Baking can be intimidated because there is a good bit of science involved. It’s not just about the temperature at which you bake. How long you beat the batter, various ingredients, and how long you bake your recipes can all make a huge difference. Fortunately, recipes remove the guesswork.
The good news is that you don’t have to be terribly experienced in the kitchen to whip up some delicious and impressive baked treats.
Baking can be an incredibly rewarding activity, especially when it comes to enjoying delicious homemade treats. For those who are just starting out on their baking journey or are short on time, there’s no need to be intimidated by complex recipes or fancy techniques. With a plethora of easy baking recipes available, you can confidently whip up tasty delights in your own kitchen.
Many easy baking recipes focus on using simple ingredients that are readily available at your local supermarket, ensuring that you can create mouthwatering desserts without needing to search high and low for obscure items. From classic chocolate chip cookies to delectable brownies and fluffy cakes, there is no shortage of options for bakers of all skill levels to explore.
Not only do these easy baking recipes produce delicious results, but they also allow for a sense of achievement as you watch your creations come to life. Taking the time to bake at home can be a relaxing and satisfying experience, and with a little practice, you’ll be able to confidently impress friends and family with your baking prowess.
When it comes to the best easy baking recipes, there are tons of baking ideas online.
Whether you’re baking peanut butter cookies, cupcakes, banana bread, pound cake, a decadent chocolate cake, or a classic cheesy lasagna, there’s something for you on this list of 31 simple baking recipes.
Baking classic banana bread is an excellent way to build up your baking confidence. Moreover, banana bread is one of the best baking recipes.
Banana bread is one of the best easy baking recipes to make and the result is a delicious loaf of bread that can be enjoyed for breakfast, brunch, or as a dessert for any meal.
Best of all, banana bread is great for using up bananas that are too mushy to eat.
This banana bread recipe is flavored with brown sugar, cinnamon, pure vanilla extract, and butter.
For absolute joy, serve your banana bread warm with softened butter.
It’s hard to pinpoint where this delicious recipe originated, but sometime a couple of decades ago, these cookies seemed to burst onto the scene.
We’re not even mad about it, though, because they’re just delicious.
The melted butter used to make these cookies gives them a wonderful buttery flavor. Meanwhile, an extra egg yolk does a great job of adding even more chewiness.
This recipe has chopped salted macadamia nuts and white chocolate chips.
To make these cookies even more gorgeous, place an extra white chocolate chip or three on top of the warm cookies when you pull them out of the oven.
While it’s easy to make crescent rolls from the ready-made refrigerated dough available at the grocery store, it’s pretty simple to make these yummy soft rolls from scratch.
You can even prepare your own Amish Butterhorn Rolls (or Mennonite rolls) the night before for an easy bake in the morning.
These rolls are great for breakfast or brunch, but they are also terrific when served with lunch or dinner.
Anything made with cranberries is an amazing dessert for the holidays.
Cranberries come into season in the fall and it’s a great time to make cranberry muffins, cranberry cake, and other baked goods.
This cranberry pudding cake is a classic and it’s easy to make.
The ingredient list for cranberry pudding cake is very short. All you need is butter, sugar, all-purpose flour, baking powder, milk, and fresh cranberries.
For the butter sauce, you need sugar, butter, and heavy cream.
Don’t leave out the warm butter sauce drizzle. It’s what sends this cake over the top.
Peanut butter chocolate revel bars may be one of the best cookie bars you will ever bake.
These bars have a layer of oatmeal and peanut butter cookie dough that’s topped with a thick layer of peanut butter chocolate fudge.
Then, the bars are topped with even more crumbled cookie dough.
This wondrous mixture is baked into a gooey chocolatey treat that will disappear quickly.
These revel bars are made with creamy peanut butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract, old-fashioned oats, semisweet chocolate chips, and sweetened condensed milk. Heaven.
Portillo’s is a Chicago restaurant and while the establishment is a beloved institution in Chicago, they’re particularly famous for their decadent chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.
Do you know what the best thing about this cake is? It’s made with just five ingredients.
Yes, you read that right.
This chocolate cake is made with a cake mix, eggs, ice-cold water, and mayonnaise. The frosting is pre-made frosting from the grocery store.
