No-Bake Peanut Butter Fudge Cookies
Course: DessertIngredients
½ cup Butter or Margarine
2 cups Sugar
½ cup Milk
Pinch of salt
3 cups Rolled Oats
½ cup Peanut Butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Optional
4 Tbsp cocoa powder
Nonpariels
Directions
- Place butter, sugar, milk and salt in a saucepan.
- Measure out remaining ingredients and set aside.
- Stir ingredients in saucepan over high heat until mixture comes to a full boil.
- Boil for one minute, then remove from heat.
- Stir in oatmeal, peanut butter and vanilla until combined.
- Drop spoonfuls onto waxed paper to cool and solidify.
Notes
- If you want to make the traditional chocolate version, add 4 Tablespoons Cocoa to the butter, sugar and milk mixture prior to boiling. For some added decoration, sprinkle with nonpariels before cookies have cooled.
- It can be tricky to cook the sugar mixture for the correct amount of time so that the cookies will solidify. To test, drop some of the mixture into a glass of water. If it’s done, it should solidify into a bead.
What’s the Story?
I set out to make the chocolate peanut butter and oatmeal no-bake cookies that my mom and grandma have been making for years, but realized I didn’t have any cocoa.
No worries, I think this chocolate-free version tastes just as great, and I don’t have to worry about the chocolate keeping me up at night.
Though no baking is involved, you will need to cook the ingredients before dropping the mixture onto waxed paper to cool.
Make sure you let the pot boil for a full minute before adding the rest of the ingredients. Wait until it reaches a full boil (the entire pot is bubbling) before you start your timer. If you don’t boil long enough, the cookies will never solidify. Other than that, it’s a very quick and easy recipe.
These cookies are very rich–a nice glass of milk is a must. Enjoy!
this is a good one to do with kids. Dominic made these with only some supervision (since it involved the stove) and a little help. The nice thing is that they can scoop them out on the wax paper without having to worry about uniform size for baking. Thanks for the recipe! So many no-bake cookies use some sort of cereal which I’m not crazy about, I like that these just use oats. Also we used about 1/2 c. less sugar and they still came out yummy. I think next time we’ll try with crunchy natural PB. Dominic says “whoever came up with this recipe is brilliant!”
LOL Glad Dominic enjoyed them 🙂 I have seen the original recipe with cocoa called “Preacher Cookies”. I wonder how old it is? Thanks for the tip about the sugar too–that’s good to know. I like to cut back when I can, but I would have assumed that it would ruin the consistency. I have flubbed these up so many times, I wasn’t keen to experiment!