Made with simple pantry ingredients, these cookies are a quick dessert with peanut butter, oats, and cocoa – no oven needed!

No Bake Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter

My parents have made these No Bake Chocolate Cookies as far back as I can remember! This is actually my Grandma Krueger’s recipe. She recently passed away.

My Mom made a batch of these and texted me a picture of them to see if I wanted to share the recipe with you. They were, um, a little… oblong. So she remade them and made them look so perfect my Dad & I thought they looked like hamburger patties!

So she made them again, yes again, and this time she nailed it! She accomplished the perfectly imperfect look.

You can really make these any size or shape you’d like! If you love no bake oat recipes as much as my family does, then I think you’ll like No Bake Peanut Butter Oat Bars and No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bars, too!

What You’ll Need:

• 3 cups Quick Oats
• 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 2 cups Sugar
• 1/3 cup Cocoa Powder
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1/4 cup Butter

How to Make No Bake Chocolate Cookies

• Lay out a large piece of parchment paper on the counter.
• Measure out 3 cups quick oats, 1/2 cup peanut butter, and 1 tsp vanilla and set aside.
• Combine 2 cups sugar, 1/3 cup cocoa powder, 1/2 cup milk, and 1/4 cup butter in a sauce pan over medium heat.
• Cook over medium/high heat until the mixture comes to a boil. Boil for 1 minute.
• Immediately remove from heat and quickly stir in the peanut butter and vanilla.
• As soon as the peanut butter is melted, quickly stir in oats.
• Spoon onto the parchment paper to form cookies.
• Let sit until hardened.

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• Best No Bake Scotcheroos
• No Bake Avalanche Cookies
• Peanut Butter Marshmallow Squares
• Toffee Peanut Clusters
• No Bake Snickers Pie
• Chex Scotcheroos
• Golden Graham S’mores Bars
• Triple Layer Cracker Toffee Bars
• Peanut Butter Dipped Oreos