385 instant recipes

Homemade Kahlua: a five-ingredient DIY coffee liqueur with instant coffee, sugar, water, vodka, and vanilla. Simmered and bottled for cocktails, coffee drinks, and gift-giving.

A no-bake chocolate icebox cake layered with cubed pound cake and mocha-spiked chocolate pudding set with gelatin. Chill, slice, and serve. The easiest chocolate dessert you'll ever make.

Three-ingredient mousse made with instant pudding mix, milk, and Cool Whip folded together. Light, fluffy, and ready in 5 minutes with any Jello pudding flavor you like.

No-bake rum cake layers milk-soaked sponge cake with vanilla pudding, chocolate pudding, whipped topping, almonds, and cherries. A retro icebox cake assembled the day before for stress-free entertaining.

Graveyard pudding dessert layers chocolate pudding and whipped topping with crushed Oreo "dirt," decorated with tombstone cookies for a Halloween dessert. A no-bake classroom-party classic kids go wild for.

Lemon-lime poke cake with lime gelatin soaked into a lemon cake mix, topped with a fluffy lemon pudding whipped topping. A retro refrigerator sheet cake served chilled.

Homemade Kahlua coffee liqueur with just four ingredients: instant coffee, sugar, vanilla, and vodka. A slow-simmered coffee syrup base that tastes like the real thing. Great for gifting.

Homemade Kahlua: a rich coffee liqueur from a slow-simmered coffee syrup, vanilla and vodka. Cheaper than store-bought, make-ahead, and a great gift for cocktails or pouring over ice cream.

Mexican mocha balls: shortbread-style chocolate-coffee cookies with chopped walnuts and maraschino cherries, rolled in extra-fine sugar. Perfect for the holiday cookie tray.

Overnight cinnamon buns made with frozen rolls, brown sugar, vanilla pudding mix, and butter in a Bundt pan. Prep before bed, bake in the morning for a gooey, no-knead breakfast.

These sugar-free pudding cookies are easy to make, and no worries about sugar.

Peruvian coffee punch blends evaporated milk, instant coffee, sugar, egg, and rum into a creamy, boozy iced cocktail. A rich, frothy coffee drink that whirs together in the blender in minutes.

Warm, creamy West Indies coffee made with hot milk, instant coffee, and brown sugar. A cozy Caribbean-style drink ready in 15 minutes with just 4 ingredients.

Foolproof chocolate mousse made with just two ingredients: instant chocolate pudding folded into whipped cream. A 5-minute no-bake dessert that's light, fluffy, and impossible to mess up.

Punch bowl cake layered with yellow cake, cherry pie filling, chocolate and vanilla pudding, pineapple, bananas, whipped topping, and nuts. A retro layered trifle for a crowd.

Dessert crepes filled with vanilla pudding and whipped cream, topped with fresh sliced strawberries. A no-bake shortcut dessert ready in 15 minutes using instant pudding mix.