So, my no-bake cherry cheesecake recipe actually requires planting, harvesting, canning, milking, ripening, curing, Pasteurization, and baking? Who’d have thought it?
I agree with pretty much everyone else here. Simply buying a baked good from a store does not constitute being a no-bake food stuff. Using that bought item as an ingredient in a recipe that doesn’t call for further baking does count as no-bake. The point of no-bake recipes as I see it are 2-fold: something that is easy so as can be made by a child with minimal supervision or by an adult in a time crunch and something that is edible as is, so if you want to lick the beaters you’re not risking salmonella.
“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
—Carl Sagan