no bake dessert

The Best No-Bake Cookies Recipe – with Coconut!

September 20, 2018

These easy no-bake cookies are loaded with goodness and even a little bit of healthy. Old-fashioned oats, chocolate and the surprise addition of coconut make these classic no-bake cookies (without the peanut butter!) the very best.

No-bake cookies are a starter-cook-in-the-kitchen classic recipe that’s oh so easy to make.

That’s the good part.

So what’s the bad part?

It’s just that they’re so dang easy to make you can whip up a batch whenever the craving strikes. And then eat the whole bowl. By yourself. In one sitting.

Just ask my husband. That was his M.O. when back in the day after high school football practice he would make no-bake cookies at least once a week. As all big brothers do (or more aptly don’t) he refused to share any of the batch with his siblings. Brotherly love. It’s real.

But here’s the best part…

Once you make these no-bake beauties yourself, you’ll see why he was so selfish. And you won’t blame him one bit for keeping them all to himself.continue to the recipe… about The Best No-Bake Cookies Recipe – with Coconut!

No-Bake Dulce de Leche Pie Recipe With Beyond Frosting

October 27, 2016

White chocolate and cream cheese mix with dulce de leche to create a light and airy no-bake caramel filling for the chocolate sandwich cookie crust.

There’s always a reason to appreciate a no-bake dessert. In summer, it’s our craving to soak up all the summer sun that keeps us out of the kitchen and at the pool or shopping for sundresses. Come holiday season, no bake sweets save the day when oven time is at a premium with all the Thanksgiving turkeys and all the Christmas pies.

But you can still have your dessert, and eat it too, even when there’s no room at the inn.continue to the recipe… about No-Bake Dulce de Leche Pie Recipe With Beyond Frosting

Quick and Easy Raspberry Fool

June 30, 2014

Her: “A fool? What’s a fool? Mom, why are you calling this a fool? I don’t even know what that is. I’ve never heard of it. It has whip cream but why is it a fool? Or are you calling me a fool? I don’t want to be a fool. Mooooooommm.”

And then one big spoonful of raspberry swirled whipped cream into her mouth.

And in 3-2-1…

Her: “Oh mom, this is really, really good.” Smiles and licks and more creamy swirled spoonfuls into her rosebud shaped mouth.

Me: “Give me a bite.”

With the look of shock and awe and a wickedly fast turn of her entire torso, she guards her glass jar of Raspberry Fool like she’s just rebounded the game winning shot in the finals of the WNBA championships.

And replies curtly, “No!”

Me: “Seriously? Not even a bite?”

Her: “Uggggh. Okaaaaaaay,” as she wipes the raspberry swirled cream from the sides of her mouth and hands me the jar.

Just another example of the generosity that’s shared when I deliver leftovers of the day’s recipe creations to my sweet—and can I say it again—more than generous 10 year old.

Sheesh. Who’s the fool now?