Jackie's Fantastic Gluten Free No Bake Cookies

I LOVE  No-Bake cookies - I mean really love them. In fact I rarely make them because I love them so much that I eat them until my stomach hurts. But with baking season just around the corner I needed to try out something that I can make for the holidays; something other than the cardboard-tasting cookie and cake mixes that I find at local grocery stores that I cover with inches of delicious frosting to hide the boring taste. So I found a recipe at my favorite trusty recipe site, Yummly, and made some tweaks and they were OUTSTANDING. My kids loved them, I loved them and my husband tolerated them (he's not a big sweet person - crazy, I know).  Here is the recipe. You're welcome.

Fantastic Gluten Free No Bake Cookies

Adapted from Eat, Live, Run (ELR No Bake Cookies)

3 Tbsp. butter
3/4 C. sugar
1/4 C. milk
1 1/2 Tbsp. cocoa
1 1/4 C. milk chocolate chips
1/4 C. peanut butter
1 3/4 C. Gluten Free Old Fashioned Oats (I used Bob's Red Mill)

Prepare cookie sheet by placing a sheet of wax paper over it.

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over low-medium heat until melted. Add the sugar, cocoa and milk and stir well. Add the peanut butter and chocolate chips and continue stirring until everything is melted together and looks smooth. Add the oats and stir well to ensure all the oats are fully integrated into the mixture. The mixture should now be "chunky" and if it isn't, add additional oats by 1/4 C. or so until the mixture is chunky. Remove from heat. Drop the mixture by spoonfuls onto the wax paper covered cookie sheet (or roll into balls and place on the wax paper) and let cool/harden for 30-45 minutes. These can also be placed in the refrigerator to expedite cooling.