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Ten of our favorite super easy, super delicious desserts, perfect for Mother's Day. This post is loaded with cake, tart and cookie ideas. All requiring just one bowl, and no mixer!
With Mother's Day coming this weekend, we've rounded up some of our favorite dessert recipes. We know that Mother's Day might look a little different this year for some of you. But here's a fun idea: if you can't be with your mom on this special occasion, why not bake something delicious, send mom a picture and a promise of your sweet confection as soon as you can be together?
How about another idea! If you can't be with mom this Mother's Day, is to make one of these desserts together on FaceTime, Zoom, etc. That way, you could even sit down and enjoy dessert time together online!
All of these recipes can be made using just one bowl, so there's no need to even drag out the mixer. We like to keep things simple and (of course) delicious at the same time! Happy Mother's Day!
This easy Lemon Curd Poppy Seed Cake recipe includes a tender-crumbed, super moist white cake with a delicious lemon curd filling and icing. Make the ridiculously easy lemon curd in minutes!
This moist, tender Blueberry Crumb Cake is easy to make (one bowl, no mixer) and is so delicious. Everyone who tries it goes crumb crazy!
These bakery-style, One Bowl Toffee Bar Chocolate Chip Cookies are super-easy, crazy-delicious and don't require a mixer.
Farmhouse Buttermilk Cake-Everyone will flip over this moist, delicious buttermilk cake. My friends call it "crack". No one has to know how EASY it is!
If you love one-bowl, no-mixer, cookies with crisp edges and chewy centers, raise your hand. Hello, Lemon Coconut Sugar Cookies!
This easy Buttermilk Cake with Raspberry Buttercream is always a huge hit with it's moist, tender crumb and incredibly delicious fresh raspberry buttercream!
If you love peanut butter cookies and quick, easy recipes, you'll go crazy over these crisp, buttery, One-Bowl Reese's Peanut Butter Cookies!
Kladdkaka (aka Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake) is one of Sweden's most beloved (and easy) desserts and every chocolate lover's dream come true! This version is also a one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that comes together quickly with pantry staples!
This French Almond Cake is incredibly delicious and incredibly easy. One-bowl, no-mixer and just a few minutes to throw together!
Rosemary Shortbread - This unbelievably easy, crisp-tender, buttery, absolutely irresistible shortbread is one of those recipes you'll find yourself making again and again.
Need a dessert recipe that's one-bowl, no-mixer and out-of-this-world delicious? Grammy's Easy Chocolate Yogurt Cake is all that, and more!
With a buttery, press-in crust and crumb topping (made from the same dough)Â and an easy lemon curd filling, this heavenly Lemon Curd Shortbread Tart is beyond delicious!
These delicious, one-bowl, no-mixer Sea Salted Brown Sugar Cookies have crispy edges and moist chewy centers!
A combination of cake and cheesecake, this delicious Italian Lemon Ricotta Cake is a one-bowl, no-mixer recipe you can throw together in minutes!
Need more ideas other than dessert? Here are some favorite brunch recipes!
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Such tempting desserts for mom! From fruity delights to rich chocolate treats, these recipes are sure to make her day extra sweet. Perfect for showing love and appreciation!
These recipes look wonderful! I discovered your blog via your wonderful carrot cake bars, and am delighted that I did! Such a wonderful source for recipes. Thank you for keeping ads to a minimum- so many blogs now are absolutely impossible to navigate. Appreciate that yours is much easier to scroll through!
Thanks so much, Mary! Welcome to The Café!
Chris,
Have been a fan of your site for months, but when it comes to cakes, being CHOCOLATE LOVERS, the Swedish Sticky chocolate cake takes our breath away! My family begs for this every time I mention 'dessert'. Can't wait to try a couple of these other items as I love how you simplify
somewhat intricate, lengthy procedures to ease time and effort in creating home-cooked foods!
Happy Mother's Day to you!
I love it, Joan! Thanks so much for your kind words and for taking the time to share your sweet thoughts!
I'm drooling over each and every one Chris! But espcially that Chocolate Yogurt Cake!
All look delish, must try all.
Thanks, Jane! Hope you enjoy them!
Thanks so much, Jane!
This mom would love any of the above desserts!!! Bill made chocolate chip cookie bars while I was out of town this weekend and can't wait to see what the kids think of them when they come over for dinner tonight 🙂 He did mention the color wasn't quite right, LOL I may have to bake my own Mother's Day dessert!
Haha, too funny!
That Lemon Ricotta Cake sounds perfect to me! I wonder who I can get to make this for me 🙂 Or maybe I'll just make it for myself. Yummy roundup Chris! PINNED
Hi Tricia, just drive a few hours down to the NC mountains and I'll make it for you!
Where is your Raspberry Jam Shortbread tart...it should make the list, I have made it twice for dinner parties...and it was perfect....sooooo delicious. Thank you
Thanks so much, Sandi, we love that one too!
OMG, Chris - I want to make ALL of these, especially the Italian Lemon Ricotta Cake. Such temptation! Thank you so much for showing us these; it will make Mother's Day even better!
Thanks so much! Have a wonderful and delicious Mother's Day!
Your presentations are always so beautiful! Hopefully we don't gain weight just looking!
Haha! Didn't you know that the week of Mother's Day that calories are negated so no worries 🙂
Haha! Thanks so much, Pam! I guess you didn't read the law about Mother's Day desserts being exempt from calories in honor of all the wonderful moms out there 🙂