50+ Fun Things To Bake When You Are Craving Something Sweet

This is the ultimate list of fun things to bake when you are bored or craving something sweet and delicious.

From cupcakes to indulgent cookies, the world of baking offers a plethora of options for those with a sweet tooth.

Exploring new recipes and experimenting with different flavors can turn baking into an exciting adventure.

Whether you're making playful cake pops or trying your hand at intricate macarons, there's no shortage of fun things to bake that can satisfy your cravings and bring joy to those around you.

For more recipe roundups, check out my Nutella dessert recipes, tart recipes, almond flour desserts, air fryer desserts, caramel desserts, crepe filling ideas, and red velvet desserts.

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1. Chocolate Dump Cake
2. Creme Brulee Cake
3. Red Velvet Brownies
4. Strawberry Crumble
5. Chocolate Bread
6. Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
7. Lemon Ricotta Cake
8. Crack Cake
9. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
10. Danish Butter Cookies
11. Alfajores Cookies
12. Pecan Sticky Buns
13. Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
14. Soft Snickerdoodle Bars
15. Apple Cobbler With Cake Mix
16. Glazed Lemon Brownies
17. Lemon Pound Cake
18. Buttermilk Chocolate Cake
19. Cherry Coffee Cake
20. Chocolate Fudge Cake
21. Lemon Meringue Cheesecake
22. Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies
23. Mixed Berry Cake
24. Chocolate Poke Cake
25. Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
26. Banana Pudding Cupcakes
27. Double Chocolate Banana Bread
28. Pistachio Baklava
29. Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Muffins
30. Strawberry Bread
31. Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
32. Apple Crumble Muffins
33. Oreo Cookie Cake
34. Pull Apart Monkey Bread
35. Puff Pastry Apple Tart
36. Brownie Bites
37. Apple Fritters
38. Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
39. Turtle Cookies
40. Moist Honey Cake
41. Caramel Pecan Cheesecake
42. Chocolate Chip Blondies
43. Marble Loaf Cake
44. Brownie Cookies
45. Ferrero Rocher Cookies
46. Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
47. Lotus Biscoff Donuts
48. Triple Chocolate Cookies
49. Carrot Cake Loaf With Cream Cheese Frosting
50. Dairy Free Brownies
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1. Chocolate Dump Cake

This rich and incredibly moist chocolate dump cake is a decadent and indulgent dessert that is incredibly easy to make.

2. Creme Brulee Cake

This incredible Creme Brulee Cake is a heavenly combination of vanilla cake with creamy custard and caramelized sugar.

Slice of creme brulee cake without a bite.

3. Red Velvet Brownies

These red velvet brownies are fudgy and have a signature red velvet flavor with a creamy cream cheese glaze.

4. Strawberry Crumble

This strawberry crumble is made with fresh strawberries, and topped with a crispy and buttery oat crumble and vanilla ice cream.

Close up shot of strawberry crisp with vanilla ice cream on top.

5. Chocolate Bread

The moist chocolate bread is rich and decadent, with a velvety texture that melts in your mouth and a deep, intense chocolate flavor.

Chocolate bread sliced on a parchment paper.

6. Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies

These mini chocolate chip cookies are packed with rich, gooey chocolate chips, and have a chewy middle and crispy edges.

7. Lemon Ricotta Cake

Lemon ricotta cake is a citrus-infused treat that combines the tangy flavors of lemon with the creamy richness of ricotta cheese.

Slice of lemon ricotta cake next to whipped cream.

8. Crack Cake

This incredibly moist crack cake is made in a bundt cake with a yellow cake mix, and vanilla pudding, and is topped with a delicious white wine glaze.

Chocolate crinkle cookies are classic Christmas cookie that tastes like brownies! These chocolate crinkle cookies are soft on the inside and are crunchy on the outside. This cookie fits perfectly for your cookie box!

Very close up shot of crinkle cookie with a bite missing.

10. Danish Butter Cookies

These light and crispy buttery Danish butter cookies are melt in your mouth cookies that are full of butter and sweet flavor.

Top of danish butter cookies on a round cooling rack.

11. Alfajores Cookies

These Alfajores are soft shortbread cookies filled with caramel-like dulce de leche and dipped in shredded coconut.

12. Pecan Sticky Buns

These gooey pecan sticky buns are made with soft dough filled with cinnamon filling, and topped with sticky caramel pecan topping.

