Updated! This recipe for chocolate no bake cookies was an entry in the March Recipe Madness Contest we hosted a few years ago for So Delicious. It was created and submitted by Maria Gentry as a sweet, 8-ingredient or less recipe. We’ve updated Maria’s instructions for clarity and added a less sweet option based on our own trials.
Maria says, “These chocolate no bake cookies are super easy to make and so yummy!” Her recipe reminds me of the No Bake Oatmeal Cookies recipe at Gluten Free on a Shoestring, but with a peanut butter chocolate twist.
Special Diet Notes: Chocolate No Bake Cookies
By ingredients, this recipe is dairy-free / non-dairy, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free, optionally peanut-free, soy-free, vegan, vegetarian, and optionally top food allergy-friendly.
- ½ cup coconut oil
- 2 cups organic sugar (see Sugar Note below)
- ½ cup unsweetened dairy-free milk beverage
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter or sunflower seed butter (for peanut-free)
- 3½ cups quick-cooking oats (use certified gluten-free, if needed)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Put the sugar, coconut oil, milk beverage and cocoa powder in a 4-quart saucepan and whisk until no lumps remain.
- Place the pan over medium heat and bring to a rolling boil. Boil for 1 minute.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the peanut or seed butter, oats, and vanilla until combined.
- Drop the dough by the tablespoonful onto wax paper.
- Let cool until set. Enjoy!
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Perfect every time! I store them in the freezer, but they still seem to disappear quickly!
We have the vanishing issue in our house, too, lol.