Who says homemade desserts have to take hours? If you’re short on time or just craving something sweet right now, these 60 easy 30-minute desserts come together fast, without sacrificing flavor or indulgence.
From gooey skillet cookies to donuts, quick puddings, and fluffy mug cakes, this collection is packed with treats that are simple, satisfying, and stress-free. You’ll find crispy churros, buttery cookies, various muffins, and even delicious cakes that look fancy but take just minutes to prepare.
For chocolate lovers, this collection has plenty to indulge in. Quick skillet brownies, rich chocolate puddings, fluffy chocolate waffles or pancakes, buttery scones, chewy chocolate cookies, and various irresistible cake ideas.
If you’re hosting last-minute guests, need a fast weeknight treat, or just don’t want to spend forever in the kitchen, these quick-fix desserts have you covered. Because sometimes, all you need is 30 minutes to create something truly delicious. So, which one will you try first?
Skillet Brownie
Skillet Brownie is the perfect recipe for whenever you are craving a chocolaty dessert but really don’t have a lot of time for it. All you need for this recipe is one pan, a spatula and a few basic ingredients you probably already have in the house. The batter is prepared directly in the skillet, baked and then served warm, directly from the skillet. Isn’t that awesome?
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Vanilla and Chocolate Pudding
Vanilla and Chocolate Pudding – a quick pudding that can be served warm in cold days or chilled in the summer days, with fruits, nuts or grated chocolate on top.
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Chocolate Dutch Baby Pancake
This Chocolate Dutch Baby Pancake is a delightful chocolatey treat, elegant and indulgent, perfect for breakfast or dessert. This baked pancake is known for its dramatic rise and fluffy texture, similar to a popover or Yorkshire pudding.
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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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Gluten-Free Crepes – Easy Almond Oat Crepes Recipe
These Gluten-Free Crepes are healthy and nutritious, perfect for breakfast, brunch, a quick snack, or a delightful dessert. They are made using a blend of oat and almond flour, offering a delightful flavor and texture.
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Homemade Nutella – Chocolate Hazelnut Praline Spread
This amazing Chocolate Hazelnut Praline Spread is a delectable fusion of rich chocolate and nutty hazelnut, perfect for spreading, dipping, or simply savoring by the spoonful.
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Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies
These Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies are the perfect treat when you want something sweet but still keep it healthy and sugar free.
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Crumble Muffins
These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Crumble Muffins are a tasty delight that's sure to impress. They are soft with a creamy surprise inside, thanks to a yummy cream cheese filling. The pumpkin flavor adds a cozy touch and intense color, making each bite feel like a warm hug. On top of these little treats sits a crumbly topping that adds a sweet crunch.
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Gâteau Moelleux au chocolat – French Chocolate Cake
Moelleux au Chocolat Gateau is a rich moist chocolate cake, a true delight for all chocolate lovers out there. The steps and ingredients are similar to molten lava cakes, the only difference is that this is made in a large pan instead of using small individual ones and baked for a bit more time. The interior is not runny anymore .. but completely moist and melting in your mouth
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Strawberry Dutch Baby Pancake
It is so satisfying to watch this Dutch Baby Pancake and how it puffs in the oven. Its texture is simply irresistible. Due to baking in a hot iron cast pan, the pancake gets a crispy edge while the interior remains soft and almost like a custard.
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Double Chocolate Scones
These Chocolate Scones are rich and chocolaty, with melted chocolate chips inside they almost taste like brownies, which makes them totally irresistible. So whenever you are craving chocolate or want a quick recipe to prepare for family or friends the scones might be the answer for you.
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Sheet Pan Pancakes
These Sheet Pan Pancakes bring a wholesome twist to your morning meal, and are made with a blend of regular flour, oat flour, and almond flour and three mouthwatering topping options.
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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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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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Lemon Poppy Seed Crumble Muffins
Lemon Poppy Seed Crumble Muffins are a delightful combination of zesty lemon, crunchy poppy seeds, and a delectable crumbly topping. These muffins offer a burst of refreshing flavors that will tantalize your taste buds and leave you craving for more.
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Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
These Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are a great treat for whenever you are craving for chocolate and want an easy recipe to satisfy your craving. What’s not to love about these rich, chocolatey soft cookies filled with a smooth and silky chocolate ganache.
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White Chocolate Strawberry Lemon Cookies
These White Chocolate Strawberry Lemon Cookies are a delicious and unique twist on the classic cookie recipe. These cookies feature a soft and chewy texture, with bursts of sweet strawberry and tangy lemon flavors throughout. The addition of creamy white chocolate adds a rich and decadent element to this already delightful treat.
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Eggless Chocolate Lava Cake
Chocolate Lava Cake is a dessert that everybody love and makes quite a sensation every time. I want to share with you an eggless version of this delicious dessert that satisfies any chocolate lover. It’s rich, chocolaty, with a gooey molten center, one of the best chocolate treats ever.
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Homemade Lotus Biscoff Spread
This Homemade Lotus Biscoff Spread is a creamy and cozy treat that tastes like the amazing Lotus Biscoff cookies. It's a super smooth, caramel-colored spread made from these special cookies. It is so easy and quick to prepare that you don’t ever need to use the store-bought one.
