These no bake cookies are a nostalgic dessert recipe made with 6 pantry-staple ingredients for an easy, kid-friendly treat.
No bake cookies are an easy 6-ingredient dessert recipe made with peanut butter, oats and a chocolate sauce mixed together to form deliciously flavorful cookies.
We love this classic recipe because these cookies are a kid-friendly treat perfect for an afterschool or summertime snack. They are also great to serve at a potluck, cookout and Fourth of July party!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- No Bake Dessert
- Kid-Friendly
- Easy Dessert
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Oats - We recommend using old fashioned rolled oats.
- Butter - Butter helps make the chocolate sauce that holds the cookies together.
- Milk - Milk helps to create the thick chocolate sauce.
- Sugar - We recommend using cane sugar.
- Cocoa Powder - Cocoa powder is essential for the chocolate flavor in these classic no bake cookies.
- Peanut Butter - Peanut butter not only adds peanut butter flavor to the cookies, but also helps hold the cookies together.
Complete list of ingredients and amounts is located on the recipe card below.
Kitchen Tools & Equipment
- Saucepan - You need a saucepan to melt the sugar, butter, milk and cocoa powder in.
- Large Bowl - A large bowl is necessary to mix the cookie ingredients together.
- Sheet Pans - Large sheet pans allow you to chill all of the cookies in the fridge at the same time.
- Parchment Paper - Lining the sheet pans with parchment paper helps to easily remove the cookies once they have chilled in the fridge.
- Cookie Scoop - A cookie scoop helps to make equal size cookies.
How to Make No Bake Cookies
Step 1. Make the chocolate sauce.
Step 2. Mix the chocolate sauce, peanut butter and oats together.
Step 3. Scoop the cookies onto the pan and chill in the fridge.
Recipe Serving Suggestions
This recipe for classic no bake cookies makes 24 cookies. You can serve the cookies chilled or at room temperature.
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Expert Tips & Variations
- Stir the chocolate sauce continuously. You do not want the sugar to burn when melting it into the chocolate sauce.
- Double the recipe. You can easily double this recipe to make extra cookies to serve more people.
How to Store No Bake Cookies
- Countertop - in an airtight container at room temperature for 5-6 days
- Freezer - in an airtight, freezer-safe container for up to 3 months
Recipe FAQ
You can definitely try it, but the crunchy peanut butter will give the cookies a different texture than cookies made with creamy peanut butter.
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No Bake Cookies
These no bake cookies are a nostalgic dessert recipe made with 6 pantry-staple ingredients for an easy, kid-friendly treat.
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, cut into 4 cubes
- 1.5 cups cane sugar
- ⅓ cup cocoa powder
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 2 and ⅓ cups oats
Instructions
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, measure out the ingredients and clear a space in your fridge for the cookies to chill.
- Add the cubed butter, cane sugar, cocoa powder and milk to a saucepan.
- Place the pan on the stovetop on medium heat, stirring continually and bring to a boil.
- Allow the mixture to boil for 60 seconds then remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Pour the chocolate sauce into a bowl.
- Add the peanut butter and oats to the bowl.
- Stir to combine all of the ingredients together.
- Use a spoon or cookie scoop to scoop about 2 Tablespoons of the mixture onto the parchment paper in blobs.
- Continue to drop blobs of the cookie mixture onto the parchment paper until all of the mixture is used.
- Place the pan of cookies in the fridge and chill for at least 1 hour to allow the cookies to set.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 212Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 33mgCarbohydrates: 37gFiber: 4gSugar: 16gProtein: 5g
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