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9 Nut-Free Bake Sale/Birthday Party Recipes

By Katie Workman

on Mar 23, 2018, Updated Jan 29, 2022

Are there any schools left that haven’t gone nut-free? If there are a few left, I am surprised, and feeling a little badly for the kids who are sitting at the nut-free lunch table (though perhaps at this point there is a special room for kids who just can’t move on from their PBJs?).

I take all of this very seriously – I have horrible nut allergies myself, and have all my life, but when I was a kid I was definitely unusual, and very self-conscious about how I deal with my restrictions. Birthday parties were scary, bake sales were a no-go. But now, we parents have been tasked with bringing in only nut-free baked goods, so that every kid can dig in without worry.

9 Nut-Free Baking Recipes

Here are 9 nut-free treats that will leave nothing behind in the taste and texture department.

4.50 from 6 votes

Crystallized Ginger Shortbread

When butter meets crystallized ginger, wonderful things happen.

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4.86 from 7 votes

Best One-Pot Fudgy Brownies

These are the best brownies I have ever made, and I've made them hundreds of times. They have the kind of fudgy chocolatiness that wimpy people say is too chocolaty — silly little rabbits.

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5 from 4 votes

Best Soft Chewy Sugar Cookies

Simple, unshow-offy sugar cookies are not to be understimated.

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5 from 2 votes

Big Fat Chocolate Chunk Cookies

If cookies were to elect their king, it would undoubtedly be the chocolate chip cookie.

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4.75 from 64 votes

Mini Banana Bread Loaves

8 adorable little loaves for the price of one recipe.

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5 from 8 votes

Best Pumpkin Bread

All of 10 minutes to get into the oven. Two, three or even four days after you make this, it will still be as moist and flavorful as it was on day one.

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5 from 3 votes

One Pot Raspberry Oatmeal Bars

These chewy little squares can be make with whatever jam in in your pantry or strikes your fancy.

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5 from 7 votes

Gingersnaps

The warm smell of the spices in gingersnaps makes the whole house a little happier.

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5 from 1 vote

One-Pot Mexican Hot Chocolate Brownies

Now, there’s nothing wrong with a straight up brownie, but when you experience chocolate that packing heat, that’s a game changer.

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