These classic no-bake bars, popular across British Columbia as well as the rest of Canada, are a decadent, easy-to-make treat perfect for serving at a late-summer picnic or cookout. 

There are a limited number of kits available. Kits have been assigned but you may join the waiting list here. The kit contains a one 300-gram container of Bird’s Custard Powder, the secret ingredient that Canadian Nanaimo-bar bakers swear by. The recipe can be found here.

Cam Zarcone teaches all sorts of cooking classes (many of them through the local grocery chain PCC) around greater Seattle to cooks of all ages and abilities. She also offers up all kinds of inspired cooking-with-kids projects in her Substack newsletter, Homeschool Culinary Arts (homeschoolculinary.substack.com). You can follow her on Instagram @hummingbirdculinary.

Cooking with Cam: How to Make Nanaimo Bars