Martha Stewart's ‘no bake’ cool and creamy desserts

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   >>> be found in the august issue of " martha stewart living ." nobody want to heat up the kitchen in summer.

   >> i have been doing a baking show for the last three weeks. it's been so hot and humid and horrible. and then we had tornadoes. and these desserts --

   >> that's right. did you lose a lot of trees?

   >> hundred. but these are fabulous desserts. this is the greatest alternative to turning on the oven. you have to do a little cooking on top of the stove, but who cares.

   >> that's not bad. we'll start with an ice box cake. what's the definition?

   >> an ice box cake, everything is done ahead of time. you put it in the ice box instead of the oven. it solidifies. look at this fabulous thing.

   >> that's what it's going to look like at the end?

   >> yes. you're going to slice it --

   >> all kind of layers. what ingredients do we need.

   >> you need cream, egg yolks, a pinch of salt. this is heated.

   >> how long did you cook that?

   >> until it's thick. you pour that over --

   >> why the strainer?

   >> well, because, look. look at those glops in there. you don't want those glops in your custard. you're making kind of a ganosh. 15 ounces of milk chocolate melts and you're left with this beautiful custardy chocolate which will solidify. we layer that. you put one layer in here, now your bananas and graham crackers . this way.

   >> okay. sorry. afterwards, you put it in the refrigerator?

   >> yes, until it is solid like this. and you have a delectable layered dessert --

   >> you have a heart attack, don't you?

   >> no.

   >> the kid can get involved with the layering with the graham crackers and bananas.

   >> mine is the mixed berry grunt.

   >> this is cooked on top of the stove rather than a brown betty or --

   >> it's not a cobbler.

   >> it's like a sob ler but cookco -- cobbler.

   >> mixture of blueberries, raspberries --

   >> a little brown sugar.

   >> vanilla bean , pinch of salt and cooked down into a nice, thick, beautiful mix like that. then you mix up the dough.

   >> what's in the dough?

   >> a little flour, two tablespoons of brown sugar , half a tea poon of baking soda . a pinch of salt.

   >> pinch of salt.

   >> and a grating of nutneglemeg. i love freshly grated nutmeg.

   >> i never freshly grate --

   >> you should. smell that. isn't that gray? then butter. two tablespoons of unsalted butter . use your fingers.

   >> you can't cook with all this stuff. take that.

   >> just your fingertips.

   >> just my fingertips?

   >> you're going to eat this. nobody else is.

   >> then what?

   >> break that in. you're making your biscuits.

   >> go like this.

   >> show her.

   >> then i'm going to pour in the butter milk .

   >> ah. okay.

   >> i wanted you to make a mess. no, no, no, mix that all up. now you can scrape off your fingers and that's your dough.

   >> oh, like a dough.

   >> the like a drop biscuit. you take a drop and drop it right in. drops all over the place.

   >> it never looks the same when you do it.

   >> but, look, this is what it turns out to be. after 15 minutes that biscuit --

   >> that cooks like that on the top of the stove?

   >> isn't that great.

   >> and that's a grunt. you take a spoon. you can use your fingers.

   >> i'm asking questions they might want to know at home. do you want this on your face?

   >> no.

   >> you know i'll do it. we wanted to render meredith useless. we did it. don't put that in there.

   >> i won't.

   >> don't put that in there. i'm sorry.

   >> what else have you brought?

   >> a cherry cheesecake, no-bake cheesecake and the delicious. all the re peas are simple. no-bake fudge brownies. fabulous chocolate and coconut and crackers that you break up.

   >> can i just ask a question? is this one of the days with all of these things are going to your show and we can't touch them?

   >> no, they're all staying here.

   >> one time you got mad at me and i dug into something and --

   >> me? i never got mad at you.

   >> yes, you did.

   >> i've gotten mad at meredith but never gotten mad at you.

   >> i don't know.

   >> how is that? is that good?

   >> peach melba .

   >> you cook a few peaches, make this fant fantastic peach --

   >> that is good.

   >> don't you want to taste what you made? the slump. this is a grunt. try that.

   >> the trick is, it's the summer, nobody wants the stove on -- or the oven on.

   >> try that biscuit.

   >> i can eat that nonstop.

   >> isn't that good? it tastes good, right?

   >> it tastes good.

   >> it's fantastic. if you could only get us like a no-cook meat loaf , that would be good, too.

   >> steak tartar .

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