Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
A super quick, extremely easy, no bake cookie recipe the whole family will enjoy!
Equipment
- Large nonstick skillet/pan
- Tinfoil
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tbs. cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 cups oatmeal (I prefer quick oats but old fashioned oats work too)
Instructions
- Place 2 large pieces of foil on the countertop. Place a large skillet on top of the burner but don’t turn it on yet.
- Add butter, sugar, cocoa powder, peanut butter, milk, and vanilla extract (so everything but the oatmeal).
- Turn stovetop to medium/medium-high, stirring the entire time while ingredients melt together.
- Bring to a slow boil for 2 minutes while stirring the whole time. Do exactly 2 minutes. Set a timer!
- After 2 minutes, remove the pan from the heat and add your 2 cups of oatmeal. Stir until thoroughly mixed.
- Immediately dip out cookie size portions onto your tin foil. Your cookies will not be a perfect cookie shape. They all will harden into different 'roundish' shapes and sizes. (My family likes to eat them when they are still hot with a spoon so I always put them out on a paper plate.)
- It will take at least an hour for cookies to harden and cool. I often leave mine until morning with just a paper towel over them. Then I put them into a plastic container with a lid.
Notes
If your cookies don’t ever harden all the way, than you didn’t boil long enough. If they get hard and brittle pretty fast, than you went a tad too long. If you go over you crystallize the sugar, and you get a very crumbly more gritty cookie. It still tastes good but the texture isn’t at its best. If you go under 2 minutes, your cookies won’t harden up and will stay gooey. Again, still tastes good but they're just hard to pack up to take anywhere and hard to store in a container for later because they will stick together.
If you don’t like or can’t have chocolate, you can omit the cocoa powder and add another spoonful of peanut butter to make a peanut butter cookie. Also very good!