10 No-Bake Desserts, From Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Puddings, and More

Melissa Breyer
Living / Green Food
July 10, 2012

10. Ice Cream Sandwich Extravaganza

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The humble ice cream sandwich may be one of the easiest no-bake dessert hacks in history, and one where there are very few limits. If you have the basics down (slice a baked item in half length-wise, spread with softened ice cream, re-freeze) you can get wildly inventive.

For starters, kick the basic chocolate cookie wafer to the curb. Since this is a no-bake theme, buy (save the baking for cooler weather) ginger snaps, Chinese almond cookies, graham crackers, oatmeal cookies, macaroons, black and white cookies -- or branch out and use brownies, blondies, donuts, eclairs, rice krispy treats, cupcakes, you name it. Instead of vanilla ice cream, use an exotic flavor, frozen yogurt, frozen banana puree, or for the super-hack, slip a popsicle off its stick, sandwich it, and call it a day.

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