I do promise these No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies made with peanut butter, oatmeal and cocoa are the quickest, tastiest, no bake cookies you’ll ever eat though! Kids absolutely love them.
5 minute cookies ? Genius ! Yeah…..and is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to share.
Raise your hand if you want 5 minute cookie RIGHT NOW. It’s most of us, right?!!
It’s the weekend! A good day to no-bake and try to make life taste better! And that means that sometimes things just need to be easy. Uncomplicated. Simple. Just like sitting on the couch and watching your favorite show with a jar of your favorite cookies.
Lucky for you, you likely have the ingredients to make yourself a batch, and you need just one pot and a little cooling time and you have totally addictive no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies. Throw some in a jar, slap a cute label on them or not and BAM!
Here’s the recipe so you can make them, too! They’re so good it’s hard to eat just one!
No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 4 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 - 3 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
Instructions
- Add the butter, sugar, milk, and cocoa powder in a saucepan.
- Bring to a rolling boil, and boil for 1 minute.
- Stir in the peanut butter, vanilla, and oats and drop onto parchment paper paper.
- Let cool until set, about 10-15 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition
I made these but with gluten free oats and they came out great, thanks for the recipe.
Me gustaron mucho las recetas , muy buenas. Gracias que estes muy bien.
Made these vegan! They were so good. Substituted butter for coconut oil and milk for cashew milk. DELICIOUS!!
I absolutely LOVE these cookies. They are our new favorite recipe!
I learned that recipe as a kid. I believe it’s 1/2 cup coconut and not take anything out. I’ve also used raisins, cranberries, dried cherries walnuts, almonds – what ever we are getting tired of but won’t want to waste. The are very versatile.
Yum, those additions sound great!
I have been making these cookies since my children were 5 years old. They are now 51 years!! I still love them even today! Great recipe. I always mix the sugar and cocoa together first with a whisk. That way the cocoa and sugar mix nicely. If you don”t they will still come out alright. After the butter melts, and you add everything else, then mix in the sugar and cocoa. I LOVE THESE COOKIES!!!
Can sub monk fruit for sugar?
My Mom used to make chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies that I remember loving as a child. They had no peanut butter, and I remember some coconut in them. Mom is 92 now, and can’t remember making these cookies. I found your recipe on line, and wonder if I could successfully replace the peanut butter with shredded coconut.
Yessss!!!!
My mom made them the same as yours! Delicious!!!
Thank you! I hadn’t made these in years and needed something that wouldn’t heat up the kitchen. They set up well and are delicious. They are VERY sweet. I ran a little short on the oats, so I added a little coconut. I like them best with “crunchy” peanut butter (with peanuts), but they are good with “creamy” peanut butter, too.
Thank you! I hadn’t made these in years and needed something that wouldn’t heat up the kitchen. They set up well and are delicious. They are VERY sweet. I ran a little short on the oats, so I added a little coconut. I like them best with “crunchy” peanut butter (with peanuts), but they are good with “creamy” peanut butter, too.
oops just used “old fashioned” rolled oats// fail? 🙁 haven’t tasted yet.
I made them with old fashioned oats….hubby won’t stop
eating them. So what can I say?
I always use the quick cooking kind.
2 cups of sugar was way too much. Made these WAY too sweet. Will try 1c. next time.
Would substituting almond milk work?
Sure!
I think it will be fine.i use coconut milk. And the family prefers it
These cookies are my favorite, but I wanted a good recipe. Thanks
Would it be possible to make these with almond milk?
Sure,you can go for it!
I wonder if you could put the mixture in a jelly roll pan for bar cookies
My grandson loves these cookies. They’re his favorite and they’re so easy to make.
Can you use crunchy peanut butter?
What you describe is the way my Mom always made these cookies. She always added coconut with the oatmeal and no peanut butter. The chocolate sauce was more like cooked chocolate fudge, but a bit thinner. To that she added the oatmeal and coconut, stirring well and dropping bite sized pieces on wax paper to cool. These were a big treat and no Christmas ever went by without them.
They are good no matter what you use.
I’ve made similar recipes and they were inferior by far to this recipe. My husband loves them. I would recommend! Thank you
Does the cookies come out crunchy or chewy like?
They are chewy
This is an old family recipe, minus the 2 tsp of vanilla extract, just used 1.. This same recipe can be used to make excellent fudge. Make sure it’s a form soft ball.
Best way to ensure boiling long enough, drop a small bit into a bowl of cold water, if you can pick up between a your fingers to ensure you’ve formed a good soft ball. Add peanut butter vanilla and Oatmeal.
It can be made into fudge without the oatmeal, as well. Add peanut butter, vanilla extract and pour slightly greased pan. Let stand in the fridge. If you boil properly, it should set.
I used crunchy peanut butter and almond milk and I ran out of quick oats, so I added hemp hearts to make up the difference of about 1 cup. Delicious!
Can you use 2% milk? HATE to waste ingredients if it will not work. Thank you for your help on this.
What can I say? My hubby won’t stop eating them.
I tried 1 tsp vanilla extract & 1 tsp maple extract and they were soooooo good!!!!
Can old fashion oats not quick cook. BE used?
I made these for one of my grandsons. he likes dark chocolate so I changed up a few things. I left out the peanut butter, added a 12 oz bag of dark chocolate chips and changed the amount of cocoa from 4 tablespoons to 1/2 cup. They came out great, very chocolaty, because you can never have enough chocolate..
This looks delicious, thank you for sharing!
I used oat milk and accidentally over boiled the chocolate mixture so I had to quickly make my balls. I added extra peanut butter to bind together the crumbles for the rest of the batch. Delicious both ways.
I loved to the Philippines with my wife and everyone loves these cookies. I add raisins and they eat them up .
I moved here from the US with my wife and everyone here loves them I do add raisins to it and they can’t stop eating them
I have been making this with zero sugar and substituting it with ISO WHEY protein powder, which has been delicious. A tsp of chia seeds also go really well 🙂
LOVE THESE!! I bake them all the time.
They gooooood !!!
We used to have these all the time when I was growing up!
Love these cookies. My family can’t get enough of them. My son use to call me from Mississippi to get the recipe. But we lost him Christmas Eve last year. V