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Cheap and Easy Desserts

We have a lot of cheap easy desserts to share on our holiday blog here for you! From cakes to brownies, cake mix desserts, Christmas bread pudding, Thanksgiving pies, Easter cheesecake and sweets to make for your family.

What is the cheapest dessert?

  • Peeps rice krispy treats made with colored or regular marshmallows, butter, and cereal are inexpensive and quick to make.
  • Sugar Cookies are basic requiring just a few pantry staples like flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. You can also add a simple glaze or sprinkles for decoration.
  • Pudding mixes are very affordable and can be made with milk. You can also layer it with crushed cookies or whipped cream for a more elaborate dessert.
  • Banana Bread is a great way to use overripe bananas, and the other ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, eggs) are inexpensive. It’s a comforting and popular dessert.
  • Ramekin Cake is simple made with minimal ingredients or with boxed cake mix. It’s a quick, single-serving dessert.
  • Jello is one of the cheapest desserts you can make. It’s easy, colorful, and can be dressed up with fruit or whipped cream.
  • Candied Fruit is an inexpensive way to use fresh produce and sugar to make a "fancy" treat. We show you how to do this in How to Make Tanghulu Strawberries.
Cheap Easy Desserts

What is a cheap dessert for a lot of people?

If you are having a party and on a budget you want to provide a fun experience that is sweet and people can create on their own. It should not spoil either so guests can enjoy them throughout the get together. Think of a s'mores bar with skewers to roast their own marshmallows over the firepit.

Create an ice cream bar with a cooler at one end of your island with the main ingredient and all the toppings in bowls set out with small spoons to add whatever they'd like to the top. Boxed brownies can be made in bulk and cut into shapes using cute cookie cutters. And a variety of cookies are a given.

Easy Thanksgiving Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

November 30, 2024 by jojo 1 Comment

A spoon drizzles icing over freshly baked Thanksgiving cinnamon rolls in a pan.

This is how to make an easy Thanksgiving cinnamon rolls recipe with pumpkin puree only takes 30 minutes to rise, made homemade from scratch. If you loved our Thanksgiving Pancakes from Scratch, this too is an easy to make for a holiday breakfast kids love. Self rising flour cinnamon rolls for Thanksgiving morning is just…{Read more}

Filed Under: Cheap Easy Desserts, Thanksgiving Recipes Tagged With: active dry yeast, pumpkin, self rising flour

Easy Halloween Cake

August 26, 2024 by Grace Leave a Comment

Colorful layered dessert with a cookie base, topped with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles, serves as an easy Halloween cake on a white plate.

NO bake easy Halloween cake with pudding that is layered with orange and black and an Oreo cookie crust. Colorful and cheap holiday treat served as a fun dessert for a potluck or party. This is our favorite easy Halloween recipe you can make for other holidays too. Using different food colors layered one on…{Read more}

Filed Under: Cheap Easy Desserts, Easy Halloween Recipes Tagged With: butter, cool whip, cream cheese, instant pudding, milk, oreos, powdered sugar

Muffin Ramekin Breakfast Recipe

August 6, 2024 by Grace 4 Comments

Ramekin Muffins

Easy ramekin breakfast recipe here! A great way of how to bake muffins, fruit, quiche or Ramekin Cake in small dishes for an easy individual serving treat. Did you know you could bake muffins in ramekins? I know you have thought about it before when you ran out of paper liners and spray but wasn’t…{Read more}

Filed Under: Cheap Easy Desserts

How to Make Tanghulu Strawberries

June 29, 2024 by Grace Leave a Comment

A close-up of a glossy, tanghulu candy-coated strawberry on a stick, with blurred strawberries in the background.

How to make Tanghulu strawberries with sugar and water. Like our Candied Grapes you can use any fresh fruit to make this 2 ingredient sugared sweet dessert seen on TikTok. Served as a weekend treat or for Chinese New Year it is a family favorite we love. Tanghulu is a traditional Chinese snack that consists…{Read more}

Filed Under: Cheap Easy Desserts, Easy Valentines Day Recipes

TikTok Tanghulu Grapes with Sugar and Water

April 22, 2024 by jojo Leave a Comment

Tanghulu Grapes

Tanghulu grapes are candied with sugar and water, the craze on TikTok is here. How to make hard candy shell on fruit for dessert kabobs everyone will love during the holidays. Served as a sweet treat or for Chinese New Year it’s a family favorite we love. What does Tanghulu Mean? Tanghulu is a traditional…{Read more}

Filed Under: Cheap Easy Desserts, Holiday Appetizers Tagged With: grapes, sugar

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