It’s getting warmer, and I’m in no mood to fire up the oven even though my sweet tooth demands attention. Yes, a girl can be lazy and still deserve dessert, so that’s where these no-bake dessert recipes swoop in.
Throw stuff together, toss them in the fridge, and ta-da! Cold heaven. No heat, no hassle, all the flavor.
25 No-Bake Dessert Recipes From Experts
Fellow cheesecake fanatics, you are taken care of with chocolate, peanut butter, and fruity renditions. There’s silky pudding, ice cream with zero churning, and neon jelly for the kitsch factors.
To keep things fresh, I even snuck in some left-of-center choices like no-bake brownies and cereal bars that kids (and my inner child) will demolish happily.
1. Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake
Enter the Oreo-crusted, fluffy mousse-topped, no-bake slice of chocolate heaven. It chills neatly in the fridge, not in the oven, and emerges triumphantly as a bakery-level beauty. “I tried” without actually trying.
Such a superstar among no-bake desserts.
RECIPE: Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake
2. Blueberry No-Bake Cheesecake
Meet your new BFF, blueberry cheesecake, but the oven-free version! And with a graham cracker crust that gives a hint of lemon, super-easy cream cheese filling, and juicy blueberries on top.
You won’t break a sweat, but you will break the internet with this SUPER Instagrammable dessert.
RECIPE: Blueberry No-Bake Cheesecake
3. No-Churn Peach Ice Cream
This peach ice cream is the ultimate lazy-girl scoop, repping just four ingredients, a loaf pan, and your freezer.
The mixture becomes super creamy with almost no work and is packed with bits of ripe peaches.
Sweet, refreshing, and super easy, it’s perfect for hot-day dessert cravings.
RECIPE: No-ChurnPeach Ice Cream
4. Peaches and Cream Jello Cake
This Jello cake is retro dessert magic made easy.
Layers of sweet, juicy peaches, peach gelatin, and fluffy Cool Whip chill together into a delightful treat. It’s effortless to assemble, yet always a crowd favorite.
Potluck envy guaranteed every time, proving simplicity is often the ultimate sophistication in desserts.
RECIPE: Peaches and Cream Jello Cake
5. Classic Panna Cotta
Panna cotta? Sounds fancy, but it’s basically cream, sugar, vanilla, and gelatin hanging in the fridge for a night.
The result? A silky dessert that requires almost zero effort. Topped with a speedy berry sauce, it’s perfect for impressing guests or indulging yourself without any fuss.
RECIPE: Classic Panna Cotta
6. Chocolate Mousse
How do you make decadent chocolate mousse without raw eggs but still get it all nice and fluffy? Just melt chocolate into some warm cream, gently fold in whipped cream, chill, and voilà.
How rich? Very. How chocolatey? Extremely. How creamy? Holy cow. Perfect for lazy dessert people.
RECIPE: Chocolate Mousse
7. Pineapple Coconut Chia Pudding
Dessert that moonlights as breakfast and tastes like a vacation is basically #winning.
This pudding mixes chia seeds with coconut milk, stirs in some maple syrup, and hangs out in the fridge overnight. The next morning? Creamy, fruity goodness that feels fancy but took literal minutes.
RECIPE: Pineapple Coconut Chia Pudding
8. Coffee Jelly Recipe
This coffee jelly is your dessert and coffee fix all at once.
Brew it, sweeten it, gelatin it, cube it, and douse it in sweet cream for a cool, jiggly treat.
It’s caffeinated, playful, and naturally elegant, and totally perfect for coffee snobs wanting something refreshingly different and delicious.
RECIPE: Coffee Jelly Recipe
9. Raspberry Tart
A no-bake raspberry tart? Um, yes, please!
It’s a thick cookie crust filled with a fluffy (yet rich) mascarpone whipped cream and topped with bright fresh raspberries. Tart yet sweet, super elegant, and 100% fuss-free.
This dessert checks all the boxes for impressing guests without breaking a sweat.
RECIPE: Raspberry Tart
10. Aamrakhand, Mango Shrikhand
If mango lassi had a cooler, creamier cousin, it’d be the Aamrakhand.
This thick yogurt-mango-cardamom-nutty melange is both bougie, sweet, spicy, and rich, i.e., all things to all people.
Get ready to have a new go-to dessert to make and humblebrag about.
RECIPE: Aamrakhand, Mango Shrikhand
11. Tea Jelly
Turning tea into dessert might sound questionable, but stay with me.
Take your favorite tea, brew it, sweeten it a little, add gelatin, and chill. The result? Fancy cubes of chilly, refreshing goodness that feel like they should be on the front page of Town and Country magazine.
Add whipped cream or fresh fruit, and suddenly you’re the host with the most.
RECIPE: Tea Jelly
12. Baileys Truffles
Crushed Golden Oreos, cream cheese, and Baileys Irish Cream are all you need to roll into truffle territory.
Once chilled, each ball gets a glossy dip in melted chocolate bark. They’re rich, boozy, and just festive enough to scream Christmas in July without ever turning on the oven.
