No-Bake

Holiday hosting is notoriously stressful. You spend three days planning a menu, six hours roasting a massive piece of meat, and an hour aggressively scrubbing your baseboards before people arrive. By the time your guests …

The holidays usually mean my kitchen is covered in a permanent layer of powdered sugar, and my oven is running for eight hours straight. By the time the actual family parties roll around, I am …

Every single year in February, I walk into the grocery store and buy those seasonal peanut butter hearts. And every single year, I swear they get smaller. They used to be a thick, satisfying chunk …

I used to buy those little peanut butter cups and then act shocked when the bag was empty by Tuesday. These granola cups are the homemade version that actually lasts, because making twelve at once …

Read the peanut butter jar before you buy a pie plate. A lot of “natural” labels still hide sugar in the second line. This no-bake sugar-free peanut butter pie only works as advertised if the …

Buy a pack of “cake batter” bites at the gym cafe and you pay for sprinkles and marketing. Birthday cake batter protein balls from your own bowl cost less, take fifteen minutes, and you control …

This Mediterranean diet snack is a no-bake fig and walnut energy bar you press into a pan. Dried figs, toasted walnuts, a few dates to glue it, orange zest, a spoon of olive oil, salt. …

Little chocolate chickpea truffles are brownie dough that started as a can of beans. You drain chickpeas, dry them like you mean it, blend with cocoa, maple, nut butter, vanilla, and salt. Chill. Roll. Coat …

Pecan pie lasagna is pecan pie that learned about layers and refused to get back in a pie plate. Graham-pecan crust. Thick cream cheese. Gooey brown-sugar pecan filling. Fluffy cream. Caramel. More pecans. It looks …