I've been making the two ingredient pizza dough lately (flour and yogurt) and it's pretty good. Not the 'best' dough, but a great idea if it's freezing outside, you have a craving for homemade pizza, and don't have any yeast in the house. On occasion I have mixed in some sourdough starter to boost flavor, but that still counts as flour right? ;)

Pizza dough with yogurt?? Interesting!

I have a few 2-3 ingredient recipes...the easiest (for baby) is mashed avocado and banana with carb powder! Yum!

I think these few-ingredient recipes are great creativity boosters. I'm a fan of 5-Ingredient Fix, and some of Claire Robinson's recipes are pretty darned good.

Some recipes these days have ingredient lists as long as your arm. They can be intimidating, especially to novice cooks.

Anything that gets people into their kitchens and COOKING is good in my never-humble opinion!

I don't really understand this trend, myself! Simplicity is nice, sometimes, but surely a recipe will be as long as it needs to achieve a balance of flavors? It might be fun for a challenge, but I don't think it necessarily recommends a recipe.

I'm not crazy about these "fads", so no, I wouldn't try any of them. If I want cookies, I'll make real cookies. If I want pizza dough, I'll make real pizza dough.

As a beginner I find very basic recipes a great starting place for experimentation. Give me a recipe with many complex flavours and multiple types of fats or liquids and I don't know where to start playing with the recipe; what's for structure and what's for flavour?

With a very basic recipe it's a great place for me to start adding things and learn how things work. And as I can bake 12 banana/oat cookies for 250kcals, that's a lot of experimenting I can do without piling on the weight (as long as I don't experiment too much with chocolate :)

As a lifelong banana-hater, a lot of these recipes are not very appealing to me. I'm sure if I liked bananas I'd be all over this trend.

I've tried two recipes. The first was the banana/egg pancakes (with frozen blueberries sprinkled in). It was not bad (I'm trying to cut back on using wheat flours). The second recipe I tried was the one you mentioned for the cookies (banana and oats). Seriously... while I love the simplicity, they were NOT good. I LOVE the idea of cooking simply (and eating simply), so may try it again with a few more added ingredients (honey?), but the taste/texture was just a bit too *off* for me to actually enjoy them.

I made the chocolate mousse and was hoping for the best.
Alas, it never *quite* set even after over 10 minutes of beating. It also tasted....flat. And a little thin. The texture got better after chilling but still...it was more work with less ingredients for a result I wasn't crazy about. Not a big payoff there.

The only one I've ever tried is homemade Magic Shell (you know that stuff that hardens when you pour it over ice cream? And is delicious?). Add about a tablespoon for every half cup of chocolate chips, melt, let it cool just a little...and pour. So yummy.

2 ingredients so hard to do! Even when i start with just 2 or 3...i always throw random stuff in!
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I've tried and liked the frozen banana as ice cream one, though I tend to add cocoa powder, agave, and a little peanut butter. I've also done the "add a can of pureed black beans to a brownie mix" one and found it to be just okay, not worth repeating.

I'll definitely do that chocolate mousse. :-)

I'm not sure if it counts as a "recipe" exactly, but one of my favorite things to pull out when people stop by as a snack or dessert is a good, hard parmesan cheese and some honey.
Just break the block of parmesan into bits, pour the honey into a pretty bowl and dip the cheese into the honey! It's so simple and delicious. Add a glass of cold Pinot Grigio to wash it down with for the perfect flavor and texture combination.

@Claireooto: I tend to agree!

not really a recipe per se, but I've been making basic meringues with only egg whites and sugar since childhood. they're definitely better with a pinch of salt and a bit of vanilla and/or a drop or two of lemon juice, but the sugar and egg white combo alone gives the basic marshmallow flavor and the structure needed to bake into cookies .

We have fallen I love with the two ingredient mousse at our house. I tried it because I didn't believe it work work but it does! It's very rich but super quick and yummy. The key is using really good chocolate and not going below 60 percent dark chocolate. We tried it with milk chocolate and it never set up.

Thanks so much for including my macaroon recipe. There are some major macaroon fans in my family, and it just so happens that our very favorite recipe is the easiest one. The chocolate mousse is now calling my name...perhaps I will dip a few macaroons in it!