Over 80 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, chasing my daughter around, and cleaning up after her (welcome to toddlerhood!!)… 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, 5 ingredient macaroons, and lace cookies. After that, I scrolled back through my archives and found over 80 8 ingredient or less recipes.
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)
- Seriously Fudgy Homemade Brownies
- Creamy Small Batch Cheesecake
- Peanut Butter Lava Cakes
- Drop Sugar Cookies
- Banoffee Pie
- Classic Cheesecake
- Lemon Berry Trifle
- Ice Cream Cake
- Ultimate Skillet Brownie (9 with salt as ingredient)
- Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
- Salted Chocolate Pistachio Shortbread
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (9 with salt as ingredient)
- Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies
- Chocolate Coconut Almond Tart (GF)
- Quick & Easy Honey Pear Tart
- Pumpkin Spice Toffee (GF)
- Sea Salt Vanilla Caramels (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
- Easy Coconut Shrimp
Bread & Breakfast
- Soft Pretzel Rolls
- Irish Soda Bread
- Homemade Cinnamon Swirl Bread
- Homemade Bagels
- Whole Wheat Waffles (9 with salt as ingredient)
- 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, Blueberry Almond Snack Bars (GF)
7 Ingredient Recipes
Dessert
- No-Bake S’mores Cake
- Key Lime Pies
- Flourless Peanut Butter Brownie Cookies (GF)
- Chocolate Lava Cakes
- Berries ‘n’ Cream Icebox Cake
- My Favorite Spritz Cookies
- Funfetti Buttercreams (GF)
- Healthy Dark Chocolate Almond Truffles (GF)
- Grandma’s 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
- Crusty Cranberry Nut No Knead Bread
- Easy Homemade Soft Pretzels
- Homemade Bread Bowls
- Homemade 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)
- Homemade Creme Brûlée (GF)
- Easy Saltine Toffee
- Peanut Butter Caramel Corn (GF)
Dinner
Bread & Breakfast
5 Ingredient or Less Recipes
All dessert. 🙂
- Pavlova (not including whipped cream; GF)
- White Chocolate Caramel Cashew Clusters (GF)
- Coconut Macaroons (GF)
- Salted Caramel Sauce (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
- Creamy Lemon Popsicles or Blueberry Swirl Yogurt Popsicles (GF)
- Toasted Pecan Snowballs
- Maple Vanilla Baked Pears (GF)
- Peppermint Bark (GF)
PS: My assistants and I are going through each and making recipe categories based on # of ingredients. Check back for that!
GF = gluten free recipe.
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!
I’m so happy you found this helpful! Happy baking 🙂
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.
Have fun making one of these tonight!
Thank-you Sally, as so many recipes have far too many ingredients. These look perfect as are all of yours that I have made.
You are so welcome, Linda!
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, 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 🙂
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! 🙂
Your blogs are my favorite to find in my inbox! So many recipes to make!!!
So sweet, thank you Deb!
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.
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!
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!