This easy No Bake Fudge Cookies recipe is a great recipe to satisfy your kids on those hot summer days! These cookies are our kids most favorite recipe and older kids can easily make this recipe themselves! You can find this recipe in our Dining On A Dime Cookbook on page 274.
No Bake Fudge Cookies Recipe
It’s warming up here, school’s out and the grandkids will be coming more often. Even though it is hot they still expect cookies at “Nan’s”. Here are a couple of cookie tips that will keep you from dying of a heat stroke. These tips aren’t new for everyone, but they might be a reminder for some of you seasoned cooks and something new for our friends who are just starting out.
- Make your cookie dough, but don’t bake the cookies. One very hot summer my son begged and pleaded for me not to bake the cookies I was making so he could just eat the dough. I asked myself, “If the kids prefer it this way, why am I killing myself baking them?” To this day, ice box cookie dough is one of his favorites. If you are worried about the eggs then buy egg substitutes.
- Watch for cookies to go on sale. I can get some pretty good deals on cookies that end up costing less than what I can pay for the ingredients. Cooking from scratch isn’t always cheaper than buying things pre-made. (I’m not saying cooking from scratch is never cheaper. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t.) My kids and grandkids love cookies no matter where they come from. My kids thought store bought cookies were a treat because, even though everyone thinks times are hard now, years ago cookies were much more expensive when bought from the store than they were homemade.
Here is my grandkids’ favorite summer or anytime no bake fudge cookies recipe:
No Bake Fudge Cookies
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup nuts (optional)
Before you start, cut about a 20 inch piece of wax paper. Lay it on the counter. This serves as something to drop the cookies on.
In a saucepan, mix milk, sugar, cocoa, and margarine. Bring to a boil and boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter, vanilla, nuts. Mix until peanut butter is mixed in. Add oatmeal. Drop by spoonfuls on the wax paper.
This must be done a little quickly because the cookies start hardening pretty fast. If the humidity is high or you don’t boil them the right amount of time, they may not harden. Don’t panic! Just pour it into a container and use as fudge sauce for ice cream. …Although my kids love eating these homemade no bake fudge cookies with spoons if they don’t get hard enough to eat as cookies!
-Jill
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you could use a silapat mat instead of wax paper i love them its like a nonstick cookie sheet liner
Tawra does use a silapat mat for her cookies. I don’t like them too much myself (I know the whole world loves them) but when ever I use wax paper or something like that it is so I don’t have to wash anything when I am done (I have never had a dish washer). If I have to wash a silapat it sort of defeats the purpose of not washing anything. Plus I have never been able to figure out how to easily wash the things – they are so big and slip and slide when I try to wash the back and front then where do you put something like that to dry? If I put it on top of the dishes in the dish rack it hangs over and drips on the counter plus the dishes under it take forever to dry. I do not know what I am doing wrong and Tawra has tried and tried to convince me they are great but I usually spend more time washing them than a pan or dish. My dilemma :):)
I dry them on a laundry rack.
My mother always made these except she used evaporated milk.We would add raisins or nuts to it. We also made it without cocoa and had a vanilla no bake cookie. Love your recipes and tips on everything, always binge watching your Youtube videos.
can I use almond or cashew milk
yes