No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

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.
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!

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.

No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Rating: 51

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Yield: 32-26

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.

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

  1. Add the butter, sugar, milk, and cocoa powder in a saucepan.
  2. Bring to a rolling boil, and boil for 1 minute.
  3. Stir in the peanut butter, vanilla, and oats and drop onto parchment paper paper.
  4. Let cool until set, about 10-15 minutes.

Notes

https://sugarapron.com/2016/07/30/no-bake-chocolate-oatmeal-cookies/

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.

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.

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.

About Sarah Kozowski

Hi! Welcome to my blog! I’m Sarah– I do part-time job at a kindergarten and in my free time i love to cook, take photos and go jogging. I'm recipe developer, photographer, writer, and taste tester behind this blog. I develop my recipes and photos through good old fashioned trial and error, some days I have more success than others, as you can judge by the photos here. Grab a cup of coffee (or beverage of your choice) and stay with me awhile, poke through recipes, pick your favourite and reach out to me if you have any questions!

39 thoughts on “No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

    1. 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.

    2. 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!!!

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

    1. 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.

  3. I’ve made similar recipes and they were inferior by far to this recipe. My husband loves them. I would recommend! Thank you

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Can you use 2% milk? HATE to waste ingredients if it will not work. Thank you for your help on this.

  7. 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.

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