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Blueberry Cheesecake Parfait {No bake/low carb}

June 23, 2020

No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Parfait, my new go-to quick and easy summer treat! Perfect for a last minute dessert when there is no time for baking. They look elegant enough to serve to guests, but they are ridiculously easy. No bake desserts, like these no bake blueberry cheesecake bars, are a lifesaver in warm weather months.

We are watching what we eat, but I’m not about to deprive myself of a sweet treat. These no bake blueberry lemon cheesecake parfaits are low carb, lower in sugar and at only 2 ounces, they won’t sabotage your diet.

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Chocolate Covered Rum Balls

October 12, 2019

Chocolate covered rum balls are a sweet, boozy grownup treat. Made with dark rum and dark chocolate, these chocolate covered rum balls are a variation on my easy rum ball recipe. They make a great addition to the holiday dessert table and they are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges.

chocolate covered rum balls topped with walnut pieces and white chocolate

Most often, we make rum balls around the holidays. Which is the time of the year when many of us are indulging in two things: booze and sugar. Check and check.

And, because we usually make these around the holiday season, I need a recipe that doesn’t require much time or energy when I have a to do list that’s a mile long. Enter: rum balls.

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Coconut Rum Balls Recipe

September 10, 2019

Coconut Rum Balls are like a taste of the tropics in an easy, no-bake treat for adults. The flavor gets even better overnight, making rum balls a perfect make ahead recipe. This version features toasted coconut and coconut rum. Every year, we make this easy rum balls recipe for the holidays. Recently, I made a batch of pumpkin rum balls for something different and they were a big hit.

This coconut rum ball recipe is made without condensed milk to keep it dairy-free.

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Pumpkin Rum Balls Recipe

September 2, 2019

Pumpkin rum balls are the perfect treat for all of your fall celebrations. This version is made with graham crackers instead of the usual wafer cookies, making them reminiscent of pumpkin pie. For a traditional rum ball recipe, this one packs a punch.

pumpkin rum balls in white bowl with pumpkin decorations in background — *Pumpkin rum balls make a delicious adults-only fall treat!*

Rum balls are great for this time of the year. They are a quick and easy no-bake treat. Perfect for game day parties, Halloween and even for Thanksgiving gatherings.

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No Bake Lemon Cheesecake Parfaits

July 28, 2019

No bake lemon cheesecake parfaits make a delicious spring and summer dessert. These parfaits are made without gelatin or condensed milk. Just a handful of ingredients whipped together and layered into individual glasses for a sweet, tart, lemony treat.

No bake cheesecake bars are on of my favorite treats for a crowd, but having individual servings are great for those times when you want your own dessert.

Berries are a natural match with lemon and I found absolutely beautiful raspberries at the market, so I used them here for a bit of color. You could swap out the raspberries for strawberries, blueberries, blackberries or any summer fruit that you like.

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No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

July 27, 2019

Bars are the go-to dessert when you are feeding a crowd. If I can get away with not turning on the oven, that’s even better. These No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Bars have a chocolate crust with a thin layer of melted chocolate in between for that something extra. Make a pan of no bake strawberry cheesecake bars too for all of the red, white and blue summer holidays.

Super creamy, silky smooth filling swirled with fresh blueberry sauce make these bars as pretty as they are delicious.

no bake cheesecake bars with chocolate crust on plate

No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

For a sweet, tart, lemony no bake cheesecake, try these No Bake Lemon Cheesecake Parfaits. Studded with fresh raspberries, they make a light and tasty summer treat.

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No bake strawberry cheesecake bars

May 11, 2019

No bake strawberry cheesecake bars swirled with fresh strawberry sauce are quick, easy and made from scratch. The filling has only 4 ingredients, and like my no bake blueberry cheesecake, it uses no gelatin and comes together in only a few minutes. The buttery crust is made from crushed wafer cookies mixed with a bit of butter and sugar.

no bake strawberry cheesecake slice on plate with fork

The strawberry sauce tastes like fresh strawberry jam and is swirled through the cheesecake making a dessert that is as delicious as it is pretty.

