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Home » Recipes » Desserts & Treats

Easy Desserts for One

Single-Serve Dessert recipes that come together quickly and are the perfect portion size for one individual! The best part? They don’t come with leftovers to tempt you for days on end! Ready in a flash, healthy options for a portion controlled dessert. These jaw-dropping delicious options include mug cakes, mug brownies, single-serve cobbler, and more!

Peanut butter mug cake in a grey ramekin on a small wooden plate with a bowl of chocolate chips and peanut butter in the background and a spoon inside of the mug cake, ready to serve.

Almond Flour Peanut Butter Mug Cake

6 mins

Ramekin with apple cobbler and fresh apples in the background, with a spoon scooping out some apple cobbler.

5-Ingredient Single-Serve Apple Cobbler

50 mins

Almond flour blueberry muffin in a mug with a bowl of blueberries in the background. A gold spoon to the side, ready to serve.

Single-Serve Almond Flour Blueberry Muffin

25 mins

Spoon holding a scoop of blueberry muffin, ready to eat.

Single-Serve Blueberry Muffin

25 mins

Spoonful of almond flour blueberry crisp scooping to enjoy a bite.

5-Ingredient Single-Serve Almond Flour Blueberry Crumble

25 mins

Spoon holing a scoop of peach cobbler with ice cream.

5-Ingredient Single-Serve Peach Cobbler

33 mins

Peanut butter cookie in a small ramekin with chocolate chips on top, ready to eat.

6-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookie in a Mug

4 mins

Mug with peanut butter cake inside for a single serve dessert.

5-Ingredient Peanut Butter Mug Cake

3 mins

White ramekin with blueberry cobbler and a bowl of fresh blueberries in the background.

4-Ingredient Single-Serve Blueberry Cobbler (Vegan, Gluten-Free)

38 mins

Single Serve Strawberry Cobbler in a white ramekin with fresh strawberries in the background.

4-Ingredient Single-Serve Strawberry Cobbler (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

35 mins

Mug cake with a spoon inside, ready to eat.

Oatmeal Banana Bread Mug Cake

5 mins

Spoon inside a mug with a single serve cinnamon roll.

Healthy Cinnamon Roll in a Mug

8 mins

Keto Chocolate Mug Cake - grain-free made with almond flour, sugar-free, low-carb, rich and delicious! A healthy single-serve dessert recipe ready in 5 minutes.

Keto Chocolate Mug Cake

4 mins

Keto Blueberry Muffin in a Mug - a single-serve sugar-free muffin recipe that is grain-free and sugar-free

Keto Blueberry Muffin in a Mug

5 mins

Paleo Banana Chocolate Mug Cake - grain-free, dairy-free, oil-free, delicious single-serve dessert recipe

Grain-Free Banana Chocolate Mug Cake

5 mins

Keto Mug Brownies - single serve brownie recipe that is grain-free, sugar-free, incredibly moist fudgy and delicious!

Keto Mug Brownies (Dairy-Free)

18 mins

Paleo Banana Bread Mug Cake (Two Ways!) A grain-free mug cake recipe made with either almond flour or coconut flour. Grain-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free and amazing!

Paleo Banana Bread Mug Cake (Two Ways!)

8 mins

Keto Snickerdoodle Mug Cookie - a low-carb single-serve dessert that is grain-free and amazing!

Keto Snickerdoodle Mug Cookie

4 mins

Keto Mug Cookie - grain-free, sugar-free single serve cookie recipe. Post includes an option for either coconut flour or almond flour

Keto Mug Cookie (Two Ways!)

6 mins

Keto Mug Cake - grain-free, sugar-free single-serve cake in a mug! A quick and easy guilt-free dessert recipe

Keto Mug Cake

4 mins

A gray bowl filled with oatmeal, chocolate chips, and a spoon evokes the cozy feel of an oatmeal cookie in a mug. Next to it is a small bowl of dry oats, all set on a light-colored surface.

Single-Serve Vegan Oatmeal Cookie in a Mug

6 mins

Close up shot of a finished brownie in a mug with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, ready to eat.

Gluten-Free Mug Brownie

4 mins

Gluten-Free and Naturally Sweetened Matcha Mug Cake in a green and white mug with white chocolate chips and matcha powder sprinkled around.

Matcha Mug Cake

7 mins

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