You know the feeling. The cookie jar is empty. Your freezer supply of baked goods has gone and there’s nothing for lunch boxes. It’s 5pm. You’re in the middle of getting dinner on and you need to get something baked for school lunches. That was the case with me the other day when I somehow came up with these No Bake Raspberry & White Chocolate Cookie Bars.
This is all I started with. I checked the freezer and I had a few raspberries and a handful of white chocolate chips. I was thinking of making muffins, while the oven was on but I just couldn’t be bothered waiting for them to cook while I was rushing around with dinner so decided to go with something ‘no bake’.
I also found a packet of plain biscuits and a tin of condensed milk in the pantry. Something that no home should be without. The condensed milk comes in so handy for last minute baking. The plain biscuits were obviously bought for a special recipe but that never happened so they made their way to the back of the pantry. I could’ve just given these to the kids but they’re pretty plain and I had already defrosted the raspberries.
This is just your standard, run of the mill, basic no bake slice where you smash the biscuits until crumbs form, add the rest of the ingredients, melt some butter, mix the condensed milk with the melted butter, mix it through and put it in the fridge. My kind of recipe when you’re in a hurry.
I pureed the partially defrosted raspberries, trying not to make it too pureed as to leave some pieces whole.
Mix it all together and that’s pretty much it.
Press into a slice tin and then pop in the fridge. Wait until it’s set, preferably overnight and cover with icing if you like, not that it really needs it.
I loved how the raspberries, when mixed with the condensed milk, turned the prettiest shade of pink so I couldn’t resist topping with pink icing and more coconut. I love anything covered in coconut.
This was so, so good. The kids loved it. Well, most of them. Once ‘the girl’ saw a raspberry, she lost interest but my son devoured it. It was perfect for lunch boxes and afternoon tea. These kind of no bake slices last for a week or so in the fridge, if it doesn’t all get eaten up beforehand.
No Bake Raspberry & White Chocolate Cookie Bars
1 packet of plain biscuits, crushed into crumbs
1/2 cup raspberries, pureed
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup coconut
1 can condensed milk
80gm butter
Quantity of pink icing and coconut to cover, optional
- Mix together biscuit crumbs, chocolate chips and coconut.
- On stove top, melt butter and add condensed milk mixing well.
- Add to biscuit crumb mixture and add raspberry puree.
- Press into a 20x25cm slice tin and refrigerate until set.
- Spread with icing and coconut if desired.
YUM! What a great flavour combination 🙂
Thanks Lisa love. Hope you’ve been doing ok.
Anne xx
Looks yummy. Pinned for making later maybe with some other ingredients swapped out. Thanks I don’t make this sort of thing much and I think the kids will like it.
Thanks Alicia. It’s kinda become a basic standby for me, changing up the ingredients with what I’ve got. Thanks for stopping by.
Anne xx
What a neat recipe! 🙂
I would LOVE for you to share this with my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pluckyrecipescraftstips/
Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!
Yum! This sounds absolutely delicious! Completely agree that no house should be without a few spare cans of condensed milk.
Hi Anne, just arrived in Cumbria in the UK where we encountered snow for the bank holiday long weekend. And we left Tasmania five days ago where water shortages and drought were top of mind.Go figure the topsy turvy weather. Hope you get some of this ‘cooler’ weather soon.
Oh my gosh Donna. Gone from bad to worse. Hopefully things will warm up for you over there as they will cool down here. I’m hoping!
Anne xx
No bake raspberry white chocolate cookie bars looks delicious, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop. pinning and tweeting
Thanks Swathi!
Anne xx
Oh wow, these sound amazing, Anne! Shared on our Hearth and Soul FB page. Thank you for being a part of the Hearth and Soul Hop. Hope you have visited again this week!
Thank you April. I’ll be there!
Anne xx
Those look delicious!
Thanks Debbie.
Anne xx