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Easy No Bake Cookies

These easy No Bake Cookies only need a few ingredients and are incredibly delicious. Filled with peanut butter, oats, cocoa, these cookies are hard to pass up.

Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword no bake cookies
Prep Time 12 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 18 cookies (2 inch)
Calories 209 kcal
Author Joanna Stephens

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • ½ cup salted butter
  • 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
  • 3 cups quick cooking oats

Instructions

Directions:

  1. In a medium sauce pan, add the butter, sugar, cocoa powder, milk and vanilla. Turn the heat on medium heat. Stir frequently until everything has melted together.

  2. Stir in the peanut butter to this chocolate sauce. Then, bring to a boil (stirring constantly). 

  3. Then, remove the saucepan from the heat and add in the quick cooking oats. Let them sit for about 3-5 minutes ensuring that the no bake cookies mixture will start getting thicker.

  4. Then, you can scoop these no bake cookies out onto a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Let them cool in the refrigerator so they get hard faster.

Recipe Notes

  • Place your no bake cookies in the refrigerator to set quicker. 
  • No bake cookies freeze well, just place them in a freezer bag. When you are ready to use them, let them defrost in your refrigerator or on the counter.
  • Quick cooking oats works best!
Nutrition Facts
Easy No Bake Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 209 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Saturated Fat 4g25%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 4g
Cholesterol 14mg5%
Sodium 75mg3%
Potassium 119mg3%
Carbohydrates 28g9%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 18g20%
Protein 4g8%
Vitamin A 169IU3%
Calcium 21mg2%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.