Recipes with Dry Cookies: Easy and No Waste

Dipping cookies in milk is wonderful but it's not the only way to enjoy them! Recipes with dry cookies are among the best to making quick and easy desserts, having a ready-made base that doesn’t require baking.Dry cookies can be used to prepare countless delicious desserts, from classic cheesecakes to more creative desserts, in particular the single-portion ones.In addition, some of these desserts are a great way to recycle leftover cookies and use those last broken cookies left at the bottom of the pack.Chocolate salamiAmong the recipes with dry cookies, there is one that is impossible to resist, a real crackerjack made of coarsely crumbled cookies, butter, sugar, eggs, and cocoa. Yes, we're talking about the chocolate salami. Read the full recipe here.With the same method, you can also create small pralines with dried cookies enhanced with your favorite spices such as cinnamon, and even chopped dried fruit… the all-clear for pistachios, almonds, and hazelnuts too!Crumble with dry cookiesThe crumble is the perfect spoon dessert whereby crumbled shortbread is used to cover the top of the dessert. Usually, the crumble is specifically prepared by roughly crumbling flour, sugar, and butter with your hands. This is done for example in the case of the classic English apple crumble: a base of apples cooked in butter flavored with cinnamon, then covered with the crumble and baked in the oven. But you can try it with any fruit you like!Dry cookies can also be used for the same purpose, crumbled together with butter and - why not - hazelnuts or pistachios. This technique makes it easier to create single-portion desserts to be served artistically in cups, jars or small glasses. The crumble can serve as a base or a topping for a mousse.Cakes with dry cookiesWith dry cookies, you can also make real cakes without having to make sponge cake or use puff pastry. Cakes with dry biscuits do not need to be baked and are great fun to make together: just like a tiramisu the biscuits should be soaked in milk, or coffee with or without marsala or rum, and alternated layers with custard, mascarpone, chantilly cream and so on.CheesecakeA great dessert to prepare with dry cookies is, of course, the cheesecake. This dessert has a base made with crumbled biscuits or mixed together with butter and then topped with cream cheese and garnished with fresh fruit or chocolate.Dry cookies are the best ones to getting a crunchy base for a cheesecake. So yes, to digestive, wholegrain, chocolate or cereal cookies, but absolutely no soft cookies like the savoiardi (ladyfinger cookies).Browse the photo gallery above for 10 Recipes with Dry Cookies