Over 70 recipes with a short ingredient list!
When I was baking Christmas cookies this past holiday season, I leaned toward recipes with fewer ingredients. Busy working and chasing children around, I was strapped on time, as most of us always are! So, for the sake of convenience and avoiding extra trips to the grocery, I made multiple batches of 4 ingredient peanut butter fudge, coconut macaroons, rice krispie treats, and lace cookies. After that, I scrolled back through my archives and found over 70 recipes with 8 ingredients or fewer.
I thought you would appreciate this too! I didn’t include drinks or frostings as most have less than 8 ingredients. As my blog is mostly baking, dessert recipes are prevalent!
*Pictured above: 130 Calorie Greek Yogurt Pineapple Bars
8 Ingredient Recipes
Dessert
- No-Bake Chocolate Coconut Snowballs (GF if using GF oats)
- Homemade Brownies
- Small Batch Cheesecake
- Peanut Butter Lava Cakes
- Drop Sugar Cookies
- Buttercream Easter Egg Candies (GF)
- Lemon Pudding Cakes
- Banoffee Pie
- Cheesecake
- Lemon Berry Trifle
- Ice Cream Cake
- Skillet Brownie (9 with salt as ingredient)
- Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
- Salted Chocolate Pistachio Shortbread
- Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies
- Chocolate Coconut Almond Tart (GF)
- Honey Pear Tart
- Pumpkin Spice Toffee (GF)
- Soft Caramel Candies (9 with salt as ingredient; GF)
- 130 Calorie Greek Yogurt Pineapple Bars
- 130 Calorie Greek Yogurt Lemon Bars
Dinner
- Homemade Ham & Cheese Pockets
- Easy Bruschetta Chicken (GF)
- Sweet Chili Chicken (not counting water or optional garnish; GF)
- Baked Lemon Herb Salmon (9 with salt as ingredient; GF)
- Baked Pecan Crusted Chicken Fingers
- Coconut Shrimp
Bread & Breakfast
- Soft Pretzel Rolls
- Irish Soda Bread
- Cinnamon Swirl Bread
- Homemade Bagels
- Whole Wheat Waffles (9 with salt as ingredient)
- Blueberry Banana Breakfast Cookies (9 with salt as ingredient; GF if using GF oats)
- Maple Almond Cranberry Granola (GF if using GF oats)
- Vanilla Almond Granola (GF if using GF oats)
- Lots of healthy bars have 8 or less: Chocolate Cherry Almond Snack Bars, Cashew Coconut Snack Bars, Vanilla Almond Snack Bars
7 Ingredient Recipes
Dessert
- No-Bake S’mores Cake
- Key Lime Pies and Key Lime Pie Bars
- Peanut Butter Balls (GF)
- Spritz Cookies
- Peanut Butter Eggs (GF)
- Lemon Bars
- Flourless Peanut Butter Brownie Cookies (GF)
- Chocolate Lava Cakes
- Berries ‘n’ Cream Icebox Cake
- Dark Chocolate Almond Truffles (GF)
- Caramel Corn (GF)
- Flourless Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies (GF if using GF oats)
- For the dogs! Soft Peanut Butter Carrot Dog Treats
Dinner
Bread & Breakfast
- Cranberry Nut No Knead Bread
- Homemade Soft Pretzels
- Dinner Rolls
- Homemade Bread Bowls
- Croissants
- Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Granola (GF if using GF oats)
6 Ingredient Recipes
Dessert
- French Macarons (GF)
- Lace Cookies (GF)
- Brownie Baked Alaska
- Brown Sugar Shortbread
- Lemon Curd (GF)
- Shortbread Cookies
- Creme Brûlée (GF)
- Saltine Toffee
- Peanut Butter Caramel Corn (GF)
Dinner
Bread & Breakfast
5 Ingredient or Less Recipes
All dessert. 🙂
- Pavlova (not including whipped cream; GF)
- Rice Krispie Treats (GF)
- No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars
- White Chocolate Caramel Cashew Clusters (GF)
- Coconut Macaroons (GF)
- Chocolate Truffles (GF)
- Salted Caramel (GF)
- Sea Salt Dark Chocolate Almond Clusters (GF)
- Greek Yogurt Fruit Tart (GF)
- Peanut Butter Fudge (GF)
- Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Almonds (GF)
- Strawberry Cheesecake Truffles
- Blueberry Swirl Yogurt Popsicles (GF)
- Snowball Cookies
- Maple Vanilla Baked Pears (GF)
- Peppermint Bark (GF)
- Oreo Balls
GF = gluten free recipe.
