Peanut Butter-Chocolate No-Bake Cookies

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: about 60 cookies
  • Total: 40 min
  • Active: 10 min
These simple drop cookies give your oven a break: they start on the stovetop – where all the ingredients are mixed – and then finish and set in the fridge. They are also perfect for making with kids: all of the ingredients are pantry staples, clean-up is easy and there are no raw eggs. If your household has allergy concerns, then swap the peanut butter out with your favorite smooth nut or seed butter like almond, cashew or sunflower butter. Refrigerate the cookies in an airtight container and have chilled treats for after school or as special snacks. This recipe also makes a generous amount of cookies (5 dozen!) so keep it in mind the next time you need a giftable sweet.
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Ingredients

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats

1 cup smooth peanut butter

1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Large pinch kosher salt

Directions

  1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper or parchment.
  2. Bring the sugar, milk, butter and cocoa to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, then let boil for 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Add the oats, peanut butter, vanilla and salt, and stir to combine.
  3. Drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, and let sit at room temperature until cooled and hardened, about 30 minutes. Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

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Ahodge

Anyone who made this recipe as it is listed above and saying it turned out great is lying, in fact, I don’t think the food network has ever made this recipe.<br /><br />2 cups oats, if anyone says 3, they have just copied it from somewhere else and never made them.<br /><br />3 cups oats give you a dry crumbly pile of trash cookie.<br /><br />2 cups gets you a lot closer to what is shown in the picture, that is probably less than that. <br /><br />Don’t believe me? Make them both ways, or look at the oatmeal container, 1 cup oats to 1.75 cups liquid, even if the peanut butter, milk, butter , and sugar all reduce to their liquid size equal to their solid size, you have ~4 cups liquid, so enough for ~2cups of oats to make an oatmeal consistency cookie when hot, or just make it with 2 cups or maybe even 1.75 cups of QUICK oats and you will love them.

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