No bake cookies are ideal for warmer weather, because you don't have to turn on the oven. These easy recipes are also good recipes for kids to make, once they have been instructed on the basics of Food Safety and after you have gone through Teach Your Kids Food and Kitchen Safety with them. For best results, read How to Make the Best No Bake Cookies before you begin.
1. Microwave Chocolate Crisp Bars
These bar cookies are very special. The original recipe was a 5-ingredient marvel for my About.com Guide to Shortcut Cooking. For my taste, I added peanut butter and milk chocolate chips to make a truly decadent bar cookie. Be sure to look at Step by Step: Microwave Chocolate Crisp Bars before you begin. Yum!
2. Chocolate Peanut Butter Bon Bons
Linda Larsen
These cookies/candies are an absolute must for Christmas in my family. This last year I forgot to buy dates and didn't make them - and we missed them! Be sure to buy the unchopped dates and chop them yourself. The prechopped type coated in sugar are too dry for the recipe.
3. Crispy Skillet Cookies
Linda Larsen
I first tasted this fabulous recipe when my great-aunt, Louella Mundale, made them for a family gathering. They are crisp, rich, and absolutely delicious.
4. Special Kay Bars
Linda Larsen
I adore these bars, and would make them every day if I could. But for a balanced diet, I can't! When I do make a batch, I eat one square, then send the rest to my husband's high school English classes. They love them too!
Here's an important tip: rinse the spoon in very hot water to remove sugar crystals while the syrup mixture is cooking in the microwave oven. That makes the smoothest mixture, because introducing crystals into the hot mixture after it's finished cooking can make the finished product grainy.
5. No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Linda Larsen
This is one of the first recipes I ever made. The secret is to make sure that the sugar is completely dissolved before you add the peanut butter and oatmeal.
