No-bake cookies with a coconut quinoa twist! Make them on the stovetop with coconut flakes, cacao, peanut butter, and cooked quinoa.
Do you have a favorite childhood cookie?
Mine are definitely No Bakes.
When my mom announced she was making them, I’d hang out in the kitchen to grab them faster than she could drop them on wax paper to set up.
I loved watching them fall in delicious chocolate peanut buttery oat blobs and slowly harden and take shape.
Yesss.
Clearly adulting could use more of this childlike wonder, so I created these Coco-Nutty Quinoa No Bake Cookies based on the classic with some healthy upgrades.
It’s true, they’re not the prettiest of cookies, but then I’ve always had a soft spot for the imperfect.
When I picked out teddy bears on the shelf, I always looked through all of their furry forms, carefully selecting the one that was just a little homely.
You know, the teddy bear with the eyes glued a bit close together, the smile sewn a little crooked, the ears just slightly asymmetrical.
I felt like it was my duty to adopt this bear, because I had zero faith other kids would buy it, and the thought of that teddy bear sitting on the shelf for years to come waiting for a good home was too much for my childish heart to handle.
I took my new friend home proudly, resting assured that he/she had a good home and that my bear was pretty freakin’ special.
These quirks gave my bear a little something that set it apart, what I later came to understand as “character”.
Well, these Coconut Quinoa No Bake Cookies have all the character, too!
They might not have a fuzzy wuzzy face, but they’ve got taste to make up for it.
The same justifications apply.
You might find yourself grabbing them by the handful just in case no one else will.
Or because the combination of chocolate, peanut butter, and coconut is completely addicting.
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Have you tried making your own nut milk yet?