Slice of pecan sticky bun on a white plate.

13. Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

This chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting is made with tender and moist chocolate cake layers and tangy and sweet cream cheese frosting.

Slice of chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting with a bite missing.

14. Soft Snickerdoodle Bars

These Snickerdoodle bars are easy, quick, soft, chewy, and buttery bars that are coated with cinnamon sugar and taste just like a Snickerdoodle cookie!

Stack of two slices of snickerdoodle bars.

15. Apple Cobbler With Cake Mix

This apple cobbler with cake mix also known as a dump cake, is made with a few simple ingredients and is the perfect dessert for fall!

Apple cobbler with cake mix and vanilla ice cream on top.

16. Glazed Lemon Brownies

These incredible lemon brownies are made with fresh lemon juice and zest, and topped with a lemon glaze. These bursts of citrus flavor in every bite.

17. Lemon Pound Cake

This lemon pound cake is dense and moist and made with fresh lemon juice and lemon zest that makes the flavor pop! It is topped with lemon glaze and tastes so delish.

Lemon pound cake on a white parchment paper.

18. Buttermilk Chocolate Cake

This moist, and rich buttermilk chocolate cake is made in just one bowl and combines the richness of chocolate with the tanginess of buttermilk.

Slice of buttermilk chocolate cake on a white plate with a fork.

19. Cherry Coffee Cake

This cherry coffee cake is made with fresh or frozen cherries, and lemon zest, and topped with a buttery crumble topping.

Close up shot of a slice of cherry coffee cake.

20. Chocolate Fudge Cake

This chocolate fudge cake is the most amazing chocolaty, rich, moist, and tender, and is the perfect dessert to satisfy your chocolate cravings!

Close up shot of a slice of chocolate cake.

21. Lemon Meringue Cheesecake

The Lemon Meringue Cheesecake recipe is a delightful combination of tangy lemon cheesecake, topped with lemon curd and fluffy meringue.

22. Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies

These chewy Oreo chocolate chip cookies are loaded with Oreo chunks and chocolate chips and topped with even more Oreo chunks!

Close up shot of oreo cookies on parchment paper.

23. Mixed Berry Cake

This moist and flavorful berry cake is soft and tender and is loaded with bursting fresh berries and lemon zest aroma.

Slice of berry cake on a small white cake plate.

24. Chocolate Poke Cake

This chocolate poke cake is made with a moist one-bowl chocolate cake, and chocolate pudding filling, and topped with chocolate whipped cream!

Slice of chocolate poke cake on a white plate.

25. Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

These lemon poppy seed muffins and moist, soft, fluffy, filled with lemon zest and poppyseed and topped with a delicious lemon glaze.

Stack of two lemon poppyseed muffins on a cooling rack.

26. Banana Pudding Cupcakes

These banana pudding cupcakes are made with a moist, tender, and light banana cupcake base, filled with a banana pudding filling, and topped with stabilized whipped cream.

Banana pudding cupcakes on a wooden board.

27. Double Chocolate Banana Bread

This double chocolate banana bread is filled and topped with chocolate chips, extra moist, and melt in your mouth delicious.

Hand lifting a slice of double chocolate banana bread.

28. Pistachio Baklava

This super delicious pistachio baklava is buttery, sweet, flakey, nutty, gooey, and surprisingly easy to make!

Close up shot of a stack of baklava on a white plate.

29. Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Muffins

These bakery style chocolate chip muffins are moist and fluffy, have a perfect domed top, and are filled with plenty of melty chocolate chips.

Close up shot of a chocolate chip muffin.

30. Strawberry Bread

This incredibly moist fresh strawberry bread is made with fresh strawberries and is topped with a delicious strawberry glaze.

Sliced strawberry bread on a parchment paper.

31. Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

These giant bakery style chocolate chip cookies have a gooey in the middle and crunchy on the edges texture.

Close up shot of giant chocolate chip cookies.

32. Apple Crumble Muffins

These apple crumble muffins are made with moist cinnamon muffin batter, filled with chopped apples, topped with a buttery crumble, and topped with a delicious glaze.

Stack of two apple crumble muffins on a plate.

This oreo cookie cake is soft, and chewy on the inside, filled with oreos and gooey chocolate chips, and topped with freshly made whipped cream!

