Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies (Printable)
Chewy chocolate and oat cookies with peanut butter, no baking needed and ready in minutes.
# What You Need:
→ Main Ingredients
01 - 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
02 - 1 cup granulated sugar
03 - 1/2 cup unsalted butter
04 - 1/2 cup whole milk
05 - 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
06 - 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
07 - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
08 - 1/4 teaspoon salt
# How To Cook:
01 - Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
02 - In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, butter, milk, cocoa powder, and salt. Stir constantly until the mixture comes to a full rolling boil.
03 - Allow the mixture to boil for exactly 1 minute, stirring steadily. Remove from heat immediately to prevent overcooking.
04 - Stir in the peanut butter and vanilla extract until completely smooth and fully incorporated.
05 - Gently fold in the rolled oats until every oat is well coated with the chocolate mixture.
06 - Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, shaping into rounds as desired.
07 - Let the cookies cool at room temperature for about 20 minutes, or until firm and set.
# Expert Tips:
01 -
- These cookies taste like you spent hours when really you just stirred a pot for five minutes.
- The peanut butter and chocolate combo is the kind of thing that disappears from the container before dinner.
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- That one minute boil is not a suggestion, because underboiling leaves you with gooey puddles and overboiling makes rocks.
- Stirring constantly prevents hot spots that can scorch the cocoa and ruin the whole batch.
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- Use a cookie scoop so every portion is uniform and they all set at the same rate.
- Humid days can make these sticky, so store them with a paper towel in the container to absorb moisture.