Recipes

Everyone needs at least 10 no-bake dessert recipes. These quick and easy preparations can be lifesavers when you forget you were supposed to sends treats to school, church or the office. Santa’s No-Bake Thin Mints is an easy variation on the Williams-Sonoma Peppermint Bark Cookies theme – and it’s a keeper. With just four ingredients, the result packs just as much wow factor as a pricey gourmet store find. Melting white chocolate in the microwave is the only “cooking” involved. You can melt the chocolate on the stove top in a double broiler, but this is an instance where the microwave is an expedient tool.