No-Bake Cakes and Desserts

7 recipes

Desserts that don’t need an oven: cakes and sweets are assembled from ready-made cookies and mascarpone, or set with gelatin in the fridge. The easiest place to start is the “Broken Glass” cake — colorful jelly in a milk base — or a classic tiramisu with savoiardi and mascarpone.

Broken Glass Cake with Milk Jelly

6 h

Tiramisu Cake

45 min

Japanese Matcha Mille Crepe Cake

1 h 30 min

Cherry Jelly with Gelatin

2 h 20 min

Classic Tiramisu

1 h

Blancmange: Almond Milk Dessert

9 h

Snickers Salad

45 min

No-bake cakes

A tiramisu cake is layered from coffee-soaked savoiardi and mascarpone cream. “Broken Glass” is pieces of multicolored jelly set in milk jelly. For the Japanese matcha crepe cake, thin crepes are cooked in a pan and layered with mascarpone and condensed milk cream.

Jellies and other sweets

Blancmange is a delicate almond jelly, cherry jelly is made from fresh or frozen berries, and Snickers salad combines apples, whipped cream and chopped candy bars.

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