By Grocery List Plus Editorial Staff | Published on June 3, 2026
Serves 18
336 cal · 15 min
No Bake Dark Chocolate Snickers Cookies
Recipe GLPR14cc9868d9204a
These no-bake cookies combine rich dark chocolate, creamy peanut butter, and chunks of Snickers candy for a decadent treat. The mixture is cooked on the stovetop, then quickly shaped and chilled on waxed paper. Ready to enjoy in just 15 minutes with no oven required.
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Ingredients
¼ cup dark cocoa powder
½ cup crunchy peanut butter
½ cup whole milk
2½ cups uncooked quick oats
2-3 Snickers bars, chopped into small pieces
1¾ cups sugar
½ cup unsalted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
In a large mixing bowl, combine the uncooked quick oats and crunchy peanut butter. Mix until evenly distributed and set aside.
In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, whole milk, unsalted butter, and dark cocoa powder. Stir constantly until the mixture comes to a rolling boil. Once boiling, continue heating for exactly 1½ minutes, stirring occasionally, then immediately remove from heat.
Pour the hot chocolate mixture into the bowl containing the oats and peanut butter. Stir vigorously until all ingredients are well combined.
Add the vanilla extract and mix thoroughly until evenly incorporated throughout the mixture.
Fold in the chopped Snickers pieces gently but thoroughly, ensuring they are distributed evenly. If the mixture appears too loose to hold together, add up to ¼ cup additional quick oats and mix until it reaches the desired consistency.
Drop rounded spoonfuls of the mixture onto waxed paper. Use a cookie cutter, the back of a spoon, or your fingers to shape each cookie into a uniform disc. Allow to set at room temperature for several minutes before serving.
Comments
All ingredients are common pantry staples at any Charlotte supermarket—cocoa powder, peanut butter, oats, butter, sugar, milk, vanilla, and Snickers bars are stock items even at ALDI and Food Lion. The cost per serving is genuinely cheap, probably 40–50 cents, since the base is oats and peanut butter with Snickers chopped in as garnish rather than filler. The stated 15 minutes is realistic for this no-bake drop-and-chill format, though 5 more minutes in the fridge makes a real difference in set time for weeknight prep. This is a crowd-pleasing snack that makes 18 small cookies, freezes well, and reheats or eats straight from the fridge without fussiness.
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