10 sweets you can bake in under 15 minutes

Speedy sweets that deliver all kinds of satisfaction. Enter here...

Chocolate crackle biscuits

Chocolate crackle biscuits Source: Alan Benson

Here are our short-on-time baking go-tos, from oven to mouth in 15 minutes or under. All winners in our books.

The ultimate quickie dessert. The quick baking time (only 12 minutes!) is key to an oozing fudgey centre.

self-saucing pudding
Source: Hardie Grant

Brittle meets your favourite snack food: think cereal, pretzels, chips, nuts or seeds. Thanks to the Milk Bar genius Christina Tosi. Ready to chomp in 15 minutes.

Crackle
Source: Christina Tosi

You're onto a winner with this recipe from our Country Women's Association cake champion, Merle Parrish. These delicate cakes are ready to pop in your mouth in 8 minutes.

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These crunchy puffed rice bound with hot fudge and sesame torpedos come with advice: roll them quickly before the toffee hardens.

Crunchy pine cones
Source: Hardie Grant Books

Melt-in-your mouth (thanks to lard!), these classic South-Asian treats bake in 15 minutes.

Biscuit of the month: Almond cookies (banh hanh nhan)
Source: Brett Stevens

And while you have the lard out, you may as well have a crack at Matthew Evans's Yorkshire classic, fat rascals - a cross between a biscuit and currant scone. Golden from the oven in 14 minutes.

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These look like rock-hard meteors but are, delightfully, fluffy, and so easy to make. Simply stir, roll and bake. Ready in 12 minutes.

Chocolate crackle biscuits
Chocolate crackle biscuits Source: Alan Benson

These sweet jam-filled, buttery pastries are a favourite of our very own Deputy Editor, Farah Celjo. She's been baking them since she was a child, and are yours to try in only 15 minutes.

Jam-filled pastries

The secret to the lightness of these scones, says our Bakeproof guru, Anneka Manning, is the addition of cream. Unbeatable warm from the oven in 12 minutes.

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Okay, so you first need to build a campfire for these beauties, but then you're in banana-gooey chocolate-marshmallow heaven in 5 minutes, from Poh & Co.

Campfire toasted bananas
Campfire toasted bananas Source: China Squirrel

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