Chocolate No Bake Cookies Recipe
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No Bake Cookies Recipe – These simple chocolate no bake cookies make a perfect sweet treat. Made with cocoa powder, peanut butter, and oats, these cookies are always a favorite.
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These classic chocolate no-bake cookies have been one of my favorite sweet treats since I was a little girl. I remember standing as close as possible to the stove when Mama would make these so that I could help in any way possible. From pouring in the oats, to carefully stirring as I got a little older. And then, when they were ready to drop onto the parchment paper, I was always eager to have that job!
BEST No Bake Cookies Recipe
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy recipe. This cookie recipe is so easy to make and perfect for beginning cooks.
- Delicious cookies. The perfect blend of chocolate and peanut butter in every bite!
- No bake easy! There is no need to heat the oven with this favorite, easy cookie recipe.
No Bake Cookie Ingredients
For these cookies, you’ll need sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, milk, butter, vanilla extract, salt, creamy peanut butter, and quick-cooking oats.
How to Make the Best No Bake Cookies Recipe
Making no-bake cookies is one of the simplest cookie recipes to make. There are just a few tricks to ensure they are perfect every time.
- Boil for 1 minute. Add your sugar and cocoa powder to a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Whisk until thoroughly mixed. Add milk and butter and cook over medium-high heat. Bring to a rolling boil and boil for 1 minute. This rolling boil and boiling for 1 minute is the key! Otherwise, your cookies will not set properly.
- Add remaining ingredients. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla, salt, peanut butter, and oats.
- Spoon cookies onto parchment. Drop cookies by tablespoons onto parchment paper.
- Allow cookies to dry. Allow to dry for about 10-15 minutes until the no bake cookies have become firm.
How to Store No Bake Cookies
To store. Place cookies in an airtight container and store at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Here’s the recipe for these chocolate no bake cookies. Grab some parchment paper and make them soon!
Chocolate No Bake Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1¾ cups (346.5 g) granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons (15.75 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup (113.5 g) milk
- 8 tablespoons (113 g) butter, cut into large pieces
- 1 teaspoon (4.7 g) vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon (0.65 g) kosher salt
- ½ cup (135 g) peanut butter
- 3 cups (267 g) quick cooking oats
Instructions
- Add sugar and cocoa powder to a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan. Whisk until thoroughly mixed.
- Add milk and butter and cook over medium-high heat. Bring to a rolling boil and boil for 1 minute.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla, salt, peanut butter and oats.
- Drop cookies by tablespoons onto parchment paper.
- Allow to dry for about 10-15 minutes until the no bake cookies have become firm.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
From the Add a Pinch recipe archives. Originally published 2012.
Do you think the texture would be messed up with i subbed it with almond milk? i cant have regular milk
I just made these with Silk cashew milk and they turned out great so I would assume almond milk would work fine as well 🙂
Wish some of ya’ll that post recipes would say the proportions to make a dozen instead of 3.
I’ll definitely work on that! Thanks so much for letting me know what type of recipes you are looking for! I do have a chocolate cupcake recipe that is sized perfectly for a dozen — frosting and all! Here’s the link to the recipe: https://addapinch.com/chocolate-cupcakes-recipe/
Umm… Divide by 3? Seems it takes more time (and negativity) to complain about that than to do the math. Just a thought.
So I just had about 6 of these…I guess they’re ok : )
Love how easy they are to make, as well.
Ha ha! I’m glad you were able to make the best of it. 🙂
Does the butter have to be cols or room temperature?im so bad with cooking and baking.. And its a no bake recipe LOL
Can these be made with regular oats or do they have to be made with the quick cooking oats?
Quick oats. I made the mistake around the holiday’s of sending the hubby to the store and he got the regular old fashioned oats. They were too big and thick so they never cooked through or set. Total loss! Stick with this recipe exact and they are amazing! 🙂
I was panicked when I couldn’t find my moms recipe…yikes!! Luckily, Google led me to you. It looked really close to what I remembered. Well, they’re setting up as I type, and taste exactly as I remember from when I was a little girl. Have never been disappointed with any of your recipes-thank you!!!
We have always called these (cafeteria lady cookies) because they were served in the school cafeterias when I was a child. I am 61 so that was quite a few years ago. I like them because they are not overly sweet compared to some cookies.
My mom always called them “doggy drop cookies” lol I grew up calling them that so that’s what I assumed everyone called them!
Here in France, we didn’t know these cookies. My friends and I loved them… several times ! They are really delicious.
Thank you for sharing your recipes.
I made these a few weeks ago following a recipe from another blogger- they were good, but not like I remembered from childhood. So I tried your recipe today and THESE are the ones I remember! 🙂 Thank you!
And the ones from our childhood are always the ones we crave, aren’t they? Love these little cookies!
i like no bakes
All the recipes I find for this cookie call for boiling for 3 minutes when I double the recipe I boil it for 6 minutes. Humidity has a lot to do with these setting up. What I would like to know for consistency, is what temperature should the mixture be after the 3-minute boil?