Desserts without baking: simple and delicious recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The most simple desserts without baking are fruit and berry salads with various delicate dressings: honey, kefir, yogurt, ice cream. In our recipes, we will use pieces of fruit and berries. But no platitudes. Only author's unique dessert recipes.

Sorbets

The easiest no-bake desserts are sorbets. A he althy and vitamin substitute for store-bought ice cream. Easy to cook - delicious to eat!

What to take for cooking sorbet? Fresh fruits or berries - absolutely any. Choose according to your taste and preferences.

So, you have chosen the main product. For example, grapes. Rinse the berries and remove the seeds, if any. Then puree the berries in a blender bowl. Add sugar and any spices or seasonings you like (see Dessert Spices below).

Next, beat the mass until a homogeneous structure is obtained. Place directly in the bowl in the freezer for half an hour. Then take out and whisk again. So freeze and beat the food 4-5 times.

After the last whipping, the mass is more like ice cream - the dessert is ready. Shape it with a spoonice cream.

Add your favorite foods to these no-bake fruit desserts:

• shredded chocolate - dark, milk or white;
• nuts;
• ground dried herbs - basil, mint.

No Bake Cookie Recipe

For the recipe, you can take store-bought cookies "Anniversary" or "Maria", home-made already dried cookies forgotten in the corner of the table will do. It will soon turn into an amazing sweet snack. These easy no-bake desserts are great to make with your kids. Together with you, they will feel involved in a great confectionery business. You can even jokingly dedicate them to the "Round Table Confectioners" before starting cooking. So, no-bake cookie dessert will be your family recipe for years to come.

What ingredients are needed:

• short or long biscuits - 300 g;
• butter 82% fat – 150 g;
• sweetened condensed milk - 3 tbsp. l.;
• powdered sugar - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
• walnuts - 8-9 kernels;
• cocoa powder - optional.

How to cook - step by step recipe:

1. First, do the preparatory work: peel the walnuts. The kernels need to be dried in a hot frying pan for a couple of minutes. Then cool them and peel off the dark skin. It must be removed, as it is bitter.
2. Chop the nuts into crumbs using a blender or coffee grinder.
3. Cookies also punch inbaby.
4. Beat soft butter for a couple of seconds with powdered sugar and cocoa. Add nuts. Pour cookies into this mass and mix into a single mass.
5. Divide the mixture into pieces of equal weight. It is convenient to do this with a small spoon designed for molding ice cream. If you want very small balls, take a teaspoon.
6. Roll each piece in your hands into a ball and bread with cocoa. Place on a plate. When ready, refrigerate before serving.

How to diversify cookie dessert?

Dessert from cookies without baking can be breaded with powdered sugar, ground nuts, spices, poppy seeds. Many people like sesame seeds, crushed sunflower seeds or shredded coconut.

Such simple no-bake desserts can be varied with fillings. To do this, use:

• seedless grapes;
• small pieces of fruit or fresh berries;
• candied fruits;
• thick dried fruit puree rolled into a small ball.

What can replace walnuts in desserts?

If you want to replace walnuts in a recipe with almonds, don't get rid of the work of peeling the kernels. But she will change a little. To peel off the dark skin rich in hydrocyanic acid from almonds, you need to scald the kernels with boiling water for a couple of minutes. Then put them on a paper towel and peel off the remaining skin. So the no-bake cookie dessert will become more palatable and fragrant.

Nuts that require minimal pre-processing:

• Brazilian;
• pecan;
• peanuts;
• hazelnut;
• cedar;
• pistachios;
• cashew.

They only need to be rinsed and dried in a hot pan. Thus, dirt is removed and the food safety of the dessert is increased. This is especially important as desserts are made to order without baking or any other heat treatment.

Curd dessert with gelatin

Curd dessert with no-bake gelatin can be prepared with any dairy product. In addition to cottage cheese, cream, sour cream, milk, unsweetened yogurt or gentle non-acidic biokefir are suitable.

What ingredients are needed:

• shortbread (store-bought or homemade) - 500g;
• butter 82% - 100 g;
• cottage cheese - 300 g;
• sour cream - 4-5 tbsp. l.;
• powdered sugar - 4-5 tbsp. l.;
• gelatin powder - 1 tbsp. l.;
• water - 4 tbsp. l.;
• fresh berries for decoration.

Step cooking:

1. Gelatin mix with water and let stand for a few minutes. Then heat until particles dissolve. Do not boil the mixture. Then strain and let cool.
2. Cottage cheese wipe through a sieve and mix with sour cream, powdered sugar. Mix everything and beat a little with a mixer into a foamy mass. Enter the cooled gelatin and mix. Leave the mixture on the counter for now.
3. Shortbread biscuits in a blender incrumb. Mix with softened butter until smooth.
4. Take a small, round, low-sided baking sheet and place the cookie dough in it. Tamp and form the sides. Then you can put such a cake in the freezer for a couple of minutes.
5. Pour the sour cream-gelatin mass onto the cookie crust. Flatten the top. Refrigerate until set.
6. Rinse and dry the berries, use to decorate the dessert before serving.

This curd cake is also suitable for making portioned dessert in small molds.

Curd dessert with gelatin without baking will be even tastier if:

• add condensed milk instead of sweet powder to sour cream;
• use whole berries or jam fruit pieces instead of fresh ones.

With a little tweaking of this recipe, you can create a real cake. Just alternate layers of cookie crust and creamy gelatin mass.

Fruit dessert with sweet cheese

Desserts without baking fruit are not just low-calorie and vitamin salads. These are cakes, pastries, petit fours and much more.

What ingredients are needed:

• fresh strawberries - 200g;
• sugar - 200 g;
• vanilla - a couple of pinches;
• gelatin - 1 tbsp. l.;
• water - 4 tbsp. l.;
• nutmeg - pinch;
• dark chocolate - 40 g;
• sweet curd cheese (like Mascarpone) - 600g;
• powdered sugar - 5-6 tbsp. l.

How to cook:

1. Grate the chocolate.
2. Rinse fresh berries and pat dry. Mix with sugar and leave for a quarter of an hour. When they give juice, add nutmeg and put on a quiet fire. Bring to a boil and stir. Add chocolate and stir. Cook until thick, but do not let the mass burn.
3. Gelatin together with water, leave to swell. Then, over low heat, dilute until dissolved, but not boiling. Strain and let cool to room temperature.
4. Mix curd cheese with sweet powder and vanilla. You can beat a little to a fluffy mass - no more than a couple of seconds. Add gelatin and stir.
5. Pour berry jam with chocolate into a silicone container and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes. Then cover with a layer of curd-gelatin mass and level the layer. Let cool in the refrigerator. Then turn the mold over and remove it from the dessert.

To make it easier to form gelatinous desserts, especially large ones, use a regular baking dish, detachable. Cover it with cling film and when the dessert in it hardens, the form will be easy to remove.

Spices for desserts

Dessert recipes without baking necessarily include spices intended for sweet dishes and drinks. How to choose them? According to your taste and preferences. If you decide to try some new spice or spice, add it quite a bit - a pinch or take it on the tip of a knife. So, in the next preparation, you will know for sure whether this spice was enough ornot enough. So, no-bake dessert will taste better with:

• vanilla (powder, extract or seeds);
• nutmeg;
• dried mint;
• basil;
• thyme;
• cumin;
• cardamom.

Additions to recipes

Desserts without baking should be supplemented with flavoring and aromatic substances and products. This simple nuance will make your dishes, including desserts, individual and original. One of these ingredients is considered a drop of alcohol. Rum, cognac, white table wine, liqueur are the perfect complement.