We do like to make our own chocolate buttercream frosting, though. It’s easy to make and so worth the trouble.
These biscuits are made with dough, but don’t let that intimidate you. These biscuits are made with ingredients you probably already have in your pantry.
The secret to getting these biscuits right is that the butter needs to be very cold. That’s what makes the biscuits tall and flaky.
If you don’t have buttermilk, you can make your own using milk mixed with 3-4 tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice.
A Southern classic, Louisiana crunch cake is a yellow cake that has flaked coconut and sugar that gives the cake a delightful crunch.
The cake is like a coffee cake, but it’s topped with a tangy-sweet icing that brings it all together to perfection.
For a bit of zing, this recipe calls for some fresh lemon juice. Even the icing has some lemon juice in it, and that’s where the cake gets its yummy tanginess when you bake it.
It’s easy to overbake a bundt cake, and the Greek yogurt and some buttermilk in this recipe help the cake stay incredibly moist.
Muffins are a beloved food for breakfast, brunch, and lunch.
While muffins are usually known to be sweet, there is something about a savory muffin that is absolutely perfect.
These cheddar cheese muffins are decadent and they’re super simple to mix up for an easy homemade bread that will get quickly eaten in your house.
The prep and cook time for these muffins is just 30 minutes. How’s that for quick and easy?
To make these muffins, you need kosher salt, baking powder, sugar, all-purpose flour, an egg, milk, butter, and shredded cheddar cheese.
All you have to do is mix them up quickly and bake them. After they bake for 15-20 minutes, you have a wonderful quick bread to serve to friends and family.
Tastykakes are traditionally prepackaged sweet desserts made by big bakery brands.
However, you can easily make your own Tastykakes at home.
There are tons of different flavors of Tastykakes, including Butterscotch Krimpets, creme-filled Tastycakes, and more. One of the most popular Tastykakes is the Tandy Cake.
The Tandy Cake has a frosting that’s made with unsweetened cocoa powder, powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, and milk.
The cake is a plain yellow cake, and you can even use a yellow cake mix if you want. Just be sure you modify it to include peanut butter or another nut butter such as almond butter.
Hand pies are so handy (ha). They’re just great to have around for a quick breakfast, brunch, lunch, or snack.
These broccoli, chicken, and cheddar cheese hand pies have a flaky pastry crust.
The filling is stuffed with fresh broccoli, tender chicken breast, and cheddar cheese. To make them creamier, add some cream cheese.
We love that these handy little pies are loaded with wonderful spices that include seasoned salt, dry mustard, onion powder, garlic powder, smoked paprika, white pepper, cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and parsley.
You can absolutely make these without the chicken if you want a lighter hand pie.
Chocolate cake is one of the great wonders of the world, right? It’s definitely a favorite dessert in most households.
Well, maybe not technically, but we imagine you wouldn’t hear many arguments from folks as they’re spooning delicious forkfuls of chocolate cake into their mouths.
Blueberry buckle is an old-fashioned cake that is made in one single layer.
The cake gets its name because as it cooks, the streusel topping on the cake will “buckle.”
Basically, it’s like cutting into a gigantic blueberry muffin. What’s not to love?
This yummy blueberry wonder is peppered with delicious blueberries and cinnamon and boasts a crispy streusel topping that is to die for.
You can use frozen blueberries to make this cake and it will turn out perfectly. However, if blueberries are in season, it’s hard to beat baking with fresh blueberries.
Seven-layer bars are surely one of the most beloved desserts of all time.
The original recipe was found on the back of a can of sweetened condensed milk, but it has been adapted, changed, and improved upon by countless cooks over the years.
This classic recipe for seven-layer bars is made with a crust of crushed graham cracker crumbs.
Other ingredients include chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, sweetened flaked coconut, and walnuts.
You can use any type of nuts you like and you can use other flavors of chocolate chips, too. We love adding some cream cheese to this recipe.
Cassie brings decades of experience to the Kitchen Community. She is a noted chef and avid gardener. Her new book "Healthy Eating Through the Garden" will be released shortly. When not writing or speaking about food and gardens Cassie can be found puttering around farmer's markets and greenhouses looking for the next great idea.
