12 Nut-Free Dessert Recipes for Bake Sales & Birthday Parties

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Mexican Hot Chocolate Brownies / Sarah Crowder / Katie Workman / themom100.com

Are there any schools left that haven’t gone nut-free? If there are a few left, I am surprised and feeling a little bad 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 dealt with my restrictions. Birthday parties were scary, and 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. And, even if you just need some delicious treats for any occasion, these nut-free dessert recipes are sure to please!

Wooden serving dish of Mexican Hot Chocolate Brownies.
Mexican Hot Chocolate Brownies

12 Nut-Free Baking Recipes

Here are 12 nut-free treats that will leave nothing behind in the taste and texture department.

Crystallized Ginger Shortbread
4.50 from 6 votes

Crystallized Ginger Shortbread

When butter meets crystallized ginger, wonderful things happen. An easy and flavorful bar cookie recipe that's super easy.
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Fudgy One-Pot Brownies
4.92 from 12 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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Plate of Soft Chewy Sugar Cookies.
5 from 4 votes

Best Soft Chewy Sugar Cookies

Simple, unshow-offy sugar cookies are not to be understimated.
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Stack of Chocolate Chunk Cookies
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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Mini Banana Loaves / Sarah Crowder / Katie Workman / themom100.com
4.77 from 68 votes

Mini Banana Bread Loaves

Eight adorable little loaves for the price of one recipe.
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Best Pumpkin Bread
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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One Pot Raspberry Oatmeal Bars
5 from 3 votes

One-Pot Raspberry Oatmeal Bars

These chewy little squares can be made with whatever jam is in your pantry or strikes your fancy.
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Gingersnaps on a plate, a table, and wrapped in parchment paper.
5 from 7 votes

Gingersnaps

The warm smell of the spices in gingersnaps makes the whole house a little happier.
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Mexican Hot Chocolate Brownies / Sarah Crowder / Katie Workman / themom100.com
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's packing heat, it's a game changer.
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Nut-Free Flourless Chocolate Cake with Raspberries
5 from 4 votes

Nut-Free Flourless Chocolate Cake

This gluten-free cake is when you need a rich chocolate treat without nuts or flour.
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Slices of Brown Sugar Fudge and other fudge on an orange plate.
4.75 from 4 votes

Brown Sugar Fudge

Also known as penuche, this soft, creamy dense treat is a lovely, sweet alternative to traditional chocolate fudge.
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Nut-Free Snowball Cookies
4.80 from 5 votes

Nut-Free Snowball Cookies

These classic cookies are sweet and soft and melt in your mouth (warning; may evoke childhood memories).
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About Katie Workman

Katie Workman is a cook, a writer, a mother of two, an activist in hunger issues, and an enthusiastic advocate for family meals, which is the inspiration behind her two beloved cookbooks, Dinner Solved! and The Mom 100 Cookbook.

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