Desserts to make with almost nothing! You'll be surprised by what you can pull together with a bit of creativity. There are recipes for 3-ingredient cookies, two-ingredient "faux fudge," dessert dips, recipes starting with a box mix and more.

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Pantry Desserts: Make Sweet Treats from What You Already Have

- Simple sugar cookies with no eggs or baking powder
- Microwave mug cakes
- No-bake oatmeal cookies
- You've got marshmallows and chocolate but no graham crackers? Make s'mores anyway with what you have (giant list of graham cracker alternatives.)
No-Oven, No-Problem: Quick Stovetop and No-Bake Desserts

- Stovetop chocolate pudding
- Rice Krispie treats or cereal bars
- Orange Sherbet (no-churn)

Just a Few Ingredients: 3-Ingredient Dessert Ideas
- Peanut butter and honey toast with cinnamon
- Banana ice cream (frozen bananas blended smooth)
- Sweetened condensed milk fudge
- Three ingredient peanut butter cookies: mix ¾ cup sugar, one cup peanut butter and one egg. Beat together, form into balls and bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for 10 minutes at 350F°.
- "Faux fudge": take any can of store-bought frosting and melt it with a bag of either chocolate chips or another flavor of chips until combined. Pour into a parchment lined 8x8 square pan and let cool. Slice and enjoy.
- Dessert Dips like S'mores Dip
- 3-Ingredient Key Lime Pie
- S'mores Mini Tarts
- Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla chips: Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over a handful of tortillas you've place in your air fryer on a liner and air fry until crisp and sugar has lightly caramelized.
- Make shortbread cookies: flour, sugar and butter. Salt and a flavoring like an extract are nice but not absolutely necessary.

Dessert Hacks: Turning Store-Bought Items Into Something Special

- One of my favorite hacks is turning a super cheap can of refrigerator biscuits into homemade donuts.
- Make frosting with butter and powdered sugar. This easy cookie icing can be drizzled over anything, even fruit and crackers.
- Upgrade boxed brownie mix with pantry add-ins like peppermint candy for Peppermint Brownie Cookies or M&M's for colorful M&M Brownies or M&M Brownie Cookies.
- Box Mix Brownie Cookies (My very favorite!)
- Pie Crust Cookies

Bare Pantry? Emergency Sweet Fix: Super-Fast Desserts in 5 Minutes or Less

- Chocolate-dipped anything (crackers, fruit, pretzels) Try dates drenched in chocolate or chocolate pecans also.
- Hot cocoa with a fancy twist (whipped cream, cinnamon, caramel drizzle)
- White chocolate dipped Oreos
- Cinnamon sugar toast.
- Air Fryer S'mores
- No bake oatmeal cookies
- Maybe this is a middle-aged lady thing, but I love a bowl of plain Greek yogurt drizzled with local honey and sprinkled with cinnamon. Add a few chopped nuts if you have them.

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