This no-bake cookie recipe uses peanuts and marshmallows for a rocky road flavor combination!
I ran over my niece with a scooter. It’s a true story.
We recently went on this big family vacation, all eighteen of us spent a week together on a cruise. When we got to Cozumel, Mexico, we decided to rent scooters and drive down the highway to the beach. We must have looked like one strange scooter gang.
I don’t actually have any experience driving a scooter, but I swear this accident wasn’t my fault.
Well, it mostly wasn’t my fault.
The scooter in front of me caught the edge of the road when we were turning around, and they went sliding. I couldn’t stop in time, and literally just drove right over the top of poor JFK. You could literally see the tire tread on her arm. It was awful.
I had visions of spending the rest of the vacation in a Mexican hospital, but as it turned out, JFK was fine. No broken bones, no internal bleeding, just the huge scrape on her leg that she got before I drove over her.
BEFORE. It’s important you know that.
I came away with some nasty bruises (I’ll spare you the details, but for real, I looked pretty beat up.) but JFK and her mom had the worst of it, with scrapes that ran the length of their legs. To her credit, JFK smiled and laughed, and made the best of the situation.
And then she lobbied me for cookies.
“I think you owe me some sorry-I-ran-over-you-cookies!” she told me, about 10 minutes after the crash.
“Wrong,” I said. “You owe me some sorry-I-fell-under-your-tire cookies.” She didn’t buy this argument at all.
So I put on my thinking cap. I mean, what cookie says we were in a scooter accident on vacation? Well, Rocky Road, obviously.
One word about the marshmallows in this recipe. I used the Jet-Puffed Mallow Bits. I like these, because they are small, and dry, and don’t melt into the cookies as easily as the regular variety. I have discovered that they are not available in every grocery store, but I can almost always find them in Walmart, next to the hot chocolate mix.
They’re meant for cocoa, but they’re really fun for baking.
And they’re perfect for saying, sorry I ran over you with a scooter.
Rocky Road No-Bake Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- dash salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 3 cups quick oats
- 1/2 cup peanuts
- 1 cup dry marshmallow bits (Jet-Puffed Mallow Bits)
Instructions
- In a heavy saucepan, melt butter. Add milk, sugar, cocoa, and salt, and mix well. Bring to a boil and let boil 1-2 minutes. Remove from heat and add vanilla.
- Stir in coconut and oats, until well coated and combined. Fold in peanuts and marshmallow bits.
- Drop spoonfuls onto a baking sheet lined with wax paper or parchment paper. Refrigerate 10-15 minutes before serving.