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Stovetop Chocolate Cherry Upside Down Cake
This Stovetop Chocolate Cherry Upside Down Cake is an amazing summer dessert you can put together really quick without turning on the oven. As cherry season is here, this chocolate cherry cake is a delightful way of using cherries in your desserts. It takes less than 30 minutes to bake on the stovetop and the result is unbelievable.
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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 Caramel Lava Cake
There is no doubt that most of the people love Lava Cakes. With their gooey lava center this dessert is one of the most decadent desserts I have ever known. So it should be no surprise why I keep turning back to it and try to recreate it in various ways.
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No-Bake Biscoff Chocolate Bars
These No-Bake Biscoff Chocolate Bars are easy to prepare and are a delightful fusion of Biscoff cookies and smooth chocolate.
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No-Yeast Giant Apple Cinnamon Rolls
This Giant Apple Cinnamon Roll is a comforting fall dessert perfect for apple season. It is bursting with cinnamon flavor and wonderfully complements the tender apples inside. Serve while still slightly warm with a generous amount of cinnamon cream cheese icing.
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Stovetop Apple Upside Down Cake
Did you know that you can actually bake cakes without turning on the oven? Yes.. you can definitely use your stovetop. This amazingly delicious apple upside down cake is baked on a stovetop and is ready in less than 30 minutes.
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Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie
This Skillet Chocolate Cookie is one amazing irresistible dessert in the form of a giant chocolate chip cookie that is easy and quick to prepare perfect for any occasion. It is served warm, with ice cream on top and is simply divine.
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1 Minute – Tiramisu Mug Cake
This Tiramisu Mug Cake is topped with Mascarpone and dusted with some cocoa powder. If you like Tiramisu you should definitely try this easy and quick Tiramisu Mug Cake as I am sure it will be a delightful experience.
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Baked Mini Cinnamon Sugar Donuts (no yeast, no eggs)
Did you know you can prepare baked donuts as good as the fried ones without the guilt? These Baked Mini Cinnamon Sugar Donuts are amazingly soft and flavorful, kids’ favorite every time I make them. The recipe comes together in just a few minutes, using basic ingredients you already have at home. It is so easy and quick to prepare them as for these donuts you don’t even need yeast or eggs and they don’t require deep frying either.
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1 Minute – Chocolate Raspberry Mug Cake
This Chocolate Raspberry Mug Cake is absolutely amazing. It is moist and chocolatey, rich in flavor and goes perfectly with the moistened raspberries inside. This Chocolate Raspberry Mug Cake is such a pleaser to the taste buds that it will certainly become a favorite to your family and friends.
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Easy No Yeast Yogurt Doughnuts
Easy Yogurt Doughnuts – fluffy little balls of dough, served slightly warm and dusted with powdered sugar can make a great treat during the day or even for breakfast, alongside a good coffee or tea.
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Brown Butter Blondies
Blondies are one of the easiest desserts you can make with an amazing texture and flavor. Brown sugar is one of the main ingredients alongside butter and vanilla. You can make it with melted butter or either brown butter, though browning the butter enhances the caramel flavor and makes them totally irresistible.
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1 Minute Blueberry Lemon Mug Cake
This Blueberry Lemon Mug Cake is very easy and quick to prepare, you simply mix all the ingredients in the mug, add fresh or frozen blueberries and lemon zest and you get one unforgettable treat.
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No-Yeast Eggless Strawberry Rolls with Cream Cheese Lemon Icing
If you love strawberry and lemon combinations you are at the right place. These No Yeast Eggless Strawberry Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Icing are a great summer treat that everybody will adore. They look simply amazing and totally irresistible.
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Homemade Eggless Churros
These Homemade Eggless Churros are an amazing and delightful treat, consisting of strips of fried dough that are coated into a sugar and cinnamon mixture and served dipped in chocolate sauce or dulce de leche…. who could resist such a treat?
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Crêpes Suzette
If you love oranges, you must try Crepes Suzette, a classic French recipe. For this you need to prepare a flavorful sauce with oranges, caramelized sugar, and butter to warm the crepes. Then, add orange liqueur like Grand Marnier or Cointreau and flambé to evaporate the alcohol and create a stunning effect.
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Ricotta Blueberry Pancakes
Blueberries have always been great in pancakes, and are amazing in these delicious pancakes made with ricotta cheese. The whites are whipped separately and then folded into the pancake mixture. That makes the pancakes fluffy, soft and simply irresistible.
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Crazy Cake with Chocolate Ganache
Chocolate Crazy Cake – one of the most delicious cakes, moist and chocolaty, full of flavor and almost melting in your mouth.
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Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
These delightful Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins bring together the awesome taste of ripe bananas and the pure joy of chocolate chips. These muffins are perfect for breakfast or as a satisfying snack. With their golden-brown tops, topped with a sprinkle of extra chocolate chips, they're simply irresistible.
