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It’s not true that only pastry chefs and bakers can come up with delicious desserts. In fact, there are lots of incredible-tasting easy desserts you can whip up in a flash with pantry staples. Perhaps you have a hankering for amaretto cream pie or you are a strawberry shortcake fan or lemon brulee lover. There’s something to suit anyone’s sweet tooth in this collection of simple yet sensational desserts.
Butter Tarts

Indulge in a classic with homemade butter tarts. With a sweet, vanilla-scented filling and flaky pastry shell filled with nuts and raisins, this recipe is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth.
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Easy Mini Cherry Cheesecake Desserts

If you’ve been looking for a single-serve dessert with pre-made puff pastry shells and cherry pie filling, you’re going to love these mini cherry cheesecake desserts. These individual cheesecakes are really tasty!
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Easy Lemon Posset Brûlée

Blending sweetness, tartness, and a creamy texture, a lemon posset brûlée is elegant enough for a dinner party as well as simple enough to become a real staple.
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Confetti Squares

These peanut butter butterscotch confetti squares are the perfect no-bake treat for any occasion. With colorful mini marshmallows and butterscotch chips, they’re sure to be a hit at your next party or potluck!
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Strawberry Sorbet

This strawberry sorbet is perfect with only four ingredients. The deep strawberry flavor of this frozen dessert makes it a favorite summer treat that can be made quickly and easily using either frozen or fresh strawberries.
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Amaretto Cream Pie

Make this no-bake cream pie recipe with amaretto liqueur and you will certainly end the meal in style. It’s a make-ahead dessert, as long as you add the finishing touches just before serving.
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Strawberry Shortcake

These individual strawberry shortcakes are the perfect choice for a potluck or picnic. With their fluffy biscuits, fresh strawberries, and whipped cream, they’re a delicious and portable dessert.
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Banana Cake

This delicious Banana Cake is made with sweet, ripe bananas and topped with a tangy sour cream frosting. Easy and delicious.
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Lemon Stuffed Cupcakes

These lemon-stuffed cupcakes pair pillowy, fluffy vanilla cupcakes with a homemade filling of lemon curl plus a sweet buttercream frosting!
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Limoncello Bundt Cake

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this fantastic limoncello bundt cake. It’s a great choice for spring or summer, or just because you love lemon!
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Orange Bars

These tasty orange bars have a sweet, crumbly shortbread crust and a sweet, zesty orange layer on top. They’re finished with chocolate curls.
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No Bake Granola Bars

These no bake granola bars are really easy to make and you can customize them with your favorite add-ins, making them different each time!
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Lemon Bars

These gluten free lemon bars are sweet, tangy, and tasty. They’re perfect served for dessert, as a sweet snack, or whipped up for a bake sale.
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Cake Mix Coffee Cake

This easy yet impressive cake mix coffee cake is so easy to whip up. The cake is moist and light, and the streusel layer is really tasty too!
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Cream Cheese Berry Danish

You’re going to love this delicious cream cheese berry Danish recipe. It’s not hard to make and the creamy and fruity fillings taste so good.
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Berry Cheesecake Puff Pastry Tart

This easy berry cheesecake puff pastry tart is perfect for your 4th of July celebrations. Whip this up and taste the red, white and blue.
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Layered Strawberry Jello Parfait Cups

Layered strawberry jello parfait cups make a great treat. They are a great make-ahead no bake dessert. Once you know how to make jello cups you will want to make these all the time. They are a pretty layered parfait and ideal for any occasion.
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Easy Monkey Bread

This easy monkey bread recipe uses canned biscuit dough and is sweetened with white and brown sugar and flavored with cinnamon. It’s a delicious pull-apart bread that is easy to make and is sure to be a hit whenever you choose to make it.
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Strawberry Mousse Tartlets

Mini strawberry mousse tartlets are filled with strawberry cream cheese nestled atop a pre-made crust for the perfect bite-sized delights.
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Cream Cheese Brownies

These cream cheese brownies are rich, fudgy brownies with a cheesecake ripple! Try this delicious brownie with cream cheese recipe!
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Lemon Blueberry Sheet Cake

This lemon blueberry sheet cake is bursting with lemon flavor, and blueberries, and is topped with a cream cheese frosting and blueberry sauce.
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Coconut Custard Pie

Coconut Custard Pie is a dense and creamy dessert recipe made with just seven ingredients including coconut, milk, and eggs.
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Strawberry Lemon Cake

This cake is the definition of delicious. With fresh berries and a light lemon flavor, this is just the thing to serve on a summer afternoon.
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Easy Chocolate Sheet Cake With Fudge Frosting

This easy chocolate sheet cake is moist, delicious, and perfect for a crowd! Ready start to finish in under an hour.
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Strawberry Ice Cream Cake

Strawberry ice cream cake is an easy, no-bake frozen dessert made with pound cake, strawberry ice cream, fresh strawberries, and chocolate!
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Lemon Cheesecake

Our Lemon Cheesecake has a creamy filling and buttery graham cracker crust. Make this baked lemon cheesecake recipe for a holiday dessert!
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Frozen Strawberry Yogurt Bites

Frozen Strawberry Yogurt Bites are a perfect blend of strawberries and Greek yogurt coated in chocolate. Ideal for a yummy snack or dessert.
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Strawberry Tiramisu

Strawberry Tiramisu has layers of fresh juicy, strawberries, rich delicious cream filling, and orange liqueur-infused ladyfinger cookies.
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Decadent Caramel Brownie Trifle

This Brownie Trifle recipe is a rich and creamy dessert with layers of chocolate brownie, caramel, cheesecake pudding, and more, perfect for any occasion.
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Creamy No Bake Strawberry Pie

