No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Place a long strip of wax paper, foil or parchment paper on the counter to drop your cookies on.

In a medium sized pot, add the butter, milk, sugar and cocoa powder to the pot. Put the pot on the stovetop over medium heat. Stir mixture occasionally as you measure out the peanut butter and get the oats ready. Once the mixture comes to a rolling boil, start the timer and boil for exactly 1-minute. Do not boil any longer. During that minute, stir the mixture constantly.

Once the minute is up, remove the pot from the stove. Immediately stir in the vanilla extract to the mixture. Add the peanut butter to the hot mixture and stir until almost combined. Stir in oats, one cup at a time, making sure each cup is completely mixed into the chocolate mixture, before adding the next cup of oats. Add only enough oats to reach desired consistency (see blog post above for details).

Use a small-medium sized cookie scoop to drop cookies onto the wax paper.

Let the cookies set completely and cool on the wax paper.