No-Bake Cereal Cookie Clusters

Name: No-Bake Cereal Cookie Clusters
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 24
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups sugar; 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder; 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter; 1/2 cup whole milk; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter; 5 cups Hershey’s™ Cookies 'n' Creme cereal

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Prep 15 min
Total 30 min
Servings 24

Hershey’s™ Cookies 'n' Creme cereal is added to a traditional chocolate and peanut butter no-bake recipe for a fun twist on a classic cookie. MORE+ LESS-

By Simply Scratch

Updated March 9, 2017

Ingredients

1 1/2

cups sugar

tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2

cup (1 stick) salted butter

1/2

cup whole milk

teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/2

cup creamy peanut butter

cups Hershey’s™ Cookies 'n' Creme cereal

Steps

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Line two rimmed cookie sheets with parchment or a non-stick baking mat.
2

In a medium saucepan; add the sugar, cocoa, butter and whole milk. Stir and bring to a rolling boil. The moment it reaches a boil, set a timer for a minute and thirty seconds while you continue to whisk.
3

When the time is up, remove the pot from the stove and add in the vanilla and peanut butter. Stir until the peanut butter is melted and mixed thoroughly.
4

Add the cereal and stir gently to combine.
5

Use a spoon to drop mounds of the mixture onto prepared pans. Place the pans into the refrigerator until set (about 15 to 20 minutes). Enjoy!

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More About This Recipe

Stir your way to crunchy, chocolaty cookies in just minutes -- and without turning the oven on! In these hot summer months, the thought of turning on the oven to bake cookies isn't on my agenda -- like at all. Actually, if I could grill cookies, maybe I would consider making them (and that's the truth). Whoever invented the no-bake cookie is a pure genius. Simple pantry ingredients combined in a pot on the stove top and dropped into mounds on a cookie sheet to cool. Of course that is if you can wait that long. Traditionally, no-bakes have a mixture of oatmeal and coconut, but have you ever thought to try substituting cereal? Like just pick a box of cereal, but maybe leave out the fruity ones, and mix the cereal into the ooey-gooey chocolate cookie base? Well I did. My cereal of choice? Hershey™'s Cookie 'n' Creme cereal. My husband is a big fan of pretty much anything that has "cookies and cream" in the title and my girls were all thumbs up about the idea, naturally. These no-bakes are super fun. The texture reminds me of a candy bar that has the puffed rice in it because when the hot chocolate mixture touches the cereal it will soften the cereal a bit. But when you pop them in to the fridge to cool, they’ll harden and hold their shape. They're crazy easy and kids of all ages will love 'em!