Dessert Recipes

80+ budget-friendly homemade dessert recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth without killing your budget. We’ve got everything from cakes, pies, muffins, and cookies to mug cakes, dessert dips, and more.

Popular Dessert Recipes

Overhead view of a sliced lemon cream pie with lemons on the sides

Easy Lemon Cream Pie

$4.26 recipe / $0.53 per slice

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

$1.65 recipe / $0.14 each

Banana Pudding

$4.91 recipe / $1.23 serving

Side view of a stack of fudgy homemade brownies.

Super Fudgy Homemade Brownies

$3.93 recipe / $0.44 serving

Raspberry Oatmeal Bars

$2.86 recipe / $0.32 serving

No-Bake Desserts

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Newest Dessert Recipes

Bread Pudding

$6.73 RECIPE / $0.84 SERVING

This recipe for Bread Pudding is an easy, versatile, and budget-friendly way to transform leftover ingredients into a decadent dessert.

Chocolate Mousse

$7.57 recipe / $1.26 serving

When it comes to a perfectly luscious and light dessert, it doesn't get much simpler than this deeply flavored easy chocolate mousse recipe!

Valentine’s Day Cookies

$7.37 recipe / $0.61 serving

Say the sweetest "I love you!" with these soft, buttery, chocolate-dipped Valentine's Cookies! This recipe is easy and budget-friendly.

Snickerdoodles

$3.83 recipe / $0.24 serving

Score all the bear hugs from the cinnamon lover in your life with this easy recipe for tangy, chewy, cinnamon-sugar-crusted snickerdoodles.

Thumbprint Cookies

$2.69 recipe / $0.17 each

Jam Thumbprint Cookies are a Christmas cookie classic made with a shortbread dough, sweet fruit jam, and a nutty coconut coating.

Sugar Cookies

$4.41 recipe / $0.37 serving

Sugar cookies are budget-friendly, simple to make, and a delicious way to make memories that will last a lifetime.

Peanut Butter Blossoms

$4.10 recipe / $0.23 each

Peanut butter blossoms are a classic Christmas cookie that features a chewy peanut butter cookie topped with a sweet chocolate kiss.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

$4.58 recipe / $0.25 serving

This chocolate chip cookie recipe is so good you'll fall in love at first bite. The chocolate chip cookies are chewy with crispy edges.

Sweet Potato Casserole

$5.94 recipe / $0.74 serving

Greater than the sum of its parts, this buttery sweet potato casserole is a breeze to put together and will be the star of your dinner table!

Pumpkin Pie

$7.49 recipe / $0.62 serving

This pumpkin pie recipe is simple but decadent. With a few of my favorite tricks, you can produce the silkiest pie with the most profound flavors.

Monkey Bread

$7.53 recipe / $0.63 serving

If you're looking for an easy, absolute knockout dessert, try making the buttery, caramelized, pull-apart cinnamon loaf known as Monkey Bread.

Pumpkin Bread

$5.94 recipe/ $0.37 serving

Lightly scented with warming pumpkin spice and moist throughout, this old-fashioned pumpkin bread comes together in minutes with just a handful of ingredients.