Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies (Printable)
Chewy chocolate peanut butter oat cookies made without baking, 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 Make It:
01 - Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
02 - In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the granulated sugar, unsalted butter, whole milk, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt. Stir constantly until the mixture comes to a full rolling boil.
03 - Continue boiling for exactly 1 minute, stirring steadily. Remove the saucepan from heat immediately to prevent overcooking.
04 - Add the creamy peanut butter and vanilla extract to the hot mixture. Stir until smooth and fully melted.
05 - Gently fold in the old-fashioned 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 refrigerate briefly, until fully set and firm.
# Expert Suggestions:
01 -
- You can satisfy a full dessert craving from pantry staples without ever preheating your oven.
- The texture lands somewhere between fudgy and chewy, which makes them impossibly addictive straight from the parchment paper.
- They set up while you wash the single saucepan you used, so cleanup is almost nonexistent.
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- That one minute boiling time is not a suggestion, because under boiled cookies stay sticky and soggy while over boiled ones turn dry and crumbly.
- Humidity changes everything with no bake cookies, so on rainy days you may need an extra ten minutes of setting time before they firm up properly.
03 -
- Measure every ingredient before you turn on the stove, because this recipe moves fast and there is no pausing once the boiling starts.
- Use a heavy bottomed saucepan if you have one, since it distributes heat evenly and saves you from the dreaded scorched chocolate spot at the bottom of the pan.