Do you have a easy but good recipe for macaroons for beginners?
Hi Michelle, here is our recipe for coconut macaroons. We also have a recipe for almond butter macaroons that you might enjoy. Let us know if you give either a try!
Sally,
Thank you for your fast reply. My girlfriend gave me a recipe that she said was on your site. I know I did not find it, but found so many other good looking recipes. I love making breads. I looked at all your bread recipes from the one you sent me. What fun I am going to have making bread. What better time. My girlfriend mentioned it was a sub bread recipe. I sure do appreciate all the help you tried to give me.
My girlfriend told me about your hoagie buns. I so want to make them, but can not find them.. Where do I need to look? Thank you.
Hi Nancy! I don’t have a recipe for hoagie buns on my website. Here are all of my yeasted breads in case your girlfriend is talking about any others.
Thank You Sally for this list. It is so helpful. I also wanted to add that your pizza dough is the only one I use. Its delicious.
These are so helpful! Can you maybe sort recipes based on time?
That’s a great idea for a future post, Katlin!
I’m so happy I found this! This literally made my day! I just joined your email list in December after having tried many of your recipes. I am so happy with all the recipes I have tried and so is my family!:) Thank you so much for all your time and effort going into these recipes so we can all enjoy the yumminess of your labor! Your recipes are a blessing!
Oh Sally, you are amazing! I was diagnosed as a celiac last year and I still read every one of your posts, secretly coveting those who can prepare your recipes as provided. I will often try to convert them to gluten free – sometimes successfully and other times resulting in an epic failure. How very considerate to note the GF recipes in this roundup. You are just the best!
Great list!
Even better still would be another one with recipes for when you’re short on time!
I noticed a few of the recipes here are very labour intensive, or include a lot of chilling/rising, or hands off time (thinking of the homemade croissants, which while absolutely delicious and very few ingredients, were incredibly labour intensive and took a lot of waiting time).
I’d love to see a consolidated list like this of your recipes that take under half an hour, and requore little to no wait time.
Or maybe with categories of “under an hour”, “under 45 minutes”, “under 30 minutes”, “under 20 minutes”, “under 15 minutes”, and “under 10 minutes”, cuz you have a ton that fall into those categories, the salted caramel is the first that comes to mind, but a lot of my other favorite’s do as well, like the lace cookies.
Your blogs are my favorite to find in my inbox! So many recipes to make!!!
So sweet, thank you Deb!
Thanks for this list Sally, Always thinking of ways to make our lives more efficient and ingenious recipes to keep us happy bakers
I’m so happy you loved this list! 🙂
Thank you sally, this is so helpful and truly needed ! I feel like I’m always at the grocery store buying another Ingredient . A short list is awesome and I can’t wait to try! They all so so yummy
I totally understand! Glad you love this list 🙂
Thank you on for these recipes! Some of my favorites are on this list and I will be using it regularly.
I’m so happy to read this, Judy! Thank you!
Thank-you Sally, as so many recipes have far too many ingredients. These look perfect as are all of yours that I have made.
Some nice and easy recipes with just a few ingredients. This has got my taste buds going now. I will definitely try some of these out. Thanks for the list. Now I have to try one for dinner tonight.
OMG! Bless you for this amazing compilation! This will really speed up the process when you decide to bake or prepare dinner in a pinch…. or just can’t make a trip to the store, again! A huge thank you!