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

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