Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies (Printable version)

Chewy chocolate and oat cookies with peanut butter, no oven required and ready in minutes.

# What you need:

→ Main Ingredients

01 - 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
02 - 1 cup granulated sugar
03 - 1/2 cup unsalted butter
04 - 1/2 cup whole milk
05 - 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
06 - 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
07 - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
08 - 1/4 teaspoon salt

# How to make it:

01 - Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
02 - In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, butter, milk, cocoa powder, and salt. Stir constantly until the mixture comes to a full rolling boil.
03 - Allow the mixture to boil for exactly 1 minute, stirring steadily. Remove from heat immediately to prevent overcooking.
04 - Stir in the peanut butter and vanilla extract until smooth and completely melted.
05 - Fold in the rolled oats, stirring until every oat is well coated with the chocolate mixture.
06 - Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, shaping into rounds as desired. Work quickly before the mixture sets.
07 - Let the cookies cool at room temperature for about 20 minutes, or until firm and set.

# Expert tips:

01 -
  • These cookies go from stovetop to done in under fifteen minutes of actual effort, which feels almost illegal for something this good.
  • The chewy fudgy texture is something you just cannot replicate with baking, and people always assume you worked harder than you did.
02 -
  • That one minute boil time is not a suggestion, it is the entire science of this recipe, and underboiling leaves you with cookies that never set while overboiling gives you dry crumbly hockey pucks.
  • Humidity can affect how these set, so on a really damp day you might need an extra ten minutes of chilling in the fridge.
03 -
  • Measure the oats into a separate bowl before you start cooking so you can dump them in fast while the mixture is still hot and workable.
  • A cookie scoop gives you uniform portions that set evenly and look much prettier than freehand spoonfuls.

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