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We’re nearing that time in the summertime the place we merely don’t, beneath any circumstances, need to activate our ovens. However that doesn’t imply we don’t need dessert. There’s all the time ice cream, after all, however what about cookies, pies, and tarts? Right here, we’ve gathered our favourite dessert recipes to encourage your summer season “baking” tasks, none of which require you to activate the oven. And in case you’re questioning: Sure, there are a whole lot of cheesecakes on this checklist (it’s a dessert that adapts notably properly to no-bake strategies!), however you’ll additionally discover cookies and bars to spherical out the choice.

1. No-Bake Lime Cheesecake

“I’ve by no means been an enormous fan of Key lime pie (too bitter, too candy), which is the place this no-bake cheesecake swoops in to save lots of the day,” says recipe developer Eric Kim. It’s creamier, lighter, and softer than your typical baked cheesecake, that means it’s an ideal dessert for the season.

2. No-Bake Pineapple Tart

This cheesecake-esque tart comes collectively in—no joke—quarter-hour, however you’d by no means know that from its stunning concentric pineapple topping. A store-bought graham cracker crust makes for an particularly swift meeting.

3. No-Bake Butterscotch & Chocolate Haystacks

These three-ingredient “haystacks” are a longtime favourite in Resident Erin Jeanne McDowell’s household. They’re additionally riffable: Whereas the unique recipe requires a mixture of semisweet chocolate and butterscotch chips, be happy to make use of milk or white chocolate, and even peanut butter chips.

4. No-Bake Mini Pistachio Cheesecakes

These cute, shareable cheesecakes get their taste (and cute pastel shade) from pistachio paste. Pistachio not your factor? Swap in any nut-based unfold, like peanut butter, almond butter, or chocolate-hazelnut unfold. In line with Erin Jeanne McDowell, cookie butter works, too!

5. No-Bake Orange Cream Pie With a Pretzel Crust

A salty pretzel crust is the perfect complement to this pie’s orange creamsicle-inspired filling. “The key ingredient right here is orange juice focus,” says recipe developer Jessie Sheehan, “because it gives simply the correct amount of orange taste with out loosening the filling.”

6. No-Bake Cookies

Somewhat than baking within the oven, the dough for these cookies will get shortly cooked on the stovetop, then portioned out and left to set. Thought to have originated in the course of the Nice Melancholy, these cookies are also referred to as “preachers cookies,” “cow pies,” or “peanut-butter delights,” says Ella Quittner.

7. Nigella Lawson’s No-Bake Nutella Cheesecake

This six-ingredient Nutella cheesecake from Nigella Lawson has been a Food52 neighborhood favourite for years, and we perceive why. Along with being scrumptious, it’s an instantaneous crowd-pleaser that’s “embarrassingly straightforward to make.”

8. Triple-Chocolate No-Bake Cheesecake

Sure, we notice that this checklist options two chocolate cheesecakes in a row. They’re each simply actually, actually good. This nut-free model from Erin Jeanne McDowell layers milk, darkish, and white goodies for a striped impact.

9. No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars With Oreo Crust

These bars are designed for all of the Oreo-lovers on the market. The crust makes use of the chocolate cookies, whereas the peanut butter layer is sweetened with their creme filling. We’re not achieved: The bars are completed with Oreo crumbles on prime for pleasant textural distinction and visible attraction.