These easy baking recipes are perfect for beginners in the kitchen or when you’re short on ingredients. They are easy to follow, prepared with minimal ingredients and baking tools. Most importantly, they’re absolutely delicious and most of them rank among my top recipes according to readers’ reviews. Pick your favorite and go make it!

These easy baking recipes are perfect for beginners in the kitchen or when you're short on ingredients. They are easy to follow, prepared with minimal ingredients and baking tools.

I recently shared my 10+ Easy Vegetarian Pantry Recipes with the idea to help you create some delicious everyday meals with just a few simple and affordable pantry staples and long shelf life ingredients. I’m back today with a slightly different version, focusing on desserts and baking recipes. Because eh, we all love sweet recipes, right?

These following easy baking recipes count among my favorites. They are the ones I bake the most often, when I have guests showing up for an informal get-together. Yes, even me, the passionate food blogger who always go the extra mile, love to bake some very easy and comforting dessert recipes on a regular basis.

Easy baking recipes

These baking recipes are incredibly easy to prepare, require just a few minimal ingredients (see below), and basic baking tools we all have at home: a mixing bowl, a whisk, a spring-form or a cake tin.

Minimal ingredients you’ll need for the following recipes:

  • All-purpose flour
  • Sugar
  • Eggs
  • Butter
  • Baking powder

Orange Pound Cake

Orange pound Cake

Easy Orange Pound Cake. This is one of your favorite recipes from the blog. Over the years, this quick pound cake has been baked countless times, worldwide, and the recipe always comes up with tons of positive comments. If you’re looking for a moist and tender cake with freshly squeezed orange juice, this is the one!

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above
  • 1 orange

Dark Chocolate Fondant Cake (A 15-minute recipe)

My all-time dark chocolate fondant cake, that I have been baking for over 15 years. This recipe takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, 17 minutes to bake and is by far the very best fondant you can possibly find.

Dark Chocolate Fondant Cake. This is my all-time chocolate fondant cake, that I have been baking for over 15 years. With less than 5 minutes preparation and 17 minutes baking, there’s nothing not to love about it. And if you feel a little bit more comfortable in baking, make sure you also try my French Chocolate Cake (the recipe is simple too, it simply requires you whip up egg whites).

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above, minus the baking powder
  • Dark chocolate

Easy Lemon Tart

The Fabulous Speculoos Lemon Tart. 5 ingredients only for this super simple speculoos lemon tart. My favorite recipe for busy days. Expect creamy, refreshing flavors with a sweet crunchy base.

Easy Lemon Tart. Only 5 ingredients for this Easy Lemon Tart, packed with refreshing flavors. It’s my husband’s favorite baking recipe from the blog, because it’s always so quick and simple!

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • Crumbled cookies (Digestive, Graham crackers or Speculoos)
  • Lemons
  • Condensed milk
  • Eggs

French Yogurt Cake (Gâteau au yaourt)

French "Gâteau au yaourt" (A No-Measure Cake)

French Yogurt Cake. This no-measure cake is a classic in France, and usually one of the very first cake kids learn how to bake. There is a reason behind: it’s extremely simple to bake, in no time, and you don’t even need to measure your ingredients or use measuring cups. Your yogurt container is the unique measurement tool you need. Super easy!

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above, minus the butter (replaced with vegetable oil)
  • 1 yogurt container (about 125g yogurt)

French Chocolate Chip Viennoises (almost no-kneading)

Chocolate Chip Viennoise

French Chocolate Chip Viennoises. With only 4 minutes to knead the dough, you’ll finally find kneading recipes easy! In fact, there is absolutely no way you can fail with this recipe. The result is soft, pillowy, loaded with chocolate chips… and slightly addictive!

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above, minus the baking powder (replaced with yeast)
  • Chocolate chips

Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf

Best Ever Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf is perfectly moist and tender, packed with delicious lemony flavors and sprinkled with just the right amount of poppy seeds.

Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf. This is a brand new on the blog and so many of you have already tried their hands on the recipe. Perfectly moist, tender, and packed with delicious lemony flavors, it’s a winner every single time. You can enjoy it with or without poppy seeds!

