Nothing to bake
Set in the fridge, whipped in a bowl or cooked on the stove — the oven stays off.
13 recipes
🇮🇹 ItalyTiramisu
Espresso-soaked ladyfingers layered with a raw egg and mascarpone cream, dusted with cocoa.
🇮🇹 ItalyPanna Cotta
Piedmont's 'cooked cream': vanilla-infused cream set with just enough gelatin to tremble, served with a fresh raspberry sauce.
🇫🇷 FranceMousse au Chocolat
Julia Child's bistro mousse: chocolate melted with butter and coffee, folded into rum-scented sabayon and meringue, set overnight.
🇫🇷 FranceCalisson d'Aix
Aix-en-Provence's almond and candied melon lozenges on a wafer base, sealed under a thin sheet of royal icing.
🇪🇸 SpainTurrón
Spain's Christmas nougat of almonds, honey and sugar, made in both hard and soft styles.
🇫🇷 FranceNougat de Montélimar
Lavender honey and sugar cooked to 145°C, whipped into egg whites and loaded with toasted almonds and pistachios.
🇫🇷 FranceRiz au Lait
Four ingredients in one pan: round rice simmered slowly in vanilla milk until it slumps like loose oatmeal.
🇫🇷 FranceTeurgoule
Normandy's rice pudding: rice, milk, sugar and cinnamon left in a low oven for three and a half hours until a dark skin forms.
🇵🇹 PortugalArroz Doce
Creamy lemon-and-cinnamon rice pudding, finished with a stenciled cinnamon design.
🇫🇷 FranceÎle Flottante
Islands of meringue poached in milk, floated on the vanilla crème anglaise made from that same milk.
🇫🇷 FrancePoire Belle Hélène
Escoffier's 1864 tribute to an Offenbach operetta: a whole poached pear, vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce.
🇪🇸 SpainCrema Catalana
Catalonia's centuries-old custard, infused with citrus and cinnamon beneath a burnt sugar crust.
🇷🇺 RussiaMedovik
An eight-layer honey cake, its thin cookie-like layers softened overnight by sour cream.