17 Easy 3 Ingredient Desserts – How to make quick and incredible impressive dessert recipes with only three ingredients.
Easy 3 Ingredient Desserts
These easy 3 ingredient desserts make speedy sweet treats that will satisfy your sweet tooth with basic ingredients.
You’ll find that a simple dessert only needs a few ingredients to create something incredible.
As I’ve been on and off (and back on again) a low carb lifestyle over the years, you’ll find that the easy desserts are mostly keto friendly too.
1. Chocolate Truffles
I make these easy chocolate truffles every week or so and they are always a hit with the whole family.
The indulgent, bite sized dessert is perfect to have ready and waiting in the fridge for when those sweet cravings strike.
You simply chop dark chocolate, pop it into a bowl, heat heavy whipping cream and butter together until bubbling, pour the heated cream mixture over the chocolate and stir until you have a melted bowl full.
Then, it’s just a matter of pouring the truffle mixture into a dish, popping it in the fridge to set, before cutting into bite sized chocolate truffles.
2. Peanut Butter Cookies
You can make delicious cookies with only 3 ingredients by combining together almond butter, peanut butter or your nut butter of choice, together with an egg and stevia or sugar until you have a cookie dough.
Then drop a tablespoon per cookie on a baking sheet and bake until you have perfectly baked 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies or almond butter cookies.
3. 3 Ingredient Chocolate Mousse
When it comes to making easy 3-ingredient desserts, you can’t go past a simple 3 ingredient chocolate mousse that’s made by melting chocolate then folding it into whipped cream, along with your flavoring of choice.
4. Mint Chocolate Mousse
If you’re a fan of chocolate mint flavored treats then you’ll love this super easy chocolate mint mousse.
Mint flavored chocolate is melted with butter, then eggs are separated and the melted chocolate mixture is whisked into the egg yolks, egg whites are whisked to meringues before being folded into the chocolate mixture to create a light, creamy chocolate mousse dessert.
5. Chocolate Orange Mousse
This chocolate orange mousse is creamy, rich and a chocolate lovers delight.
To make the perfect dessert, orange peel is infused in heated cream and then combined with chopped chocolate to create an orange flavored chocolate sweet treat.
6. Hot chocolate
There are a number of ways to make a 3 ingredient hot chocolate to enjoy as an indulgent dessert.
Mine is this European Hot Chocolate which is made by heating your milk of choice and cream, then mixing through a row or two of dark chocolate to create a creamy, thick and decadent warming drink.
7. Lemon Whipped Cream
To make a light, luscious lemon whipped cream dessert simply pour heavy whipping cream into a large bowl, whisk until starting to thicken then whisk in lemon zest, juice and stevia or sugar until you have a luxuriously creamy lemon dessert.
8. Peanut Butter Mousse
This creamy mousse combines together the simple ingredients of natural peanut butter, heavy cream and stevia or sugar to create an indulgent peanut butter mousse.
9. Raspberry Mousse
An indulgent way to enjoy fruit for dessert is to make a creamy mousse like this raspberry mousse.
To make the delicious dessert, cook raspberries and sugar or stevia to a puree, whip cream until thickened, then fold everything together to create a light, creamy mousse.
To make a cheesecake mousse, simply whisk a few spoons of cream cheese through the dessert.
10. Aquafaba Whipped Cream
This dairy free dessert option is created by whisking the liquid from a can of chickpeas, into a thickened whipped cream alternative, known as aquafaba whipped cream, which you can enjoy with fresh strawberries or your sweet treat of choice.
11. Keto Chocolate Mug Cake
Mug cakes are a brilliant sweet surprise that have only 3 ingredients. You get to enjoy a flourless chocolate cake in mere minutes thanks to a speedy microwave session.
My 3 Ingredient Keto Chocolate Mug Cake comes together with just an egg, cocoa powder and stevia. You can of course top your mug cake with an indulgent scoop of ice cream or swirl of whipped cream.
12. Banana Pancakes
These coconut flour banana pancakes make a healthy dessert option that you can enjoy with your choice of toppings.
The easy recipe needs only ripe bananas, eggs and coconut flour to create the perfect formed pancakes.
13. Banana Waffles
Another healthy banana sweet treat is banana waffles. Simply mash a couple of ripe bananas then mix through eggs and coconut flour and cook in a waffle maker until you have perfect, sweet waffles.
14. Strawberry Parfait
For this simple recipe, layer strawberries or your fresh fruit of choice with granola and yogurt for a healthy strawberry parfait dessert.
15. Homemade Jam
Make homemade chia seed jam with frozen fruit to enjoy stirred through yogurt or as a topping for your choice of healthy desserts.
To make homemade chia jam, simply cook a bag of frozen fruit until softened to a puree, stir through chia seeds, sugar or stevia, allow to cool, move to a jar and enjoy from the fridge.
16. Whipped Ricotta Dessert
High protein ricotta is whisked, along with sugar or stevia and vanilla for flavor, with an electric mixer into a creamy whipped ricotta dessert.
17. Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
And finally, this chocolate peanut butter fudge combines together creamy peanut butter, chocolate and sugar or stevia, to create the perfect peanut butter chocolate dessert.
Easy 3 Ingredient Desserts Video
Here’s a video where you can watch a few of the Easy 3-Ingredient Dessert Recipes being prepared, step by step. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
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