Here are our short-on-time baking go-tos, from oven to mouth in 15 minutes or under. All winners in our books.
1. Self-saucing chocolate pudding
The ultimate quickie dessert. The quick baking time (only 12 minutes!) is key to an oozing fudgey centre.
Source: Hardie Grant
2. Christina Tosi's crackle
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.
Source: Christina Tosi
3. Madeleines
You're onto a winner with this recipe from our Country Women's Association cake champion, . These delicate cakes are ready to pop in your mouth in 8 minutes.
4. Polish caramel pine cones
These crunchy puffed rice bound with hot fudge and sesame torpedos come with advice: roll them quickly before the toffee hardens.
Source: Hardie Grant Books
5. Vietnamese almond cookies
Melt-in-your mouth (thanks to lard!), these classic South-Asian treats bake in 15 minutes.
Source: Brett Stevens
6. Fat rascals
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.
7. Chocolate crackle cookies
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 Source: Alan Benson
8. Bosnian kiflice
These sweet jam-filled, buttery pastries are a favourite of our very own Deputy Editor, . She's been baking them since she was a child, and are yours to try in only 15 minutes.
The secret to the lightness of these scones, says our , Anneka Manning, is the addition of cream. Unbeatable warm from the oven in 12 minutes.
10. Campfire toasted bananas
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 .
Campfire toasted bananas Source: China Squirrel
