Need to fake your bake? We’ve got you covered.
Here are seven recipes that require no oven, and in most cases, not much experience in the kitchen either. If you can chop and stir, or throw ingredients into a food processor, you can make these.
Make like a magician: Distract your audience with smooth chocolate centres and pretty pistachio crumb!
Source: Hachette Australia / Clare Winfield
There are no rules against putting a bake IN your fake. These trifles can be make with leftover home-made banana bread or bought, so it's a great recipe for a faker's arsenal.
Source: Alan Benson
A mix-and-chill chocolate log, made with Italian biscuits or shortbread.
Source: Feast magazine / Anson Smart
Condensed milk and ground almonds come together in these melt-in-your-mouth Pakistani sweets.
Badami zafran halva ladoo Source: Murdoch Books / Joanna Yee
Brazil also has the knack when it comes to condensed milk and caramel. The bakers can embrace these , but for when you need to fake it, how about super-easy or these , both of which require only a bit of stove-top stirring (and the will-power to let them set in the fridge before you eat them all! Testing a few while the rest chill is of course perfectly sensible quality control.)
Source: Feast magazine
Whip up a batch of these and store in the freezer for when you need a treat. Just as rewarding as a baked bar, but these only require some mixing, melting and freezing.7.
Source: Renee Byrd
This romblu tal-milied bic-cikkulata makes a lovely Christmas sweet, but with a slug of whisky in the mix, it makes an adult treat any time of year.
Source: Alan Benson
No oven needed for these, either
Raw hemp felafel