Skinny No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Some delightful holiday desserts to go along side these treats are Peppermint or Chocolate Meringue Cookies, Gingerbread Man Cookies (or even Christmas Trees), Vanilla Snowman Cupcakes and Rudolph the Red Velvet Cupcake.
Christmas is right around the corner and I know a lot of you will be busy baking sweet Holiday treats in the weeks to come. My mom is one of them; she bakes enough cookies for a small army and gives them all away as gifts. My older daughter loves to bake, a tradition she shared with grandma since she was very little. Me, I always preferred cooking to baking. Baking is so precise where cooking is easier to improvise. Which is why I love these cookies… no baking required! They are pretty addicting and quite filling too. Oh, did I mention they are gluten-free (if you use gluten free oats) and egg-less? I even had a few of these for breakfast! Milk, oatmeal, peanut butter… why not?
Last year was the first time I heard of no-bake cookies. Someone had sent me their recipe and asked me to lighten them up. This year, once again someone asked me to lighten these up, so after a few attempts to get them just right, we finally had success! You can roll them in powdered sugar or cocoa just before serving, or leave them as is. Keep them refrigerated if you don’t plan on eating them right away.
