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No-Bake Desserts

Leave the oven off tonight with these no-bake-dessert recipes - they're perfect to prepare before you start dinner and ignore until it's time to serve up dessert.

Oatmeal No-Bake Cookies

These no-bake cookies use rolled oats, stirred into a cooked brown sugar and butter syrup that's flavored with peanut butter. The cookies are dropped onto ...

Evelyn's Pumpkin Dip

Cream cheese is beaten with powdered sugar, canned pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger and vanilla, and used as a dip with gingersnaps.

Sweetened Condensed Milk

If you don't have a can of sweetened condensed milk on hand, you can make your own, using sugar, butter and nonfat dry milk powder.

Key Lime Mousse Pie

This recipe isn't made in a pie plate but in a rectangular dish. The acid from the key lime juice helps the sweetened condensed milk ...

No-Bake Cookies

These quick and easy no-bake cookies are almost a candy. They are made with rolled oats, sugar, cocoa powder, butter, and milk. This cookie recipe ...

Pear Lime Mold

A creamy cool dessert with a slight citrus flavor from the lime that will be a hit.

Pecan Pralines

A classic crunchy no-bake cookie dessert made with pecans and caramelized sugar.

Peanut Butter Cereal Treats

Peanut butter, marshmallow cream and chocolate-flavored syrup coat cereal to make these no-bake goodies.

Easy Cherry Cheesecake Pie

A creamy mixture of lemon pudding mix, cream cheese, and Cool Whip is spread over canned cherry pie filling in a graham crust. More cherry ...

Coconut Frosting or Filling

No cooking needed for this frosting or filling, which simply folds together coconut and whipped dessert topping with sour cream and sugar.

Banana - Caramel Icebox cake

An easy to make layered chilled dessert with bananas, graham crackers, and caramel sauce. Great potluck dessert.

Gone With the Wind

A cooked mixture of sugar, flour, crushed pineapple, and egg yolks is folded into whipped cream. It is then piled into a graham cracker shell ...

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

No-bake cookies made with cocoa and quick oats can't get much easier than this recipe. Add some peanut butter for a nutty flavor.

Peppermint Fudge Pie

A no-bake pie with a chocolate cookie crust and marshmallow cream with peppermint candy pieces.

Clear Rum Sauce

Serve this buttery rum sauce over your favorite cake or bread pudding. It's a simple sauce made with a cinnamon-spiced syrup flavored with rum and ...

Sherbet Angel Food Cake

A colorful and easy to prepare frozen dessert cake with sherbets and whipped cream.

Mound Balls

A coconut mixture containing sweetened condensed milk, butter, and sugar is formed into balls and dipped in melted chocolate to coat.

Chocolate Rice

Try this unique chocolate dessert. The recipe uses cooked rice and vanilla to sweeten it.

Easy Cream Cheese Clouds

Light as air chilled treats made of cream cheese and heavy cream that have been filled with your choice of filling and crowned with nuts.

Viceroy's Dessert

Ladyfingers are layered with pudding and cream in this chilled dessert. Top it with grated chocolate.

Constructor's Quick Dessert

This dessert is easily put together and contains most everyone's favorite ingredients-ice cream sandwiches, whipped topping and candy bars.

No Cook Divinity

Light and airy bites of white confection chopped nuts added.

Halloween Special Cereal Treats

These no-bake goodies are full of chocolate. Cut with Halloween cutters for fun shapes.

Nainamo Bar

These three-layer bars are chilled, rather than baked. The crust is made with graham cracker crumbs, cocoa powder, almonds and coconut; the filling uses powdered ...

Easy Blueberry Cheesecake

A fluffy cream cheese and blueberry filling is chilled in a lady finger crust for a fancy, yet easy dessert.

Fresh Fruit Trifle

Chocolate Ice Cream Mountain

Chocolate Cheesecake Surprise

Chocolate Cranberry Marshmallow Pie

"Hedgehogs" (Porcupines)

Cookies And Cream

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Mousse

Strawberry Pudding

Butterscotch Cashews

Fluffnuter-J sandwich

Lily's Chocolate Delight

Pineapple Supreme Pie

Fruit with Sour Cream


Tiramisu Charlotte

Tiramisu, a traditional Italian dessert, takes on a new form in this gelatin dessert. To prepare the sugared kumquat and strawberry garnish, first dip the ...

Cream Torte with Espresso Sauce

You'll think you're in heaven after you try just one bite of this ultra-creamy dessert. You make it with mascarpone cheese, a triple cream cheese ...

Sour Cream-Raisin Dessert

This recipe tastes a lot like homemade sour cream-raisin pie. To cut the dessert into squares, use a sharp knife that's been dipped into water. ...