You love dessert. It's alright to admit it. But sometimes you just don't have time to make it. Between taking care of the kids, and making meals, and running errands, sometimes it can be hard to sit down and prepare a decadent dessert for yourself. Now you have no more excuses. With these easy dessert recipes, whipping up a dessert is a piece of cake. Literally! These desserts require only five ingredients at most. Some of these succulent sweet treats only need TWO ingredients from you. How simple is that! Take a break from your hectic and chaotic schedule, and savor the wonderful flavors these easy dessert recipes have to offer. Pre-heat your oven, kick your feet up, and enjoy 30 Five Ingredient or Less Easy Dessert Recipes. 

30 Five Ingredients or Less Easy Dessert Recipes

Table of Contents

Two Ingredient Desserts

Chocolate Desserts with Five Ingredients or Less

Easy Dessert Pops

Simple Ice Cream Recipes

No Bake Desserts with Five Ingredients or Less

Other Five Ingredients Or Less Desserts

Two Ingredient Desserts

There is nothing simpler than these two ingredient desserts. Anything less than two ingredients, and you're just purchasing the dessert as a whole from the bakery or grocery store. And where's the fun in that? There's a joy and a sense of accomplishment in making your own treats. Find out what two ingredients you need to make a sweet treat that will satisfy your sweet tooth. 

1. 60 Second Brownie For One
2. Chocolate Candy Cane Bark
3. Two Ingredient Chocolate Coke Cake (shown above)
4. 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Cake Cookies
5. Oreo Bark
6. 2 Ingredient Lemon Bars

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Chocolate Desserts with Five Ingredients or Less

The combination of chocolate desserts with five ingredients or less takes an already tasty treat and transforms it into one of the best desserts ever. You'll love how decadent these delights are and how simple they are to make. This list of chocolate dessert recipes is sure to become your go-to dessert haven.

1. Secret Ingredient Chocolate Bundt Cake
2. Easy Peasy Oreo Balls
3. Four Ingredient Thin Mints
4. 3-Ingredient Butterfinger Bars
5. Tantalizing 4-Ingredient Chocolate Lasagna (shown above)
6. 3-Ingredient Microwave Peanut Butter Cups

Easy Dessert Pops

Everything tastes better on a stick. Have a piece of hard candy? Put it on a stick! It's a lollipop. Have a frozen juice concoction? Put it on a stick! It's a popsicle. Desserts of sticks are wonderful because it allows you to eat something scrumptious without getting your hands all dirty. It takes no time at all to make these easy dessert pops, and it'll take even less time to eat them! They are so good you'll just want to gobble them up. 

1. Raspberry Creme Pops
2. Skittle Marshmallow Pops (shown above)
3. Copycat Bluth's Original Frozen Bananas
4. Chocolate Covered Peeps Heart Pops NEW

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Simple Ice Cream Recipes

While some ice cream recipes can be overly complicated and have a lot of steps, these recipes are pretty much as easy as they come. With five ingredients or less, you'll spend less time preparing your ice cream and more time trying to figure out what toppings you're going to pour on top or mix in. These recipes are just that easy.

1. Let It Snow Ice Cream
2. Copycat Coldstone Sweet Cream Ice Cream (shown above)
3. Lazy Minute Layered Ice Cream Cake

No Bake Desserts with Five Ingredients or Less

No bake dessert recipes are great all year round. They're super easy to whip up and usually don't take much time at all. No bake dessert recipes with five ingredients or less are even better because they're hassle-free treats that you don't need a lot of preparation to make. Best of all, all of these recipes include relatively simple ingredients, which means that you can whip them up whenever you'd like. Whether you are looking for a simple dessert recipe, or want to make homemade whipped cream for your favorite desserts, you'll find a recipe for you below.

1. Timeless Ambrosia Salad   (shown above)
2. The Capitol's 4-Ingredient Chilled Raspberry Soup
3. Cherry and Dark Chocolate Rice Krispie Treats
4. 5-Minute Homemade Whipped Cream
5. Vegan Coconut Chocolate Balls

Other Five Ingredients or Less Desserts

There are so many tasty treats that will take very little time to prepare. These easy dessert recipes are so good that you'll want to make them over and over again. These delicious dessert will be constantly on your mind. The kitchen is a place where your stress should melt away, and these five ingredients or less desserts help out with that.

1. Finger Lickin' Good Monkey Bread
2. The Honest Lazy Pie
3. Quick and Easy Crescent Cinnamon Rolls  (shown above)
4. Three-Ingredient Sponge Cake
5. Lazy Day Cake Mix Apple Cobbler
6. Better-Than-Takeout Fortune Cookies