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Cherry and Cream Cheese Crepes
Cherry and Cream Cheese Crepes are a delightful treat that can be enjoyed any time of day. These thin, delicate crepes are filled with a creamy, tangy filling and topped with a homemade cherry sauce, making them perfect for breakfast, brunch, or dessert.
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1 Minute – Snickerdoodle Mug Cake
For snickerdoodle cookies lovers I am glad to share this delightful Snickerdoodle Mug Cake that is simply bursting with cinnamon flavor. All the ingredients with a good amount of cinnamon are mixed together in the mug, sprinkled with more cinnamon sugar, cooked and then topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with some more cinnamon sugar.
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Rice Pudding
Rice pudding is one of the most comforting desserts, perfect for all seasons as it can be served hot on cold days or chilled on summer days.
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Easy Blueberry Muffins
These Blueberry Muffins are simply out of this world. Soft and fluffy, bursting with flavor, with a delicious crispy buttery topping, it’s hard not to fall in love with them. The recipe is easy and quick to prepare and they are made with basic ingredients you usually have in house.
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Creamy Chocolate Pudding
This creamy chocolate pudding is the best of all puddings ever. Creamy and delicious, the use of chocolate and cocoa powder makes this pudding very chocolaty.
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Carrot Cake Thumbprint Cookies
These Carrot Cake Thumbprint Cookies blend the sweet taste of carrots with the cozy flavor of oats and toasted walnuts. Baked to perfection, they're soft and chewy with a slightly crispy exterior enhanced by the satisfying crunch of walnuts.
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No Yeast Cinnamon Rolls
I am glad to share with you an amazing recipe for easy and quick homemade cinnamon rolls. This time, the recipe requires no yeast and no eggs, and you don’t need more than 15 minutes to prepare the rolls and have them ready to place in the oven. Is that fast.
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1 Minute – Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake
This Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake is for all chocolate and peanut butter combination lovers. It is a rich chocolatey cake flavored with peanut butter and topped with more peanut butter and mini chocolate chips.
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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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Butterless Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Butterless Chocolate Chip Cookies are rich with chocolate flavor, soft in texture, and have a delicious taste that is in no way compromised by the absence of butter.
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Refined Sugar Free Date Cocoa Brownies
Fudgy chocolaty brownies recipe, which not only is refined sugar-free but also uses no butter or chocolate, which means way fewer calories too. With these said, you can totally satisfy your sweet tooth with these amazing Refined Sugar-Free Date Cocoa Brownies without feeling any guilt. Isn’t this awesome?
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Apple Crumble Muffins
These Apple Crumble Muffins are a delightful combination of soft, moist muffins, infused with juicy apple pieces topped with a crunchy, buttery crumble. These treats begin with a tender muffin base, flavored with cinnamon and packed with juicy apple chunks.
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Double Chocolate Rum Cookies
These Double Chocolate Rum Cookies are one of the best chocolate cookies you can prepare for Christmas and New Year's Eve. With their soft and chewy texture, with bits of chocolate, rum flavored and sprinkled with flaky sea salt, it's hard not to fall in love with them.
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Breakfast Muffins – Refined Sugar Free Muffins
I have tried to come up with a refined sugar free muffins recipe and I am really pleased with how these breakfast muffins turned out. The muffins are soft and fluffy, sweetened with banana and honey, and packed with berries and oats.
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Double Chocolate Muffins
Easy, quick recipe for amazing Double Chocolate Muffins made with heavy cream and a lot of chocolate. They don’t need any additional butter or oil.
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Banana Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins
These Banana Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins are a delightful and healthy treat, perfect for any time of the day. These muffins blend the natural sweetness of ripe bananas and honey with the moisture of grated zucchini, creating a soft and tender texture.
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Strawberry Scones
These strawberry scones are best served warm after just taking them out of the oven. The sprinkled sugar on top creates a crispy crust while the interior is soft and filled with strawberries. They're seriously hard to resist.
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Eggless Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
These Eggless Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are simply irresistible when baked fresh at home. With their chewy texture and chocolatey flavor, these cookies are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth.
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Japanese Soufflé Pancakes
These Japanese Soufflé Pancakes, as their name mentions, are like little soufflés, very fluffy and soft, light like a cloud, with a delicate flavor and texture.
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Double Chocolate Waffles
Irresistible Double Chocolate Waffles—decadent delights with a crispy exterior and a tender, chocolate-loaded interior. Who could possibly say no?
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Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies
Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies are the perfect treat to prepare during this festive time, as they are bursting with warm and cozy cinnamon flavor. It's almost as if these cookies were made to bring comfort and joy to those who indulge in them.
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Chocolate Pudding Cake
This Chocolate Pudding Cake is one of the easiest chocolaty cakes you can ever prepare. While baking this cake separates into a chocolate cake at the top and a thick chocolate sauce at the bottom. It is very moist and full of flavor, a perfect treat for whenever you need a quick decadent dessert.
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With 60 easy 30-minute desserts to try, there’s always something sweet to whip up, no matter the occasion. If you give these recipes a go, I’d love to see your creations! Tag me on Instagram so we can share ideas, trade tips, and indulge in all things delicious together.
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