no-bake cookies

Name: No-Bake Cookies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Ingredients: 4 cup(s) sugar; 1/2 cup(s) baking cocoa (do not use hershey's); 1 stick(s) butter, salted; 1 cup(s) milk, whole or 2%; ## SET THESE ASIDE FOR LATER; 4 cup(s) oats, quick cooking; 1 jar(s) jif peanut butter, 18 oz.; 2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract

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Krysta Grannis

Cadillac, MI

Updated on May 30, 2011

My dad taught me to make these cookies when I was a little girl, and I instantly became the "no-bake maker". I often took them to school, and now take them to work and they are always well praised.

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prep time 5 Min

cook time 10 Min

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Ingredients

4 cups sugar
1/2 cup baking cocoa (do not use hershey's)
1 stick butter, salted
1 cup milk, whole or 2%
SET THESE ASIDE FOR LATER
4 cups oats, quick cooking
1 jar jif peanut butter, 18 oz.
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

How To Make no-bake cookies

Step 1

Combine sugar, baking cocoa, butter, and milk together in pan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

Step 2

Let mixture boil for one minute, stirring constantly or sugar will burn.
Step 3

After one minute, remove from heat and add peanut butter, oats, and vanilla extract. Stir together.
Step 4

You may need to add a pinch or two more oats to make the cookies thicker.
Step 5

Drop cookies onto foil, or wax paper making them whatever size you want to cool.
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