No-Bake Cookies and Cream Bars
Look at us, rolling right along into spring! Because the weather is finally getting pretty and you'll want to be outside enjoying it instead of inside slaving over a hot oven, I have something super easy and extra tasty today. In fact, it's technically not even baking. Also, this is the fifth entry! Hooray! Celebrating a tiny milestone!
No-Bake Cookies and Cream Bars! These are so completely ultra-easy that this entry feels like cheating. Seriously, the hardest part about these is waiting for them to set up enough to cut them into squares. I saw these on Pinterest a while back and got the recipe from Picky Palate. I know that picture looks like a boring brownie, and I already covered brownies, but these are not brownies. These are essential a Rice Krispie Treat but where you swap out Rice Krispies for Oreo crumbs. Ohh Yeah! Wait, sorry, that's the Kool-Aid Man.... Moving on.
See, how easy is this? Three ingredients. That's fewer ingredients than there are posts on this blog! It took me longer to find the ingredients in the store than it did to make the bars. (If anyone from Wal-Mart is out there reading this, heads up: I don't like your store, but I'm shopping there out of necessity at the moment because it's the only thing in this small town I moved to. And if it were up to me, the marshmallows would be with the baking items. Because that's what you do with marshmallows. Putting them in the aisle with juice makes no sense. I know you had them by the jell-o, but jell-o should be in the baking aisle too. If your jell-o reminds you of juice, you're doing it wrong. Get it together, people!)
If I hadn't stopped to rant about that, you'd be done making these by now!
Put your Oreos in the food processor (well, all but two or three, obviously, because who can open a package of Oreos and not eat at least one?)...
and chop them up until they look like beautiful, rich, fertile spring soil. Set this aside, but not so far aside that anyone plants stuff in it.
Then pour your marshmallows into an 8x8 pan and cut your butter into little pieces.
Microwave it! Also, watch out for wild marshmallows that tried to grow over the sides of your pan. Also also, if your pan is metal, don't microwave it. Microwave those bad boys in something else. Or melt them in a pan on the stove.
And stir in your Oreo crumbs. This will take a lot of stirring. My wonderful husband was taking pictures for me on this one (thanks, sweetie!), and he got lots of pictures of me stirring these. This was the least messy picture. (It's an easy and fast recipe; I didn't say it was no-mess! I never guarantee no-mess.)
And mash them down. After you mash them down, let them sit a bit before you try to eat them. While you're waiting, some things to think about: Picky Palate recommended lining your pan with foil, but I didn't do that. My pan was messy to look at, but it wasn't bad to clean, and the bars came out without much trouble once they set up, so I'll leave foil lining up to you.
Also, I know I've said "Oreos" about a million times in this. I'm not being paid by Nabisco, but all the same I don't recommend knock-off "sandwich cookies." I'm sure they'd work just fine, I just always thought they never tasted quite as good. If you like the off brand cookies, go for it. I don't, though, so I'm not recommending it. Off brand is fine 90% of the time with me. But sometimes, it's just not the same.
Did you wait to try to cut them? You didn't? What do you mean the temptation was too strong?
Oh well, they're just cookies and cream blobs now. Still taste good (especially with a glass of milk). But if you let the rest set up, you can cut them into squares and no one has to know. Except for everyone that you shared the picture with.
No Bake Cookies and Cream Bars
1 16 oz package of Oreos
5 cups of Marshmallows
4 tablespoons of butter
Pulse Oreos in food processor until coarsely ground. Melt marshmallows and butter in microwave for approximately 1 1/2 minutes. Stir all ingredients together and press into an 8x8 pan. Allow to set up (or not) and cut into squares (or eat as blobs).
No-Bake Cookies and Cream Bars! These are so completely ultra-easy that this entry feels like cheating. Seriously, the hardest part about these is waiting for them to set up enough to cut them into squares. I saw these on Pinterest a while back and got the recipe from Picky Palate. I know that picture looks like a boring brownie, and I already covered brownies, but these are not brownies. These are essential a Rice Krispie Treat but where you swap out Rice Krispies for Oreo crumbs. Ohh Yeah! Wait, sorry, that's the Kool-Aid Man.... Moving on.
If I hadn't stopped to rant about that, you'd be done making these by now!
Put your Oreos in the food processor (well, all but two or three, obviously, because who can open a package of Oreos and not eat at least one?)...
and chop them up until they look like beautiful, rich, fertile spring soil. Set this aside, but not so far aside that anyone plants stuff in it.
Then pour your marshmallows into an 8x8 pan and cut your butter into little pieces.
Microwave it! Also, watch out for wild marshmallows that tried to grow over the sides of your pan. Also also, if your pan is metal, don't microwave it. Microwave those bad boys in something else. Or melt them in a pan on the stove.
Mix them up a bit to get things going and so you don't have butter pockets in your bars. Butter pockets are bad more often than they are good. In sweet things, they ruin the sweet. In pants, they make a mess.
And mash them down. After you mash them down, let them sit a bit before you try to eat them. While you're waiting, some things to think about: Picky Palate recommended lining your pan with foil, but I didn't do that. My pan was messy to look at, but it wasn't bad to clean, and the bars came out without much trouble once they set up, so I'll leave foil lining up to you.
Also, I know I've said "Oreos" about a million times in this. I'm not being paid by Nabisco, but all the same I don't recommend knock-off "sandwich cookies." I'm sure they'd work just fine, I just always thought they never tasted quite as good. If you like the off brand cookies, go for it. I don't, though, so I'm not recommending it. Off brand is fine 90% of the time with me. But sometimes, it's just not the same.
Did you wait to try to cut them? You didn't? What do you mean the temptation was too strong?
Oh well, they're just cookies and cream blobs now. Still taste good (especially with a glass of milk). But if you let the rest set up, you can cut them into squares and no one has to know. Except for everyone that you shared the picture with.
No Bake Cookies and Cream Bars
1 16 oz package of Oreos
5 cups of Marshmallows
4 tablespoons of butter
Pulse Oreos in food processor until coarsely ground. Melt marshmallows and butter in microwave for approximately 1 1/2 minutes. Stir all ingredients together and press into an 8x8 pan. Allow to set up (or not) and cut into squares (or eat as blobs).
that's a tasty post
ReplyDelete