Best House-Cooling Chocolate Cookie Recipe

This past summer, in many parts of the center of the nation, stifling heat was the rule. Not only that but humidity that meant as soon as showers taken those who took them felt like they needed another one.
Even if you wanted a nice chocolate cookie, there are few working cooks or recipe writers who want to take the time to heat up the house while experimenting with a great new cookie. That's why these no heat cookies are fantastic.

All you need are the basics, a refrigerator and you are already more than halfway there.
What are Basics?
The basics consist of:

• Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme Cereal
• Sugar
• Unsweetened cocoa powder
• Peanut Butter

In reality, though this may seem like the work of a genius, it really isn't. Instead, it's the work of someone who wanted a goodie, but who didn't want to heat up the house any further. That's all.
Just Simple Pantry Items
In reality, these cookies are no more than everyday pantry items, however, they have been used in a new way that makes them a great cookie for hot weather.
Making them is easy. About the warmest part is melting parts of them, like the Hershey's cereal and peanut butter. The rest of the recipe calls for forming up the cookie balls and dropping them onto a buttered or covered cookie sheet and then into the refrigerator. And using the stove to melt peanut butter and the Hershey's cereal.
Yes, there are some good old standby hot weather cookie fillers like coconut or fruit, but, you can also use regular cereals to make these cookies as well.
Putting the cookies together
Putting the cookies together is actually very simple, if you use Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme cereal.
All you do is:

1. Add the unsweetened chocolate
2. Add sugar to taste (the unsweetned chocolate dulls the sugary taste of the cereal)
3. Then add salted butter
4. Pour in whole milk
5. Take the peanut butter and carefully add it to the mixture
6. Stir until the peanut butter is totally incorporated
7. Next mix the cereal gently into the chocolate mixture so it is well combined
8. Spoon them together and place the rounded cookies on a buttered cookie dish or parchment lined cookie dish
9. Pop them into the refrigerator, the day before if possible, sometimes it isn't, but people still need a couple of hours of patience
10. The final texture is something like a candy bar with a soft center.
11. Next mix the cereal gently

Although most of the hot weather has hopefully cleared out, it is possible there may be one of two pockets left around and then there's Indian summer. Try this recipe that you will find on our website at