No celebratory meal is entire with no dessert, but, on blisteringly warm days, the mere considered of turning on the oven can make you wilt. (If you are fortunate adequate to have central air, or do not mind the heat, listed here are some summertime fruit pies for you. Bake on!) These 16 no-bake recipes are for those sweltering times. A handful of these dishes require a small stovetop or microwave operate, but the the vast majority want no warmth supply at all, so you can continue to be neat while whipping up some thing sweet.

These ethereal chocolate mousse bars from Samantha Seneviratne arrive together immediately and devoid of significantly fuss. Serve them with whipped product — clean or the sort that will come in a can. Substitute vanilla or chocolate wafer cookies for the graham crackers in the crust if you are feeling it.

No fooling, you can whip jointly this 5-component recipe from Vallery Lomas in minutes. Weighty cream and confectioners’ sugar are beaten till fluffy, then put together with sweetened, mashed berries. Serve with shortbread cookies or sensitive tuiles.

Recipe: Blackberry Idiot

A lively showstopper that needs no oven? Indicator us up. This attractiveness from Nik Sharma brings together a abundant, creamy mango-lime cheesecake foundation with a tangy mango gelatin major. A single reader couldn’t find canned mango, so she employed canned tart cherries as a substitute, and considered it “fantastic.”

Recipe: No-Bake Mango-Lime Cheesecake

On Episode 18 of Jennifer Garner’s “Fake Cooking Clearly show,” she termed this Melissa Clark recipe, tailored from the chef Thomas Keller, “the most critical factor The New York Instances has ever accomplished,” and who are we to argue? It’s generally do-it-yourself Magic Shell, and necessitates just two elements: excellent bittersweet chocolate and coconut oil. If you’re emotion formidable, pair it with Julia Moskin’s simplest vanilla ice cream.

Amanda Hesser tailored this recipe from Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray of the River Café in London, and it is just what to make when you’ve overpicked strawberries at the farm. It phone calls for an entire lemon — rind and all — strawberries, sugar and far more lemon juice. That’s it. The end result is delightfully brilliant and tangy.

Recipe: Strawberry Sorbet

Decide on a fruit, any fruit, and layer it with creamy vanilla pudding, jam and keep-purchased cake, then best it with a swirl of whipped product. Voilà! You have a dessert worthy of the Queen. This recipe from Melissa Clark calls for ladyfingers or sponge cake, but rather much any very simple cake or tender cookie will do.

Recipe: Classic Trifle With Berries or Citrus

This hanging cheesecake from Yossy Arefi is created with a blend of product cheese, sour cream and heavy product, so it is lighter and softer than standard baked cheesecake. That’s a good matter. Use fresh or frozen berries for the swirly major, and, when the recipe calls for straining out the seeds, depart in a few for texture and crunch.

Recipe: Raspberry Swirl No-Bake Cheesecake

Kulfi, a popular Indian frozen dessert, is historically built by boiling milk to lessen it, then freezing the foundation (not churning) with fruit pulp, spices or nuts. This shortcut recipe from Tejal Rao phone calls for sweetened condensed milk, weighty product and canned Alphonso mango. Her mother manufactured it all yr long when Tejal was escalating up, in the gaps among visits to see household in India. “It’s inauthentic — and delightful,” she wrote.

Recipe: Fast Mango Kulfi

These peanut butter cups from Samantha Seneviratne are a assured strike with kids of all ages. Experiment with diverse candies and nut butters incorporate a dollop of jam or dulce de leche to the peanut butter filling in advance of covering with chocolate or sprinkle with flaky sea salt or colored sprinkles.

Recipe: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

There is nary of drop of dairy in these creamy bars from Lidey Heuck, which are influenced by frozen Essential lime pie. Created with retail store-acquired dairy-no cost coconut or vanilla ice cream, they occur collectively swiftly. Be absolutely sure to use unsweetened, finely shredded (also identified as desiccated) coconut for this recipe — normal shredded or flaked coconut will be too coarse.

Recipe: Vegan Coconut-Lime Bars

The primary no-bake cookie, these unassuming treats are occasionally regarded as cow patties or preacher cookies. They are as basic as can be: Incorporate sugar, milk, butter, cocoa powder, salt, sugar and cocoa powder in a pot over medium warmth until easy, stir in peanut butter, then scoop the cookies onto a baking sheet, urgent down a little bit to flatten. Chill in the fridge till they harden. Ta-da! Cookies.

A contact fancier than plain aged whipped product, Mark Bittman’s recipe for Swedish product is just whipped cream with a tiny sour product folded in. (Insert sugar and a drizzle of liqueur, if you like.) The slight tang of the bitter cream enhances ripe, sweet summer berries like a dream. As one particular reader mentioned, “It allows the glory of the strawberries shine by way of.”

Recipe: Strawberries With Swedish Cream

Dubious? So have been we, but this is the very little mug cake that could. Tailored from “Baking Course: 50 Enjoyment Recipes Little ones Will Enjoy to Bake!” by Deanna F. Cook dinner, this recipe was at first made for kids, but we know persons of all ages who enjoy it. For a molten chocolate edition, sprinkle the prime with some mini chocolate chips right before popping it into the microwave, then clear away it a number of seconds early.

Recipe: Chocolate Mug Cake

Anyone loves a lemon dessert. These thick, velvety puddings from Melissa Clark, which are influenced by a British dessert referred to as posset, are organized on the stovetop, and established with lemon juice as an alternative of eggs, cornstarch or gelatin. The solution is to simmer the cream and sugar ahead of incorporating the contemporary lemon juice, providing the product a likelihood to thicken a little.

Recipe: No-Bake Lemon Custards With Strawberries

If you can establish a Lego tower, you can make this amazing ice cream cake from Ali Slagle, which is encouraged by spumoni, the frozen dessert generally served at Italian American pink sauce joints. Ice cream is the star of the present listed here, so use the most effective you can. But the most significant tip? Very clear out a lot of place in your freezer before you get started constructing. The concluded cake is about 4 inches tall.

Recipe: Spumoni Ice Cream Cake

Tofu may possibly not be the very first factor you think of when it comes to dessert, but hear us out: In this recipe from Mark Bittman, silken tofu, melted chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon and chile powder are whizzed alongside one another in a blender to make a incredibly creamy and delightful pudding that will delight grown ups and kids alike.

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Pudding With Cinnamon and Chile