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No bake cookies are such a good cookie to make if you’re short on time and ingredients. You probably have everything you need in your pantry to make this peanut butter version right now. These cookies take 70 minutes from start to finish and that includes an hour rest period. Just throw everything in a pot, mix and form. Being patient is the hardest part of these no bake cookies.
Peanut butter no bake cookies are sweet salty cookie mounds, served at room temperature that aren’t like any other kind of cookie. The best way to describe them would be a mashup of raw oatmeal cookies and peanut butter fudge. That might not sound appealing, but they are absolutely divine and melt in your mouth.
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Tips for the Best No Bake Cookies
- Use quick cooking oats, not old-fashioned oats.
- Make sure you let the sugar, butter and milk get to a rolling boil before setting the timer. If you don’t let it boil the full minute at a rolling boil, then the cookies won’t set.
- Let the cookies set on parchment paper.
- Work quickly when forming the mounds or else the cookies will start to crumble as they start setting.
Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 c sugar
- 1/2 c salted butter (1 stick)
- 1/2 c milk 2% or whole
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 c smooth peanut butter
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 c quick cooking oats
Instructions
- Melt butter, sugar and milk together over medium heat in a pot.
- Once the entire surface of the mixture comes to a rolling boil, set a timer for one minute.
- Take pot off the heat and add vanilla and peanut butter. Stir.
- Add salt, stir.
- Stir in quick cooking oats.
- Scoop with a 2 TB ice cream scoop and set on parchment paper.
- Press down and form a mound.
- Let rest at room temperature for one hour.