Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy · Episode 204 · August 19, 2025 · 28 min

8 No-Bake Desserts for Summer Entertaining at Home When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking! (Re-release)

Craving a sweet treat to beat the summer heat, but can’t even imagine walking into your hot kitchen, let alone turning on the oven?  In this episode re-release, we’re divulging our tried and true easy summer dessert recipes to make at home, from cold and creamy to perfectly packable, no cooking required!  This week you’ll discover: Fast and easy icebox cakes and frozen pies that bring excitement to any table and rely on easy to find ingredients A chocolatey cookie treat that travels easily to the beach, picnic, or on a road trip A make-ahead dessert from Sonya’s childhood that maximizes seasonal fruit and is perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream Tune in now for a spoonful of sweet inspiration!    *** Links: Sonya’s raspberry mocha icebox cake , strawberry tiramisu , and fruit compote recipes Ina Garten’s mocha icebox cake Chocolate wafers for icebox cake (or use oreo thins!) 18 ice cream pie ideas from Taste of Home Not-so-classic peach melba from David Tanis for the NY Times Classic Scotheroos recipes from Tastes Better From Scratch Buckeyes recipe by Tammy Winters for All Recipes Tricia Yearwood’s no-bake rocky road bars All the rocky road bar combos on TikTok Ina Garten’s limoncello fruit salad recipe  *** Got a cooking question? Leave us a message on our hotline at: 323-452-9084 For more recipes and cooking inspiration, sign up for our Substack here . You can also now find us on YouTube.  We love hearing from you — follow us on Instagram @ foodfriendspod , or drop us a line at [email protected] ! Book a farmers’ market tour with Sonya in Portland, OR!