days, that looks and taste like peaches. These cookies are known worldwide and usually are made during the holiday season reminding to many of us of the beautiful days of childhood.
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Raspberry Macarons – Italian Meringue
These raspberry macarons made with white chocolate and raspberry filling are one of my favorite combinations, the sweetness of the shells are very well balanced by the tart raspberries.
Orange Chocolate Mousse Domes
These Orange Chocolate Mousse Domes are one of the most elegant desserts you can prepare for the upcoming holidays. Not only does it look impressive but the flavor combination is simply amazing, as oranges and chocolate make a special combination perfect for the holiday season. I love the texture the candied orange peel is giving to this heavenly dessert.
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Walnut Lemon Bars
I have always found these walnut lemon bars quite elegant and with a delicate flavor combination. Pairing chocolate with lemon and walnuts is by far one of the best combinations. These bars are made with a dense walnut layer at the bottom followed by a lemony creamy layer in the middle and topped with chocolate ganache.
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No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Even if you don’t like peanut butter you are going to love these no bake chocolate peanut butter bars. The flavors combine so well, a bit of sweet, salty, chocolaty, nutty flavor, mmmm…totally amazing.
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Strawberry Panna Cotta
Elegant, and refreshing strawberry panna cotta, perfect for summer days. You can replace strawberries with other berries, cherries, peaches or apricots.
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Moelleux au Chocolat (Chocolate Lava Cake)
This Chocolate Lava Cake or Moelleux au Chocolat is one of the best chocolate desserts, smooth, and delicate with its' crusty top while the inside is still runny, making it simply irresistible.
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With 50 delightful individual desserts to choose from, there’s something here for every craving, every occasion, and every skill level. Treat yourself to something special and experiment with new flavors. Once you’ve tried them out, I’d love to see how they turn out. If possible share your photos with me on Instagram! I would love to see your creations.
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