Easy No Bake Cookies, Chocolate peanut butter goodness |Cooking with Food Storage
Who loves No Bake Cookies? I know I do! Welcome to our first installment of Cooking with Food Storage. The idea is that every ingredient is something that you would find in our food storage supplies. And is shelf stable. Not something that I have to run to the store to pick up. And I figured what better way to get you excited about cooking with food storage than with a dessert! A way for you to see that it doesn’t have to be dreadful food. But quite delicious! We are sharing our favorite Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies recipe. It is super easy to make too!
Chocolate Peanut Butter and Coconut No bake Cookies Recipe
Easy No Bake Cookies, Chocolate peanut butter goodness |Cooking with Food Storage
An introduction into cooking with food storage, a great dessert make with all shelf stable foods. You can substitute regular milk, Lactaid, Almond milk, coconut milk, soymilk or the shelf stable milk if you so choose.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 Tablespoons unsweetened Cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup coconut oil[/url]
- 1/2 mixed powders milk (can also use shelf stable milk)
- 1 cup Adams Natural Peanut Butter[/url]
- 1 Tablespoon Vanilla
- 3 Cups uncooked oatmeal (instant or old fashioned. Both work)
- 1/2 Cup Shredded coconut
- Wax paper
Instructions
- Bring sugar, cocoa powder, coconut oil and milk to a boil
- Let boil for 1 minute then add peanut butter and vanilla.
- Add oatmeal and shredded coconut last
- Mix well
- Spoon mixture onto waxed paper
- Allow to cool and harden.
- Enjoy!
The recipe is super easy. And I love how easy it is! Because really who has hours to spend making cookies? I don’t! As long as I have all the ingredients gathered up, this recipe usually only takes about 7-10 minutes. Plus it’s no bake! Which makes a world of a difference in the summer when you want to keep the house temperatures low!
After you get all the ingredients mixed together you simply spoon the mixture onto wax or parchment paper so it can cool. I love using a cookie scoop the most. I went 11 years of marriage without one of these, and just recently got one a few months ago. And Wow! I can’t believe I went so long without it! I love my cookie scoop! It makes getting perfectly shaped cookies so easy! And makes the cookie scooping go a lot faster too!
I just scoop and drop it right onto the parchment paper. How long it takes for your cookies to cool and be ready to eat is entirely based on the temperature in your house. Ours took about 40 minutes at hot summer room temperature. (Remember, we don’t have air conditioning).
But if you want to speed things up, you can place your wax paper on a cookie sheet or plate, dump the cookies on it and then place them into the fridge or freezer. This will allow the cookies to cool a lot faster.
As soon as you can handle the cookies without getting a big gooey mess on your fingers, they are ready to enjoy! They are full of chocolatey goodness! Other recipes I have seen call for chocolate chips plus sugar. But I thought that was far too much sugar. Plus Cocoa powder stores much better long term than chocolate chips for food storage.
Not to mention that this recipe is plenty sweet! Seriously! I can’t just eat and eat and eat these without going into a sugar coma. They are just sweet enough to satisfy my sweet tooth. And I only need one or two.
I also am very particular about using all Natural Peanut butter. I know not everyone has Adams Natural Peanut Butter in their stores. So just make sure your peanut butter ingredients read : Peanuts. And nothing else. No sugar, no oils, no salt, nothing else! Why? Because why would you add all that added stuff when something pure and natural tastes amazing? I love the flavor much better with the natural peanut butter. Plus I am aiming at having this recipe as healthy as possible while still being a dessert.
And did you notice, all the ingredients are shelf stable! That makes a world of difference when you are trying to be self sufficient. You focus more on stocking up shelf stable foods, so that when emergencies arise, you can still eat. And it’s really important to not just stock up, but to actually cook and use it in your normal life.
That is the point of our Cooking with Food Storage series. To help give you ideas on how you can use your food storage in your daily life. Don’t wait for an emergency. You need to use and cycle through it. Then once an emergency hits, your family really won’t notice a big difference in their eating style. Which really helps morale.
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You always post the best recipes! Thanks!!!
Yummy in my tummy!
I love no bake cookies thanks for sharing another great recipe!
That sounds and looks really delicious!
Looks great! I love coconut in my cookies! V
These were my Grandma’s special cookies – I used to love to help her make them! Thanks for the reminder! 🙂
Tasty! Love the idea of using a scoop to form the cookies.
coconut is one of my favorite treats, this sounds great with the shredded coconut and natural peanut butter. Yum
I have never tried no bake cookies but they look amazing 🙂 x
Oh wow, those look so delicious! I have to make these. I really like that they are no bake too.
They look easy to make and delicious to eat. What more could one ask?
Oh cool!! My whole family loves cookies so this will be a great hit when I make it this weekend!!
That looks DELICIOUS! And no bake, count this pregnant momma in.
I can’t believe how simple that is. The only problem is, I can’t eat peanut butter. Do you have any no-bake cookies without peanut butter?
I love no bake cookies, I’m not big on crunchy or crumbly things, so these are perfect. I’m definitely pinning to make with the kids!
I don’ normally love coconut but these look YUMMY! Especially the peanut butter. 🙂
I am drooling! I wish I wasn’t on low carb I would so make these!
That looks wonderful! Did someone say no bake?! Wow!
yum! these look and sound awesome!
No Bake Cookies are one of my husband’s favorite kinds of cookies and I haven’t made them in so long. I may have to do some no-bake cookie baking this weekend 🙂
My girls and I made these and enjoyed them at our own little tea party. The cookies were tasty and so easy to make!
My girls and I made these and enjoyed them at our own little tea party. The cookies were tasty and so easy to make!!
That is awesome!! I never thought to use them in a tea party! Brilliant! I’m so glad you liked them! I may need to make these up again this week. We want dessert but it’s been too hot to bake. These are perfect for those hot days.
I love these cookies! Sometimes I mess them up and the consistency is off, but I guess boiling for 1 minute will do the trick! Thanks!
Laurel
these are some of my favorite cookies ever! Yummmyyyy!
These look so good! I love that they are no bake cookies. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Thanks for the recipe! My son will love these 🙂
Thanks for the recipe!! My son will love these!!
No bake cookies are perfect for summer b/c there’s no hot oven! Loved this recipe!
This looks great, I could make with Sunbutter for my kiddos. They are nut allergic. Thanks for sharing!
These look amazing! I am such a big fan of peanut butter, and having this be no bake it is just a plus. I would love to make this!
Yum! These look really good and are so easy to make. Great for unexpected company!
I love no bake cookies and these look really yummy. I love chocolate and PB together.
I love no bake cookies. They are so simple to make, don’t heat up the house and the kids can help at young ages. Little tip I have always placed them on wax paper to cool and the last time the wax melted onto my counters. It wasn’t hard to clean up but sure was a surprise.
I really shouldn’t be looking at this recipe before lunch. I know it’ll force me to make the wrong choices!
Ha! I know what you mean! I was just thinking “you know…they are really easy to make. I could have a batch ready in no time…” uhm…NOT before Lunch Amber! /facepalm! lol.
It’s summer!! I’d like some no bake anything right about now!! Cookie make it even better 😉
My husband loves these! Never thought to use powdered milk, this would certainly make this an easy recipe to make for or during camping trips. Thanks for the tips!