dessert
Prep Time 10 mins
Total Time 1 hr 5 mins
Easy Malt-O-Meal® Cereal Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies
This no-bake peanut butter chocolate cookies recipe is easy, doesn't require waiting for your oven to preheat, and has a chocolately flavor that you and your crew will love. Grab Malt-O-Meal® Frosted Mini Spooners® cereal and the baking staples listed below and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 4 ½ cup Malt-O-Meal® Frosted Mini Spooners® cereal
- 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup whole milk
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
Optional
- ¼ cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- ¼ cup peanut butter chips
Instructions
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium saucepan, over medium-low heat, add sugar, and cocoa powder with milk and stir until combines.
- Add butter and corn syrup to the saucepan and stir until combined.
- Mix in peanut butter, and extract and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat and set aside for 5 minutes.
- Crush cereal until pieces are broken up into smaller chunks.
- Mix chocolate mixture into the cereal and combine.
- Form cookies using a large spoon. I made mine larger size. They will not be a perfect circle and will look like my images- that is okay.
- Add chips to the tops of the cookies, and gently press in.
- Chill cookies in the refrigerator for at least 45 minutes, but longer is better.
- Once cookies are hardened, remove them from the pan and store them in an air-tight container until you are ready to enjoy them.