I haven´t posted a recipe for a while, but I´ve got a delicious treat to share with you today. It´s not a Spanish creation, but you do get to see a photograph of some Spanish ingredients – does that count?
These cookies are quick and easy to make, using just one pan. Waiting for them to set is the hardest part!
It´s a good job the oatmeal needs chewing or otherwise you could just inhale these little beauties!
Although I´d heard of no-bake cookies I´d never made them, but when I saw these chewy, sticky bundles of goodness at Sweet Dreaming I just knew I had to make them straight away!
They take only a few minutes to prepare and are great to make with kids if you have any little hands eager to help in the kitchen. I’m sure they’ll love scraping the saucepan afterwards, (which is quite safe as there are no raw eggs to worry about)!
I´ve photographed the whole process, so if you just click on each of the photos in the gallery you can follow, step-by-step.
Easy No-Bake Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Cookies (Galletas de avena con chocolate y crema de cacahuete)
½ cup (1 stick) butter
1½ cups granulated sugar
½ cup milk
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
½ cup peanut butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1. Add the first four ingredients (including the cocoa powder) to a large saucepan.
2. Stir, whilst bringing to the boil, then let the mixture simmer for 1 minute only.
3. Remove from heat.
4. Add the peanut butter and vanilla extract and stir until smooth.
5. Add the oats and stir until coated.
6. Drop by heaping tablespoons onto wax paper-lined baking sheets.
7. Use the back of the spoon to smooth them out and flatten into more of a “cookie” shape.
8. Set aside to cool until set, which takes about 45 minutes. I usually pop the trays into the fridge because they don´t set so well if it´s hot in the kitchen – and I do live in Spain!
This mixture will make around 25-30 cookies depending on how big you make each of them.
What are you waiting for? Go and make some and tell me what you think!
You might also like to look at some of my other recipes:
Andalucían sizzling hot spicy prawns
Patatas a lo pobre: Poor man´s potatoes
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It looks like you have the mix for Spanish hot chocolate, did you use that, or plain cocoa powder? These look amazing! I will have to hide them from my son however, as he’s a bit young for so much sugar! Btw, I find the best peanut butter from the Moroccan butchers!
Hi Melissa – Yes, I used the Spanish hot chocolate mix (from Mercadona). Thanks for the tip – I didn’t know about the peanut butter from the Moroccan butchers! 😉
These look brilliant…and dangerous! Chocolate and peanut butter together is one of my biggest weaknesses. 😀
….AND quick and easy to make, Jess 😉
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wow i can’t believe you put oatmeal in it
These look amazing!
They are! You should try them 🙂
Gosh, Marianne! These look really good! It’s another treat that just wouldn’t last around here. Chocolate. Oats. And no-bake? They just keep getting better and better.
They don´t last long here either, that´s why I only make them every so often 😉
YUMMY … !!! They looks so inviting. I love easy to bake recipes and no bake is even better. I love cooking and baking. May I copy this recipe for later use ( like Christmas – I give baked goods to family and friends). Thank you ….
Oh yes, you must. I have yet to give one of these cookies to anyone who didn´t absolutely LOVE them 🙂
What a thoughtful gift to give baked goods to family and friends. It´s always a problem to know what to give because everyone already has so much, don´t they?
Thank you – as soon as I make a batch I will leave a comment about them. It will be awhile until Christmas …. hahaha – or maybe not.
I was thinking of taking them to my artists meeting October. Thanks, again.
P.S. People love homemade and home baked things as gifts. It’s how you present them. I go to flea markets or yard sales and pick up baskets old or new and make creative baskets. I line the basket with a colorful kitchen towel then line the towel with wax paper and add my treats in there. I use clear wrap and pretty ribbons to finish the packaging. I haven’t had any complaints except for complaints about weight gain. Hahahaha …
Sounds wonderful!
Yes, I´d love to know what you or your friends think about the cookies 🙂
Thanks Isadora.
Going to have to try this one…printing the pics and trying to eat them is not the same as the real thing I’m afraid. Then we have have a plate ful we sit back, read and go bananas – is that a plan or is that a plan?
Um… yep, it´s a plan 🙂
Fantastic!
