Cherry No-Bake Cookies
I've always loved my no-bake cookie recipe, but I was never able to place at the fair with it. So I mixed in some maraschino cherries, added a few drops of almond extract, and voila! We won a blue ribbon at the county fair in 2010. —Denise Wheeler, Newaygo, Michigan
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 6 tablespoons 2% milk
- 3 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 jar (10 ounces) maraschino cherries, well drained and finely chopped
Reviews
I add a half cup coconut shredded. And used chunky peanut butter. But you can leave out peanut butter.
The ingredients and the recipe do not match...this is supposed to be a cherry no bake cookie, but the instructions say to mix peanut butter in? Can someone help as I'd really like to make the cherry cookies! Both versions sound great by the way.
Maraschino cherries are full of high fructose corn syrup! I used healthy fresh blueberries instead
Would it be possible to make with something else besides peanut butter?
Awesome!
These are delicious! The only other no bake cookies I've tried have always had chocolate and peanut butter, but nothing else to make them stand out. But these definitely stand out. :) They actually taste a lot like the cherry flavor Mountain candy bars!
UPDATE: I have made these several times with "sugar"
I made some substitutions: I used Sunbutter, and omitted the almond extract to make the cookies nut-allergy safe. They are slightly gooey-er, probably the consistency of the Sunbutter, but they are very tasty! When I'm not "baking" for kids that aren't mine, I'm going to try it the original way and I'm really excited to try them that way, too!
Could you use Nutella instead of peanut butter?
Would this work with Splenda instead of sugar??