No Bake Cookies

I have never baked or cooked with peanut butter as I was quite late in my liking of the substance. So perusing the internet I noticed that there were a lot of peanut butter cookies out there and decided that the Zero Baking Required challenge being hosted by Sarah Trivuncic at Maison Cupcake was a good excuse to try out one of these recipes. With my daughter’s help I adapted a recipe for Famous No-Bake Cookies from Diana’s Desserts with a recipe submitted by Ashlee. I think these cookies would be ideal for a picnic or kids party (check for allergies first) as they are like little miniature chocolate flapjacks!

First you add sugar, cocoa, butter and milk to a pan.

Melt the ingredients and then boil for 3 minutes.

Add the peanut butter, oats and vanilla extract.

Put spoonfuls of mixture onto grease proof paper and allow to cool and harden.

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No Bake Cookies

Little chocolaty, peanutty cookies which are very similar to flapjacks!

Course Snack

Cuisine British

Keyword Chocolate, cookies, no-bake

Author Camilla

Ingredients

• 375 g Granulated or castor sugar
• 4 tblsp Cocoa
• 113 g Butter
• 125 ml Milk
• 120 g Peanut butter
• 310 g Oats
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract

Instructions

1. To a medium sized saucepan add the sugar, cocoa, butter and milk.
2. Melt the ingredients together and then boil for 3 minutes exactly.
3. Remove from the heat and stir in the peanut butter, vanilla extract and oats.
4. Drop spoonfuls onto greaseproof paper. You can make balls or flat cookies as you wish.
5. Allow to cool and harden, about 1/2 and hour to an hour.