Wow cant believe thats no bake, looks awesome. Nice and simple
These cookies are delicious, and yes, it´s true – no bake! You should try them 🙂
We made these in Home Economics in grade 7 back in 1974. I think this was the beginning of the end of my figure..lol
LOL – tasty though! 🙂
Great work Marianne , your work are great contribution for entire blogosphere 🙂
Thanks Jake 🙂
Ummmhhh these look so yummy Marianne! I’m not too partial to peanut butter though (yes I’m weird), maybe I will try it with tahini or coconut milk. We do love coconuts!
Hmmm … coconut milk might make it too runny – unless you substitute the ordinary milk and then maybe add some dried coconut too. If you like them really chocolately, you could maybe try Nutella instead of peanut butter 🙂
Oh wow these were so tasty! And I did use Nutella instead of peanut butter, it worked great. However you are right that these will NOT work in a Spanish kitchen! Unless you have air con, of course. You have to put them in the fridge for a whole hour, and even then when you take them out and put them on the table, so the kids can take some whenever they like, they soon turn runny again! 🙂 However in the end I have decided to wrap each cookie individually in plastic wrap when I take it out of the fridge, then store them in the fridge again in a little stack, and the kids can take each one out when they want to eat it. It’s the only way, here, I’m afraid hehe!
Glad you enjoyed them Serena and thanks for letting me know!
I always keep my container in the fridge too 🙂
I have a very similar recipe that I have made every Christmas since my children were little…. 🙂 They are delicious!
Yes, they are Cathy! 🙂
I think they were called Children’s Delight! 🙂
I think they should have been called Everyone´s Delight! 🙂 They are too good to just let the children have them.
Any blog that features no bake cookies, as well as great photos is worth following. After all who wins an argument with their stomach anyways? ;D
Thanks Keith and welcome on board! I hope you are going to try out the cookies 🙂
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They look yummy. Got any spare children to help me make them, Marianne? Older ones’ll do then I can put my feet up and just watch. I’m good at that!
Hmmm … spare children you say! LOL
AAwww go on, try them yourself – you’ll soon be putting your feet up anyway!
Now THAT is my kinda cooking!!!
Thought you´d like it! 🙂
these look superb marianne, a recipe to find again when i am home!
Thanks Christine 🙂
How much longer are you away?
another three weeks 🙂
Wonderful!
Stay safe and very happy travels 🙂
oh man YUM!!! I want one! and just one please, I’m dieting 😉
Mmmm… that´s the problem with these cookies – once you´ve had one …… you know the rest! 🙂
My aunt is the queen of no-bake but I’ve never seen these. Anything with peaut butter is yummy, and oats are great for cholesterol absortption! Will add them to my ‘repertoire’ as I always have these ingedients to hand. Yum.
Glad I could show you something new – and then you can show your Aunt 🙂
Let me know how you get on, EllaDee.
What a beautifully illustrated recipe, Marianne. These cookies sound delicious. 🙂
Perfect to make with visiting grandchildren 🙂
Now as you know I am hopeless in the kitchen but provided I can get all the ingredients, I think I may have a go at these!
Even YOU can make these – I promise!
Everyone will be soooooo impressed with you too 😉
These look divine! Shall surprise the kiddos with this when they visit next 🙂
Oh will you, Madhu?
Let me know what they think, wont you? 🙂
Do these keep well Marianne? Will be baby sitting the kids next month and was thinking of making a batch ahead of time.
I tend to keep mine in an air-tight container in the fridge (because it’s warm here), but honestly, I’ve never kept them longer than a few days – because they are soooo moorish!
I can’t see why they wouldn’t keep though, if you can resist them 🙂
so glad you liked them!!! 🙂
They look fantastic (I am an addict to peanut butter..so can’t reist anything with it in!)
Make them Paddy – they are soooo easy. You will LOVE them! 🙂
Wow it looks divine…. I am going to make them tomorrow after the boys are back from school…. They will both enjoy it allot. Thank you so much for sharing.
I´m sure your boys will love them – and you too! Let me know how you get on, will you Coreen?
I will do that. I’ll blog about it step by step…. It will be my photo of the day tomorrow.
Then I shall look for it in my Reader 🙂
🙂
Oh yes, these look great and would be good for me right now with limited cooking facilities!
Yes, they would be ideal for you at the moment, Tanya. Try them, I´m sure you´ll approve 🙂
These look amazing, now if only I could find oatmeal here!
LOL – there´s always something! Here it´s more difficult to find peanut butter!
Yummy, will put these on my to-do-list 🙂 x
You wont regret it! 🙂
They look delicious Marianne. 🙂
They really are and soooo easy to make!