The BEST No Bake Cookies Recipe

4.47 from 15 votes

These are the Classic No Bake Cookies of your childhood! They taste like a peanut butter cup and are no bake!

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Setting Time30

Total Time50

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 171kcal

Cost: $8

Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
It’s very important that all your ingredients are measured and ready to go before you start and make sure you’ve read the directions before making these cookies. The process goes fast!
Melt the butter in a 3 quart saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the sugar, milk, and cocoa powder. Whisk until smooth then bring to a boil and cook for about 1 1/2 minutes, stirring occasionally. NOTE: you MUST boil them long enough or they will not set. To be sure of this, boil the mixture until it reaches 230°F on a candy or instant read thermometer. If you do not have a thermometer, this will take about 1 1/2 minutes on medium heat.
Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter, salt, vanilla, and oats.
Use a cookie scoop to drop 2 tablespoon size balls of cookie mixture onto the prepared baking sheets. Let sit to set or chill to harden quicker.

Source: Adapted from Allrecipes.

It's important to use a candy thermometer ecause if you don’t boil it long enough your cookies will not set up properly. They won’t harden and will stay wet, which isn’t what we want! You can take the guesswork out of making these cookies by boiling the mixture until the temperature reaches 230°F.

Allergic to peanuts? You can use any non-peanut butter (i.e. sunbutter) as long as it's a no-stir (not natural) peanut butter. You can even use Biscoff.

These last several days on the counter in an airtight container, refrigerated they'll last at least a week. You can even freeze them!