34. Pull Apart Monkey Bread

This pull apart monkey bread is made with gooey, buttery dough balls coated in cinnamon sugar and brown sugar sauce. It tastes just like the middle part of a cinnamon roll, which is the best part!

35. Puff Pastry Apple Tart

This puff pastry apple tart is the perfect easy apple dessert. It is made with caramelized apples and store-bought puff pastry!

Close up shot of apple tart with a bite missing from it.

36. Brownie Bites

These brownie bites are moist, fudgy, and full of chocolate flavor! They are gooey in the center and have a crackly brownie-like top!

Stack of mini brownie bites with a bite missing from the middle one.

37. Apple Fritters

These apple fritters are made with fresh apples, covered with a simple glaze. This recipe takes 30 minutes to make with no yeast or rising time, and it tastes like apple donuts!

38. Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

These homemade cinnamon rolls are soft, gooey, incredibly light, and fluffy. They are filled with a cinnamon filling and are topped with cream cheese glaze.

Homemade cinnamon rolls in a baking pan with one roll missing.

39. Turtle Cookies

These turtle cookies are made with a chocolate cookie that is filled with pecans, stuffed with caramel, and topped with chocolate drizzle.

40. Moist Honey Cake

This honey cake is moist, rich in flavor, and full of spices that will make your house smell like autumn. We make this cake every Rosh Hashanah, it's our favorite time of the year.

Sliced loaf of honey cake on a parchment paper.

41. Caramel Pecan Cheesecake

This caramel pecan cheesecake is made with a cinnamon crust, creamy cinnamon cheesecake filling, and a caramel pecan topping.

Bite missing from a slice of cheesecake.

42. Chocolate Chip Blondies

These easy chocolate chip blondies are chewy, gooey in the middle, made with a few simple ingredients, and are filled with plenty of chocolate chips!

43. Marble Loaf Cake

This marble loaf cake is moist and flavorful and topped with a layer of chocolate ganache. Marble loaf cake is one of our favorite desserts to make because it's so beautiful and so delicious and we love the chocolate and vanilla combination!

Slices of marble loaf cake on parchment paper.

44. Brownie Cookies

These brownie cookies are rich, fudgy, and full of chocolate flavor. These have a crackly top and a fudgy center that tastes just like a brownie!

Close up shot of chocolate cookies with a bite missing.

45. Ferrero Rocher Cookies

These Ferrero rocher cookies are made with chewy hazelnut chocolate cookies, filled with chopped hazelnuts, and topped with Nutella. These cookies are unbelievably delicious!

Ferrero rocher cookies next to each other.

46. Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This chocolate chip banana bread is extra moist banana bread that is made with brown butter, greek yogurt, and plenty of mashed bananas making this banana bread super moist, flavorful, and fluffy.

47. Lotus Biscoff Donuts

These lotus biscoff donuts are made with an easy cake-style biscoff batter and topped with a biscoff butter glaze and biscoff cookie crumbs.

48. Triple Chocolate Cookies

These triple chocolate cookies are made with cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and chocolate chunks! These are the ultimate cookies for real chocolate lovers.

Overhead shot of triple chocolate cookies.

49. Carrot Cake Loaf With Cream Cheese Frosting

This carrot cake loaf is made with an easy carrot cake batter, topped with an incredibly creamy and delicious cream cheese frosting, and topped with chopped pecans.

Sliced carrot cake loaf on a parchment paper.

50. Dairy Free Brownies

This dairy free brownies recipe is fudgy and has a dreamy crinkly top that makes the perfect brownie! Its made with both dark chocolate and cocoa powder to give these a rich chocolate flavor.

Close up shot of a stuck of fudgy brownies.

Faq's

What is the most fun thing to bake?

Baking cookies is often considered the most fun thing to bake. The process of mixing ingredients, shaping dough, and watching them transform into delicious treats brings joy to both bakers and those who get to enjoy the freshly baked cookies.

What to bake when bored?

When boredom strikes, baking can be a fun and delicious way to pass the time. Simple recipes like cookies, brownies, or banana bread are perfect choices for a quick and satisfying baking session.

What are the easiest things to bake?

Baking beginners often find success with simple recipes like cookies, muffins, and quick breads. These easy-to-bake treats require minimal ingredients and basic techniques, making them perfect for honing baking skills.

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Chocolate Panna Cotta- This chocolate Panna Cotta is a creamy, chocolaty, and delicious twist on the classic Italian Panna Cotta that will make you want more!

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