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above
  • Lemons
  • Milk
  • Poppy seeds (you can also go without)

Healthy Extra Moist Chocolate Cake

Healthy Extra Moist Chocolate Cake

Healthy Extra Moist Chocolate Cake. Flourless, butter free and naturally sweetened with dates, this cakes has an incredibly moist texture and a delicious chocolaty flavor. You would never guess it’s healthier than a classic version. Good to know: you will need a food processor for this recipe.

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • Dark chocolate
  • Dates
  • Eggs
  • Vegetable oil
  • Baking soda

Buttermilk Banana Bread

Best Buttermilk Banana Bread

Buttermilk Banana Bread aka the best moist banana bread ever! You have a few extra ripe bananas to use? This is the recipe that will save your day, and believe me, you’ll come back to it again and again. It seems everyone is hooked!

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above
  • Ripe bananas

Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies

Découvrez la recette des cookies mondialement connus de chez Levain Bakery à NYC : des cookies géants et épais, dorés et croquants en surface, le tout dévoilant un centre mi-cuit des plus irrésistibles. Des cookies à tomber !

Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies. I’ve got plenty of cookie recipes on the blog but for some reason, the most decadent one is also the easiest to bake. These New-York style Levain Bakery Cookies are just out of this world. Make sure you read the instructions for best results, but really there’s not much to do, just make sure you use up all the chocolate chips and walnuts mentioned in the recipe to get some thick, giant cookies.

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above
  • Walnuts
  • Chocolate chips

Best Apple Crisp

Best Apple Crisp

Best Apple Crisp. Finally an easy baking recipe with… fruits! This easy crisp can be prepared with apples, but pears, berries or even bananas would do too. Just follow your mood of the day!

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All-purpose flour
  • Sugar
  • Butter
  • Apples (or any fruits of your choice: pears, bananas, berries…)

Double Chocolate Greek Yogurt Banana Bread

Double Chocolate Greek Yogurt Banana Bread

Double Chocolate Banana Bread. Rich and chocolaty, this banana bread is super easy to prepare and a great twist to the traditional banana bread recipe.

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above
  • Ripe bananas
  • Yogurt
  • Cocoa powder

Easy French Toast Casserole

Easy Brioche French Toast Casserole

Easy French Toast Casserole. If you happen to have some stale bread (or better, brioche), this recipe will save it and make a delicious breakfast recipe for the entire family. You can also enjoy it as a dessert, served with a ball of vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • All the basic ingredients mentioned above, minus the baking powder
  • Stale bread or brioche

Also, don’t miss these basic breakfast recipes

The two next recipes do not require to be baked in the oven. All you need is a pan to make the magic happen. I love them for breakfast, but really they’re good anytime of the day. They’re super easy, always a success among both kids and adults. I also added my favorite no-knead bread recipe!

Easy Fluffy American Pancakes

Easy Fluffy Pancakes. These pancakes are my #1 recipe on the blog for a reason. They’re super simple to prepare, taste better than pancake mix and turn out fluffy every single time!

French Crepes

Easy French Crepes

Easy French Crepes. We all need a basic crepes recipe to rely on. This one never disappoints and comes with these 10 Easy Tips & Tricks to help you become a crepe master!

No-Knead Bread

Easy Classic No-Knead Bread
Easy Classic No-Knead Bread. It’s become a basic in your kitchen lately, the one bread recipe that never fails and brings you fresh bread in the morning. Flour, yeast, salt and water… So easy! Feel a little bit more adventurous? Make sure you try my 5 No-Knead Bread Recipes (including one with whole-wheat flour, one with seeds, etc.).

I hope these easy baking recipes (with minimal ingredients) leave you full with inspiration for your next baking projects in the kitchen. Nothing ever makes me happier than seeing you making my recipes, so if you try one or several of the recipes above, remember to tag @delscookingtwist on Instagram and hashtag it #delscookingtwist.

Now tell me, I’m curious, which one of all the recipes above will you be trying first? 🙂