Categories: Food & Drink

Delicious Desserts To Make Now

Do you want some delicious desserts to add to your life? This list will give you ideas for cookies, cakes, and puddings to try out yourself.

Cookies

1. No Bake Cookies

For this recipe, you’ll need sugar, milk, unsalted butter, unsweetened cocoa powder, old-fashioned rolled oats, smooth peanut butter, pure vanilla extract, and salt. 

This recipe is a fun and delicious cookie to make, and like the name suggests – there’s no baking involved. The smell while making these cookies fill the air with chocolate, and you won’t regret making these. This is one delicious dessert you can share with your friends and loved ones. 

Here is a recipe from FoodNetwork.

2. Lofthouse Cookies

You’ll recognize these cookies from the story that people seem to have a love-hate relationship with. If you love them, here is what you need to make them: sprinkles, butter, salt, sugar, food coloring, milk, egg, vanilla & almond extract, sour cream, powdered sugar flour, baking powder & soda. 

This way, you can recreate these delicious cookies and share them with everyone! You don’t have to get them from the store anymore when you have these ingredients at home. 

Here is a recipe from Preppy Kitchen.

3. Strawberry Shortcake Cookies

This delicious dessert is excellent if you are trying to decide on some cookies to bring for that family Thanksgiving or Christmas meal coming up. 

For these cookies, you’ll need to include chopped strawberries, lemon juice, granulated sugar, all-purpose flour, baking powder, kosher salt, butter, light brown sugar, a large egg, and vanilla extract. To make the filling for the cookie, you’ll need cream cheese, powdered sugar, and the zest of one lemon. 

This is one of those delicious desserts that nearly everyone will love! Check out this recipe from Delish

4. Chocolate Cool Whip Cookies

These cookies are so good, and you can even freeze your cookies and freeze the dough for up to three months. This recipe from Delish talks about how you can do that!

For these cookies, you’ll need a devil’s food cake mix, Cool Whip, a large egg, and powdered sugar. 

Cakes

5. Tres Leches Cake

Tres Leches is one of the most delicious desserts, also known as pan tres leches. It is a cake soaked in three kinds of milk and is so moist and sweet. 

If you want to make this dessert, you’ll need these ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking powder, unsalted butter, white sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, whole milk, sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, whipping cream, and white sugar. 

The prep time is listed as 15 minutes, cook time as 30 minutes, and additional time as 15 minutes. Check out this recipe from Allrecipes for this cake!

6. Red Velvet Cake

This is one of those delicious desserts that are considered a classic!

You’ll need ingredients including cake flour, baking soda, unsweetened cocoa powder, salt, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, vegetable oil (or canola), large eggs, pure vanilla extract, and distilled white vinegar, red food color, buttermilk. 

For the icing, you’ll need the following: full-fat block cream cheese, unsalted butter, confectioners’ sugar, pure vanilla extract, and salt. 

Check out this recipe from Sally’s Baking Recipes!

Pudding

7. Banana Pudding

This is a classic pudding that is so easy to make. This is another delicious dessert that is perfect for family events. 

For this recipe, you’ll need cold milk, instant vanilla pudding mix, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract, frozen whipped topping, vanilla wafers, and bananas. 

Check out this recipe from Allrecipes to try this pudding out for yourself. 

8. Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding Torte

This dessert sounds delicious and looks just as good. For this pudding, you’ll need: soft ladyfingers, Nutella, half-and-half cream, instant French vanilla pudding mix, frozen whipped topping, and grated or shaved chocolate. 

The prep time for this is about 15 minutes, not including the time it takes for it to cool. If you want to try this pudding, check out this recipe from Taste of Home.

See Also

9. Candy Corn Pudding Pops

This is the perfect dessert for the Halloween and Autumn seasons. You need to try now! To make this, you’ll need an ice pop maker, popsicle sticks, white chocolate jello pudding, vanilla flavor jello pudding flavor, honey, red and yellow food coloring, and milk.

Once you’ve made the main part, it’ll take the pops a few hours to freeze, and it may be best to leave them in overnight. Then, when you wake up, these delicious desserts will be ready to eat in the morning!

Check out this recipe from Number 2 Pencil.

10. Mississippi Mud Pie

This delicious pudding will take longer than these previous puddings, but it is worth it in the end. 

For the graham cracker crus, you’ll need graham crackers, granulated sugar, kosher salt, and unsalted butter. 

For the brownie cake part of the pudding, you’ll need unsalted butter, bittersweet chocolate, dark brown sugar, cocoa powder, pure vanilla extract, pure vanilla extract, kosher salt, large eggs, granulated sugar, and all-purpose flour.

For the chocolate custard part of the pudding, you’ll need bittersweet chocolate, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, kosher salt, cocoa powder, cornstarch, whole milk, and large egg yolks. 

Finally, you finish it off with cold heavy cream. 

If you want to try out this recipe, check out this article from NYTimes Cooking

11. Elvis Pudding Cake

One thing Elvis Presley loved to eat was peanut butter banana cookies, also known as the Elvis Presley Sandwich. The author of this recipe from Taste of Home described this pudding as being just like eating one of these sandwiches, but sweeter. 

For this recipe, you’ll need: 2% milk, banana cream pudding mix, banana cake mix, peanut butter chips, and dried banana chips.

Hopefully you got some inspiration from these delicious desserts to try the next time you have a sweet tooth. There are different options ranging from cakes, puddings, and cookies that you can go through! These are all great options. 

Which ones of these did you like the best? Let us know in the comments below!

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