No Bake Cookies. Cow Pie Cookies. Gorilla Poop.
Call them what you will, these little treats are too yummy and too easy to whip up. And yes, I do say "too easy" as in "too easy to completely destroy my healthy eating plans". They're packed full of sugar and peanut butter and that's probably why they taste so darn good.
I hear there is a healthier--yet still delicious--recipe out there disguised under the name "Energy Bites". I intend to give them a try on a day when I have a little more willpower. But today we're making No Bakes and I'm wandering down Memory Lane as this was one of the first recipes I remember making on my own as a kid.
Now that I have kids of my own, things are a tad more complicated. With one that can't have milk and another that can't have gluten, I look for ways to make my old favorite recipes work. With a little butter-flavored shortening, some almond milk, and a lot of gluten-free oats this one WORKS!
Gluten Free/Dairy Free No Bake Cookies:
(Adapted from Six Sisters' Stuff No Bake Cookies recipe)
In a medium saucepan, mix and bring to a boil for one minute:
2 Cups sugar
2 TBSP shortening (or butter)
2 TBSP cocoa
1/2 cup almond milk (or soy milk or cow's milk)
Remove from stove top and add:
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup peanut butter (crunchy or creamy)
Mix ingredients until most of peanut butter is combined.
Add 2 cups of Quick Rolled Oats (Gluten Free) and mix until all is evenly incorporated. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper on counter top. Cookies will "set up" as they cool.
I don't understand how this works, but these cookies taste even better the day after they are made. My advice? Make a double batch so you have more for tomorrow. ;)
P.S. Make sure to visit my weight loss blog for the healthier Energy Bites recipe.
I made some of these when I was younger and I messed em up...so me and my mom ate them out of the pan...
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time I was a pro at making these. I could whip up a batch in seconds. And then I got married and learned they are my husband's favorite cookie. So trying to be a good wife, I decided to make them for him. Epic fail. I tried again. Another fail. Every time I have tried to make these cookies, I fail. It must be fate. I just can't figure out how I could make them with such skill before, and the second I got married that skill evaporated. Weird. I envy people who can still make these cookies. Envy, I tell you!
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