RECIPE: Baileys Truffles
13. Chocolate Éclair Cake
Bring on the layers, baby!
Graham crackers. Silky vanilla pudding. Whipped topping. Chocolate frosting. All of them are chilling overnight and becoming one delightfully mushy bite after another.
Your catty aunt might call that a hot mess, but you know she’s just jealous!
RECIPE: Chocolate Éclair Cake
14. No-Bake Date Brownies
Start with a dough made from Medjool dates, walnuts or pecans, cocoa powder, maple syrup, hazelnut butter, vanilla, and sea salt. Then top with vegan chocolate ganache made from coconut milk and dark chocolate!
Chill down until fudgy, then congratulate yourself for basically making a healthy brownie…
RECIPE: No-Bake Date Brownies
15. Circus Animal Rice Krispie Treats
Take your usual Rice Krispie cereal, toss in circus animal cookies and rainbow sprinkles, marshmallows, white chocolate, and you’ve got a treat that screams nostalgia in the loudest, pinkest way.
No oven, no mixer, just melt and mix. They’re fun, sugar-packed, and basically a Lisa Frank lunchbox in dessert form.
RECIPE: Circus Animal Rice Krispie Treats
16. Peaches and Cream Pie
This peaches and cream pie goes off-script with a buttery graham cracker crust and a vanilla pudding filling made with instant pudding mix, sweetened condensed milk, and whipped cream.
Fresh peaches on top, a sugar syrup glaze, and a chill. No-bake, no-stress, and peachy as heck.
RECIPE: Peaches and Cream Pie
17. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars
This is your cookie dough craving’s stylish big sister.
It’s a soft dough made with butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and heat-treated flour, pressed into a pan under a firm chocolate layer, and chilled.
It’s egg-free, rich, and 100% the kind of dessert you keep stashed for snack o’clock.
RECIPE: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars
18. No-Bake Strawberry Pie
Say adios to the oven for this one. We’re blending Cool Whip and strawberry gelatin for the filling. Pour it in a graham cracker crust, chill it, and top with fresh strawberries and more Cool Whip.
This easy, pink-hued dessert tastes like summer on a platter.
RECIPE: No-BakeStrawberry Pie
19. Scotcheroos Recipe
Scotcheroos are sweet, chewy, and disappear faster than you can say, “Scotcheroo.”
Stir peanut butter, sugar, and corn syrup in a saucepan until they form a melty puddle, then add crispy rice cereal. Pat into a pan. Spread with chocolate and butterscotch chips. Chill. Slice and eat 2,000 of them.
RECIPE: Scotcheroos Recipe
20. Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
Pumpkin spice season is forever in my heart, and these bars are proof.
The Biscoff crust sets the tone, then a creamy filling made with pumpkin puree, sour cream, heavy cream, two kinds of sugar, and a dash of spice makes it extra warm.
Chill it, caramel drizzle it, pecan sprinkle it, and you’re golden.
RECIPE: Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
21. Peanut Butter Pie
If peanut butter had a personality, this pie would be its sassy, fluffy alter ego.
Cream cheese, PB, sugar, milk, vanilla, and Cool Whip get whipped into a cloud and poured into a chocolate cookie crust. Chill it, top with cream, chopped PB cups, and prepare to fall in love.
RECIPE: Peanut Butter Pie
22. Billy Miner Pie
Meet coffee-flavored ice cream, rocking an Oreo crust, blinged-out with almonds, and bathed in chocolate and caramel.
This rich, coffee-laced beauty tastes like it should be a fancy restaurant dessert, but requires zero reservations…and even less effort than scoring the table.
RECIPE: Billy Miner Pie
23. Paleo Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
Not to worry. These bars have been paleo-approved, while still tasting like dessert-dessert.
The pecan crust is nutty and chewy and dates-y, and the creamy filling features pureed soaked cashew (yes), maple syrup, coconut cream, strawberries, lemon juice, and vanilla.
Sweet, tangy, and honestly hard to stop eating.
RECIPE: Paleo Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
24. Matcha Pudding Parfait
The parfait game for matcha-holics just got intense. Swirl together oat milk, sugar, matcha, agar, and chill till pudding-licious. Layer with coconut yogurt, granola + blueberries.
It’s creamy, crunchy, and arguably the most ‘clean girl’ thing I’ve ever eaten that doesn’t taste like punishment.
RECIPE: Matcha Pudding Parfait
25. Banana Cream Pie Dip
This dip is banana cream pie without the crust drama.
Just mix banana pudding powder with plain Greek yogurt until smooth, then fold in Cool Whip gently so it stays fluffy. Chill it for a bit, then scoop it up with graham crackers or Nilla wafers.
Dessert dip > actual pie, honestly.
RECIPE: Banana Cream Pie Dip
What Next?
For days you’re not in the mood to fire up the oven anytime soon, no-bake dessert recipes are the way to go. They are easy to put together, most of the time, and 99.9% on the yummy scale.
But hey, if you’re feeling like more of a challenge or just want to crank up the heat, check out our collection of dessert recipes. They are good any day, any season, and totally worth the effort.