This no-bake Strawberry Pie combines the sweet flavors of fresh strawberries with a deliciously sweet and tangy cream filling. Just 5 ingredients, and you’ll have a delicious cream-filled Strawberry Pie perfect for parties, potlucks, or picnics.
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Blueberry Heaven On Earth Cake

Blueberry Heaven On Earth Cake is a trifle-like cake that has layers of angel food cake, vanilla pudding, blueberry filling, and Cool Whip!
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Deep Fried Strawberry Shortcake

The best twist on strawberry shortcake! Grab canned refrigerator biscuits and make deep-fried strawberry shortcake.
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Berry Cheesecake Salad Recipe

This berry cheesecake salad recipe is a fruity dessert salad everyone will love. It’s filled with blueberries and strawberries and so creamy!
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No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake Icebox Cake

This no-bake cherry cheesecake icebox cake is as simple as it is tasty. It’s filled with delicious, creamy goodness that everyone loves.
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Strawberry Danish

This strawberry danish recipe features a sweet strawberry filling, tangy cream cheese mixture, and golden, perfectly baked crust.
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Cream Horns Recipe

This easy Cream Horns recipe is made with puff pastry that’s wrapped and baked until golden flaky and filled with a sweet and fluffy cream filling!
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French Silk Pie

This French Silk Pie is so easy to make. It’s creamy and has the perfect balance of chocolate and homemade whipped cream.
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Black Forest Dump Cake

Enjoy the irresistible flavors of Black Forest Dump Cake: a delightful combination of chocolate, cherries, and fluffy goodness.
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Strawberry Jello Pie

With fresh, ripe strawberries and just a few simple ingredients, this Fresh Strawberry Pie is the perfect summertime dessert that only takes 10 minutes to prep. It’s bursting with flavor and the perfect treat to share at cookouts and barbecues.
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Easy Peach Galette Recipe With Puff Pastry

If you are looking for a summer dessert, try this peach galette with puff pastry with fresh peaches! Prepare and bake in 35 minutes!
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Strawberry Cheesecake Poke Cake

This Strawberry Cheesecake Poke Cake is baked from a box, poked with cheesecake pudding, covered with Cool Whip, and then topped with fresh strawberries.
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Banana Pudding Pie

Banana Pudding Pie is a dreamy treat that combines classic flavors with a modern twist, making it a perfect dessert.
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Strawberry Torte

Strawberry Torte is a classic German summer dessert. This sponge cake variation is flavored with juicy strawberries and pudding mix making it simple to create the pudding layer of this dessert.
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Frozen Strawberry Yogurt Bites

Frozen Strawberry Yogurt Bites are a perfect blend of strawberries and Greek yogurt coated in chocolate. Ideal for a yummy snack or dessert.
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Strawberry Shortcake Roll

Our Strawberry Shortcake Roll recipe takes the classic flavors you love and wraps them into an irresistible, easy-to-make dessert.
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Lemon Heaven On Earth Cake

Lemon Heaven On Earth Cake is a no-bake dessert with a perfectly tart, sweet flavor made with store-bought ingredients in only 15 minutes!
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Homemade Strawberry Pop Tarts

This homemade strawberry Pop-Tarts recipe is even better than everyone’s childhood favorite. It’s sweet, delicious, and so easy to make.
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Chocolate Cheesecake

Indulge in a heavenly no-bake Chocolate Cheesecake with a rich and creamy filling in a chocolate crust – the perfect dessert for any occasion
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No-Bake Banana Pudding Cups

This easy no-bake banana pudding cheesecake dessert is so easy and so good. Essentially a mini banana pudding trifle in each dish.
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Blueberry, Raspberry, Strawberry Tiramisu

Strawberry Tiramisu with Blueberries and Raspberries is a delicious triple-berry dessert! This fruity tiramisu recipe is perfect for any get-together.
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Lazy Cookie Bars

Soft, chewy lazy cookie bars or cake mix cookie bars make a delightful dessert when you have no time to bake from scratch!
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Ambrosia Salad

Grandma’s delicious ambrosia salad is very simple to make. Perfect for picnics and church potlucks, it’s a slice of Americana!
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Oreo Poke Cake

Just when you thought your love of Oreo couldn’t get any better, along comes this amazing Oreo Poke Cake. Oreo flavor in a cake? Yes, please!
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Strawberry Pretzel Salad

Strawberry Pretzel Salad is always a hit at any get-together! A pretzel crust, topped with a sweet cream cheese layer and strawberry topping!
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Peaches And Cream Cheesecake

Peaches and Cream Cheesecake is a simple, fresh, and deliciously sweet recipe. With a creamy, no-bake cheesecake filling!
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Double Crust Apple Pie

Classic Double Crust Apple Pie with crisp, golden layers of buttery pastry and a luscious filling of sweet and tart apples.
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Easy No Bake Strawberry Pie

You can make this amazingly creamy no-bake strawberry pie with only 4 ingredients! Classic Jello pie is the perfect dessert.
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Lemon Bars

These one-bowl classic lemon bars have a crisp, buttery shortbread crust and a rich lemon curd filling made from scratch with fresh lemons.
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Summer Fruit Pizza

This sweet and refreshing Fruit Pizza is made of gluten-free cauliflower crust slathered with nut butter and loaded with summer fruits!
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Poke Cake

This Poke Cake recipe shows how to make a Jello poke cake with fun colors and flavors, perfect for a rainbow-themed celebration.
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Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake

This Copycat Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake is a homemade version of the DQ frozen treat, complete with its hot fudge filling and chocolate cookie crunchies.
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Old Fashioned Fresh Apple Cake

The Best Old Fashioned Fresh Apple Cake recipe is so easy, moist, full of fresh apples, nuts, raisins, and cinnamon, and is the best recipe ever!
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.










