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Our No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies combine cocoa, oats, coconut and walnuts in an easy and delicious sweet treat.
With the heat of summer still on – these No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are the perfect thing to make when you want something sweet, but it’s just too hot to turn on the oven!
This is another recipe we found in my mother’s old recipe box – and like all of the other recipes we’ve tried from her collection, these No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are really fantastic!
We’re sharing this recipe today exactly as my mother wrote it down. These easy no-bake cookies take just 15 minutes to prepare – unsweetened cocoa powder, sugar, milk, butter, quick oats, coconut, and walnuts, plus some salt and vanilla are mixed together in a sauce pan on top of the stove. Then the mixture is scooped into balls and placed on a cookie sheet, flattened and chilled for about an hour until firm.
Sweet and chewy – and you’d never guess that they weren’t baked in an oven!
You can make some different variations of this easy no-bake cookie recipe – swap in chopped or sliced almonds or pecans instead of the walnuts or add some chopped dried fruits or raisins. The options are endless – just be sure to keep to the same proportions of mix-ins to melted chocolate.
Enjoy!
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No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Our No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies combine cocoa, oats, coconut and walnuts in an easy and delicious sweet treat.
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups quick oats
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Prepare two cookie sheets with parchment paper but leave the oven off.
- In a medium to large sauce pan, add cocoa powder, sugar, milk and butter. Bring to a boil and stir to make sure sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in oats. Add vanilla, coconut and nuts and stir again. (Vanilla should not be added when liquid is cooking as it makes mixture foam, add it after the oats as indicated).
- Let mixture sit on stove off heat for ten minutes then stir again.
- Scoop warm mixture onto parchment lined cookie sheets, 12 per pan. I used a small ice cream scoop.
- Wet your fingers in a little bowl of water and flatten the scoops of mixture down to cookie size, tucking in and smoothing sides with your fingers.
- Refrigerate for an hour to set and enjoy. Keep refrigerated or serve immediately.
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I have never tried no-bake cookies but all that chocolatey and oaty goodness make these seem like real winners!
I love old family recipes! My mom used to make something like this! It’s going to be in the 90’s next week so I need this no-bake treat!
If there is a perfect time of year for a no-bake dessert, it’s August! Far too hot to have the oven on, but you still want a little something sweet. This lovely recipe is ideal for that!
I think these cookies would be perfect packed in a lunch box for the kids (not that I have any little kids anymore). OR, tossed in with my husbands lunch (he brown bags it). I love all the ingredients and especially like that they’re no-bake and filled with fiber.
It seems a healthy and sweet break from hunger with this one. For me oats is the best food to add into my routine breakfast.
Thanks Gagie!
Anything no-cook this time of the year is right up my alley! Looks fabulous, Martha!
How incredible that you have an old recipe box from your mom!! My mom has SO many recipes that I can’t wait to get from her when we visit together. I love the no -bake, you totally hit the nail on the head – IT’S TOO HOT for the oven!
No bake recipes are perfect for our hot weather in Az. and I love that this is an old family recipe aren’t they just the best!
Yea! No peanut butter! All the other recipes call for peanut butter and doesn’t make my Hubby happy ?. Trying these tonight for him. Thanks so much!!
Hope you both enjoy the recipe Tracy!
Wow, my mother used to make something similar but without the chocolate. They were amazing. Will have to ask her for the recipe, and then try yours with the chocolate too. Thanks for the reminder 🙂
Hope you enjoy the recipe Leo!