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No-bake cookies are great for a quick treat, kids that are learning to cook, or for whipping up a treat when you don’t have access to an oven. Most no-bake cookie recipes require a stove top or microwave, a pan for heating syrup and a mixing bowl for batter as well as the basic baking essentials like measuring cups and spoons.

With a few basic rules and a little experimenting, you can create a no-bake cookie recipe that your family will adore.

Basic Recipes

Chocolate No-bakes

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 stick margarine
• ¼ cup cocoa
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup peanut butter
• 3 cups oatmeal
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Melt margarine, sugar, cocoa and milk into a saucepan. Boil for one minute and add peanut butter. Stir in oats and vanilla before spooning onto waxed paper by tablespoons and cooling.

No-Bake Chocolate Coconut Cookies

• 2 cups sugar
• ½ cup milk
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 6 large marshmallows (cut up)
• ½ cup butter or margarine
• 1 dash salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup coconut

Mix the sugar, milk, butter and salt together in a saucepan. Heat to a boil and boil for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add the rest of the ingredients. Mix until chocolate chips and marshmallows are melted. Drop by spoonfuls on waxed paper. Cool until set.

Butterscotch Cookies (Haystacks)

• 1 (12 oz. package) of butterscotch chips
• ½ cup peanut butter
• 5 cups corn flakes or chow mein noodles