Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies

No-bake cookies, the quintessential staple of the school bake sale fundraiser. They are cheap to make and easy enough to enlist the help of the kids. When making these cookies, I realized it's probably been years since I've made or even eaten them. I don't know why except that it slipped my mind. Now that I have made them, I think I'll need to make them more often. They were so yummy that they didn't last long around here. Plus, Farmboy loved dropping spoonfuls on the cookie sheet. And I think Hubby and Farmboy will probably be requesting them on a regular basis. This recipe sets up really nicely and uses ingredients that I keep as staples anyway. No excuse why they can't be a regular treat.

Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies

1 ¾ c sugar
½ c milk
½ c butter
4 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
½ c creamy peanut butter
3 c quick-cook oats
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Line two cookie sheets with wax paper. In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, milk, butter and cocoa powder. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Bring the mixture to a rolling boil and cook for 1 ½ minutes. Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter, oats and vanilla. Drop spoonfuls of warm batter onto the cookie sheets. Let cool until hardened.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies

Yield: 24

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Cool: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

The quintessential staple of the school bake sale fundraiser.

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Ingredients

• 1 ¾ c sugar
• ½ c milk
• ½ c butter
• 4 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ c creamy peanut butter
• 3 c quick-cook oats
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Line two cookie sheets with wax paper.
2. In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, milk, butter and cocoa powder.
3. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
4. Bring the mixture to a rolling boil and cook for 1 ½ minutes.
5. Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter, oats and vanilla.
6. Drop spoonfuls of warm batter onto the cookie sheets.
7. Let cool until hardened.

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