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Holiday Candy Bark

November 22, 2016

This week, Betsy from Desserts Required is doing a guest post! I love Betsy and I know you will too! We’ve been friends for a few years now and I must tell you, when you are around her – a good time will be had, whether you like it or not! 🙂 She is a ball of energy, a ray of sunshine and has a serious sweet-tooth just like your truly. Betsy is a “girl’s girl”, a cheerleader & champion of her friends, the kind of friend everyone should have.

Hello Pook’s Pantry readers!

I am so excited to guest blog while Cheryl takes some much needed time to recover from her surgery. I met Cheryl at Food Wine Conference a couple of years ago and last year she was my roommate. To say that I love and adore her would be an understatement. I mean, seriously, you already know how fabulous her sense of humor is in addition to her talent in the kitchen but I got to see it firsthand. Cheryl was on team Betsy’s Balls in the Chopped competition and, holy moly, can that woman cook!

My blog is Desserts Required and I live by the mantra, “Without desserts, life would not be as sweet.” If there is a delicious dessert within reach, driving distance or flying distance, I am always up for giving it a try. That goes for candy, too.

Since Thanksgiving is two days away, I thought it would be best to offer a quick and delish option to make; Holiday Candy Bark. I love the idea of making something that is as easy to serve at home as it is to take to someone for a hostess gift.

The key is to use high quality chocolate. I love bittersweet chocolate but Holiday Candy Bark will work just as well with semisweet, milk or even white chocolate. When I was at Whole Foods buying dried cranberries and unsweetened shredded coconut, I had trouble locating dried apricots. I was directed to a bin of very dark, almost black, apricots. I thought something was wrong with them but learned that they were Turkish apricots and, as such, did not contain sulphur, which gives that very bright unnatural orange color. Although, initially, I wanted that bright orange color, I opted for the natural dried fruit. Feel free to use whichever dried apricot you prefer.

Assembly is a breeze. It’s just a matter of adding layers of dried fruit, coconut and toasted pecans over most of the melted chocolate and then drizzling more melted chocolate over the top to keep the goodies in place.

Best of all, Holiday Candy Bark is great throughout this holiday season. I’ve even heard a rumor that Santa loves a batch with his milk and cookies!

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Holiday Candy Bark

A delicious, no-bake treat perfect for hostess gifts and holiday gatherings!

Ingredients

1 cup 141 grams dried cranberries, chopped
1 cup 172 grams dried apricots, chopped
1 cup 120 grams pecan pieces, toasted
½ cup 40 grams unsweetened shredded coconut
2 pounds 910 grams bittersweet, semisweet, milk or white chocolate, melted

Instructions

Line a 9” x 13” baking pan with heavy duty aluminum foil. Add 4/5 of the melted chocolate and use a small offset metal spatula to spread it evenly in the pan. Top with the cranberries, apricots and most of the pecans and coconut.
Drizzle half of the remaining chocolate over the top. Sprinkle the remaining pecans and coconut over this. Lastly, drizzle the rest of the chocolate on top to ‘glue’ the pecans and coconut onto the bark.
Place in the freezer for 20 minutes. If the block of chocolate is too hard to cut through, allow it to sit out on the counter until a knife cuts through the chocolate without breaking it into shards of chocolate. Cut in squares.

Blueberry Eton Mess

May 13, 2013

Let me say that I think we should appreciate our Mom’s on more than just one day a year… It is an incredibly important job that is sometimes thankless. Through terrible two’s and rebellious teenage years, through laughter and tears, joy and fear… you are there for it all.

So, to every Mom out there: Happy Mother’s Day today and everyday for all that you do!

Now that I’ve earned my birthday and Christmas presents for next year, let’s get to it.

This weekend is Mother’s Day and the Internet, food magazines, morning shows, cooking shows, even the evening news is filling the space between our ears with recipes to make for Mom…

Most of them even look really good! But here’s the problem: MOM isn’t the one making them! (I hope)!

More than a few of the recipes featured have ingredient lists long enough to make even the average home cook sweat under the collar, much less someone who rarely ventures into that mystical space from where food magically appears.

Some of you out there are lucky enough to live with people who actually know: A. where the kitchen is located in your home and 2) how to find things in this mysterious room. Then, there are those of you who live with people that open the fridge door, stand there staring at it’s insides and then ask you “what is there to eat?”.

Well, even THOSE people can handle this recipe.

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