No Bake Cookies
These are not the no bake cookies you grew up with. Same great texture and flavors, but made with healthier ingredients. There is a surprise secret ingredient that I have added to my recipe…. By removing the oats, not only is this recipe for gluten free no bake cookies, but now grain free! You won’t even miss the oats, I promise….
These no bake cookies or “raggedy robbins” as we used to call them, are so simple to make and will surely please any crowd!
Gluten Free No Bake Cookies
- 1/2 cup butter or coconut oil
- 1 cup honey
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
- 3 cups unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- In a pot, combine butter, honey and cocoa powder. Bring to a boil, and boil for 1 minute, whisking constantly. Remove from the heat.
- Stir in peanut butter, salt and vanilla.
- Stir in coconut flakes.
- Scoop cookies onto a parchment lined sheet tray.
- Refrigerate to set.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge up to 1 week and freezer up to 1 month.
*yields 3 dozen gluten free no bake cookies
You can also use equal parts chopped nuts or a combination of nuts and coconut flakes. I have made several variations and all are equally delicious. I also enjoy eating them right out of the freezer for a late night snack :P
Apparently Bobby has been sneaking in some late night TV time….
Michelle….do you think Coconut Oil would work in place of the butter? I’m trying not to buy the butter sub.
I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t. I think I might try it today to make sure :)
Love this–I’ve been looking for a grain-free version of no-bake cookies for awhile! Unfortunately, I don’t tolerate coconut flakes well…do you think using chopped nuts instead would work? It’d be more crunchy than chewy, but I’m okay with that…or would the chocolate mixture be too thin without the starch of the coconut flakes?
Sarah,
I just made a batch with equal parts chopped walnuts and they turned out great!
~Michelle
Can you use GF Oats & coconut flake combined?
Yes, that could also work. Let me know if you try and how they turn out :)
These are wonderful. They are now my favorite cookie. So simple and so tasty. I’ve substituted the peanut butter for either almond butter or sunflower seed butter. Both variations have turned out delicious.
I just made these but did 2 cups GF oats and 1.5 cups of Raisins … they turned out wonderful.
I’m going to have to try doing 3 cups of mixed nuts next with almond butter
I would like to make this for a friend but I know very little about making things gluten free. Do I need to use “natural” peanut butter or is it ok to use Kraft?
Most peanut butters are naturally gluten free, just check the label to be sure. I do use natural peanut butter, so if you go with another brand that has added sugar it will just make it a bit more sweet and could possible change the texture.
~Michelle
I made these with coconut oil, almond butter, 2c coconut shreds & 1c chopped almonds. I ended up adding more almonds because they were way to soupy & I had to put them in the freezer to make them solid enough to pick up. Any idea what went wrong? Maybe I need to boil it for longer than one minute? Especially if using almonds? They did taste AMAZING!