Easy Pantry Cleanout Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies | 0 Baking

Picture this. You open up your pantry right now, and everything in it falls on you! We’ve all been there, but the good news is our recipe for a no-bake chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookie dough stops the chaos.

Today’s easy pantry cleanout chocolate oatmeal cookies celebrate the time of year when our pantry requires a cleanout and when you need to get seriously crafty and inventive with leftover ingreidnets from holiday baking.

I should have named this recipe “what to do with leftover peanut butter, oats, and chocolate!”

So many holiday recipes require oatmeal, peanut butter, and chocolate.

Do you see where I am going with this?

We will share our astonishingly easy recipe for pantry cleanout chocolate peanut butter cookies with oatmeal to use up the ingredients!

Yes, this is a peanut butter cookie dough, and there are oats in it, but we also have a few other surprising additions to our simple, zero-bake recipe!

Why You’ll Love Our Pantry Cleanout Cookies

• Pantry Cleanout Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough is easy to make
• Pantry Cleanout Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie Dough requires no oven.
• You’ll have less waste and use food before it is expired
• The no-bake cookie dough is delicious, rolled, or cold (yep!)
• our pantry cleanout cookie dough has no flour in it
• the ingredients are easy to find (hint, they are right in your home)
• You can easily transport these delicious chocolate peanut butter oatmeal no-bake cookies

Ingredients For Your Easy Pantry Cleanout Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Please note that what we have in our pantry may differ from yours, but you can substitute the same ingredients and still have a fabulous batch of pantry cleanout cookies!

• sugar-free peanut butter
• unsalted butter, room temperature
• real maple syrup
• vanilla extract
• dark unsweetened cocoa powder
• salt
• quick cook oats

In Other words, you can use everyday peanut butter, regular salted butter (cut the salt then), maple syrup of any type, you get the idea!

How To Make Easy Pantry Cleanout Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

There’s not a lot to this simple process for making no-bake cookie dough!

Step 1: Prep A Baking Sheet

Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat™ baking sheet and set it aside.

Step 2: Ingredients Go Into A Microwave Safe Bowl

Add peanut butter, maple syrup, and vanilla extract to a microwave-safe bowl.

Cover and place in microwave for 1 minute at 50% power.

Remove from microwave and stir vigorously until smooth.

Step 3: Chocolate And Peanut Butter Mix It Up

Add dark cocoa powder and salt to the peanut butter mixture and stir to combine.

Next, add the oats, one-half cup at a time, and stir until the oats are completely coated.

Step 4: Drop The Cookies On The Tray

Add rounded tablespoons of peanut butter oatmeal mixture to the prepared baking sheet.

Then, set the tray in the freezer for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Once Set, Remove from the freezer and serve immediately.

Store the remaining cookies in the refrigerator until ready to serve, or the cookies will lose their shape.

Enjoy!

Our Pro Ingredient Tip

We suggest using Hershey’s 100% cocoa, the “Special Dark Blend,” for the best results with this recipe and the richest, most divine-tasting chocolate!

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The Recipe For Our Easy Pantry Cleanout Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies